Posted on 10/17/2017 10:56:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new UN report on the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold in central Africa has concluded it appears "plausible" the aircraft came under attack.
Sweden has called "an open wound" the unsolved questions over Hammarskjold's death, which came during the Cold War between Western nations and the Soviet bloc.
The latest findings take into account newly-released information from the archives of Belgium, Britain, Canada, Germany and the United States.
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He must have been a big deal. One of the Junior High Schools in my home own in Connecticut is named after him. Then again, my elementary school was named after the guy who founded the Associated Press.
Wasn’t he the last pro-America Secretary General of the U.N.?
In before the "pining for the fjord" jokes :-)
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