August 14, 2000
Africa
Eisenhower ordered Congo killing
By Alex Duval Smith in
Johannesburg
THE revelation that
President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the CIA to “eliminate” Patrice
Lumumba, the first prime minister of
Congo and a celebrated African freedom martyr, has again turned the spotlight on a country that, 40 years after independence, remains the world’s biggest and most anarchic battleground.
Police officers from Belgium, the former colonial power, are understood to have overseen the killing of 35-year-old
Lumumba on 17 January 1961.
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COMMENT: The fact that Eisenhower
ordered political assassinations will
not surprise historians who have worked
in his archives at Abilene, Kansas.The
unpublished parts of the diary of his
naval aide Harry C Butcher
contain several references to this. But
even he was shocked and stunned by the
British-ordered assassination of US
protege Admiral Darlan on
December 24, 1942.For all this and
more: David Irving,
Churchill¹s
War, vol.
ii,
out late 2000. — Adolf Hitler dictated
to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris,
chief of his Intelligence, that Nazi
assassinations of foreign leaders and
military staffs were flatly forbidden:
see the diary of Canaris’s No. 2,
Erwin Lahousen.