Homi J. Bhabha
 Homi J. Bhabha    (nuclear physicist) | |
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| Born | 30 October 1909 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Died | 24 January 1966 (Age 56) Mont Blanc massif |
Cause of death | air crash |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Elphinstone College, Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge University) |
| Victim of | assassination |
| Interests | India/Nuclear Weapons |
Indian nuclear physicist possibly killed by the CIA in air crash killing 117 | |
Homi Jehangir Bhabha was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme".
He died in the crash of Air India Flight 101 in 1966, at the age of 56, which was possibly a hit by the CIA.
Death
Many possible theories have been advanced for the air crash, including a claim that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in paralysing India's nuclear program.[1]
Gregory Douglas, who claimed to have conducted telephone conversations with former CIA operative Robert Crowley in 1993, published a book titled Conversations with the Crow in 2013. According to Douglas, Crowley claimed that the CIA was responsible for assassinating Homi Bhabha and Prime Minister Shastri in 1966, thirteen days apart, to thwart India's nuclear programme.[2]
Douglas asserted that Crowley told him a bomb in the cargo section of the plane exploded mid-air, bringing down the commercial Boeing 707 airliner in Alps with few traces. Per Douglas, Crowley said: "We could have blown it up over Vienna but we decided the high mountains were much better for the bits and pieces to come down on".[3]
Another death in this connection was nuclear physicist Vikram Sarabhai, who died in 1971, age 52. He showed no signs of illness prior to his death from a heart attack and was cremated without autopsy[4]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120513165226/http://news.in.msn.com/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=3433120&page=1
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211028161308/https://www.news18.com/news/india/has-a-swiss-climber-traced-mystery-crash-that-killed-homi-bhabha-father-of-indias-atom-bomb-1477249.html
- ↑ Douglas, Gregory (2013). Conversations with the Crow. Basilisk Press. pp. 66–67. ISBN 9780991175208.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220707155003/https://www.thestatesman.com/opinion/unnatural-deaths-1502589589.html
