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Claims (68)
CIA funded
Mobutu Sese Seko documented
“to include arms, supplies, and perhaps some training to anti-Lumumba resistant groups. In October 27th, the 5412 group authorized a quarter of a million dollars to fund the support for Mobato. A month later, the moguls of the secret war mad…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 52:42
Holden Roberto member_of
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“Holden Roberto is the brother-in-law of the CIA-installed president of the Congo, which had temporarily changed its name to Zaire, President Mobutu. And you remember me talking about him because he's a freaking criminal when we talked about…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 15:05
Patrice Lumumba appointed
Mobutu Sese Seko documented
“They had already put Casavuco on their payroll. Joseph Mubato would be the wild card. A former journalist, Army non-commissioned officer, and member of Lumumba's party, a 29-year-old Mubato became the instant quote-unquote colonel after the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 51:20
CIA funded
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 35:46
CIA funded
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 36:44
CIA installed
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“with Lumumba's body in his trunk for days. The CIA, in turn, worked to ensure his supporters were politically marginalized, and the Johnson administration supported a large-scale covert military operation against them after they took arms a…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 39:16
Mobutu Sese Seko laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“and South Africa. Surviving mercenaries voiced plenty of complaints about their CIA severance pay. Mubato simply pocketed final CIA payments given to him for Roberto and Savembe. The South Africans continued to play with UNITA to destabiliz…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 50:15
CIA installed
Mobutu Sese Seko documented
“that I would ever hear a president say anything like this in my presence or the presence of a group of people. I was startled, unquote, because it was unheard of to do anything like that. Over the next several months, the CIA, working with …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 40:30
Bank for International Settlements provided_bridge_financing_for
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“And he's basically a criminal. And he takes some of his assets that he criminally has gotten from people like John McCoy at the World Bank in a loan, which we covered, that was $10 billion. And that $10 billion was not used in the Congo to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 14 Final @ 1:13:34
Mobutu Sese Seko succeeded
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“of Africa's brightest lights extinguished, the Congo slid into an endless nightmare of tyranny and corruption. Propped up by the United States, Mubato became a 32-year-old dictator that looted the country of its wealth and left the nation i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:13:23
Mobutu Sese Seko recruited
Theodore Sorensen host_asserted
“Templesman had very close ties with JFK, supporting him in the 60 election and arranging a meeting between Kennedy and Harry Oppenheimer, the South African investor. He employed Kennedy aide Theodore Sorensen, who Mobato would later hire to…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 57 - 'INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE - WHO ARE THEY' PART 2 @ 1:11:09
Mobutu Sese Seko funded
Holden Roberto book_quoted
“which was arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of over 100 military advisors in camp, that Joseph Mobatu had permitted Roberto to establish. All right, so let's take this for just a second. So the, hold on just a …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 17:09
Mobutu Sese Seko supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 32:48
Mobutu Sese Seko carried_out_attack
MPLA book_quoted
“successfully used the opportunity to rearm his forces. And when Holden Roberto's troops failed to show any strike power at all, Mubato was willing to commit two of his paracommando battalions and a detachment of 10 hand-hard armored cars in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 33:17
United States funded
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“of Africa's brightest lights extinguished, the Congo slid into an endless nightmare of tyranny and corruption. Propped up by the United States, Mubato became a 32-year-old dictator that looted the country of its wealth and left the nation i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:13:23
Mobutu Sese Seko supplied_arms_to
FNLA book_quoted
“feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 32:48
Mobutu Sese Seko funded
FNLA host_asserted
“in Zaire and resided there as well. He's not even in the country. In fact, Roberto showed no inclination to leave his villa to be on the front, something the U.S. was well aware of. Roberto had not been in Angola for years. Jim Schlesinger …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 49:22
John Stockwell exposed
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“John Stockwell fought alongside the Hmong in Laos and had also been in service with Methvin. But their relations soured over Project Feature. Stockwell saw Methvin as far too willing to pander to Joseph Mubato, presiding over payoffs and ba…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 51:51
Mobutu Sese Seko diverted
FNLA book_quoted
“1,500 tons. But corruption reigned. Imagine that. Zairen shipments to the rebels included no armored vehicles. They kept them. Fewer than half the number of modern rifles the CIA gave to Mobato and more than 12,000 old M1 carbines. The FNLA…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 54:17
Mobutu Sese Seko supplied_arms_to
FNLA documented
“Meanwhile, China continued to train the FNLA almost until Independence Day. When Roberto's troops failed to show much striking power in northern Angola, Mubato sent two of his paracommando battalions. After 1,200 troops Mubato sent to Angol…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 56:15
Mobutu Sese Seko removed_from_power
Libya host_asserted
“basically terrorist, ended up in Nigeria. And what do we have in Nigeria today? All kinds of shit. Blamed on terrorists. Some of them went to the Congo to work for the CIA buddy there. They were farmed out to these other countries by US air…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 51:17
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 32:48
Mobutu Sese Seko overthrew
Simba host_asserted
