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Decades of post-colonial chaos
"Veni, Vidi, Vici, numquam reliquit - ego adduxit inimici mei !"
American role in Lumumba's murder was only under consideration by the CIA. CIA Chief
Allan Dulles had allocated $100,000 to accomplish the act, but the plan was not carried
out.
The UK
In June 2001, newly discovered documents by Flemish historian Ludo De Witte revealed
that while the US and Belgium actively plotted to murder Lumumba, the British
government secretly wanted him "got rid of" because they believed he posed a serious
threat to British interests in the Congo, such as mining facilities in Katanga.
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In April 2013, in a letter to the London Review of Books, British parliamentarian David Lea
reported having discussed Lumumba's death with MI6 officer Daphne Park shortly before
she died in March 2010. Park had been posted to Leopoldville at the time of Lumumba's
death, and was later a semi-official spokesperson for MI6 in the House of Lords.
According to Lea, when he mentioned "the uproar" surrounding Lumumba's abduction
and murder, and recalled the theory that MI6 might have had "something to do with it",
Park replied, "We did. I organised it." The BBC reported that, subsequently, "Whitehall
sources" described the claims of MI6 involvement as "speculative". "
"Patrice Lumumba" 168
Wikipedia
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Patrice Lumumba: the most important assassination of the 20th century
" Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC), was assassinated 50 years ago today, on 17 January, 1961. This
heinous crime was a culmination of two inter-related assassination plots by American
and Belgian governments, which used Congolese accomplices and a Belgian execution
squad to carry out the deed.
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For 126 years, the US and Belgium have played key roles in shaping Congo's destiny. In
April 1884, seven months before the Berlin Congress, the US became the first country in
the world to recognise the claims of King Leopold II of the Belgians to the territories of
the Congo Basin.
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In Congo, Lumumba's assassination is rightly viewed as the country's original sin.
Coming less than seven months after independence (on 30 June, 1960), it was a
