Spook/Premature deaths

Spook/Premature deaths (Premature deaths)
Premature deaths of spooks, not necessarily suspicious

Premature deaths of spooks are listed below in 3 categories: assassinations, where the individual was targeted and killed, murders in which may have been unrelated to their spooky activities, and premature deaths which may have been due to accident, illness or suicide.

 

Assassinated spooks on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Jack Agazarian (WWII)	27 August 1915	29 March 1945	Spook	UK spook of the SOE who was captured and killed in WW2.
Mohamed Farah Aideed	15 December 1934	2 August 1996	Diplomat Spook Soldier	President of Somalia assassinated in office
Boris Bazarov	1893	1939	Spook	Assassinated spook
William Francis Buckley	30 May 1928	3 June 1985	Spook Soldier	CIA Station Chief in Beirut, captured by Hezbollah.
Alexander Burnes	16 May 1805	2 November 1841	Diplomat Spook Explorer	UK "spymaster" diplomat
William Cooper	6 May 1943	5 November 2001	Researcher Spook 9-11/Premature death Radio host Dissident 9-11/Dissident	Announced around 10 weeks before 9/11 that "Whatever they're going to blame on Usama bin Laden - don't you believe it...They will soon do something outlandish to gain the support of the Sheeple".<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> He was killed by the US Marshals Service less than two months after the event.
Edward Cutolo	4 November 1931	26 May 1980	Whistleblower Spook Drug trafficker CIA/Drug trafficking/Premature death	A drug smuggler who named a lot of names about the CIA's drug trafficking, and who then died a sudden death, as did many of those he named.
Denis Donaldson	1950	4 April 2006	Spook	Sinn Féin member exposed in December 2005 as an MI5 employee. Assassinated in 2006.
Pablo Escobar	1 December 1949	2 December 1993	Spook Criminal Drug trafficker	Drug kingpin who ran the Medellín drug cartel for the CIA.
Mario Ferraro		July 1995	Researcher Spook	Italian spook who was assassinated in 1995
Daniel Forestier	1952	March 2019	Spook	A DGSE agent who was assassinated in 2019
Álvaro Gomez-Hurtado	8 May 1919	2 November 1995	Spook Politician Lawyer	Spooky Colombian diplomat who attended Le Cercle. Assassinated in 1995
Kim Jae-gyu	6 March 1926	24 May 1980	Spook	As head of the KCIA he assassinated his boss, the South Korean president, Park Chung-hee
Maxim Lazovsky	31 July 1965	28 April 2000	Spook Deep state operative Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	Named as suspect in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. Shot by unknown assassins.
Alexander Litvinenko	30 August 1962	23 November 2006	Whistleblower Spook Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	An exiled Russian spook turned whistleblower who died of polonium poisoning in London.
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.
Hilda Murrell	3 February 1906	23 March 1984	Spook Activist	A senior UK spook turned anti-nuclear activist assassinated in 1984 on the day she had notified friends that she had some sensitive papers she was seeking to publish... Blamed in 2006 on a 16 year old "lone nut"
Nematollah Nassiri	August 1911	15 February 1979	Spook	Iranian spook who co-founded the Safari Club. Assassinated in 1979
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.
Monte Overacre	30 July 1955	5 April 1995	Spook	CIA spook who worked in Central America and with recurring foreign technology experts to spy for the U.S. Died in suspicious 1995 plane crash, after starting to talk too freely.
Vasily Prozorov	1976	April 2024	Spook Defector	Ex-employee of the SBU who defected to Russia. Assassinated with car bomb in 2024.
Giulio Regeni	15 January 1988	25 January 2016	Spook	Italian spook who was tortured to death by intelligence services in Egypt
William Remington	25 October 1917	24 November 1954	Spook Economist
Erik van Sabben	31 January 1972	16 January 2009	Spook Hacker Engineer	Engineer-recruited-spook that was responsible for installing Stuxnet in Iranian nuclear facilities. Found death 2 weeks later in a "motorcycle accident"
Anton Surikov		November 2009	Spook
Richard Welch	14 December 1929	23 December 1975	Spook	CIA station chief in Athens, Greece assassinated in December 1975, a month before George H. W. Bush was made CIA director.

