Memo reveals Ike ordered assassination Tuesday, 8 August 2000 10:40 (ET) Memo reveals Ike ordered assassination WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (UPI) -- The CIA planned to kill Congo's first premier, Patrice Lumumba, following a perceived go-ahead from President Eisenhower in 1960 -- but others beat U.S. agents to the punch, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. A memo describing an Aug. 18, 1960 meeting of the National Security Council, has Eisenhower turning to CIA Director Allen Dulles ``in the full hearing of all those in attendance and saying something to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated.'' That statement was followed by a long silence in the room, according to the memo. Robert H. Johnson, who took notes at the meeting, told U.S. Senate investigators in a 1975 briefing and hearings that he recalled Eisenhower saying, ``something -- I can no longer recall the words -- that came across to me as an order for the assassination of Lumumba.'' After the 1960 NSC meeting, in September the CIA dispatched a scientist bearing a vial of poison to be injected into Lumumba's food. In a cable Aug. 26, 1960 to the CIA station chief ion the Congo, Dulles wrote: ``In high quarters here, it is the clear-cut conclusion that if (Lumumba) continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will at best be chaos and at worst pave the way to Communist takeover ... His removal must be an urgent and prime objective.'' Before the CIA could poison Lumumba, Congolese rebels killed him and the Church committee said ``but it does not appear from the evidence that the United States in any way was involved in the killing.'' Investigators believe former colonial ruler Belgium had a hand in Lumumba's slaying. A parliamentary probe has started in Belgium, prompted by a book that claims Belgian officials helped in the killing and possibly helped dispose of Lumumba's body; the book claims Lumumba's body was cut up with a hacksaw and dumped in sulfuric acid. U.S. Archives officials found the document and notes in material related to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - the Church Committee investigating assassination plots against foreign leaders -- and cross-referenced in material related to the 1970s probe of the assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. The Church committee said there was ``a reasonable inference'' Eisenhower had ordered the killing but did not make a definite finding. After years of bloody fighting, Congo became Zaire. Now the bloody fighting has resumed and the co9ubntry has been renamed back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. -- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
