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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Reid, Stuart A.     Subjects     Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 -- Assassination.     United States. Central Intelligence Agency.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1908-1960.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Reid, Stuart A.       by title:      The Lumumba plot : t...       by call number:      967.51031 R358L     Search the Web     Reid, Stuart A.     Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 -- Assassination.     United States. Central Intelligence Agency.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1908-1960.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997.     Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)       MARC Display

The Lumumba plot : the secret history of the CIA and a Cold War assassination / Stuart A. Reid. by Reid, Stuart A. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Call #: 967.51031 R358L Subjects Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 -- Assassination.   United States. Central Intelligence Agency.   Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965.   Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1908-1960.   Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997.   Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States.   United States -- Foreign relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic) ISBN:  9781524748814 (hc) Alternate title:  Secret history of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Cold War assassination Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xvi, 618 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. Notes:  "This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller -- about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo. It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium -- one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers. At the helm as prime minister was charismatic nationalist Patrice Lumumba. Just days after the handover, however, the Congo's new army mutinied, Belgian forces intervened, and Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help in saving his newborn nation from what the press was already calling 'the Congo crisis.' Dag Hammarskjöld, the tidy Swede serving as UN secretary-general, quickly arranged the organization's biggest peacekeeping mission in history. But chaos was still spreading. Frustrated with the fecklessness of the UN and spurned by the United States, Lumumba then approached the Soviets for help -- an appeal that set off alarm bells at the CIA. To forestall the spread of Communism in Africa, the CIA sent word to its station chief in the Congo, Larry Devlin : Lumumba had to go. Within a year, everything would unravel. The CIA plot to murder Lumumba would fizzle out, but he would be deposed in a CIA-backed coup, transferred to enemy territory in a CIA-approved operation, and shot dead by Congolese assassins. Hammarskj©œld, too, would die, in a mysterious plane crash en route to negotiate a cease-fire with the Congo's rebellious southeast. And a young, ambitious military officer named Joseph Mobutu, who had once sworn fealty to Lumumba, would seize power with U.S. help and misrule the country for more than three decades. For the Congolese people, the events of 1960-61 represented the opening chapter of a long horror story. For the U.S. government, however, they provided a playbook for future interventions."-- Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 967.51031 R358L Adult books Checked out Aug 16, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 967.51031 R358L Core Collection - Adult Transit   Add Copy to MyList

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