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Lawrence Devlin covered_up
Lumumba assassination documented
“by January 14th, three days before it happened, because he arranged it. He did not officially inform Washington until January 17th because they didn't want anything in writing. Devlin knew that cabling Washington would risk tipping off Afri…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:01:37
CIA covered_up
Lumumba assassination documented
“After Kennedy's inauguration, the CIA continued to keep Lumumba's death under wraps. On January 26, Dulles briefed the new president on the Congo. Do you think he told Kennedy? Nope. The CIA director said nothing about Lumumba's assassinati…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:06:23
Church Committee covered_up
Lumumba assassination documented
“In its explosive 1975 report on the CIA assassination plot against former leaders, the church committee absolved the agency of any responsibility for Lumumba's murder. Quote, it did not appear from the evidence that the U.S. was in any way …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 56:31
Joseph Devlin covered_up
Lumumba assassination documented
“You know, they just killed him for no reason. I didn't regard Lumumba as the kind of person that was going to bring about World War III. He later told the church committee, then why did you fucking kill him, you devil? So, and nowhere in he…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:14:22
Gerald Ford covered_up
Lumumba assassination book_quoted
“You know, with the Rockefeller Commission, Ford responded that he needed to appoint those who could be trusted to keep those secrets that had to remain secret. Yep. Rosenthal, Hersh's editor, follows up with, like what? He asks. And then Pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:23:58
Dwight D. Eisenhower funded
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“Patrice Lumumba was murdered basically as a CIA operation. The funding that was actually signed by Eisenhower. And so there there was. But again, and, you know, he would have been told he was a communist and blah, blah, blah, which he was n…”
▶ Operation Gladio -France Part 2 @ 1:42:15
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I wanted to put that. And I also want to point out that during these things in the past, there's never just one assassination. If you go back and you look at the JFK assassination, you had Charles de Gaulle being assassinated. You had the D…
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And that's where all of the OAS agents, two of which was in Dallas for JFK's assassination. They were also in Algeria. They were also responsible for the assassination of Lumumba. They were trained in those training camps. And off the coast…
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Patrice Lumumba was murdered basically as a CIA operation. The funding that was actually signed by Eisenhower. And so there there was. But again, and, you know, he would have been told he was a communist and blah, blah, blah, which he was n…
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They planned PB's success, which was the name of the operation to overthrow the Guatemalan president. And that was General Eisenhower. Also, one of the very last things he did was issue a findings, which is what it's called when you order t…
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They killed Patrice Lumumba three days before JFK came into office. JFK was in office for at least three weeks before he knew that his CIA was complicit in killing Lumumba. He didn't even know he was dead because they had kidnapped him. And…
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What happens as soon as that phone call is made? They call him a communist. He's not a communist, but because they call him a communist and Eisenhower, and it started with Truman, actually, 10-2, a National Security Action Memorandum says, …
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and offered the Navy access to Cuba through Quintero. They were delighted. After three or four weeks, we had a man reporting from Havana Harbor on what was going on and who was doing it. Wilson reactivated another one of his agents from the…
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NATO base ever set up around all of the mining efforts in the Katanga area and basically succeeded from the Congo back in 1961. And that's when Lumumba was murdered, blah, blah, blah. And so there's another training base that they used prim…
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show up all over the world. One of theirs is the one that tried to assassinate John Paul the Pope when he was shot in St. Peter's. So they show up all over doing all kinds of attempted assassinations as a warning or assassinations for a lea…
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So that's the way, the lens that we're going to look at. And already, we're not even out of the first paragraph, and we've established that he is and owns mining interests throughout Africa, which we know is the whole reason that they assas…
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They loved Eisenhower because Eisenhower set up Operation Gladio and interfered and signed the findings to assassinate Lumumba, which obviously made this guy rich because he has mining interest in the Congo and did way back then. So they wi…