“Thought became stronger for a time. Mubato's forces began an offensive at the end of September. Meanwhile, the Cuban base in Algeria disappeared with the overthrow of the Ben Bella government. And in October, the Organization of African Uni…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 36:24
Mobutu Sese Seko renamed
Leopoldville host_asserted
“that the Congolese themselves had made a decision to end the fighting. The Cubans withdrew to Tanzania. In 1965, Mobato launched a new coup and installed himself as the national leader. He renamed Leopoldville Kinshawas. The Congo, he renam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 36:52
Mobutu Sese Seko renamed
Congo host_asserted
“that the Congolese themselves had made a decision to end the fighting. The Cubans withdrew to Tanzania. In 1965, Mobato launched a new coup and installed himself as the national leader. He renamed Leopoldville Kinshawas. The Congo, he renam…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 36:52
Lawrence Devlin recruited
Mobutu Sese Seko documented
“They had already put Casavuco on their payroll. Joseph Mubato would be the wild card. A former journalist, Army non-commissioned officer, and member of Lumumba's party, a 29-year-old Mubato became the instant quote-unquote colonel after the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 51:20
Mobutu Sese Seko carried_out_attack
Patrice Lumumba documented
“Basically, they had constructed a prison around Lumumba. Frustrated by oppressive security, Lumumba escaped, aided by sympathetic guards, and he made his way to Stanleyville, evading UN troops, but he never arrived. He was slowed by rain, u…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 55:06
CIA recruited
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“Mobutu, who is a CIA stooge, to arrest him too. Gazinga was in fact arrested shortly after Mobutu took power, but a UN contingent from Ghana, whose leader was an ally of Lumamba, intervened and freed him. In the continuous musical cheer gam…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 46:49
CIA installed
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“The Congo, when they murdered, assassinated Lumumba and installed the fascist dictator there, they broke out during that period Katanga and recognized it as its own country. Well, once Lumumba was gone, they didn't need Katanga as a separat…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 12:59
CIA recruited
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“was the wild card in all of this. 29 years old, a journalist, Army NCO, and member of Lumumba's party. Mubato had been made an instant quote-unquote colonel when Lumumba promoted all of the senior enlisted people into the officer positions …”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 12 continued @ 21:45
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“The U.S. had airlifted 20,000 U.N. troops and 6,000 tons of equipment to the Congo, while the Navy had brought in another 5,000 U.N. troops and repatriated some of the 2,600 direct military assistance to the Congolese, included 18 helicopte…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 12 continued @ 29:10
CIA installed
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“I'm not exactly sure that's the way you say that, but we're just going to call him Mubatu. And you spell his last name S-E-S-E. And then the second part of it is S-E-K-O. In 1975, he is the president, a strong man and completely under the c…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 7:55
Mobutu Sese Seko attempted_coup_against
Patrice Lumumba book_quoted
“On September 14th, Mubato launched a military coup and declared he was neutralizing Hasavuto Lumumba and all other politicians. So the CIA has launched a coup. The prime target, of course, was Lumumba because of his charismatic personality …”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 12 continued @ 22:14
Mobutu Sese Seko overthrew
Congo book_quoted
“Mobato's ban on political activity in the Congo expired with the new year. Soon, Kaslavutu announced his appointment of a new prime minister and cabinet, while Mobato remained the strongman of the armed forces. This uneasy coalition in Leop…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret wars chapter 12 continued @ 27:51
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“His greed for it was heightened a few years later when they found oil off the coastline. The CIA, although busily involved in Angola for the exact same reason, because of their resources, promptly flew in a thousand-man arms package for use…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 26:44
CIA paid
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“The CIA works for an international syndicate. They do not work for CIA stooges in foreign countries. Six months later, and we'll prove that in a minute, six months later, in April 1976, the CIA gave Mubatu close to $1.4 million to distribut…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 27:44
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“the Congo in March 1964, promising more aid to Mobato, who is basically a dictator and has killed tons of Congolese on behalf of his CIA bosses. Secret warriors faced a new problem. The CIA's best chance and Mobato's lay in the new undercov…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 26:14
CIA funded
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“Special forces now send advisors and teams. At one point, station chief Benjamin Cushing volunteered CIA funding for Mubato's entire mercenary effort. It was reported that he rejected the offer, but there's also a lot of reports that they j…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 35:51
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“led by Rene Garcia. Often gathering at a favorite restaurant, the pizzeria, people joked that a couple of hand grenades of an evening would wipe out the entire Zairean Air Force because it was all Cuban exiles who hung around in Miami when …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 39:18
CIA trafficked
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“was going to be attacked. By the time Stockwell reappeared at Langley, Operation Feature was already in motion. Mobato was critical of the operation since CIA arms shipments were technically supposed to replace Zaire's arsenal, while Mobato…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 29:58
Mobutu Sese Seko attempted_coup_against
Congo Republic book_quoted
“Mubato approach eventually deflected that either Zaire, with CIA help, or the agency alone, undertake an invasion against, quote, those bastards across the river, unquote, which was referring to the Congo Republic. He is a real wild man, on…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 10:50
Holden Roberto member_of
