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Claims (14)
Lawrence Devlin appointed
CIA documented
“So they couldn't even talk to him to get intelligence from him to begin with. You want to talk about arrogant? There you go. Lawrence Devlin, the CIA's station chief in Leopoldville, is a case in point. On the day of independence, living wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 34:42
Lawrence Devlin member_of
CIA documented
“So they couldn't even talk to him to get intelligence from him to begin with. You want to talk about arrogant? There you go. Lawrence Devlin, the CIA's station chief in Leopoldville, is a case in point. On the day of independence, living wi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 34:42
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
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
Lawrence Devlin member_of
CIA host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 42:08
Lawrence Devlin recruited
Sidney Gottlieb 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
Lawrence Devlin ordered_assassination_of
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 38:47
Maurice Tempelsman recruited
Lawrence Devlin host_asserted
“according to a political scientist by the name of David Gibbs. This close relationship was evident when he hired Larry Devlin, the CIA station chief in the Congo during the assassination, to work for him after Devlin left the CIA, if he eve…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 18:29
Lawrence Devlin overthrew
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 42:39
Lawrence Devlin carried_out_attack
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 19:59
Ted Shackley succeeded
Lawrence Devlin book_quoted
“to the same Vietnam interagency committee that he had left in Washington. In Laos, the embassy team was not quite the same. Ted Shackley moved over to Saigon as chief of station there because that's about the time they were fixing up the Ph…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 38:27
Lawrence Devlin ordered_assassination_of
Patrice Lumumba host_asserted
“that was in charge of murdering Patrice Lumumba and who returned to the Congo and eventually dies there. His grave is in the Congo. Okay, so you had Glenn Fields and Holmes in Stanleyville. They arrived in December and Holmes flew with a T-…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 32:41
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
Lawrence Devlin secretly_owned
Congo host_asserted
“He was promoted to the CIA's Africa division chief for the rest of the time. And then rewarded by being employed very lucratively by the government that he helped install that mass murdered all the nationalists in the Congo. I don't even kn…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 1:03:14
Mentions (53)
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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…
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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…
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according to a political scientist by the name of David Gibbs. This close relationship was evident when he hired Larry Devlin, the CIA station chief in the Congo during the assassination, to work for him after Devlin left the CIA, if he eve…
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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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Devlin decides that he's, quote unquote, retiring from the CIA. His parachute job was to become a business agent of Maurice Tempelsman. Tempelsman, who controlled diamond, cobalt, and uranium out of the Central African area, basically hires…
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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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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…
▶ 38:47
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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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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for the scheme by which the U.S. government purchased industrial diamonds from the Congo to be used in government strategic stockpiles with Templeton acting as the middleman. George H. Whitman also operated as a Templeton agent in the Congo…
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to the same Vietnam interagency committee that he had left in Washington. In Laos, the embassy team was not quite the same. Ted Shackley moved over to Saigon as chief of station there because that's about the time they were fixing up the Ph…
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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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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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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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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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Colby, William Colby, might have been lukewarm was that he probably knew the difficulties involved. Langley simply was not prepared. The African division was the smallest in the agency and had it hands full with some 50 nations. James Pott,…
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So they couldn't even talk to him to get intelligence from him to begin with. You want to talk about arrogant? There you go. Lawrence Devlin, the CIA's station chief in Leopoldville, is a case in point. On the day of independence, living wi…
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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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to be detained by the Congolese soldiers who handed the CIA man a pistol and made him play Russian roulette for their amusement. That scene became Devlin's initiation to the Congo. The CIA station, non-existent at first, was then fashioned …
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Eisenhower had taken Allen Dulles' side at a cocktail party and asked him if he had someone at Elizabethville. He did not. Allen told Eisenhower he did. The CIA had to cover Dulles' ass and Anderson had been assigned simply because he was a…
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looked toward its first big operation. Chief Bronson Tweedy, his wartime background in naval intelligence and later CIA service in Bern, Vienna, and London, stood ready to go. Bruns, in his time, had coordinated a few covert actions with th…
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Castro plot, senior participants have denied any presidential connection with assassination in the Congo. But the Senate investigation amply demonstrates that approved or not, this plotting actually happened. Larry Devlin remained in the da…
