Jay Janson: No Hillary Apology For Ike Ordering the Murder of Lumumba
[Jay Janson is a musician and writer, who has lived and worked on all the continents and whose articles on media have been published in China, Italy, England and the US, and now resides in New York City.]
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Clinton, while visiting the war torn Congo, couldn't have apologized for President Eisenhower ordering the first Prime Minister of a free Congo to be"eliminated" even if she would have wanted to, because it has never been officially admitted, (declassified), though,
"Forty years after the murder of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, evidence has emerged in Washington that President Dwight Eisenhower directly ordered the CIA to"eliminate" him." [quoting from The Guardian, UK, 8/10/2000]
"The evidence comes in a previously unpublished 1975 interview with the minute-taker at an August 1960 White House meeting of Eisenhower and his national security advisers on the Congo crisis.
The minute-taker, Robert Johnson, said in the interview that he vividly recalled the president turning to Allen Dulles, director of the CIA,"in the full hearing of all those in attendance, and saying something to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated.
Mr. Johnson recalled:"There was stunned silence for about 15 seconds and the meeting continued."...
Mr. Johnson only revealed the exchanges in 1975, when he was privately interviewed by staff of the Senate intelligence committee's post-Watergate inquiry into US covert action. ...
The committee concluded that the US was not involved in the murder, though it confirmed that the CIA had conspired to kill Lumumba ..."
On September14, 1960, Mobutu took control in a CIA-sponsored coup and placed Lumumba under house arrest. [Larry Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone, p. 87]
Lumumba was brutally beaten and assassinated January 17, 1961, a victim of American and Belgian conspiracies vying for control of the Congo's natural wealth in minerals.
[See Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba's Murder by Stephen R. Weissman, Washington Post, July 21, 2002
This beautiful idealist, a martyr of the African struggle for freedom from colonialism, is a hero for his people, who are well aware of America's role in his tragic death, which began a thirty-six year long terrible U.S. supported Mobutu dictatorship which set the stage for a decade of chaos and bloody civil wars and foreign interventions with Europe involved exploiting Congo's rich mineral deposits at the cost of five million lives only in the last decade.
Heaven only knows what Africans are thinking as Hillary goes from country to country featured in photo opts preaching fine words about America wanting to help - help Somalia with tons of new weapons to keep the civil war going after years of U.S. backing of Somali war lords - help by scolding South Africa for not adhering to the U.S. anti-Mugabe Zimbabwe government policies - all, as if Africans didn't remember the history of the U.S. slave trade, of U.S. backing colonialism and Apartheid, of practicing economic and political neo-colonialism, of keeping Nelson Mandela on the U.S. terrorist watch list even after he had been awarded his Nobel Prize...
Read entire article at OpEdNews
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Clinton, while visiting the war torn Congo, couldn't have apologized for President Eisenhower ordering the first Prime Minister of a free Congo to be"eliminated" even if she would have wanted to, because it has never been officially admitted, (declassified), though,
"Forty years after the murder of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, evidence has emerged in Washington that President Dwight Eisenhower directly ordered the CIA to"eliminate" him." [quoting from The Guardian, UK, 8/10/2000]
"The evidence comes in a previously unpublished 1975 interview with the minute-taker at an August 1960 White House meeting of Eisenhower and his national security advisers on the Congo crisis.
The minute-taker, Robert Johnson, said in the interview that he vividly recalled the president turning to Allen Dulles, director of the CIA,"in the full hearing of all those in attendance, and saying something to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated.
Mr. Johnson recalled:"There was stunned silence for about 15 seconds and the meeting continued."...
Mr. Johnson only revealed the exchanges in 1975, when he was privately interviewed by staff of the Senate intelligence committee's post-Watergate inquiry into US covert action. ...
The committee concluded that the US was not involved in the murder, though it confirmed that the CIA had conspired to kill Lumumba ..."
On September14, 1960, Mobutu took control in a CIA-sponsored coup and placed Lumumba under house arrest. [Larry Devlin, Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone, p. 87]
Lumumba was brutally beaten and assassinated January 17, 1961, a victim of American and Belgian conspiracies vying for control of the Congo's natural wealth in minerals.
[See Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba's Murder by Stephen R. Weissman, Washington Post, July 21, 2002
This beautiful idealist, a martyr of the African struggle for freedom from colonialism, is a hero for his people, who are well aware of America's role in his tragic death, which began a thirty-six year long terrible U.S. supported Mobutu dictatorship which set the stage for a decade of chaos and bloody civil wars and foreign interventions with Europe involved exploiting Congo's rich mineral deposits at the cost of five million lives only in the last decade.
Heaven only knows what Africans are thinking as Hillary goes from country to country featured in photo opts preaching fine words about America wanting to help - help Somalia with tons of new weapons to keep the civil war going after years of U.S. backing of Somali war lords - help by scolding South Africa for not adhering to the U.S. anti-Mugabe Zimbabwe government policies - all, as if Africans didn't remember the history of the U.S. slave trade, of U.S. backing colonialism and Apartheid, of practicing economic and political neo-colonialism, of keeping Nelson Mandela on the U.S. terrorist watch list even after he had been awarded his Nobel Prize...