Cold Case Hammarskjöld
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| Type | documentary film |
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| Producer(s) | Mads Brügger |
Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a 2019 documentary film by Danish film maker Mads Brügger and featuring Göran Björkdahl. The film depicts the death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in the 1961 United Nations DC-68 aircrash and begins by investigating the possibility that Hammarskjöld's plane, which crashed at Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, was shot down by Belgian-British mercenary pilot Jan van Risseghem.[1]
Cold Case Hammarskjöld then moves to South Africa, where in 1998 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed a document with an outline for the assassination of Hammarskjöld involving a mysterious mercenary organisation South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR). Brügger and Björkdahl sought to trace the SAIMR through its believed leader, Keith Maxwell, who was rumoured to have operated a number of medical clinics in the townships of South Africa, even though he was not a medical doctor.
The film goes on to produce two new witnesses, who claimed to be former SAIMR members or close relatives. These witnesses claimed SAIMR served the interests of white supremacy in Africa. SAIMR was shown to have run operations to administer the HIV virus to black people in South Africa, Mozambique, and other countries through the fake clinics, with the goal of depleting the black population to a point where whites were in the majority. The film concludes with the suggestion in Keith Maxwell's autobiography that SAIMR might have been involved in the Hammarskjöld assassination. One of the witnesses claimed the playing card depicted in one of the photos of Hammarskjöld's corpse was a covert signal of a CIA connection.[2]
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