1960s/Assassinations

1960s/Assassinations (Assassination)
The most famous of the assassinations of the 1960s
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The US deep state widely used assassination against its opponents, which lead to the CIA being put under increased scrutiny in the 1970s.

This list is of people who were specifically targeted. For people who may have been randomly murdered, see 1960s/Murders.

The assassinations of the 1960s lead to the CIA being put under increased scrutiny in the 1970s. This lead to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which in turn lead to some of the assassinations of the 1970s, for example of CIA officers just before they were due to testify.

Outside the US

Various figures of political import were assassinated in newly decolonised nation states by the US Deep state under the rubric of "anti-communism". Although some of these assassinations were denied at the time, this established that US political and economic interests must be heeded by the leaders of newly "independent" countries. The CIA set up Operation 40, a hit squad that was originally aimed to assassinate Fidel Castro.

JFK Assassination

Full article: JFK/Assassination

The 1963 assassination of JFK was a clandestine coup, carried out with the help of Operation 40, the CIA's foreign assassination hit squad. It was a structural deep event, since it handed control of the US Deep state to the perpetrators. This group Mark Gorton refers to as "The Cabal".

Related Premature deaths

Full article: JFK/Assassination/Premature death

Dozens of people were assassinated to try to suppress the truth about the JFK Assassination, including witnesses who refused to be pressured into changing their story, journalists who determined to get to the bottom of the story and deep state operatives who had outlived their useful role or who were in danger of talking.

Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s

Full article: Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s

In January 2019, a group of over 60 people, including members of the Kennedy and King families petitioned the US congress for a Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s, a public inquest into "the four major assassinations of the 1960s (of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK and RFK) that together had a disastrous impact on the course of American history."

 

Assassinated in the 1960s

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Guy Banister	7 March 1901	6 June 1964	Police officer JFK/Assassination/Premature death Private investigator	A US deep state operative involved in the JFK assassination. Suddenly died after he had attracted the attention of investigator Jim Garrison.
Homi J. Bhabha	30 October 1909	24 January 1966	Physicist	Indian nuclear physicist possibly killed by the CIA in air crash killing 117
Sam Cooke	22 January 1931	11 December 1964	Activist Singer Songwriter	Singer and Civil Rights activist. He was good friends with boxer Muhammad Ali and activist Malcolm X. Shot dead in Los Angeles motel, possibly as part of COINTELPRO.
Ngo Dinh Diem	3 January 1901	2 November 1963	Politician	The 1st President of South Vietnam, assassinated by the CIA.
Fred Hampton	30 August 1948	4 December 1969	Activist Revolutionary	Black rights activist, assassinated aged 21
Bill Hunter	2 November 1928	23 April 1964	Journalist JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A reported who investigated the JFK assassination. Shot dead by a policeman, reportedly accidentally.
JFK	29 May 1917	22 November 1963	Politician	The last US president to effectively seek to promote the welfare of the US population.
Dorothy Kilgallen	3 July 1913	8 November 1965	Journalist Celebrity JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A famous journalist who became interested in the JFK assassination and who died in highly suspicious circumstances of a drug overdose
Patrice Lumumba	2 July 1925	17 January 1961	Politician	The first democratically elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, abducted, tortured and murdered. Foreign intelligence service involvement is strongly suspected.
MLK	15 January 1929	4 April 1968	Activist Clergy	Martin Luther King was a pastor and political activist whose moral stance in the US in the 1960s posed a serious challenge to the US deep state. Now feted by the US government, although the US legal process conceded in 1999 that he was assassinated by the same government.
Enrico Mattei	29 April 1906	27 October 1962	Deep state operative Businessperson	Chairman of ENI, the Italian state oil company which had challenged the oligopoly of the Seven Sisters. He died in a suspicious plane crash in 1962.
Adnan Menderes	1899	17 September 1961	Politician	Turkish PM for 10 years. In this role he attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. After trying to balance the United States against the Soviet Union by successfully getting a Soviet loan, he was toppled in the CIA-supported 1960 coup d'état, after which he he was executed.
Thomas Merton	31 January 1915	10 December 1968	Author Activist Monk	An anti-war monk who referred to the US Deep state as "the unspeakable".
Félix-Roland Moumié	1926	3 November 1960	Politician	African political leader assassinated by French secret services
Lee Harvey Oswald	18 October 1939	24 November 1963	Patsy	A patsy accused of the assassination of JFK and assassinated himself 2 days later by another "lone nut" gunman
RFK	20 November 1925	6 June 1968	Politician JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Brother of murdered US president John F. Kennedy, Robert had been his Attorney General and wanted to become US President himself so he could uncover his brothers killers. Assassinated.
Claro M. Recto	8 February 1890	2 October 1960	Politician	Filipino politician possibly killed by the CIA
Lal Bahadur Shastri	2 October 1904	11 January 1966	Politician	Indian Prime Minister possibly assassinated by the CIA.
Rafael Trujillo	24 October 1891	30 May 1961	Soldier	President of the Dominican Republic - assassinated with weapons supplied by the CIA
Buddy Walthers	1929	10 January 1969	Police officer Driver JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A JFK assassination related death
Malcolm X	19 May 1925	21 February 1965	Activist Clergy	Black radical leader who advocated revolution in the US.
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu	20 April 1910	16 September 1961	Diplomat Politician	Turkish diplomat and politician executed after the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, along with two other politicians.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Date
1960s	“After five decades, the mysteries behind the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may finally get the scrutiny they deserve. A group consisting of relatives of the Kennedy and King families, as well as their confidantes and other prominent voices, is calling for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to get to the bottom of these tragic murders.”	19 January 2019

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