"US and UK intercepts could hold answer to 1961 accident in Africa that killed Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others"
Before we get to this report, I would ask that readers think about this forgotten history from a number of different angles? *First, as it most probably relates to the many suspicious aircraft “accidents” that didn’t seem quite so accidental.Paul Wellstone, John Kennedy Jr & Nearly the entire (2010) Polish (2010) government (2017)There may be still other "crashes" that didn't cross my mind as I wrote this post up. In the case of the UN boss, like Wellstone, Kennedy Jr, and the Polish government, “pilot error” was the accepted, stated cause. But was it really THE CAUSE, or was “pilot error” simply settled upon as a convenient and tidy way to wrap up suspicious incidents? Blame the pilot, surely closed down inquiries into the “plane crash” that killed Dag Hammarskjöld enabling the crash to be quickly put to bed. Or swept under the rug?Whichever analogy you prefer?*Second: Consider the conspiracy involved to ensure this incident was hushed up.*Third: Consider what grew out of this plot? What came after? That may have been the impetus for killing this man?All these years later... in light of evidence dug up by others- it appears we are looking at a conspiracy. Persons, particularly in the US & UK, conspired, most probably, to kill and then to cover up an assassination. An intentional, premeditated murder...Dag Hammarskjöld You will notice the familiar themes that emerge in this report. Mercenaries, bought and paid for by business interests, supported by NATO governments.. (France supplying warplanes to the mining company mercenaries- how mundane)Moving forward in time, in the same region, some of the same locales, undoubtedly the same players and we have a CIA cult, Ebola emerging, Hollywood ties and all manner of intrigue occurring in the exact same area!! As if what occurred in 1961 was setting the stage for that which occurred in the ‘70's, as the stage was set many years past for happens in our recent times. I’ll relink two older posts that cover all the intrigue that ensued after the plane crash! For now let’s get to the Death of UN boss, Dag Hammarskjöld via the Guardian
A UN report into the death of its former secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld in a 1961 plane crash in central Africa has found that there is a “significant amount of evidence” that his flight was brought down by another aircraft.The report, delivered to the current secretary general, António Guterres, last month, took into account previously undisclosed information provided by the US, UK, Belgian, Canadian and German governments.Its author, Mohamed Chande Othman, a former Tanzanian chief justice, found that the US and UK governments had intercepted radio traffic in the area at the time and suggested that the 56-year-old mystery could be solved if the contents of those classified recordings were produced.“I am indebted for the assistance that I received, which uncovered a large amount of valuable new information,” Othman said in an executive summary of his report, seen by the Guardian. “I can confidently state that the deeper we have gone into the searches, the more relevant information has been found.”Hammarskjöld, a Swedish diplomat who became the UN secretary general in 1953, was on a mission in September 1961 to try to broker peace in Congo, where the Katanga region had staged a rebellion, backed by mining interests and European mercenaries, against the newly independent government in Kinshasa.
Congo. Kinshasa.
His plane, a Douglas DC-6, was on the way from Kinshasa to the town of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where the British colonial authorities were due to host talks with the Katanga rebels. It was approaching the airstrip at about midnight on 17 September when it crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and 15 others on board.Two inquiries run by the British pointed to pilot error as the cause, while a UN commission in 1962 reached an open verdict. In recent years, independent research by Göran Björkdahl, a Swedish aid worker, and Susan Williams, a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London and author of a 2011 book Who Killed Hammarskjöld, persuaded the UN to reopen the case. A panel convened in 2015 found there was enough new material to warrant the appointment of an “eminent person” to assess it. Othman was given the job in February this year.
Among Othman’s new findings are:
- In February 1961, the French secretly supplied three Fouga warplanes to the Katanga rebels, “against the objections of the US government”. Contrary to previous findings, they were used in air-to-air attacks, flown at night and from unpaved airstrips in Katanga. - Fresh evidence bolsters an account by a French diplomat, Claude de Kemoularia, that he had been told in 1967 by a Belgian pilot known as Beukels, who had been flying for the rebels as a mercenary, that he had fired warning shots to try to divert the plane away from Ndola and accidentally clipped its wing. Othman said he was unable establish Beukels’ identity in the time available for his inquiry. - The UK and Rhodesian authorities were intercepting UN communications at the time of the crash and had intelligence operatives in the area. The UK should therefore have potentially crucial evidence in its classified archives - The US had sophisticated electronic surveillance aircraft “in and around Ndola” as well as spies, and defence officials, on the night of the crash, and Washington should be able to provide more detailed information.