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According to a 1979 Washington Post article, Tempelsman's influence on U.S. policy was apparent in his ability to vet U.S. ambassadors to the Congo. Basically, he decided who was going to be the Congolese U.S. ambassador. During the 1960-61…
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highlight this because i want you to listen to this the guy that this guy so this guy picked the cia agent and the ambassador that they want in the congo during the assassination of lumumba after his hand-selected cia guy works with otto sc…
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is you get to go work for the guy who basically hand-selected you to do the assassination. And no one in Congress ever talks about any of this. This is the most appalling bullshit stuff that I have ever seen. Devlin was a key figure in the …
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that Templesman was key to engineering the coup against Lumumba after he pledged to return Congo's diamond wealth to the Congolese people. So that would have put him in the sights of Templesman for the assassination. But in Reed's defense, …
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Larry Devlin, the guy that ends up down in the Congo as the CIA station chief. So basically, this Devlin guy is the CIA handler for Mobatu when he worked at the station in Belgium. And then he gets forward deployed into the Congo as the sta…
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in collaboration with many Belgium plantation owners. Devlin and his CIA colleagues also made payments to Mobato so that they could keep him on their side. Orders for Lumumba's assassination came directly from President Eisenhower. Devlin w…
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Gottlieb showed Devlin a special poison that he had concocted for Lumumba that would not show up in an autopsy. The CIA's plan for killing Lumumba was never implemented because Mubatu and Shambi's forces and the Belgians got to Lumumba firs…
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three of the five main sources that I have used to document this coup all try to make people believe that Mubatu, who is on the payroll of the CIA, and Shambi, who is on the payroll of the CIA, got to Lumumba before the quote-unquote CIA pl…
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Plans two and three were your plans too. And you funded them. So I just want everybody to understand Lumumba wasn't getting out of the country alive. They had plan after plan after plan to kill him. And they don't ever just have one plan, w…
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In addition, the U.S. pressured U.N. troops to stop protecting him so that he could be kidnapped. Devlin further gave the green light for Lumumba's transfer into the arms of Shambi, whose forces murdered him. So again, the CIA controlled ev…
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contempt for left-wing guerrilla movements, Reid is far too disparaging of the pro-Lumumba rebels leading the so-called Simba revolt against Mubatu's government after the assassination. So basically he's saying that all of the pro-Lumumba w…
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He was in the U.S. Embassy, and I didn't know this. He was in the U.S. Embassy in Congo at the time Lumumba was killed. So Frank Carlucci, who ends up being the SecDef and CIA director, was there with Devlin when the whole Lumumba killing w…
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Eisenhower had Lumumba murdered. And it was three or four weeks, depending on which source you want to use, before he ever knew that it was the CIA that had infiltrated the Congo, kidnapped Lumumba, carried him around for a couple of weeks …
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As a result, the new president entered office with a bipartisan foreign policy. Both the Democrats and the Republicans had united in their resolve to get Castro out of office. And of course, we know on January 17th, three days before Kenned…
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one of which was Nugent Hay and Bank. African Division Chief Lawrence Devlin, who was involved in Lumumba, returned to his old haunts in the Congo, because he's the one that did away with Lumumba, as a personal representative for an America…
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He spoke with Diem and other Vietnamese as well as embassy people. Compiling in his report on the plane to Washington, he submitted it. Oh my gosh, that famous date again, January 17th. You know, the date Eisenhower told us all about the mi…
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It's either occurring or might occur. I don't know which. In the various countries of Africa, the degree to which new weapons, such as those new gases, might enable such difficulties to be controlled. You know, they're monkeys, just gas the…
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tired and cranky. He had little patience about third world freedom struggles. Conferring with the British foreign minister, Lord Holm, Eisenhower quipped that he hoped Lumumba would fall into a river full of crocodiles. At a National Securi…
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I've explained multiple times. There's a distancing of presidents from those types of National Security Council meetings. What they do is they send one of their staff and the staff relays unwritten what was talked about for a decision so th…
