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What if the catastrophes of history were not mistakes at all? Years of asking that question - from JFK through the Dulles brothers to the postwar American imperial project. The result: short documentary films on the hidden currents of Imperial power. HistoryInBites.com

@Mashegotza Same day. Eisenhower warned America about the military-industrial complex on TV while Lumumba's blood was still wet in the soil. The man who ordered the murder, warning about the machine he'd just used. 🎬 9 mins: x.com/HistoryInBites…

Sad 😭 On January 17, 1961, Lumumba was executed by firing squad, under Mobutu Sese Seko of DR Congo 🇨🇩. Belgian officers, the CIA, and Katangan officials were involved. His body was dissoIved in acid to erase all trace.

LBJ had ordered Lumumba killed. And within one hour of his being tortured and killed. LBJ was on the TV speechifying about democracy. x.com/HistoryInBites…

@zoomafrika1 Rubber replaced by Cobalt Colonisation replaced by Globalism x.com/HistoryInBites…

@DjehutySpeaks @sut6669 @Milwyn1 @WithoutHistory Here's one more for your list: a 9-minute film covering the full story: The order from Eisenhower. The CIA's poison plots. MI6's coordination. Belgium's firing squad. The acid. And the cover-up that followed. 🎬 1961: Murder in the Congo youtube.com/watch?v=r0AUWt…

