Leopoldville place
also: Kinshasa, the capital, Leopoldville, capital
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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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 36:52
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In 1964, chiefly to report on various African liberation movements, since Angola was a Portuguese colony, Lisbon provided the actual intelligence coverage. This office was closed in 1967, mainly, as you suggest, to humor the Portuguese. In …
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which is in the Congo and from Lisbon. Responding to the worsening crisis following the Portuguese revolution, the agency decided to send a few officers to Luanda and on temporary duty in March of 1975. The guy being interviewed said, I qui…
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did in fact come from Kenosha, which again is the Congo, which is a CIA-installed stooge government that is going to be reporting information in Angola in support of the president's brother-in-law whose territory in Angola borders Katanga t…
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front company called Air Congo that was used to transport Lumumba from Kase, where he was captured, to Leopoldville, and then Katanga, where he was eventually killed. And Air Congo was known to be a CIA front company.…
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There were frantic stories of rapes and looting and unrest in the army units in Elizabethville and the capital, Leopoldville. A day of panic in Leopoldville followed on July 8th when both the British and the French embassies ordered evacuat…
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American diplomats in Leopoldville reported negatively on Lumumba's initiatives and policies hardened rapidly after the station chief, Lawrence Devlin, tabled on August 18, 1960, that both the embassy and the station believed that the Congo…
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There were activities going on and they were basically elevated to become a Congo task force. The sudden importance of Africa was revealed to Lawrence Devlin in September when a top CIA scientist descended on Leopoldville with exotic poison…
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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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Frantic stories of rapes, looting, and unrest in army units in Elizabethville and the capital, Leopoldville, sparked concern. A day of panic in Leopoldville occurred on July 8th. Both the British and the French embassies evacuated some pers…
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The U.S. Embassy in Leopoldville obtained the overwhelming majority of its information, 90%, from Belgium sources. In other words, they weren't even doing actual intelligence. They were just being fed shit by Belgium. They protected their o…
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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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Late in November, Belgium paratroopers flew in by the U.S. Air Force, captured Stanleyville to free the hostages. The use of special forces had been considered but rejected. More than 2,000 foreign nationals were evacuated to Leopoldville. …
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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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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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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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The boat's 140 trucks, several hundred radios, and 70 mortars sailed on August 30th from Charlestown for Africa aboard a freighter. Project delivery to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and about 20,000 automatic r…
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The secret warriors also tried to substitute propaganda for boots on the ground. Fully a third of the feature task force was PSYOP's specialist. Their effort codename was CADMUS, Project AI CADMUS. In Kinshasa, they planted stories in the t…
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Lumumba had broken free from house arrest in the capital, Leopoldville, on the evening of November 27, 1960. He was now making his way through a tropical downpour across the countryside to Stanleyville, which is where the forces loyal to th…
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was a graceful man with glasses and a mustache with a goatee. He looked more like a postal clerk, which he had been one time. But he spoke with a heartfelt eloquence that dazzled followers and alarmed his enemies. On June 30th, the Congo's …
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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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Lumumba was hustled into the helicopter flown by the CIA to Leopoldville, where he emerged in the glare of TV news cameras that had all been set up. Miraculously, he was subjected to another vicious round of beating by Mubato's thugs on fil…
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In the Leopoldville, U.S. and Belgium, agents were feverishly maneuvering to ensure no release ever happened. The man at the center was Lawrence Devlin, the CIA station chief in the Congo, a Harvard man who had been handpicked by none other…
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A raging battle over Lumumba's future broke into the U.S. press with the CIA's media assets predicting drastic consequences if the Congolese leader was returned to power. As the Congo crisis reached its climax, a news correspondent, I'm goi…
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At the traditional way, his widow, Pauline, chosen to mourn her husband, marching bare-breasted through the streets of Leopoldville. Meanwhile, the New York Times continued to demean Lumumba, sometimes resorting to the most shopworn neocolo…