Dagmar Feil

Dagmar Feil (Biologist, whistleblower)
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Victim of	assassination
Exposed	South African Institute for Maritime Research, AIDS
South African researcher at the South African Institute for Maritime Research who raised concerns about its biological weapons programme. Murdered outside her home in 1990.

Dagmar Feil was a South African marine biologist and member of the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR).

Blowing the whistle

Feil had raised concerns about SAIMR's medical programmes and in 1990 she was murdered outside her home in Johannesburg. Her relatives believe the killing was linked to her work on SAIMR's AIDS programme.

"My sister came to me, and she said she needed to confide in me," her brother Karl Feil told the filmmakers of Cold Case Hammarskjöld.

"She sat with me and said she thinks they are going to kill her."

"She said that three or four others in her team had already been murdered, but when asked what team, Dagmar said 'she couldn't tell me'.

"The topic of AIDS research came up several times, quite loosely in conversations, I never put two and two together," Feil says in the film. Instead Dagmar asked Karl to go with her to church, so she could "make right with God". Weeks later she was dead.