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April 25, 2021
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A History of the CIA in Congo

Belgian rule killed an estimated 10 million people

Conflicts from 1996 to the present killed an estimated 6 million people

Western intelligence agencies wanted to deprive Soviets of access to uranium at Katanga mine

American, Belgian, British, and South African intelligence agencies plotted U.N. Secretary General Hammarskjold's murder

by T J Coles

FULL TEXT: A History of the CIA in Congo



The Congo's colonial history, TRT World, April 14, 2021

John Pilger, "The Son of Africa Claims a Continent's Crown Jewels For The U.S.," The New Statesman, October 20, 2011

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