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Interest ofThe Coalition on Political Assassinations
A list of 25 of people assassinated in the 1970s. Some of these were people who were killed because of their role in the JFK assassination. Many more were due to testify at the House Select Committee on Assassinations, convened because of the widespread use of assassination in the US in the 1960s, in large part to keep a lid on that event and the subsequent assassinations.

This list is of people who were specifically targeted. For people who may have been randomly murdered, see 1970s/Murders.

The assassinations of the 1970s, in part, stemmed from the desire to contain the truth about the assassinations of the 1960s, especially the JFK assassination. In 2008, Peter Dale Scott published an essay on The Assassinations of the 1960s as "Deep Events", an important step in spreading the term "deep event".[1]

House Select Committee on Assassinations related deaths

Full article: Stub class article HSCA/Premature deaths
The chairman of the HSCA, Frank Church, displays a CIA poison dart gun used for covert assassinations. It could cause either cancer or a heart attack.

Many people, especially mid level spooks, died sudden deaths just prior to testifying before this committee. The committee was unsuccessful at getting to the bottom of the political assassinations in the US in the previous decade, but it did expose some some of the goings on.

JFK Assassination related deaths

Full article: JFK/Assassination/Premature deaths

The JFK assassination lead to more assassinations in the 1970s, just as it did in the 1960s. These included witnesses, participants and would be investigators. George de Mohrenschildt (Lee Harvey Oswald's handler) was perhaps the most prominent of those involved, while Dorothy Kilgallen was perhaps the most famous journalist assassinated.

 

Assassinated in the 1970s

Wikispooks pageBornDiedSummaryDescription
Giorgio Ambrosoli17 October 193311 July 1979LawyerAn Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona.
Outel Bono193426 August 1973PoliticianAfrican political leader assassinated by French secret services
Jean de Broglie21 June 192124 December 1976PoliticianThe investigation into his 1976 assassination was soon classified as a military secret.
Luigi Calabresi14 November 193717 May 1972Police officerAn Italian policeman who was alleged to have killed a suspect of the Piazza Fontana bombing. Assassinated in 1972, leading to public unrest.
Park Chung-hee14 November 191726 October 1979SoldierPresident of South Korea assassinated in office
Henri Curiel13 September 19144 May 1978ActivistInternational left wing activist with many enemies, gunned down.
John Francis Green18 December 194610 January 1975SoldierA member of the North Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA killed by death squad with links to British state forces
Orlando Letelier13 April 193221 September 1976Diplomat
Politician
Economist
A Chilean socialist politician and diplomat, assassinated in Washington D.C.
Georgi Markov1 March 192911 September 1978Author
Defector
A Bulgarian dissident writer who assassinated in 1978
Rolando Masferrer12 July 191831 October 1975"Terrorist"
Assassin
Businessperson
Operation 40 member car bombed in Miami a week mafter he published a newspaper editorial arguing that car bombs were a justifiable tactic.
Harvey Milk22 May 193027 November 1978PoliticianThe first openly gay elected official in the history of California. Assassinated.
George de Mohrenschildt17 April 191129 March 1977Spook
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.
Aldo Moro23 September 19169 May 1978Italian politician, former PM, assassinated by Operation Gladio
George Moscone24 November 192927 November 1978PoliticianMayor of San Francisco. Assassinated
Louis Mountbatten25 June 190027 August 1979Mariner
British royal family
A man "of extremely low morals" according to an FBI file. Mentor to Charles Windsor. Assassinated
Nematollah NassiriAugust 191115 February 1979SpookIranian spook who co-founded the Safari Club. Assassinated in 1979
Airey Neave23 January 191630 March 1979Spook
Politician
Lawyer
Thatcher aide who may have been intent on tackling corruption. Assassinated, allegedly by a splinter Irish group.
Carlos Prats24 February 191530 September 1974SoldierChilean army leader who defended the constitution and President Allende. His resignation opened for the September 11, 1973 coup. Assassinated in exile with bomb planted by the Chilean intelligence service.
Walter Reuther1 September 19079 May 1970Trade unionistBilderberger labor leader, probably assassinated with a plane crash in 1970.
Harold Wallace Rosenthal2 November 194711 August 1976An influential jew who died reportedly from a "terrorist" attack 30 days after an interview about The Deep State
Hanns Martin Schleyer1 May 191518 October 1977Business leader
René Schneider31 December 191325 October 1970SoldierThe commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a botched kidnapping attempt.
Karen Silkwood19 February 194613 November 1974Whistleblower
Trade unionist
The assassinated US nuclear whistleblower whose case was taken up by the Christic Institute.
Richard Welch14 December 192923 December 1975SpookCIA station chief in Athens, Greece assassinated in December 1975, a month before George H. W. Bush was made CIA director.
Jacobo Árbenz14 September 191327 January 1971Soldier
Politician
A democratically elected President of Guatemala whom the CIA liquidated due to his land redistribution policy


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