Hutus? Sir, please! Go research. “According to National Security Archive senior research fellow John Prados, the CIA was involved in several indirect ways. First, the CIA had the Congolese official that issued Lumumba's arrest warrant on their payroll. The CIA had also been providing Mobutu and his forces with large amounts of money and supplies, as he was going to be their pro-western puppet leading the nation instead of Lumumba. CIA officials were also aware of most situations as they developed, but failed to stop the actions against Lumumba. CIA officer Devlin, in fact, knew about the plan to move Lumumba to an area controlled by his sworn enemy. Devlin decided not to alert either the CIA or the US government until Lumumba was already being moved. He did this because the Kennedy Administration was about to come into power, and Eisenhower would have wanted Kennedy to decide what to do, since his term was so close to ending. So, Devlin wanted to ensure that Lumumba would die at the hands of Mobutu and the Belgians.” — Wikipedia (but corroborated in the 2023 book “White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa” by Susan Williams) “The United States backed Mobutu Sese Seko for over three decades. Support for Mobutu started when Lumumba was in power. Mobutu was Lumumba's chief of staff and head of the army, and continued to grow as he became a more influential leader in the Congo. Even throughout the years following Lumumba's death, the United States is credited with not only supporting Mobutu for over three decades but also with assisting in stabilizing the country during the aftermath of Lumumba's death. "The CIA's program persisted through several political crises in the Congo during 1962-63 and at least can be credited with helping the government survive them.” — Wikipedia (but corroborated in the 2023 book “White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa” by Susan Williams) Patrice Lumumba (Recommended Reading) The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (2023) by Stuart A. Reid Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba (2015) by Emmanuel Gerard Assassination of Lumumba, The (2003) by Ludo De De Witt Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, The (Black History Collection) Paperback (2022) by Restoring the African Mind Research Collection THE DEATH THAT STRANGLED THE HEART OF AFRICA: The Dehumanizing Assassination of Patrice Lumumba of Congo and the Derailment of the former Belgian Colony (2017) by Janvier T. Chando Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa (2017) by Susan Williams White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa (2023) by Susan Williams The Abduction and Death of Moise Tshombe (2001) by Mulenheim-Rechberg ARTICLE: The CIA Undermined Postcolonial Africa from the Start jacobin.com/2021/11/us-cia… “From undermining national liberation leaders to playing a central role in the assassination of Congolese radical Patrice Lumumba, not enough attention is paid to the CIA’s shameful role in Africa. A new book aims to correct that.” - Alex Park ARTICLE: The CIA and Lumumba nytimes.com/1981/08/02/mag… ARTICLE: CIA Activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activ… ARTICLE (PDF): Did the CIA Kill Lumumba? muse.jhu.edu/pub/6/article/… ARTICLE: Why They Killed Patrice Lumumba cadtm.org/Why-They-Kille… ARTICLE: CIA Story Time: From Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination to Post-9/11 Torture forever-wars.com/lumumba-mobutu… “Before his death in 2008, CIA operator Larry Devlin lamented the persecution of agency interrogators. A forthcoming book [The Lumumba Plot] sheds light on his role overthrowing Congo's first post-colonial government.” ARTICLE: Damning Account of West’s Assassination of Congolese Leader Patrice Lumumba (article, by Suraya Dadoo) crescent.icit-digital.org/articles/damni… ARTICLE: The Real Story Behind Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination newyorker.com/magazine/2023/… “The Belgians wanted to protect their mining money. The Americans feared a Soviet foothold. A new book sorts through the fate of the leader of the fight for Congolese independence.” In August, President Eisenhower appears to have personally ordered Lumumba's assassination. The CIA dispatched Sidney Gottlieb, architect to its MKL-ULTRA human experiments, to give Devlin a syringe of poison meant for Lumumba's food or toothpaste. "Morally I thought it was the wrong thing to do," Devlin told Shane. Source: forever-wars.com/lumumba-mobutu… Devlin didn't poison Lumumba. But Devlin did everything he could to make Lumumba's killing inevitable, to include proposing eight ways of slaying the prime minister. His work, particularly in the years after the assassination, put one of Africa's largest and wealthiest countries in America's Cold War column. It was easy to understand why the War on Terror-era CIA honored Devlin. Source: forever-wars.com/lumumba-mobutu… “In reality, Lumumba was committed to Congolese and broader African independence first and foremost, and repeatedly sought American aid in 1960, a story Reid extensively documents. He even granted an American businessman, Edgar Detwiler, extensive mineral and other resource-extraction rights. The Mitrokhin Archive, a smuggled motherlode of KGB files that include its operations in the "Third World," documents nothing about Congo in 1960 or before. Only after the U.S. rebuked Lumumba and Congo endured a Belgian-sponsored secessionist movement in the resource-rich Katanga Province, prompting a U.N. intervention predicated on maintaining the country's borders, did Lumumba receive military aid from a reluctant Soviet Union. Devlin’s prophecy of Lumumba’s left turn was self-fulfilling.” Source: forever-wars.com/lumumba-mobutu… VIDEOS Patrice Lumumba: The U.S.-Backed Assassination of Congo’s First Democratically-Elected Leader youtu.be/R1fJckuXzpc?si… How the U.S. and Belgium Sponsored the Assassination of Patrice Lumumba youtu.be/JtDUaNA2Cm8?si… How Lumumba Was Murdered. Will Any Belgian Ever Be Held Accountable? youtube.com/results?search… The Brutal Assassination of Patrice Lumumba youtu.be/QuIOrH4ngPw?si… Killed & Dissolved in Sulfuric Acid: The Story of the Gruesome Murder of Patrice Lumumba of DR Congo youtube.com/watch?v=DlirjN… Killed & Soaked in Sulphuric Acid: The Story of Patrice Lumumba’s Death youtube.com/watch?v=DlirjN… Patrice Lumumba: The Tragic Assassination of DR Congo’s First Prime Minister youtube.com/watch?v=DlirjN… The Tragic Story of How Mobutu Betrayed Lumumba youtu.be/5XCCz9MwRW4?si… Why Was Patrice Lumumba Assassinated? youtu.be/tU1nZPpocUM?si… The Speech That Got Lumumba Killed youtu.be/ouXas0XYHxM?si… The Story of African Hero Patrice Lumumba, Killed by BELGIUM youtu.be/QB7SvNdIYVQ?si… The Mysterious Death of Patrice Lumumba: When Spies Shaped A Nation’s Fate youtu.be/uDAXTr8zWtw?si… The Rise and Fall of Patrice Lumumba youtu.be/IKrlMbN3kHw?si… Patrice Lumumba Captured by Troops Loyal to Colonel Joseph Mobutu youtube.com/watch?v=DlirjN… Patrice Lumumba “I was the first elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was a postal clerk and traveling salesman. In 1958, I helped found the Mouvement National Congolais, a political party that demanded independence from Belgium. In October 1959, I was arrested and imprisoned for inciting anti-colonial riots. I won the country’s first parliamentary election in June 1960. On June 30, 1960, King Baudouin of Belgium came to grant us our independence. How arrogant. His speech was even worse. He told us that we should be thankful the Belgians brought us civilization. In my speech, I reminded him of all the crimes they committed against us. As you can imagine, he thought I was ungrateful. White kings get upset when Black men talk back to them. Predictably, the United States and Great Britain were also angry. They accused me of being a communist because I believed that the wealth of Congo should remain in Congo to create a strong society. The U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and their counterparts in Britain and Belgium paid a group of Congolese military men (including Joseph Mobutu) to kill me. I was executed by a firing squad on January 17, 1961, after a long torture session. Before they killed me, they made me eat the paper on which my Independence Day speech was written. After my assassination, people all over the world protested the destruction of our democracy.” “They accused me of being a communist because I believed that the wealth of Congo should remain in Congo to create a strong society.”

