Czech police have exhumed the body of Jan Masaryk — son of Czechoslovakia's founding president and the country's last non-communist foreign minister — from a cemetery in Lány, near Prague, to subject his remains to modern forensic analysis. Masaryk was found dead on the courtyard of the Černín Palace (the foreign ministry's headquarters) two weeks after the February 1948 communist takeover, with authorities at the time ruling his death a suicide after he allegedly fell from a bathroom window. The investigation has been reopened following the discovery of diplomatic documents from French, American, and British archives that suggest foul play, including accounts of a violent confrontation before his death and claims that he was poisoned with cyanide before being thrown from the window — details that were absent from the original autopsy report.