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Foreign Intervention
Records indexed under Foreign Intervention, drawn from Declassified case files and their associated source material.
SANITY ARCHIVE
2 indexed case files
The Congo Crisis: How Covert Action Became U.S. Policy
Newly examined U.S. records show a sustained effort to shape Congo's political succession after independence, moving from political influence and parliamentary maneuvering toward support for anti-Lumumba forces and later covert programs. The record documents intervention. It does not reduce the Congo crisis to a single foreign cause.
Congo · Patrice Lumumba · CIA
Open case file →The Directive: How Washington Decided Lumumba Had to Go
In August 1960, less than two months after the Congo's independence, the CIA's director cabled instructions that would set in motion one of the most consequential covert operations of the Cold War in Africa.
Congo Crisis · CIA · Lumumba
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