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“solely among the Bakongo people who make up 13% of the population, again, with these minority tribes. Roberto is closely aligned, and this is the one that calls him the brother-in-law of President Mobutu of Zaire, which of course is the Con…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 46:07
Mobutu Sese Seko installed
Congo host_asserted
“They assassinated Luwamba on January 17th, 1961. They installed the dictator, Mubatu, and they were basically stealing everything from the Congo during the time he was the ambassador. Nice job if you can get it. So we leave the Congo. Oh, w…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 17:23
Mobutu Sese Seko assassinated
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 36:15
Mobutu Sese Seko recruited
Theodore Sorensen host_asserted
“whom Mubatu hired to represent the Congo in a dispute with the Belgian mining companies. As a lawyer and Kennedy's defense secretary, Bactamira was a lobbyist. Holy crap. Templesman's influence on U.S. policy was levered in part through Adl…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 57:17
Mobutu Sese Seko member_of
World Wildlife Fund host_asserted
“that was ever allowed to be a member of the World Wildlife Fund except Mobatu. Mobatu was a full-fledged member of the 1001 Club. He was part of the WWF. And I found that particularly odd and interesting at the same time. So still not sure …”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 40:32
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko documented
“to include arms, supplies, and perhaps some training to anti-Lumumba resistant groups. In October 27th, the 5412 group authorized a quarter of a million dollars to fund the support for Mobato. A month later, the moguls of the secret war mad…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 52:42
Mobutu Sese Seko attempted_coup_against
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“took power in a military coup designed by the United States. Even during this period, Lumumba not really in power, CIA and high administration officials continued to view him as a threat. His talents and dynamic speaking abilities were the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 36:10
Mobutu Sese Seko funded
FNLA host_asserted
“Mubato, who funded a separatist movement in Cabinda, began stirring up trouble there as well. It's just the CIA on a different front. As early as October 1974, Mubato's planes started flying FNLA soldiers to the capital to attack it. At thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 19:52
United States supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“So basically, in that province that these former Congolese were going back into, the Katanga area, it had upwards of 80% of the Zairen resources in that area. So the U.S. responded by giving them $2 million of military supplies a month.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 34:59
France supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“But within a few months, it was $15 million each month for several months. France gave them Mirage jet bombers. Jimmy Carter had been in office less than two months as this stuff started happening. He was reluctant to give his administratio…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 35:27
CIA funded
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 57:26
Mobutu Sese Seko laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“over the program and expected Davis to resign and the program to leak. Ford approved the initial $7 million the next morning. A million of that went directly to Mubato and Zaire, the corrupt CIA-controlled dictator. Not to any of the Angola…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 39:01
Mobutu Sese Seko installed
Congo host_asserted
“to sway the hearts and minds of Americas to get behind the Vietnam War. Also, you have the guy that we installed in Patanga, in the Moise Shambi, who had been convinced to, you know, set up a fake government.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 31:32
CIA attempted_coup_against
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“and black Americans for a coup against Mubato planned for the 30th of September. Mubato declared that the quote-unquote imperialists were displeased with his breaking off relationships with Israel, his naturalization of many foreign-owned b…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 12:17
CIA trained
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“that the CIA arranges for these governments to send their people to is for the CIA to groom the students as spies to go back and infiltrate their appropriate governments. That's the whole purpose of international schools in bringing these p…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 13:43
Mobutu Sese Seko laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“that were hungry and starving. Did Mobatu use that money for that? Absolutely not. He put it in his bank account. And the problem with this is the CIA, through all of their promised backdoors banking software, knows exactly where this money…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 28:13
Maurice Tempelsman recruited
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 15:56
Mobutu Sese Seko installed
Maurice Tempelsman host_asserted
“paying Mubatu, the installed CIA dictator, to steal all of the diamonds out of the Congo. Mubatu helped Templesman to become a millionaire many times over. As the two shared ownership interest in Zaire, which is actually the Congo, they jus…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 16:58
Mobutu Sese Seko spied_on
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“was evident as early as 1956 when he was first put on the payroll of the Belgian intelligence as an informant against his fellow, I mean, actually it was his boss at the time, Lumumba. And that was done and arranged by the CIA station chief…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 28:21
CIA recruited
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“was evident as early as 1956 when he was first put on the payroll of the Belgian intelligence as an informant against his fellow, I mean, actually it was his boss at the time, Lumumba. And that was done and arranged by the CIA station chief…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 28:21
Lawrence Devlin spied_on
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 28:53
Mafia installed
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“I would not tell you there's very many inside components from some of the lesser groupings of nations like within Africa. Although we did find the guy that they installed in the Congo, Mubatu, he was a part of the WWF. But most of the time,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 1:23:49
CIA supplied_arms_to