Othman found that earlier inquiries had disregarded the testimony of local witnesses who said they saw another plane and flashes in the sky on the night of Hammarskjold’s crash. They had also “undervalued” the testimony of Harold Julien, a security officer who survived for several days who told medical staff he had seen “sparks in the sky” shortly before the DC-6, known by its registration number SE-BDY, fell out of the sky.“Based on the totality of the information we have at hand, it appears plausible that external attack or threat may have been a cause of the crash, whether by way of direct attack causing SE-BDY to crash, or by causing a momentary distraction of the pilots,” Othman concludes.
“There is a significant amount of evidence from eyewitnesses that they observed more than one aircraft in the air, that the other aircraft may have been a jet, that SE-BDY was on fire before it crashed, and/or that SE-BDY was fired upon or otherwise actively engaged by another aircraft. In its totality, this evidence is not easily dismissed.”Othman argues that the “burden of proof” was now on member states “to show that they have conducted a full review of records and archives in their custody or possession, including those that remain classified, for potentially relevant information”.The Tanzanian judge said that the most relevant pieces of information were radio intercepts and called for countries likely to have relevant information, such as the UK and US, to appoint an “independent and high-ranking official” to comb the archives.
“Any such information regarding what occurred during the last minutes of SE-BDY, if verifiable, will be likely to either prove or disprove one or more of the existing hypotheses, bringing us more proximate to closure,” Othman writes.“This is a step that must be taken before this matter, and the memories of those who perished on flight SE-BDY in the service of the organisation, may rest.”
The scattered wreckage of the Douglas DC-6 carrying Dag Hammarskjöld in a forest near Ndola, Zambia. Let's flashback to 2 older posts and refresh ourselves, or read for the first time, the progression of intrigue in that very same locale:
1st: Glenn Close raised in a cult?! The Moral re-armament cult?In her own words...
"Being a vicious Anti-communist authoritarian, President Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire received CIA dollars of appreciation during several decades of the Cold War. He rose to power in the early 1960s with the help of a lot of foreign-supplied guns and cash, much of which was provided to him by you know who"
Interesting.. We have Mobutu in the sphere of CIA influence, at the same time as the Katanga rebels are being aided by big business and France for certain. Let's see if dictator Mobuto aligns with the Katanga rebels- This ain't going to be difficult connection, I'm certain of that!Mobuto Sese Seko via Wikipedia
"Belgian forces helped Mobutu in a coup d'état against the nationalist government of Patrice Lumumba in 1960 to rule the government. Lumumba was the first leader in the country to be democratically elected, but he was subsequently deposed in a coup organised by Colonel Mobutu and executed by a Katangese firing squad"
Connecting the dots- A diplomat's plane shot down- we have Katanga rebels involved in attempting to overthrow an actual elected leader, succeeding, and executing that leader- with a CIA man waiting in the wings to run the country in a manner efficient for big business! How very convenient!
2nd: Africa- Past and Present: AIDS, Banksters, CIA, CULTS, EBOLA & Hollywood
Suddenly the CIA's Mr.Moral Rearmament Cult himself, William T Close appears, while Ebola & AIDS appear in the same location from whence a diplomatic plane is shot from the sky- democratically elected leaders are murdered, all the while spooks and spies lurk in the background-
"Willam T Close ran a hospital in Kinshasa, a large hospital, coincidentally in that area there were a high percentage of people infected with AIDS as tests had shown. Yet, in the rural area the prevalence of infection was stable and low?"
The viruses that cause AIDS and Ebola, two deadly, contagious and highly feared diseases, spread through the body using the same mechanism, U.S.-based researchers said on Friday
The researchers, led by Dr. Paul Bieniasz of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at New York's Rockefeller University, said they hoped their finding might lead to the discovery of new drugs to help treat HIV and Ebola infections
Their study, published in the December issue of the journal Nature Medicine, shows HIV and Ebola use a protein called Tsg101 to bud from the cells they infect.
"It's remarkable to see two such different viruses share a common budding mechanism," Bieniasz said in a statement."
As I observed at the time of authoring that 2014 post:
- The AIDS and Ebola virus are linked by a common budding mechanism, a common location AND the presence of Doctor William T Close. Remarkable, indeed.