Re: [sixties-l] Re: Eisenhower Ordered Lumumba's Murder

From: Carrol Cox (cbcox@ilstu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 20:34:08 CUT

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    Jeffrey Blankfort wrote:

    > Subject: [BRC-ANN] Eisenhower Ordered the Murder of Lumumba
    > [clip]
    >
    > 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.

    This is another of the "open secrets" U.S. imperialism specializes in. There
    was an article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine over 20 years ago that
    made this quite clear.

    Carrol Cox

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