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“millions of dollars of weapons to him. Well, not directly to them, to Zaire Mubatu and via South Africa. They never had a battle. He never saw a Cuban. Diakou cut a swath of murder and rampage across Zaire and Angola, culminating in the exe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 10:15
Mobutu Sese Seko laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“to the tune of billions of dollars, which hide out in Swiss, Paris, and New York banks. And you can immediately see the banker's benefit to having these CIA stooges because they money launder money into them through the World Bank and such,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 8:52
Mobutu Sese Seko threatened
King Charles III host_asserted
“And when that happens, they basically start poking people in the chest because they basically got too big for their britches. And when that happens and they threat to out someone like Prince Charles, then they have to be done away with. Oka…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 1:26:59
NATO funded
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“The same day Eisenhower is giving his immortal speech about beware of the military industrial complex, they were murdering Patrice Lumumba at his directive. Three days before Kennedy's inauguration, Lumumba was taken from his jail cell and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 58:53
Mobutu Sese Seko member_of
King Charles III caller_asserted
“That's how they got rid of the Corsican mafia and the French connection out of Vietnam. So go ahead, Stellar. I had a question about like the Mon Batons because, you know, he died in the boating accident or whatever, bomb, whatever. So was …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 1:25:02
Mentions (120)
▶ 36:25
Cuban exile, Operation Gladio, assassins. The effort was a great success tactically. Strategically, however, it ended with CIA station chief Larry Devlin anointing Joseph Montabu, which is Moe Butu, who was going to be or was going to be th…
▶ 15:05
Holden Roberto is the brother-in-law of the CIA-installed president of the Congo, which had temporarily changed its name to Zaire, President Mobutu. And you remember me talking about him because he's a freaking criminal when we talked about…
▶ 15:36
how they killed Lumumba. So when they murdered Lumumba, they installed Mobutu. Mobutu. And this guy's married his wife's brother is the leader of the FNLA. And guess where it's located? It's located all along the border.…
▶ 31:07
I admit that I developed a bias against the FNLA and its leaders, which I never tried to hide. Its ties to MUBATO, the CIA-installed stooge in the Congo, merely added to my assessment that this organization was led by corrupt, unprincipled …
▶ 45:35
And most recently, since the spring of 1975, that the Soviets began truly providing any level of assistance. And the most Cuban advisors, quote unquote advisors, that went to Angola was a total of 3,000. The FNLA, which is the one Holden Ro…
▶ 46:07
solely among the Bakongo people who make up 13% of the population, again, with these minority tribes. Roberto is closely aligned, and this is the one that calls him the brother-in-law of President Mobutu of Zaire, which of course is the Con…
▶ 1:11:09
Templesman had very close ties with JFK, supporting him in the 60 election and arranging a meeting between Kennedy and Harry Oppenheimer, the South African investor. He employed Kennedy aide Theodore Sorensen, who Mobato would later hire to…
▶ 35:39
Instead, he appeared before the legislature and by his formidable powers of speech, both the House of Parliament voted to reaffirm him as prime minister. But he could taste the fruits. But basically, they tried to overrule the president. Bu…
▶ 39:04
They've already got a team deployed there from NATO. Fearing for his life, Lumumba was on the run. For a while, he was protected by Mobutu by the UN, which under considerable international pressure, had been forced to put some distance betw…
▶ 40:02
and CIA confidant Andrew Tully describes as having been discovered by the CIA. Moboto detained Lumumba until 17 January 1961 when he transferred the prisoner into the hands of Moise Shambi of the Katanga province. In other words, he handed …
▶ 46:18
Washington officials were more in unison when dealing with another prominent person, Antoine Gazinga, who had been the vice prime minister under Lumumba. Following the latter's dismissal, according to the church committee, the CIA station c…
▶ 46:49
Mobutu, who is a CIA stooge, to arrest him too. Gazinga was in fact arrested shortly after Mobutu took power, but a UN contingent from Ghana, whose leader was an ally of Lumamba, intervened and freed him. In the continuous musical cheer gam…
▶ 17:23
They assassinated Luwamba on January 17th, 1961. They installed the dictator, Mubatu, and they were basically stealing everything from the Congo during the time he was the ambassador. Nice job if you can get it. So we leave the Congo. Oh, w…
▶ 12:59
The Congo, when they murdered, assassinated Lumumba and installed the fascist dictator there, they broke out during that period Katanga and recognized it as its own country. Well, once Lumumba was gone, they didn't need Katanga as a separat…
▶ 13:26
And so Zaire went back to the original Congo footprint, including Katanga. And so they were kind of made whole, if you will. And then that fascist dictator maintained control over Zaire. And eventually Zaire changes its name back to the Con…
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I would not tell you there's very many inside components from some of the lesser groupings of nations like within Africa. Although we did find the guy that they installed in the Congo, Mubatu, he was a part of the WWF. But most of the time,…
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to sway the hearts and minds of Americas to get behind the Vietnam War. Also, you have the guy that we installed in Patanga, in the Moise Shambi, who had been convinced to, you know, set up a fake government.…
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who had relayed the warning to Mobutu because he survived. The intelligence sources suggested that Kagame was the mastermind behind the Kambi's killing. In 2010, former Rwanda army chief, who implicated Kagame in the killing, survived an as…
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Mobatu out of Congo using the Rwanda area as a launching game, a launching platform. So now, again, this is funny from a horrible, not funny perspective. Mobatu was actually installed by the U.S. government and the CIA.…
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And so they've now grown tired of him. And they want Kagame to basically get rid of him. Several American corporations, which of course you know is always behind all of this, were interested in the Congolese minerals. And the president had …
