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The assassinations of the 1940s.

 

Assassinated in the 1940s

Wikispooks pageBornDiedSummaryDescription
Jack Agazarian (WWII)27 August 191529 March 1945SpookUK spook of the SOE who was captured and killed in WW2.
Folke Bernadotte2 January 189517 September 1948DiplomatA member of the Swedish Royal family appointed as UN Mediator in Palestine on 14 May 1948, assassinated by members of the Stern Gang on the orders of its then leader Yitzhak Shamir (who was later Prime Minister of Israel). Nobody was prosecuted for his assassination.
Walter Guinness29 March 18806 November 1944Politician
Businessperson
Lord Moyne. An Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. Was Minister of State in UN Mandate Palestine in 1944 when he was assassinated by members of Lehi
Kim Ku29 August 187626 June 1949PoliticianAn assassinated Korean politician -possibly by the Counterintelligence Corps or their stooge Syngman Rhee.
Fidél Pálffy6 May 18952 March 1946PoliticianHungarian agriculture minister, executed in 1946
Bugsy Siegel28 February 190620 June 1947Crime bossCrime boss assassinated in 1947
Władysław Sikorski20 May 18814 July 1943PoliticianDied in suspicious plane crash near Gibraltar
Carlo Tresca9 March 187911 January 1943EditorCommunist editor assassinated in New York in 1943
Tomoyuki Yamashita8 November 188523 February 1946SoldierJapanese general of "Yamashita's Gold" fame.


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