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U.N. says crucial evidence Hammarskjöld's death still hidden

New investigation points to possible foreign involvement in 1961 plane crash, urges governments to open their archives.

U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, at left, attends an official reception in the newly independent Congo with Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula, at right, and Deputy Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga, second from right, on Sept. 15, 1961, three days before he and 15 others died in a plane crash. (UN Photo/BZ)

Sixty-five years after United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died in a mysterious plane crash during a peace mission in Africa, a new U.N. investigation has concluded that governments almost certainly possess important information they have yet to disclose about his death.

The findings raise questions about possible foreign involvement in the September 1961 crash and governments' failure to provide investigators with full access to intelligence and historical records.

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