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| Cold Case Dag Hammarskjöld |
| 2023-12-27 |
| In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and most of the crew. With the case still unsolved 50-plus years later, Danish journalist, filmmaker, and provocateur Mads Brügger (The Red Chapel, The Ambassador) leads us down an investigative rabbit hole to unearth the truth. Scores of false starts, dead ends, and elusive interviews later, Brügger and his sidekick, Swedish Göran Björkdahl, begin to sniff out something more monumental than anything they’d initially imagined. In his signature agitprop style, Brügger becomes both filmmaker and subject, challenging the very nature of truth by “performing” the role of truth seeker. As Brügger uncovers a critical secret that could send shockwaves around the world, we realize that sometimes absurdity and irony are the emboldening ingredients needed to confront what’s truly sinister. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 There was extensive interaction between Hammarskjold and Patrice Lamumba, the erstwhile leader of the Congo. After Lamuba's assassination in late 1960, Hammarskjold was determined to investigate the forces behind his elimination. "In 2013, the U.S. State Department admitted that President Eisenhower discussed plans at a NSC meeting on 18 August 1960 to assassinate Lumumba.[179] However, documents released in 2017 revealed that an American role in Lumumba's murder was only under consideration by the CIA.[180][181] CIA Chief Allan Dulles had allocated $100,000 to accomplish the act, but the plan was not carried out.[182]" "John Stockwell, a CIA officer in the Congo and later a CIA station chief, wrote in 1978 that the CIA base chief in Elizabethville was in direct contact with Lumumba's killers on the night he was executed.[citation needed] Stockwell also wrote that a CIA agent had a body in the trunk of his car that they were trying dispose of.[172] Stockwell, who knew Devlin well, believed that Devlin knew more than anyone else about the murder.[173]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-12-27 13:26 |
| #1 If it doesn't turn out to be the CIA, I'm going to be very disappointed. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2023-12-27 11:08 |