Was Jan Masaryk murdered after all? New American, British and French documents reopen investigation

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Police have reopened the case of the death of former Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk who died on the eve of March 10, 1948. Originally believed to be a suicide, the Office for Documentation and Investigation of Crimes of Communism (ÚDV), a unit of the Czech Police, now suspects murder, based on newly obtained documents from the diplomatic archives of France, the United States, and Great Britain.

The Masaryk case was reopened after new documents were obtained by the Czech Foreign Ministry last August.

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Author: Jakub Ferenčík