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To: average joe who wrote (1936)	6/15/2001 10:59:10 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

You hit the nail on the head, Joe: the Lumumba assassination is indeed a BELGIAN plot --and not a CIA heavy-handed scheme... Sure enough, Patrice Lumumba was not in Eisenhower's good graces (remember that in the 1960s the world was still in the thick of the Cold War paranoia). Yet, at the time, the US strategy as regards Africa was to let the former colonial powers to sort it out --so long as the Communists were kept at bay, Uncle Sam couldn't care less about Central Africa. Now, there's a parliamentary commission going on but it's clear, since the publication of De Witte's book, that the plot to dispose of Lumumba was masterminded by the Belgians --at the highest level at that. Le Palais (as we are used to hint at the King and his entourage) together with the colonial establishment (Société Générale de Belgique) decided to get rid of Lumumba because of his patriotism.... Gus.

To: average joe who wrote (1936)	6/15/2001 1:01:50 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Yeah... Lamumba has a university named after him in Moscow.. But I would agree, given the information I've read, murdering him was a rather harsh response to his nationalist agenda. The worst anyone seemed to be able to charge him with was inciting to riot, when 30 people were killed in a demonstration that he apparently helped to organize. Which is quite unlike a few, less savory, individuals who deserve to be murdered far more than he. Unfortunately, he just made the wrong "political decision" and allied himself upon the USSR to support him with arms. I'm sure the Belgians were willing to do anything to prevent the Soviets from gaining a foothold in the heart of Africa. Hawk