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The Guardian (UK)
Thursday, August 10, 2000
President 'ordered murder' of Congo leader
By Martin Kettle in Washington
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.
The evidence comes in a previously unpublished 1975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":
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4049783,00.html
--Washington Post
Tuesday, August 8, 2000; Page A23
Did Ike Authorize a Murder?
By George Lardner Jr., Staff Writer
As president, Dwight Eisenhower laid down strict rules for reports on meetings of the National Security Council: no direct quotations.
A memo concerning an Aug. 18, 1960, meeting about the Congo's troublesome first premier, Patrice Lumumba, made public this week at the National Archives after years of gathering dust, suggests the wisdom of the rule--at least as far as Ike was concerned.
The official note taker at that meeting, Robert H. Johnson, vividly recalled Eisenhower turning to CIA Director Allen Dulles "in the full hearing of all those in attendance and saying something to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52595-2000Aug7.html
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