01-07-2010, 09:55 PM
From memo written by HFT Smith, future head of MI5, Sep 1960:
FO JB1015/401, 28 and 29 September 1960, PRO doc., cited De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba (London: Verso, 2001), p.188, note 1.
Quote:"I see only two possible solutions to the problem. The first is the simple one of ensuring Lumumba's removal from the scene by killing him. This should in fact solve the problem since, so far as we can tell, Lumumba is not a leader of a movement within which there are potential successors of his quality and influence. His supporters are much less dangerous material. The other possible approach is for a constitution to be worked out which places far more power in the hands of the President,"
FO JB1015/401, 28 and 29 September 1960, PRO doc., cited De Witte, The Assassination of Lumumba (London: Verso, 2001), p.188, note 1.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche