Mystery AtlasSouth African Intelligence Hypothesis
The claim that apartheid-era South African intelligence ordered Palme's assassination in retaliation for his anti-apartheid advocacy, based on a death-squad commander's uncorroborated trial testimony naming a specific agent.
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Theories & Explanations
South African Intelligence Hypothesis contradicts The Engström Identification — Mutually exclusive perpetrator accounts: a lone local gunman versus a foreign state-sponsored plot.
South African Intelligence Hypothesis is frequently compared to Kurdish PKK Hypothesis — The case's two politically-motivated-plot strands, both investigated at length and never substantiated.
Events
- Assassination of Olof Palme28 February 1986
South African Intelligence Hypothesis attempts to explain Assassination of Olof Palme — Rests on a convicted apartheid-era death-squad commander's uncorroborated trial testimony naming a specific South African agent; no independent investigation has substantiated it.