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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8308838, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1961 Dag Hammarakjold</b></p><p><b>Solider Of Peace</b></p><p><b>.925 So-called Half Dollar</b></p><p><b>Heraldic Art Medal</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1470648[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1470649[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><font size="3">(sorry lines over medal from being in 2x2)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Dag Hammarskjöld 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961 was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. Hammarskjöld was the youngest to have held the post. Additionally, he is one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize and was the only United Nations Secretary-General to die while in office.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470650[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>He was killed in a DC-6 airplane crash en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hammarskjöld was en route when his Douglas DC-6 airliner crashed with no survivors near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Hammarskjöld and 15 others perished in the crash, whose circumstances are still unclear.</p><p>There is some evidence that suggests the plane was shot down.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470651[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Former U.S. President Harry Truman commented that Hammarskjöld</p><p>&quot;was on the point of getting something done when they killed him.</p><p>Notice that I said &#039;when they killed him&#039;.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Over the years, multiple claims have been made that the plane was shot down, and that Hammarskjöld was actually killed in an assassination plot involving some combination of the CIA, an M-I6 jet, a Belgian Mining Company and a South African paramilitary unit.</p><p>This because he was pushing for the Congo’s independence, which would have hurt the interests of any of those forces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Documents suggesting CIA involvement came to light when the South African National Intelligence Agency turned over a file that contained a supposed statement from CIA director Allen Dulles that: <i>&quot;Dag is becoming troublesome … and should be removed.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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