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Africa’s Cold War

The LRB Podcast

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The Assassination of Anti-Colonial Leaders

Early Belgian intelligence had already recruited Mobutu. He was essentially still pretending or at least ostensibly a close friend of Lumumbas. And that was with the blessing, as it were, of the CIA and of the US government. It just seemed to determine the way in which the end of colonialism in parts further south and further west would go... The template is there for massive intervention and skull-dubbery.

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