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who had been bought. And by the way, this is all NATO. NATO was involved from the get-go in this. But that was not enough for the CIA. Lumumba would remain grave danger. They actually said that. Dulles told the National Security Council mee…
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Three days later, Dulles made it clear that he wanted Lumumba permanently removed from the face of the earth. Cabling the CIA office in Leopoldville, quote, we wish give every possible support in eliminating Lumumba from any possibility res…
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Therefore, UN assured Dulles a chemically altered dental product was the key to getting rid of him. In the end, the CIA didn't go through with the toothpaste plot, apparently deciding that poisoning a popular leader while he's under UN prot…
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In its explosive 1975 report on the CIA assassination plot against former leaders, the church committee absolved the agency of any responsibility for Lumumba's murder. Quote, it did not appear from the evidence that the U.S. was in any way …
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As a new wave of historical research has determined, the CIA insured Lumumba's violent end by making certain that he was delivered into the hands of his enemies. Not his enemies. That's just even bullshit too. They co-opted Mubato. They bou…
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and its Congo operatives, not the paragons of morally sensitive professionalism they claim to be. In particular, Devlin was a key participant in the Congo's government decision to approve Lumumba's fatal rendition, unquote. In fact, Devlin …
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amounted to a death sentence because the entire area was under the control of NATO. I think there was a general assumption once we learned that he had been sent to Katango that his goose was cooked, Devlin told the church committee. Fuckery…
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the headquarters. Devlin suffered no agency reprimands for his action, and in fact, his intelligence career soared after Patrice Lumumba was murdered. Before retiring from the CIA in 1974 to pursue, guess where he ends up working when he re…
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suffering, kicking and hitting him in his near lifeless body. Despite the agency's evasions, CIA officer John Stockwell, who was stationed in the Congo in the aftermath of the assassination, had no doubt who was responsible for the African …
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which mean code names, means they were being paid by the CIA. Stockwell concluded, years after Lumumba's death, Stockwell fell into conversation with one of his more particular CIA colleagues, a man Stockwell anointed Goldfinger. The man re…
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After Kennedy's inauguration, the CIA continued to keep Lumumba's death under wraps. On January 26, Dulles briefed the new president on the Congo. Do you think he told Kennedy? Nope. The CIA director said nothing about Lumumba's assassinati…
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They just fucking beat a man to death. They did, the CIA. But those people over there are primitive. Good God. Neither Timberlake nor Dublin took the opportunity to tell Kennedy or his staff they'd already killed him. The Kennedy White Hous…
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on the phone being told that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. That's it. That's him. It's crazy. It's just literally crazy. There was none was more powerful than the picture that the young photographer snapped the moment when Kennedy was t…
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Lumumba was considered a troublemaker and a leftist by many Americans, but Kennedy's attitude towards black Africa was that many who had considered leftists were in fact nationalists and patriots. He felt that Africa presented an opportunit…
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would be a prelude to chaos. When the killing of Lumumba was finally announced, furious street protests swept the world. New Delhi, Warsaw, Tokyo, Lumumba's fellow leaders in the third world, including Egypt's Nasser and Naruma of Ghana, wh…
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that he enjoyed. The CIA officials responsible for Lumumba's murder also had a change of heart about the man who had once haunted their days. In 1962, shortly after Dulles' departure from the CIA, he remarked, I think we overrated the Sovie…
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You know, they just killed him for no reason. I didn't regard Lumumba as the kind of person that was going to bring about World War III. He later told the church committee, then why did you fucking kill him, you devil? So, and nowhere in he…
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which was, he calls Africa murder on the dark continent in chapter 23. And of course, that's about Patrice Lumumba and the installation of a tyrant after they assassinate Patrice Lumumba. He does mention Lawrence Devlin, the CIA guy who lat…
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He basically orchestrates the overthrow in conjunction with a whole large team from NATO to include a couple of Nazis. Otto Skorzeny even made a trip down there to create the fake civil war with Katanga, that whole thing. And then they brin…