On 17 January 1961, just sixty years ago, the first legally elected prime minister of the DRC was assassinated after being overthrown with help from Washington. A sinister episode that Larry Devlin, the ‘Mr. Congo’ of the CIA from 1960 to 1967, would reveal half a century later in his fascinating book, ‘Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone.’
Leopoldville, on 30 June 1960. With the declaration of its independence, the DRC finally emerges from its long colonial history. A new bilateral system is established with a head of state as cunning as he is impenetrable, Joseph Kasavubu, and a Prime Minister as charismatic as he is unpredictable, Patrice Lumumba. In bars, people dance to the rhythm of the Independence Cha Cha, but the euphoria will be short-lived.

On 5 July, a mutiny broke out in the Thysville camp (Mbanza-Ngungu), then spread to the capital. Over a matter of pay, no doubt, but also a revolt against the continued Belgian presence in the DRC by virtue of bilateral agreements. “For the army and General Janssens, who commands it, has the impudence to say that independence means nothing.”

On 11 July, the rich province of Katanga, where the Belgian “Mining Union” reigns, secedes under the leadership of Moïse Tshombe. South Kasai threatens to do the same. This new state-continent is on the verge of imploding.

It is in this context that the new CIA station chief landed at Leopoldville Beach on 10 July 1960. A CIA agent since 1949, Lawrence (Larry) Devlin is an experienced man and a tough guy. His “cover” is that of an ordinary consul, and his local boss is US Ambassador Clare Timberlake.

Very quickly, the two men believed in the same thing, shared in Washington by their superiors: Prime Minister Lumumba, the Kasai nationalist and co-founder of the powerful Congolese National Movement, is a dangerous man. A communist? No. A USSR agent? Probably not. A man who could be easily manipulated by the Soviets and the KGB? Certainly. It is therefore necessary to do everything possible to isolate him.

With the utmost discretion, Devlin then begins to sound out, with a view to possible recruitment, some of the most prominent Congolese political leaders, reputed for their animosity towards Lumumba. They include Albert Kalonji, leader of the Balubas of South Kasai, Paul Bolya, a Mongo leader from Ecuador, Pierre Soumialot, Lumumba’s own private secretary, the trade unionist Cyrille Adoula and, above all, the man who would become one of his most loyal contacts, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justin Bomboko.

During the month of July 1960, the situation deteriorated a little more each day. In Matadi, on the Atlantic coast, Belgian parachutists were deployed to protect their compatriots from the Congolese army who were fighting with heavy weapons.

On the 13th, Lumumba announces the rupture of diplomatic relations with Belgium and threatens to call for Soviet intervention if the Westerners do not move. On the 17th, a first contingent of UN peacekeepers landed at N’Djili airport, led by British General Alexander, who said: “Congolese politicians have not yet come down from their trees.”

A maelstrom of violence and looting
At the heart of this maelstrom of violence and looting, the Americans are more obsessed than ever with the Prime Minister. Not only do the socialist chancelleries – the USSR, Czechoslovakia, China, East Germany, Ghana, Guinea – support Lumumba, but his own entourage is, according to the CIA, full of “KGB agents.”

We are in the middle of the Cold War, and the Americans will stop at nothing to counter their target. Learning that the prestigious Time magazine is planning to publish a cover story about Lumumba, Ambassador Timberlake warns his counterpart in Belgium, who calls up his friend Henry Luce, the magazine’s owner. The result: Lumumba disappears from the cover in the name of America’s supreme interests.

In a wired message to CIA headquarters, Devlin wrote: “Patrice Lumumba was born to be a revolutionary, but he doesn’t have the qualities to exercise power once he’s seized it. Sooner or later, Moscow will take the reins. He believes he can manipulate the Soviets, but they are the ones pulling the strings.”

On 26 August 1960, Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, replied: “If Lumumba continues to be in power, the result will be at best chaos and at worst an eventual seizure of power by the communists, with disastrous consequences for the prestige of the UN and the interests of the free world. His dismissal must therefore be an urgent and priority objective for you.”

On 5 September, Kasavubu dismissed Lumumba and replaced him with Joseph Ileo. However, the nationalist leader fights back, refuses to leave his post and wins parliamentary backing. The constitutional path seems blocked. The CIA believes the time has come to get down to business: the coup d’état.

Hmm

Turning Blacks against Blacks…

From time immemorial the US through their CIA have been ransacking any nations of the world that want to have a figurehead

Jonathan was made out to be a drunkard Buhari was propagandad in today Thieftinubu is president
Never ending game .
Just the ball is getting softer but the end result is the same .

Blacks have been sabotaging and killing blacks from time immemorial.

We are so quick to blame the West for their killing, but always fail to mention how we sold our own great leaders out.

The West capitalized on our foolishness and won.


Till date, we still selling each other out!

How they did so many crimes and now make face as the good guys is what I cannot fathom.

SangoOlukosoOba:
Blacks have been sabotaging and killing blacks from time immemorial.

We are so quick to blame the West for their killing, but always fail to mention how we sold our own great leaders out.

The West capitalized on our foolishness and won.


Till date, we still selling each other out!

They continue to capitalize on Blackie foolishness. Tinubu is your president today…. Made by blackie foolishness. He will just enrich the next generation of Oyibo billionaires off of African resources….

FOOLS

Fortruth:


They continue to capitalize on Blackie foolishness. Tinubu is your president today…. Made by blackie foolishness. He will just enrich the next generation of Oyibo billionaires off of African resources….