WOW!! Russians celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Patrice Lumumba. Have you ever seen that in ANY western country?

@lynn_ngugi1 Mobutu, the sergeant who arrested Lumumba, went on to loot the country for the years - this suited the West perfectly.. He wasn't just a traitor to the movement - he was its gravedigger. And the CIA paid for the shovel. 🎬 9 mins film x.com/HistoryInBites…

Mobutu Sese Seko was no hero!! He was a disgrace, traitor, collaborator and a betrayer of the movement 🚶🏿‍♀️

New film: T minus 36 hrs

@HawkEye02723358 And delivering that MIC speech while Lumumba's body was still warm - a murder he had ordered - takes the biscuit.

I view Ike as one of the most dangerously evil men of the 20th century praised by many on the left for his MIC speech, they always leave out he built up the MIC for 8 yrs, on lies he helped create He started CIA coups & murdered those who sought freedom What a fraud Fuck Ike

@HawkEye02723358 The man they installed after the coup - Castillo Armas - lasted three years before one of his own guards shot him dead. The coup was sold as restoring order. What it delivered was chaos, 36 years of civil war, and 200,000 dead. Thanks Ike x.com/HistoryInBites…

another coup ordered by Ike 10's of 1000s murdered for Yankees to get cheap bananas not a great man, he was an evil man Fuck Ike

Eisenhower gave his farewell address while Lumumba's blood was still soaking into the ground - a murder he had ordered. He had Arbenz overthrown & his CIA turned into a paramilitary tool accountable to no one. His premiership set a terrible precedent x.com/HistoryInBites…

guess who ordered this coup that installed the Shah and one of the most brutal secret police in history, the Savak if you guessed the Evil Ike, you are correct when will America see how evil he was?

@AjoyDharmavaram This is an incredible video on the topic x.com/i/status/20509…

We are bearing the brunt of Iran now

The three rivers — JFK’s assassination, the slaughter in Vietnam, and the manufactured fear of communism — merged into a single dark current that transformed the American soul. x.com/HistoryInBites…

@HistoryInBites Thank you so much for this. These videos are incredible 🙏

@Soren_Media Thank you!! ❤️

What if the catastrophes of history were not mistakes at all? Years of asking that question - from JFK through the Dulles brothers to the postwar American imperial project. The result: short documentary films on the hidden currents of Imperial power. HistoryInBites.com

@battleforeurope The world is not governed as we are told it is. Independence is tolerated so long as it remains decorative. Reform is acceptable unless it is structural. Article on the system behind Hammarskjöld's 1961 death. #HistoryInBites historyinbites.com/p/the-operatin…

What I love about Rivera: he painted the revolutionary (Zapata) and the counter-revolution (Guatemala 1954) - both with the same unflinching clarity. Gloriosa Victoria is his searing indictment of the CIA coup. 🎬 3 mins x.com/HistoryInBites…

3️⃣ Two brothers. One ran the State Department. The other ran the CIA. Together they turned American foreign policy into a crusade. historyinbites.com/p/the-dulles-b…

@IraninHyderabad Hmmm, maybe there is a pattern here....

Three rivers flow into the post‑war American psyche, shaping everything that followed. All three rivers can be traced to a single source, in a single week of November 1963. x.com/HistoryInBites…