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was the cherished boy of the U.S. So again, I can't say this with enough emphasis. This is what happened to Noriega. So they get installed and it happened to Batista. They get installed and they get too big for their britches. They decide t…
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with Joseph Mubatu. And Mubatu is the guy that was installed after they got rid of Lumumba. He also gave De Beers, another international syndicate member, which Templeton worked closely with, access to the Congo's uncut diamonds. So you've …
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paying Mubatu, the installed CIA dictator, to steal all of the diamonds out of the Congo. Mubatu helped Templesman to become a millionaire many times over. As the two shared ownership interest in Zaire, which is actually the Congo, they jus…
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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…
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was evident as early as 1956 when he was first put on the payroll of the Belgian intelligence as an informant against his fellow, I mean, actually it was his boss at the time, Lumumba. And that was done and arranged by the CIA station chief…
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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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So the CIA poured money in on anyone that was anti-Lumumba. They favored Mubatu, who Lawrence Devlin, the CIA guy, was his advisor. And early in Mubatu's tenure as prime minister, Devlin coordinated all of the anti-riots by paying protester…
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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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with Lumumba's body in his trunk for days. The CIA, in turn, worked to ensure his supporters were politically marginalized, and the Johnson administration supported a large-scale covert military operation against them after they took arms a…
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that was ever allowed to be a member of the World Wildlife Fund except Mobatu. Mobatu was a full-fledged member of the 1001 Club. He was part of the WWF. And I found that particularly odd and interesting at the same time. So still not sure …
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But I did want to mention that because it is an anomaly of all of the past and present black leaders. He was the only one allowed in the white club of the WWF. And that doesn't mean there's not other blacks in there, but specifically they h…
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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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the right, and was happy to see Belgium relinquish its power so an opening could develop for his mining interest. Templesman had very close ties with JFK, supporting him in the 1960 election and arranging a meeting between Kennedy and Harry…
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I comment questions and compliments. Colonel, I just started following you a couple of months ago. There's nobody who really breaks this down in a digestible format, especially when it comes to connecting the dots between what has been goin…
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We went through several days of covering the World Wildlife Fund, which basically went CIA operation by CIA operation in every African country where the CIA overthrew the government. There is a long process that they work on behalf of the I…
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That's how they got rid of the Corsican mafia and the French connection out of Vietnam. So go ahead, Stellar. I had a question about like the Mon Batons because, you know, he died in the boating accident or whatever, bomb, whatever. So was …
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Yeah, what oftentimes happens with these people is, well, a couple of things can happen. And unfortunately for us, you don't ever know which of them actually happened. You know, he basically was a pedophile, this mom baton guy. And one of t…
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The Mobatu guy, all of them, the United guy in Angola, they were corrupt shits that the CIA went and paid off and they sold their entire country and their resources to the highest bidder. There's plenty of those people around. But the CIA w…
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They basically go through some iterations and the reconstitution of the Congo to make it not so obvious what they did. And part of that process was renaming it Zaire, just to confuse all of us who's not paying attention. So this guy, Presid…
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I'm not exactly sure that's the way you say that, but we're just going to call him Mubatu. And you spell his last name S-E-S-E. And then the second part of it is S-E-K-O. In 1975, he is the president, a strong man and completely under the c…
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He has at that point been in charge for approximately 10 years by 1975 because he took over in the aftermath of the Lumumba fiasco. And he is known for corruption. He is known for his relationship with the CIA. He has amassed a fortune.…
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The only thing worse than his corruption was the cruelty that he showed to the citizens. And in this book, William Bloom, Killing Hope, I'm going to read you a quote about Ubatu. He rules by decree with a grotesque impulsiveness that seems …
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Mubatu had forcibly enlisted in the armed forces the entire student body of a university. He was put out by the students' demonstrations. Mubatu finally relented, but 10 of the students were sentenced to life in prison for crimes of public …
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Mubato approach eventually deflected that either Zaire, with CIA help, or the agency alone, undertake an invasion against, quote, those bastards across the river, unquote, which was referring to the Congo Republic. He is a real wild man, on…
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Be careful what you ask for. In June 1975, Mobato announced that he had uncovered and suppressed a coup attempt against his physical elimination. Because that's what the CIA does when they get done with you. They'll just coup you too. He in…
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and that they were thirsty for the money and resources from Zaire. And in an accompanying editorial, it indicated plainly that the foreign power he was referring to was the United States. A few days later, the Zairean newspaper asserted tha…
