01-04-2013, 03:07 PM
Seems as if the Americans and Brits were almost in a contest to get Lumumba first - with the Belgians far behind. The Americans and the British intelligence must have know of the other's plans, generally - and the whole thing could have been coordinated and assigned to a third party to keep hands 'clean'....but this is a very interesting admission and something to consider and research further. I'd heard of the poison toothpaste and several other ideas to 'get Lumumba'....certainly couldn't let a democratically elected leader of a resource rich country [and popular, as well as populist] survive, now could they......
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass