Brent Burden person
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The men driving the policy had little feel for the suffering or the longing of the Congolese people. They don't give a shit. Ambassador Burden was a Vanderbilt heir. No kidding. A big high society boozer who was stuffed full of imbecilic an…
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particularly bright, he represented what his granddaughter, Wendy, would later call dead in gene pools. Everything was marvelous in Burden's world. He said it, quote, the way a character in a Fitzgerald novel would, according to Wendy. She …
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who had acquired his ambassadorship by contributing heavily to Eisenhower's campaign, spent his days in Brussels attending diplomatic receptions, soaking up champagne, along with the racial prejudices of the Belgium Empire. It was the ambas…
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The guy that wants to free Congo is Satan, and the people that enslaved the Congo and chopped people's hands off is not Satan. Burden began sending agitated cables to Dulles in Washington well before Lumumba even was elected, suggesting tha…
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It's either occurring or might occur. I don't know which. In the various countries of Africa, the degree to which new weapons, such as those new gases, might enable such difficulties to be controlled. You know, they're monkeys, just gas the…
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If you wonder where the national security state is, the answer is, especially if you're anywhere near the capital, is it's all around you. In another book called The CIA and the Politics of U.S. Intelligence Reform, Brent Burden wrote, quot…