US ‘could solve mystery of UN chief’s death’

By The Newsroom
Published 9th Sep 2013, 17:53 BST
America’s National Security Agency may hold crucial evidence about the cause of the 1961 plane crash which killed United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the Cold War.

A commission established to see if the case merited further investigation said key evidence may lie with America’s electronic eavesdropping agency,

Widely considered the UN’s most effective chief, Mr Hammarskjold died as he was attempting to broker a ceasefire in the newly independent Congo. The crash
of his DC-6 aircraft near Ndola Airport in modern-day Zambia has bred a rash of conspiracy theories.

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