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Devlin mulled this over when David Doyle, one of the case officers, Doyle suggested using a high-powered rifle with telescope, pointing out a couple of the CIA men were cracked shots. By Doyle's account, the whole idea infuriated Devlin, wh…
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Doyle believes Devlin rejected the Washington hatched assassination plots, but he lacked direct knowledge in September. Devlin sent Doyle forward to Katanga to replace Anderson at Elizabethville because they've already... Devlin knew all of…
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cheating, but I don't remember if this guy makes this because I've read so many versions of this story. But Devlin is the guy that had the dead body in his car. And Devlin is also the guy that ends up working in the Congo after they murder …
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Okay, David Doyle could not arrive in Katanga soon enough for the base chief. Anderson's files turned out to consist entirely of his demands to be relieved. Now, remember, Katanga is where they're going to stage the quote unquote civil war …
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whose pseudonym was Victor Hedgeman in some CIA documents, got orders to prepare for the arrival of someone who would identify himself fully with instructions that must be carried out and to mention this operation to no one. This is consist…
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Two days before Gottlieb's arrival, Allen Dulles sent another personal cable to the station. Not taking Gottlieb's word, Devlin queried the CIA headquarters. Nothing in his training or experience had prepared him for a murder order. Asking …
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Devlin mentioned shooting as an alternative. He stalled, threw up obstacles, his assets were not good enough, an airtight op would be impossible. He would send to use one of the station's most sensitive agents. By then, it would be early Oc…
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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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When the former CIA aide Victor Marchetti wrote in the early 1970s that in the Congo, the agency had bought and sold politicians, he was exactly correct. On September 6th, CIA headquarters cabled Devlin that it had a new plan for Project Wi…
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had been deathly afraid for the people in Stanleyville and needed to replace the staff. Richard Holm just returned from Laos where he had watched Ho Chi Minh Trail, transferred to the African division and was preparing for assignment to Nor…
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that was in charge of murdering Patrice Lumumba and who returned to the Congo and eventually dies there. His grave is in the Congo. Okay, so you had Glenn Fields and Holmes in Stanleyville. They arrived in December and Holmes flew with a T-…
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Shackley hurled the secret army into major confrontations with the Peocean Lao and the North Vietnamese. On his watch, Bain Powell's Hmong began to sustain serious losses. Lawrence Devlin came to Laos at the end of 1968 when Shackley moved …
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Even after reporters revealed the existence of Long Tien and Sam Tong, they kept denying it. During Devlin's time, enemy troops actually threatened Long Tien with pitched battles for the ridge that dominated it. As Richard Helms puts it, qu…
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The Nixon administration admitted to more than 200 dead in Laos, with about that number missing. The CIA deaths now included Louis Hajibwe, Wilbur Green, Wayne McNulty, John Kearns, and John Peterson. One of them had died inside of North Vi…
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Larry Devlin squired him around the country. He realized the war had grown. Hmong units now had to be larger to move safely. The North Vietnamese had begun using tanks and artillery. Vang Pao was literally running out of men. The wrecked C-…
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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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Larry Devlin's aggressive campaign against Lumumba had won him the admiration of the agency's top command, including Dulles. At the end of November, when Mubato's troops were in pursuit of Lumumba, Devlin had flown to Rome to meet Richard B…
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But Devlin and his CIA superiors knew it had to be done before January 20th. U.S. intelligence officials continued to fret about the Congo situation even after Lumumba was captured. When Mubato's rule still shaky and the Congolese politics …
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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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were CIA-funded goons. Devlin, the CIA man in the Congo, later tried to portray himself as ignorant of the Lumumba affair, and indeed as a man who found assassination morally repugnant. Fucking liar. But as former congressional aide and sch…
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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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nato's equipment congolese authorities took this action under pressure from devlin who was the king maker behind the mubato regime with devlin's full knowledge lumumba had been flown to katanga now let me explain because it doesn't explain …
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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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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…
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he ensured Lumumba's death. Larry Devlin was not a rogue agent. He was an up-and-coming intelligence officer whose Congo exploits won glowing marks at CIA headquarters. The Congo station chief's decision to keep Lumumba's faith quiet until …
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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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Kennedy team. They still think Lumumba's fine. The old Congo hands were alarmed by the administration's new policy paper, which envisioned disarming Lubato and freeing Lumumba. They are sitting in a room knowing the man's dead. Devlin consi…
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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…