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He was found dead of a gunshot wound with the gun in his hand and suicide note in his pocket in Queens, New York City park on 26 November 1959 (Thanksgiving Day). Some analysts exclude suicide, in spite of the results of the Federal Bureau of Investigation report. His body was incinerated and buried in Denmark.
A tombstone was placed in Budapest, in Plot #301 of the New Cemetery of Rákoskeresztúr, among those he fought foreign
The story of Povl Bang-Jensen is presented in a book by DeWitt Copp and Marshall Peck, published under the title "Betrayal at the United Nations, the story of Povl Bang-Jensen" New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1961 and in the Hungarian documentary The Bang-Jensen affair (A Bang-Jensen ügy, 2008) directed by András Surányi.
