☠Assassination of Wadie Haddad

On 28 March 1978 Wadie Haddad, head of external operations in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the architect of the aircraft hijackings, died in a hospital in East Germany, and it was put about that he had died of leukaemia. Twenty-eight years later an Israeli book based on Mossad officers revealed that Israel had assassinated him by poisoning chocolate through an Iraqi agent close to him; Israel never officially confirmed the account.