1960s/Assassinations
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 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. | |
The assassinations of the 1960s lead to the CIA being put under increased scrutiny in the 1970s.
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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
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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".[1]
Related Premature deaths
- Full article: JFK/Assassination/Premature death
- 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
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."[2]
Assassinated in the 1960s
| Wikispooks page | Born | Died | Summary | Description |
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| Guy Banister | 7 March 1901 | 6 June 1964 | Police officer Private Investigator JFK/Assassination/Premature death | A US deep state operative involved in the JFK assassination. Suddenly died after he had attracted the attention of investigator Jim Garrison. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| Rafael Trujillo | 24 October 1891 | 30 May 1961 | Soldier | President of the Dominican Republic - assassinated |
| 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 Minister | A Moslem leader who advocated violent revolution in the US. |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Date |
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| 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 |