 

Murdered spooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Roland Carnaby	1956	29 April 2008	Spook Deep state operative Businessperson	A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Valentine Fleming	17 February 1882	20 May 1917	Spook Soldier	Father of Ian Fleming, killed in 1917 in WWI
Matthew Gannon	11 August 1954	21 December 1988	Spook	CIA officer killed in the Lockerbie Bombing
Cyrus Hashemi	1938	21 July 1986	Spook Arms Dealer Iran-Contra/Premature death	Spooky arms dealer, Iran-Contra/Premature death
David Kelly	14 May 1944	17 July 2003	Whistleblower Spook Bioweapons developer	Dr David Kelly, a biological weapons expert who died in highly suspicious circumstances
Amiram Nir	8 December 1950	30 November 1988	Spook Journalist Deep state actor	Mossad Iran Contra figure who was murdered in 1988 and whose documents were subsequently mopped up by unidentified spooks.
James Rusbridger	26 February 1928	16 February 1994	Author Spook	UK spook who died under suspicious circumstances. Officially a suicide during sex game.

 

A spook who committed suicide

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Huntington D. Sheldon	14 February 1903	19 May 1987	Spook Banker Pilot	As Director of the Office of Current Intelligence, Sheldon briefed three Presidents with the became the President's Daily Brief

 