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and black Americans for a coup against Mubato planned for the 30th of September. Mubato declared that the quote-unquote imperialists were displeased with his breaking off relationships with Israel, his naturalization of many foreign-owned b…
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On the other hand, it would not have been the first time the CIA was involved in a plot to eliminate an ally that they actually installed, because they did that with Batista in Cuba, Trujillo, Figueres, and Diem out of Vietnam. Mubato, at t…
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Space is out there on Angola if you need to know more information about that. We've already covered it. And, of course, Mubato was involved on the side that the CIA was supporting, which, by the way, he was actually related to the guy that …
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Katanga area that I was telling you about where all of their resources are is literally right up against Angola. And Angola shares many of the resources in that same, it would be their northeast region and the Congo's southwest region. That…
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and providing troops for the fighting there. And then this is the irony of the whole thing. I love this quote. The senior CIA officer, upon returning to Washington, told reporters in a meeting, quote, he simply has no idea how to run a coun…
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recent podcast that he was on. You guys freaking installed a moron that you could control. You paid him billions of dollars, money laundering. He killed hundreds of people, if not thousands of people in his country. He supported the killing…
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was exposed by Mobato. Both the CIA and Mobato acted as if nothing even happened. The agency did make an appeal to the president for the freedom of their agents that were now sitting on death row, but no one was ever able to find out what h…
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After that point, Mubato asked the CIA to help him annex a small province called Kabinda, K-A-B-I-N-D-A. It was actually property that belonged to Angola, but it was separated from the rest of Angola by a narrow strip of Zaire territory. Mu…
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His greed for it was heightened a few years later when they found oil off the coastline. The CIA, although busily involved in Angola for the exact same reason, because of their resources, promptly flew in a thousand-man arms package for use…
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Agency officials helped to coordinate this almost casual invasion of a sovereign nation, but the operation was not successful. Now, this is a problem that I have with most authors that talk about this. The CIA did not do this for Mubarak. 1…
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The CIA works for an international syndicate. They do not work for CIA stooges in foreign countries. Six months later, and we'll prove that in a minute, six months later, in April 1976, the CIA gave Mubatu close to $1.4 million to distribut…
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that were hungry and starving. Did Mobatu use that money for that? Absolutely not. He put it in his bank account. And the problem with this is the CIA, through all of their promised backdoors banking software, knows exactly where this money…
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into Zaire. But there was unfortunately only about 2,000 of them. And they were largely former residents of the Katanga area that had got kicked out when NATO stood up that big base. So it didn't go very far. Mobato urgently requested help …
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France, and the U.S. Because again, Mubato is on the payroll to keep Zaire a ward state of NATO. So all of these people are going to help him keep the peasants down, the slaves down, and keep the resources coming into NATO to be exploited b…
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Yet only a few days earlier, the U.S. had given its tactic approval to Morocco's decision to send 1,500 troops that were armed with U.S. military equipment to Mobato to help him fight what he labeled an insurgency, which was actually just a…
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The New York Times reported that diplomats in Washington said that they understood that President Mubato had indicated several weeks ago that Zaire might have to recruit mercenaries to repel the invasion. Bufkin denied that he was being fin…
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Crazy Mubato had finally moved to declare that if the U.S. had indeed capitulated in the face of communist danger, it should be announced clearly. So basically, he's trying to bully us into doing more when the Carter administration was in a…
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area is the Cold War and counterinsurgency. So we're going to go over a few operations that began after that time period, some of which is going to be ones that you'll recognize, like the overthrow of the Congolese government by the CIA, i.…
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The Americans had made their choice. There was evidence that the 5412 group approved financial support for Casa Voodoo. They actually paid them off to create the constitutional coup. Lumumba, however, reacted by attempting to dismiss the pr…
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was the wild card in all of this. 29 years old, a journalist, Army NCO, and member of Lumumba's party. Mubato had been made an instant quote-unquote colonel when Lumumba promoted all of the senior enlisted people into the officer positions …
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On September 14th, Mubato launched a military coup and declared he was neutralizing Hasavuto Lumumba and all other politicians. So the CIA has launched a coup. The prime target, of course, was Lumumba because of his charismatic personality …
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Lumumba was incarcerated for a while, then freed by friendly UN peacekeeping soldiers. He made for Stanleyville in the Oriental province, where supporters had set up yet another separatist government. Surveillance reports from the CIA were …
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Mobato's ban on political activity in the Congo expired with the new year. Soon, Kaslavutu announced his appointment of a new prime minister and cabinet, while Mobato remained the strongman of the armed forces. This uneasy coalition in Leop…
