Evidence may lead to new probe in 1961 death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld
Source: CBC News
Jun 21, 2015 5:05 AM ET
New evidence submitted to the United Nations' General Assembly this past week could help shed light on one of the enduring mysteries of the 20th century — namely, was the 1961 death of the second UN Secretary General an accident or an act of murder?
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The 56-year old Swedish diplomat was in Africa to try to unite the Congo, but faced resistance from a number of multinationals, often supported by mercenaries and openly hostile to the UN, who coveted the area's mineral wealth.
The crash has been a source of widespread speculation for decades, which has ramped up thanks to evidence uncovered in the last few years.
That includes testimony from a former U.S. National Security Agency intelligence officer who claims he heard a recording of another pilot attacking the plane, as well as a Belgian pilot who says that he accidentally shot the plane down after being hired to merely divert it.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/evidence-may-lead-to-new-probe-in-1961-death-of-un-secretary-general-dag-hammarskj%C3%B6ld-1.3121036
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In 1971, ten years after the assassination, I was approached by someone who I knew through my wife at the time. He was actually her boss and we were out drinking after work one night (she worked the night shift) and he offered me a job with the CIA. 
Now the drinking in itself was odd, because for the year of so that I had known and known of him, he had claimed to be an alcoholic who no longer drank, but here he was sipping on a whiskey and water. So that was the first oddity in what turned out to be an interesting and memorable night.
At first I just kind of laughed it off as a joke, but he wasn't acting like it was a joke. He then started talking a little more seriously about it. Being an anti-war activist, as well as being active in union politics in a large industrial union at the time, I accused him of trying to recruit me to turncoat on my comrades. He didn't deny it and offered $30k per year as a starting salary.
As we talked further, he started to talk about all of the assassinations and assassination attempts that had happened in the last few years. I had heard a little about attempts to assassinate Castro and I accused him of trying to use me for that purpose too. Once again, he didn't deny it.
Then he went further. He started talking about CIA assassination plots and the one he stressed was killing Hammarskjold by shooting down his plane in Africa. He said that that was one that he was personally involved with. What made this more than just a joke or some sort of self aggrandizing story was, first, his utter seriousness as he told some of the details of the plot AND the fact that it was about Hammarskjold, who was relatively unknown in my little backwater town. I doubt if more than a handful of people would have known who Dag Hammarskjold was if you held a gun to their head. After all, it had been a full decade since the act and there weren't a whole lot of stories coming out doubting the "official" story of just an accidental plane crash at that time.
Anyway, I still don't know if B was serious or not, but that night has stayed in my mind all these decades later. And quite frankly, it sounded like the truth at the time and nothing that's happened since has changed that opinion. There have been a TON of CIA conspiracies that have proven out over the decades, so I don't doubt the CIA's complicity in his death at all.
I actually do not know much about this case. Learning a lot from this thread though.