Other prematurely deceased spooks

Wikispooks page	Born	Died	Summary	Description
Manuel Artime	29 January 1932	18 November 1977	Spook HSCA/Premature deaths	A spook who died from cancer before he could testify the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Klas Bergenstrand	26 July 1945		Spook	Director General of the Swedish Security Police (Säpo) 2004–2007. "Bergenstrand was in top physical shape. Therefore, his mysterious death in 2007 at age 61, officially from a heart attack, came as a shock."
Yves Bertrand	25 January 1944	3 June 2013	Spook	Chief of French police intelligence from 1992 to 2004. Said too much to media. Died of "cause unknown" in 2013.
Robert Blum	1911	1965	Diplomat Spook Academic	Spooky US academic diplomat. OSS. Attended the 1956 Bilderberg. Died suddenly aged 54.
William Colby	4 January 1920	27 April 1996	Spook Deep politician	CIA boss who maybe became too loose-mouthed, died in suspicious circumstances
Lionel Crabb	28 January 1909	19 April 1956	Spook Diver	A spook whose illadvised fatal dive lead to the early retirement of MI6 Director general, John Sinclair.
Jerry Daniels	11 June 1941	29 April 1982	Spook	A CIA spook from the heroin/covert war operation in Laos and contact to general Vang Pao. Was reportedly poisoned by carbon monoxide.
Ahmed Dlimi	1931	22 January 1983	Spook Soldier	A Moroccan spook who died in suspicious circumstances
John Earman	1913	10 April 1974	Spook	A CIA Inspector General for 6 years who opposed Operation Midnight Climax. Very little information is available about him as of 2019.
Desmond FitzGerald	16 June 1910	23 July 1967	Spook JFK/Assassination/Premature death	A US Spook and Georgetown Set member who died of a "heart attack"
Harold Goulding	21 August 1903	4 August 1945	Spook Mariner	Master mariner, spook and commander of the Special Boat Unit Headquarters who carried out "very secret work". Interest centers on the final month of the war, when Goulding was purportedly posted to Cardiff. Died of meningitis in an Edinburgh hospital 3 months later after another unexpected posting to Scotland.
François de Grossouvre	29 March 1918	7 April 1994	Spook Doctor	The spook in charge of Operation Gladio in France.
Dorothy Hunt	1 April 1920	8 December 1972	Spook JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Spook, wife of Watergate/JFK assassination conspirator, E. Howard Hunt. Killed in a plane suspicious crash.
Thomas Anthony Dooley III	17 January 1927	18 January 1961	Spook Doctor	Doctor who was CIA operative. Collected intelligence under medical cover. After his death, it was discovered numerous descriptions of atrocities by the Viet Minh in his hugely influential book Deliver Us From Evil had been fabricated.
Nestor Izquierdo	20 March 1936	10 June 1979	Spook	Bay of Pigs, may have been spotter for JFK assassination in Dallas
Steve Kangas	11 May 1961	8 February 1999	Whistleblower Spook Journalist Teacher	A spook turned whistleblower who was one of the first political campaigners on the internet. Probably murdered by the US Deep state.
Saak Karapetyan		3 October 2018	Spook Lawyer	"Russian deputy attorney general" who reportedly died in a helicopter crash
Walter Krivitsky	28 June 1899	10 February 1941	Spook Defector	A spook and defector
Osama bin Laden	10 March 1957	December 2001	Spook Enemy image	A CIA operative, heavily involved in CIA covert operations such as Operation Cyclone and Gladio plan B.
Paul Latinus		April 1984	Spook Deep state operative	Started the spooky Operation Gladio associated group, the Westland New Post. "Suicide"
Daniel Lewin	14 May 1970	11 September 2001	Spook 9-11/Premature death Mathematician Billionaire Businessperson	Billionaire Sayeret Matkal agent fatally involved in 9-11.
Gordon Lonsdale	17 January 1922	14 October 1970	Spook	A spook who organised the Portland Spy Ring. Died in suspicious circumstances in Moscow.
Ashraf Marwan	2 February 1944	2 October 2007	Spook	Spooky son-in-law of the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Fell to his death from the balcony of his London home.
Robert Maxwell	10 June 1923	5 November 1991	Spook Media mogul Billionaire Deep state operative	Billionaire media mogul and deep state operative who reportedly fell overboard
James Le Mesurier	25 May 1971	11 November 2019	Spook Soldier	A UK spook involved in various NATO interventions, including sin Syria where he started the White Helmets and the Mayday Rescue Foundation. He was found dead in Istanbul in November 2019, which was labelled a suicide, in spite of the evidence.
Alberto Nisman	5 December 1963	18 January 2015	Spook Lawyer Deep state functionary	Argentinian lawyer and CIA/Mossad collaborator who was murdered the day before delivering report on the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
William Odom	23 June 1932	30 May 2008	Spook Soldier	Bilderberg NSA director
John Paisley	25 August 1923	24 September 1978	Spook HSCA/Premature deaths	A spook who died before he could testify in the HSCA.
Phoebe Pool	1913	December 1971	Spook	British art historian and spy for the Soviet Union. Spooky suicide in 1971.
Francis Gary Powers	17 August 1929	1 August 1977	Spook Pilot HSCA/Premature deaths	Died in a helicopter crash before he could testify to the HSCA
Rip Robertson	3 August 1920	1 December 1970	Spook	Important CIA Contract Officer involved with Bay of Pigs and Congolese Operation among many other exploits.
Boris Georgiyevich Rotov	15 October 1929	5 September 1978	Spook Priest	Ordained in 1960 at the age of 31, the youngest bishop in the Christian world. Russian Orthodox metropolitan of Leningrad until his sudden death at age 48 after drinking a cup of coffee at the Vatican.
Mitsuhiro Shimada		2 February 1979	Spook Businessperson Arms dealer?	Spooky Japanese businessman. Officially, a suicide.
Dirk Stoffberg	1936	July 1994	Spook Arms Dealer	South African spook and arms dealer who died suddenly
Hans van de Ven	1953	2021	Whistleblower Spook Soldier	Former SIGINT head of the Dutch MiVD intelligence agency in 1990s. Suspicious death ruled "natural death". House was burglarized shortly after, female found in house sought for fraud let loose. Police reopened case in 2022.
Gareth Williams	26 September 1978	16 August 2010	Spook Mathematician	A brilliant cryptologist who worked for GCHQ and was found dead, naked, and locked in a sports bag allegedly a "suicide" or "sex game gone wrong".
Frank Wisner	23 June 1909	29 October 1965	Spook Deep politician	US deep politician, and an architect of Operation Mockingbird. Reportedly killed himself.

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