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political domination in the Congo for the next 20 years. Although the Americans had what they wanted, an allied government in Leopoldville, the price was the entire disintegration of a country with the formation of yet another secessionist …
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Leopoldville until Mobato's army could reunite the nation by force, you know, install another dictator. The UN peacekeeping force also sustained some criticism for acting so often in the American interest. It was the only reason they were t…
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paramilitary operators provided more C-47 aircraft and hired the Cuban exiles, as I just said. They say it's just for pilots, but it wasn't just for pilots. With this assistance, the Mubato army began the reconquest of the area. The secessi…
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And barely had the Congo been reunited when, in the summer of 1963, a new rebellion commenced. This timing was the worst possible. The UN force was withdrawing while Mobato's army remained far from combat effective. The best elements of the…
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were rescued and evacuated. The Congo itself was renamed then to Zaire. Through all of this, the CIA air unit remained in place as an absolutely vital resource because they created the shit. Mubato had no pilots of his own. American Special…
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which was arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of over 100 military advisors in camp, that Joseph Mobatu had permitted Roberto to establish. All right, so let's take this for just a second. So the, hold on just a …
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was going to be attacked. By the time Stockwell reappeared at Langley, Operation Feature was already in motion. Mobato was critical of the operation since CIA arms shipments were technically supposed to replace Zaire's arsenal, while Mobato…
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So by this point, since 61, his weapons are outdated. So the CIA is going to keep him satisfied by taking all of the weapons that they're supposed to be sending to Angola and send to Zaire slash Congo. And then they're going to take his wea…
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It's just it's crazy the amount of weapons trafficking that goes on. OK. Relations with FNLA and Mubato were handled by the chief of station. The chief of station in Angola dealt with UNITA. So they're going to have two chief of stations wo…
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feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000…
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successfully used the opportunity to rearm his forces. And when Holden Roberto's troops failed to show any strike power at all, Mubato was willing to commit two of his paracommando battalions and a detachment of 10 hand-hard armored cars in…
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and South Africa. Surviving mercenaries voiced plenty of complaints about their CIA severance pay. Mubato simply pocketed final CIA payments given to him for Roberto and Savembe. The South Africans continued to play with UNITA to destabiliz…
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According to one source, Devlin met Joseph Mubato, who they'll eventually replace Lumumba with, when that gentleman worked in Brussels as a press spokesperson. Mubato is a bought and paid for stooge. He spoke French, and that was it. Headqu…
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They had already put Casavuco on their payroll. Joseph Mubato would be the wild card. A former journalist, Army non-commissioned officer, and member of Lumumba's party, a 29-year-old Mubato became the instant quote-unquote colonel after the…
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cultivated Mubato for weeks. On September 14th, Mubato launched a military coup declaring his intent to neutralize Kasavutu, Lumamba, and all of the politicians for the rest of the year. Two Project Wizard local assets featured in the struc…
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to include arms, supplies, and perhaps some training to anti-Lumumba resistant groups. In October 27th, the 5412 group authorized a quarter of a million dollars to fund the support for Mobato. A month later, the moguls of the secret war mad…
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aided in his capture on December 1st by Mobato's forces. On December 12th, Shambi declared his secessionist state of Katanga, and Q.J. Nguyen left the Congo in late December, but not before the touch of another CIA asset.…
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Barely had the Congo been reunified when in the summer of 1963, a new rebellion commenced in the country, led by another former minister, Pierre Muleli. The CIA learned that Muleli had been in China for an extended period of time, presumabl…
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in Muleli's home province. This could not have been worse for Leopoldville. The UN was withdrawing, even as Mubato's army remained far from effective. The rebellion known for Muleli, or as the Simba Rebellion, for the name Lion in Swahili, …
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the Congo in March 1964, promising more aid to Mobato, who is basically a dictator and has killed tons of Congolese on behalf of his CIA bosses. Secret warriors faced a new problem. The CIA's best chance and Mobato's lay in the new undercov…
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prohibiting combat missions by Americans to take up a T-28 against a reported Simba truck convoy. His wingman was Ponzoa and Varela, both Bay of Pigs veterans. His plane hit, Merriman nursed it to a crash landing, but was injured so badly h…
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Special forces now send advisors and teams. At one point, station chief Benjamin Cushing volunteered CIA funding for Mubato's entire mercenary effort. It was reported that he rejected the offer, but there's also a lot of reports that they j…
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Thought became stronger for a time. Mubato's forces began an offensive at the end of September. Meanwhile, the Cuban base in Algeria disappeared with the overthrow of the Ben Bella government. And in October, the Organization of African Uni…
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that the Congolese themselves had made a decision to end the fighting. The Cubans withdrew to Tanzania. In 1965, Mobato launched a new coup and installed himself as the national leader. He renamed Leopoldville Kinshawas. The Congo, he renam…
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led by Rene Garcia. Often gathering at a favorite restaurant, the pizzeria, people joked that a couple of hand grenades of an evening would wipe out the entire Zairean Air Force because it was all Cuban exiles who hung around in Miami when …