FOOLS

You are the biggest FOOL, if you think a visionary who knows his self worth like our President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) is one of their stooges.

Ajagunakin:


You are the biggest FOOL, if you think a visionary who knows his self worth like our President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) is one of their stooges.

The person that born you even knew from birth your father was a fool, that’s why she didnt tell you who your real daddy was. GCFR a local title manufactured by Niggers under the AFrican sun that England is allowing to be having smelly criminals answer President and Governor and Major General…… all jokes.

Mr visionary, envision that YOU…. Your identity, your flag, your coat of arms, your country, was created and named by homosexuals and harlots from abroad. That is your REALITY, as your poster boy is again back in France prostrating for colonizers and signing your childrens future away to cross dressers.

Blackie

Patrice

Fortruth:


The person that born you even knew from birth your father was a fool, that’s why she didnt tell you who your real daddy was. GCFR a local title manufactured by Niggers under the AFrican sun that England is allowing to be having smelly criminals answer President and Governor and Major General…… all jokes.

Mr visionary, envision that YOU…. Your identity, your flag, your coat of arms, your country, was created and named by homosexuals and harlots from abroad. That is your REALITY, as your poster boy is again back in France prostrating for colonizers and signing your childrens future away to cross dressers.

Blackie

You will wail for 8 years, and for another eight years when power goes back to the north

🆗

Ajagunakin:


You will wail for 8 years, and for another eight years when power goes back to the north

Nigga we both are waiting… Tinubu he know you…? He Sabi mumsi?


You fools like to act as if you are right there at the table making decisions when you cant even get through the traffic in Lagos…

Na the same heat way slap person in Calabar dey slap u self…..

“Nigeria” is happening to everybody.

8 years…. Abi 30 years, una no get indigenous helicopter talkless of airplane.

FOOLISH NIGGERS

Well, he won the elections through the support of the US, afterwards he decided to mess around with the communists, that's something the US didn't take well. His death was tragic and horrific, he was eventually killed by his countrymen.
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Fortruth:


Nigga we both are waiting… Tinubu he know you…? He Sabi mumsi?


You fools like to act as if you are right there at the table making decisions when you cant even get through the traffic in Lagos…

Na the same heat way slap person in Calabar dey slap u self…..

“Nigeria” is happening to everybody.

8 years…. Abi 30 years, una no get indigenous helicopter talkless of airplane.

FOOLISH NIGGERS

Toh, so you sabi cry ly dis

Your tears are delicious, cry some more nigga!!!! For 8 years you will wail while Nigeria progresses forward nigerrrrr!!!!!

And up till date, Congo is not settled.

Patrice Lumumba,Thomas Sankara,Obafemi Awolowo,just to mention few.These charismatic leaders have what it takes to lay solid foundation for the development of the African continent for years to come,but the West one way or the other find ways to cut them off from ruling their respective countries.
The evil perpetrated by America and co cannot be quantified.

Astra101:
From time immemorial the US through their CIA have been ransacking any nations of the world that want to have a figurehead

That is why karma is dealing with them. They youths say there is nothing like man and woman, there are no 2 genders and genders are outdated .

They believe in homosexuality and pedophilia .
American is destroying itself from within....
Karma is amazing ain't she ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ajagunakin:


You will wail for 8 years, and for another eight years when power goes back to the north

Don't you see that this line is becoming stale?

US didn't want uranium going to the USSR I believe. Sad history..

WorldRichest:
And up till date, Congo is not settled.

There is no country US interfered in that is settled till date.. Congo, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Panama, Hawaii, Honduras.... the list goes on and on.


Iraq is a good example, It's 20 years after Bush invaded the place. Their country never balance.

The West can destabilise Africa because Africans are so attached to their tribes, so its easy to turn them against each other.
Even on this post, someone is already posting ibo memes with mocking phrases like "wailing", etc.
It is the curse of the blacks. Tribes

Akwamkpuruamu:


Don't you see that this line is becoming stale?

Your cries have become stale as well, but if you must continue then I will continue using the stale line to whip you to tears.

PLEASE TINUBU, ADOPT FULL AUTONOMOUS POLICING RESOURCING AND ELECTIONEERING STATUSES FOR OUR 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATES AND A CERTIFIED TITHES(TENTHS OF EACH STATE REVENUE EARNINGS) CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EACH OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL STATES TO RUN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

FROM ORUNTO27 ORISAORUNTOSPEAKS.

WITH THAT WHIP, THE OFFICER IS THE GOAT WAITING TO BE BEATEN BACK.

Hmmmmmm GOD dey ooo!!!

YOU ARE BOTH ODU-DU-IWAS. AND YOUR RELIGION IS NIGERIANISM.
TAKE THAT GOAT TO THE CLINIC AND TREAT HIM WELL.
BOTH OF YOU SHOULD JOIN HANDS TO MOVE NIGERIA FORWARD.

FROM ORUNTO27 ORISAORUNTOSPEAKS
THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.

kingthreat:
How they did so many crimes and now make face as the good guys is what I cannot fathom.

Only fools and the ignorant consider the US as being the good guys. That's why I always laugh when I see people hoping on US intervention. The anglo-American power block is the most despicable thing to happen to the human race.

…and they blame it on the CIA. Black people sha, after killing your own

iLoveYouToo:
…and they blame it on the CIA. Black people sha, after killing your own

CIA was involved. Whether the blame is on them or not.