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Files of importance to the CIA mission to assassinate Patrice Lumumba include the 1975–76 US Senate Church Committee's investigation of CIA assassination plots against Lumumba, the report of a Belgian parliamentary inquiry in 2001, Congo Station Chief Larry Devlin's 2007 memoir, and the long-awaited appearance in 2013 of a "retrospective ...
Patrice Émery Lumumba [e] (/ p ə ˈ t r iː s l ʊ ˈ m ʊ m b ə / ⓘ pə-TREESS luu-MUUM-bə; [3] born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa; [4] 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 ...
CIA personnel were involved in attempted assassinations of foreign government leaders such as Fidel Castro. They provided support to those that killed Patrice Lumumba. In yet another category was noninterference in the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) Coup d'état in which President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed.
Juxtaposing the story of the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba with a musical tour of jazzman Louis Armstrong and with the expansion of the United Nations after the independence of many ...
The CIA sent official Sydney Gottlieb with a poison to liaison with an African CIA asset code-named WI/Rogue who was to assassinate Lumumba, but Lumumba went into hiding before the operation was completed. [166] After Lumumba was killed, the US began funding Mobutu Sese Seko in order to
U.S.-based production company Congo Rising is preparing “Patrice Lumumba,” a film on the life of the Congolese leader who was assassinated in 1961. Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese ...
Patrice Lumumba: Prime Minister of Congo-Leopoldville Congo-Léopoldville: Reported by the Church Committee. [1] Rafael Trujillo: President of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic: Reported by the Church Committee. [1] Ngo Dinh Diem: President of South Vietnam South Vietnam: Reported by the Church Committee. [1] René Schneider
In the election of Patrice Lumumba, and his acceptance of Soviet support, the CIA saw another possible Cuba. This view swayed the White House. Eisenhower ordered that Lumumba be "eliminated". The CIA delivered a quarter of a million dollars to Joseph Mobutu, their favorite horse in the race. Mobutu delivered Lumumba to the Belgians, the former ...