Stuart A. Reid person
also: Stuart Reed, Reed, Reids
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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 …
▶ 20:28
recently published a book called The Lumumba Plot, The Secret History of the CIA and the Cold War Assassination, that basically talked a lot more about this. If you guys are interested, I highly recommend that book. I have it. Incredibly, T…
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where Reed mentions that he hired Devlin after Devlin left the CIA, which if you just put that in there, you don't understand the significance of it because you don't know that Tempelsman, number one, hired him to do the killing, and number…
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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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Because you have to literally go back and look at all of the different businesses that did business there. And those kinds of details are hard to find if you don't stumble across one of these articles. So Reed is also part of the writing st…
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organizations as well. Templesman is also a member of the CFR, so his admission from Reed's book is par for the course. A reasonable question then is why a CFR-connected writer would take a particular episode in the CIA's history and exclud…
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The apparent answer is that Reed's book is what's known in the agency's parlance as limited hangout. They are there to limit damage control. And that is true, and it's true with most books that I have found on the subject of Operation Gladi…
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a book that sanitizes the past and suggests that while the U.S. may have done some wrong things, that has now cleaned up its act and want to bring stability and democracy to a troubled area. Reeds opens, at the beginning of his book, he beg…
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He worked as a postal clerk and a salesman, and he became the leader of the Congolese National Movement, which was a party. And Joseph Mubatu was an army officer and journalist who served as his private secretary. Reed found evidence to sug…