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He said, “It is now up to you, gentlemen, to show that you are worthy of our confidence.”
An angry, impromptu speech in reply by Patrice Lumumba caught the world’s attention.
His message, Western governments feared, was contagious.
“The President [Dwight D. Eisenhower] . . . regarded Lumumba as I did and a lot of other people did: as a mad dog . . . and he wanted the problem dealt with.”
“that Lumumba should be eliminated.”
But it proved hard to get close enough to Lumumba to use these, so, instead, the CIA and Belgians still working in the Congo’s army and police supported anti-Lumumba factions in the Congo government, confident that they would do the job.
After being arrested and repeatedly beaten, the prime minister was secretly shot in Elizabethville in January 1961.
Two Belgians then cut up his body and dissolved it in acid, to leave no martyr’s grave.
