1970s/Assassinations

1970s/Assassinations (Assassination)
The House Select Committee on Assassinations was convened after the high rate of assassinations in the 1960s
The assassinations of the 1970s

This list is of people who were specifically targeted. For people who may have been randomly murdered, see 1970s/Murders.

The assassinations of the 1970s, in part, stemmed from the desire to contain the truth about the assassinations of the 1960s, especially the JFK assassination. In 2008, Peter Dale Scott published an essay on The Assassinations of the 1960s as "Deep Events", an important step in spreading the term "deep event".

House Select Committee on Assassinations related deaths

Full article: HSCA/Premature deaths

The chairman of the HSCA, Frank Church, displays a CIA poison dart gun used for covert assassinations. It could cause either cancer or a heart attack.

Many people, especially mid level spooks, died sudden deaths just prior to testifying before this committee.

JFK Assassination related deaths

Full article: JFK/Assassination/Premature deaths

The JFK assassination lead to more assassinations in the 1970s, just as it did in the 1960. These included witnesses, participants and would be investigators. George de Mohrenschildt (Lee Harvey Oswald's handler) was perhaps the most prominent of those involved, while Dorothy Kilgallen was perhaps the most famous journalist assassinated.

 

Assassinated in the 1970s

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Giorgio Ambrosoli	17 October 1933	11 July 1979	Lawyer	An Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona.
Outel Bono	1934	26 August 1973	Politician	African political leader assassinated by French secret services
Jean de Broglie	21 June 1921	24 December 1976	Politician	The investigation into his 1976 assassination was soon classified as a military secret.
Luigi Calabresi	14 November 1937	17 May 1972	Police officer	An Italian policeman who was alleged to have killed a suspect of the Piazza Fontana bombing. Assassinated in 1972, leading to public unrest.
Park Chung-hee	14 November 1917	26 October 1979	Soldier	President of South Korea assassinated in office
Henri Curiel	13 September 1914	4 May 1978	Activist	International left wing activist with many enemies, gunned down.
John Francis Green	18 December 1946	10 January 1975	Soldier	A member of the North Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA.
Orlando Letelier	13 April 1932	21 September 1976	Diplomat Politician Economist	A Chilean socialist politician and diplomat, assassinated in Washington D.C.
Georgi Markov	1 March 1929	11 September 1978	Author Defector	A Bulgarian dissident writer who assassinated in 1978
Rolando Masferrer	12 July 1918	31 October 1975	"Terrorist" Assassin Businessperson	Operation 40 member car bombed in Miami a week mafter he published a newspaper editorial arguing that car bombs were a justifiable tactic.
Harvey Milk	22 May 1930	27 November 1978	Politician	The first openly gay elected official in the history of California. Assassinated.
George de Mohrenschildt	17 April 1911	29 March 1977	Spook Deep state functionary Geologist JFK/Assassination/Premature death Handler HSCA/Premature deaths	Lee Harvey Oswald's handler, found dead after attempting to share some of what he knew with the media.
Aldo Moro	23 September 1916	9 May 1978
George Moscone	24 November 1929	27 November 1978	Politician	Mayor of San Francisco. Assassinated
Louis Mountbatten	25 June 1900	27 August 1979	Mariner Royalty	A man "of extremely low morals" according to an FBI file. Mentor to Charles Windsor. Assassinated
Nematollah Nassiri	August 1911	15 February 1979	Spook
Airey Neave	23 January 1916	30 March 1979	Spook Politician Lawyer	Thatcher aide who may have been intent on tackling corruption. Assassinated, allegedly by a splinter Irish group.
Carlos Prats	24 February 1915	30 September 1974	Soldier	Chilean army leader who defended the constitution and President Allende. His resignation opened for the September 11, 1973 coup. Assassinated in exile with bomb planted by the Chilean intelligence service.
Hanns Martin Schleyer	1 May 1915	18 October 1977	Business leader
René Schneider	31 December 1913	25 October 1970	Soldier	The commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt.
Karen Silkwood	19 February 1946	13 November 1974	Whistleblower	The assassinated US nuclear whistleblower whose case was taken up by the Christic Institute.
Yuk Young-soo	14 November 1917	15 August 1974	Premature death	The First Lady of South Korea was assassinated in 1974.
Jacobo Árbenz	14 September 1913	27 January 1971	Soldier Politician	A democratically elected President of Guatemala whom the CIA liquidated due to his land redistribution policy