Antoine Gizenga person
also: Antoine Gazinga, Gazinga
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Claims (2)
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Antoine Gizenga documented
“sent a message urging the president to dismiss Gazinga and declare him a rebel against the national government so that the police action can now be taken against him too. We are also urging the UN to take military action to break his rebell…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 49:12
CIA supplied_arms_to
Antoine Gizenga host_asserted
“which it proclaimed as the legitimate government of the entire Congo. He fancied himself a successor to Lumumba. And if they actually had a functioning government, the vice prime minister would have become the prime minister. But the CIA is…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 47:48
Mentions (8)
▶ 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…
▶ 47:20
The 1st of August 1961 found Gazinga as the vice prime minister under a guy by the name of Adula, A-D-O-U-L-A. By the end of the month, Gazinga was as well and simultaneously the leader of a rebel force that had been set up for a regime in …
▶ 47:48
which it proclaimed as the legitimate government of the entire Congo. He fancied himself a successor to Lumumba. And if they actually had a functioning government, the vice prime minister would have become the prime minister. But the CIA is…
▶ 48:43
That day, Dockside, it was suddenly discovered that Soviet rifles was in one of the containers. Through an equally clever ploy at the Khartoum Sudan airport, the CIA managed a separate Congolese courier from his suitcase of Soviet money des…
▶ 49:12
sent a message urging the president to dismiss Gazinga and declare him a rebel against the national government so that the police action can now be taken against him too. We are also urging the UN to take military action to break his rebell…
▶ 49:42
in order to provide the economic incentives to encourage support for that government. In other words, we're paying off the government in Congo to fight against the guy that's legitimately the actual prime minister because we don't want him …
▶ 50:40
A subsequent CIA memorandum was apparently paying tribute to this when it stated, quote, the U.N. and the U.S. in closely coordinated activities played essential roles in the significant success over Gazinga, unquote. In other words, we sab…