The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination Reid Stuart A.
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination Reid Stuart A. A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the US-sanctioned plot to…
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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination Reid Stuart A.
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller--about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent CongoIt was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. Just days after the handover, however, Congo's new army mutinied, Belgian forces intervened, and its leader Patrice Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help in saving his newborn nation from what the press was already calling "the Congo Crisis." Dag Hammarskjold, the tidy Swede who was serving as UN secretary-general, quickly arranged the organization's biggest peacekeeping mission to date. Congo was at last being set free from Belgium--one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers.
Frustrated with the fecklessness of the UN, Lumumba then approached the But chaos was still spreading.