Bud Culligan
 Bud Culligan  (whistleblower) | |
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| Born | 6 June 1926 |
| Died | September 2010 (Age 84) |
Roland "Bud" Bernard Culligan Jr was a US citizen who claimed to be a CIA operative, and to have been involved in CIA assassinations, which he called “executive actions” or “EAs”. Asked to list those EAs, Bud Culligan mentioned Dag Hammarskjöld and described the plane, the route and how he shot Hammarskjöld’s plane, which subsequently crashed.
In her testimony to the Hammarskjöld Commission, Lisa Pease said:
- “You will see from the correspondence that Bud Culligan’s material was referred to an Attorney General, a Senator, and ultimately, the Senate investigation of the CIA’s activities at home and abroad that became known as the Church Committee after its leader, Senator Frank Church. Clearly, others in high places had reasons to believe Culligan’s assertions were worthy of further investigation.”[1]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The Hammarskjöld Commission – Witness Statement of Lisa Pease | Statement | 9 December 2012 | Lisa Pease | Bud Culligan claims that he intercepted and shot down Hammarskjöld’s plane on orders from his CIA case officer. From my own study of the Hammarskjöld case, I believed then and continue to believe, especially in the light of the new evidence reported by Susan Williams in her excellent volume "Who Killed Hammarskjöld?", that the best evidence indicates Hammarskjöld’s plane was indeed shot out of the sky. |
| Document:The Mysterious Death of a UN Hero | Article | 16 September 2013 | Lisa Pease | Former President Harry S. Truman was convinced Hammarskjöld had been murdered. A Sept. 20, 1961 New York Times article quoted Truman as having told reporters, “Dag Hammarskjöld was on the point of getting something done when they killed him. Notice that I said ‘When they killed him.’” |
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