In 1960, the Congo gained independence from Belgium. Patrice Lumumba was elected prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president. Within a year, Lumumba was deposed and assassinated. This week on Deconstructed, executive editor of Foreign Affairs and author Stuart Reid joins Ryan Grim to discuss U.S. Cold War paranoia and the plot to assassinate Lumumba. “The great tragedy of these events,” says Reid, who has read the American cables, “the Americans are seeing Soviet ghosts everywhere and every possible move Lumumba makes is interpreted as he’s under Communist influence and from the flimsiest evidence.” Reid’s new book is titled, “The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.”
Transcript coming soon.
This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by Deconstructed.
Deconstructed | Radio Free (2024-03-01T11:00:00+00:00) Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2024/03/01/fatal-neutrality-lumumba-the-cia-and-the-cold-war/
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