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An American SEAL officer from Vietnam, Lieutenant James Hawes, H-A-W-E-S, supervised all of it. The CIA proprietary continued to work with the Mubato government through 1969. In mid-1966, there were only a dozen Cuban pilots, but they accou…
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As late as August 67, the special group approved recruitment of additional Cuban pilots to fly in the Congo. This would be the final contingent. After the air operations ended, Rene Garcia stayed to become Mubato's personal pilot, flying th…
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expedition, Castro sent another column under Jorge Risque to Congo-Brazilville, the nation on the opposite bank of the Congo River from Mubato's Zaire, and a former French colony. The 250 Cubans under that force had multiple purposes. They …
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and installed Batista. And they haven't installed a democratically elected president in any of their coups. The agency supported the Cuban exiles, but the CIA had also supported Batista. And no one had elected him either. Nor were Joseph Mu…
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But in 1974, the CIA had increased its support. At the time, the FNLA main backing had come from China, arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of more than 100 military advisors in camps, that dictator Joseph Mubatu…
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And combat began with the U.S.-backed FNLA movement, not the MPLA. In addition, Zaire's president, Mubato, and he's on the CIA payroll. Remember, this is the guy that Devlin, the CIA station chief, goes back and works for. He's actually bur…
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Mubato, who funded a separatist movement in Cabinda, began stirring up trouble there as well. It's just the CIA on a different front. As early as October 1974, Mubato's planes started flying FNLA soldiers to the capital to attack it. At thi…
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In preparation for the NSC meeting, Kissinger sent two senior Africanists to the front lines states to survey the situation. They returned to tell the secretary that Mubato favored intervention in support of the FNLA and would commit his ow…
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You just can't say that. The NSC meeting itself opened with Director Colby describing the situation in Angola. Colby warned that the MPLA-FNLA standoff in Luanda. New fighting could break out at any time, he said. It was a 10-box where MPLA…
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The diplomat warned against leaks, raised questions regarding the legality of weapons delivery. They would be given to Mobato, who would then hand them over to the UNITA and other group. He also questioned a premise in the CIA paper that ar…
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over the program and expected Davis to resign and the program to leak. Ford approved the initial $7 million the next morning. A million of that went directly to Mubato and Zaire, the corrupt CIA-controlled dictator. Not to any of the Angola…
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had taken on momentum of its own. In all, Langley had put 100 secret warriors into the battle. Mubato would be critical. When the MPLA in control of Angola's main seaports and railroads, the CIA supplies had to enter through Zaire or South …
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in Zaire and resided there as well. He's not even in the country. In fact, Roberto showed no inclination to leave his villa to be on the front, something the U.S. was well aware of. Roberto had not been in Angola for years. Jim Schlesinger …
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as a cat's paw to advance his own interest in Angola. When we were looking into this, there's some family relationship between Roberto and Mubato. And I don't remember exactly what it is, but that's the reason why he was actually living in …
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John Stockwell fought alongside the Hmong in Laos and had also been in service with Methvin. But their relations soured over Project Feature. Stockwell saw Methvin as far too willing to pander to Joseph Mubato, presiding over payoffs and ba…
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In one instance, Methvin went along with Mubato's demands for $2 million from the CIA to buy a Ziaran C-130 worth less than a third of that, though Langley rejected the scam. The Americans also acquired a pair of swift boats for the FNLA to…
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1,500 tons. But corruption reigned. Imagine that. Zairen shipments to the rebels included no armored vehicles. They kept them. Fewer than half the number of modern rifles the CIA gave to Mobato and more than 12,000 old M1 carbines. The FNLA…
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Nugent Hand Bank for financing of them into South Africa to bring across the border into Angola. We found that out when we were researching the Nugent Hand Bank. Langley fooled itself, supposing the Zairean weapons somehow hit his hand. Mub…
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Meanwhile, China continued to train the FNLA almost until Independence Day. When Roberto's troops failed to show much striking power in northern Angola, Mubato sent two of his paracommando battalions. After 1,200 troops Mubato sent to Angol…
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praised the fighting forces of FNLA and UNITA when they weren't fighting either one of them. They were fighting Mubato and South African troops. The Zulu force represented one prong of a pincer attack on the capital. Roberto's FNLA was the …
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millions of dollars of weapons to him. Well, not directly to them, to Zaire Mubatu and via South Africa. They never had a battle. He never saw a Cuban. Diakou cut a swath of murder and rampage across Zaire and Angola, culminating in the exe…
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A couple of attempts to secure their release, but no media attention, nothing. Gorillo, an actor, were finally freed in an Angola South African prisoner exchange in 1982. Mo Bato simply pocketed final payments given him for Roberto and Zebe…
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Posing the initial program would have no fallout. The major mistakes were of policy. Conceiving Mubato as an effective ally and siding with South Africans were decisions that undermined the entire project from the beginning. The CIA correct…