Foreign Affairs Misreads Lumumba (the Communist)
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by SPYRIDON MITSOTAKIS 4 Jul 2014, 1:26 PM PDT POST A COMMENT
The current issue of Foreign Affairs (July/August 2014) contains an
article about the 1960-1961 crisis in the Congo. Its key point is as
follows:
The root of the CIA's intervention in Congo was an overhyped analysis
of the communist threat. Congo scholars have long been skeptical of
the notion that had [Congolese Leader Patrice] Lumumba stayed in
power, his government would have fallen under the sway of the Soviet
Union or China... The skeptics were right:
Lumumba was never a communist, and he would not have yielded to
foreign control. He and his supporters had cut their political teeth
in the struggle against colonialism, and they found any form of
external domination anathema. They were far more interested in
nonalignment, and the foreigners they identified with were other
African independence leaders, not Khrushchev or Mao.
There is strong evidence to the contrary.
The November 25, 1960 edition of The New York Times contains the
details of an intelligence report obtained in London:
Mr. Lumumba and his supporters discussed independence in February in
Brussels. On Feb. 7 Mr. Lumumba attended a meeting of the Liege branch
of the Belgian Communist party, according to the report.
During this visit to Belgium, it was reported, Mr. Lumumba negotiated
with Albert Goyens, militant Belgian Communist, for material to aid
his election campaign.
Antoine Gizenga, president of the African Solidarity party in
Leopoldville area and Vice Premier in the Lumumba Government, visited
Prague and Moscow in 1959 and 1960, it was said.
According to the report, three other politicians from the Congo
attended the Thirteenth Congress of the Belgian Communist party in
Liege April 16. They were Alphonse Nguvulu, president of the People's
party in the Leopoldville area and Minister of State in Mr. Lumumba's
Government, and two of his supporters.
Ernest Brunel, secretary of the Belgian Communist party, addressed the
guest as "Congolese comrades" and pledged the party's support for
their efforts at the meeting.
During their stay in Belgium, the Congolese were under the guidance of
Jean Terfve, lawyer and member of the politburo of the Belgian
Communist party. M. Terfve later became one of Mr. Lumumba's chief
advisers.
....
In January, the Belgians were said to have investigated a report that
M. Pinzi, Communist Mayor of an African suburb of Leopoldville, had
returned to the Congo from Brussels with [a] detailed plan for revolt.
The report estimated that Mr. Lumumba had received the equivalent of
$299,600 for propaganda purposes from the Belgian Communist party.
Lumumba chose the occasion of the Independence Ceremonies to give a
speech ripping into Europeans, and within days (almost on queue)
Lumumba loyalists went on a rampage killing and terrorizing not only
their Congolese political opponents, but all who even looked European.
That same month (July 1960), stories began to appear such as this one
from the AP: "A freighter from communist Poland carrying 300 tons of
arms was reported by Belgian officials Sunday to be heading for the
mouth of the Congo river, gateway to the troubled Congo Republic."
Soviet military equipment and Eastern Bloc "technicians" (who were
just as white as West Europeans, but for some reason were not
attacked) were flown into the Congo on Soviet Aircraft and put at the
disposal of Lumumba.
When Lumumba was arrested in September, a number of revealing
documents were found in his briefcase, copies of which were obtained
by the Chicago Daily Tribune. On November 2, 1960 the Tribune
described one document with orders Lumumba intended for a provincial
underling, in detail:
It is marked "strictly confidential" and its stated object is:
"Measures to be applied in the first phase of the dictatorship."
...
"Do not forget," Lumumba wrote, "to continually encourage our comrades
scattered thruout [sic] the province, affirming to them in accord with
the agreement, the Congo will become what they have demanded of us.
[This apparently referred to an agreement with the Russians to make a
satellite of the Congo.]
"Finally, in your program of arrests of members of the opposition and
others, it is suitable to begin with the most influential... all the big
chiefs and even certain of your collaborators, members of the
provincial government, who might criticize you.
"In acting this way everybody at Stanleyville will be afraid of your
authority as they are afraid of mine here at Leopoldville.
"In this way we shall end up by leading all the inhabitants of the
republic by the nose, beginning... with the Eastern province, which is
already safely in the control of our comrades of the East [presumably
the Russians], who under the label technicians have already begun
cleverly and effectively to disseminate the first attractive bits of
our doctrine.
"Get to work immediately and have courage.
"Long Live the Soviet Union. Long Live Khrushchev."
At this point the old Cold War "Duck test" should come in handy: He
acts like the Communists, is armed by the Communists, and works
hand-in-glove with the Communists. So what is he?
I once asked Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc
official ever to defect to the United States and the author of a book
exposing Soviet disinformation, about this. He told me: "To the best
of my knowledge, Lumumba was a Communist used by the KGB as an agent
of influence. No wonder that in 1966 the Soviet Union's third-largest
university was given his name."
For a short and simple overview of the events of the 1960-1961 crisis
in the Congo, chapter 15 of Paul Johnson's masterful Modern Times is
highly recommended
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