#Assassination

The Church Committee’s 1975 interim report *Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders* found concrete evidence of multiple CIA plots against Fidel Castro, including an underworld phase using Robert Maheu, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante for poison-pill schemes. CIA Inspector General and NARA releases corroborate recruitment mechanics. The Archive documents those proposals and operations as L1 history and refuses assassination-success claims the sources do not show.

UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died when SE-BDY crashed near Ndola on 17–18 September 1961. Successive UN reviews from the 2013 Jurists report through the 2024 Eminent Person transmission (A/78/1006) treat external attack or threat as still plausible and stress undisclosed Member State intercepts—without closing an assassination verdict.

Operation MONGOOSE was the Kennedy administration’s post–Bay of Pigs covert program, supervised by the Special Group (Augmented) with Edward Lansdale as Chief of Operations, to foster an internal overthrow of the Castro government. FRUS Volume X, NS Archive briefing-book exhibits, and NARA Special Group minutes document objectives, status reviews, and sabotage-option debates. Documented/L1; proposals labeled as proposals.

Evidence suggesting that Princess Diana's death in a Paris tunnel was not an accident but a carefully orchestrated assassination by elements within the British establishment.

Multiple theories alleging involvement of the CIA, Mafia, LBJ, Fidel Castro, or the KGB in a plot to kill President Kennedy.

Theories that Australian PM Harold Holt was a Chinese spy, committed suicide, or was assassinated.