Jennifer Abdo’s Reviews > The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination > Status Update
Jennifer Abdo
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"And it was in the Congo that the CIA, for the first and only time, could plausibly claim credit-or take the blame for the assassination of a national leader. The United States still hasn't kicked its habit of intense meddling in the politics of the developing world. That was a habit it picked up in earnest in the Congo."
— Nov 23, 2025 12:01PM
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Jennifer Abdo
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If you ever need an example of anti-communist brain rot, these two pages contain several. The US tried to misinterpret everything so that it saw communism everywhere, especially where it wasn't. Everything is an excuse to wreak havoc and loot.
— Dec 12, 2025 07:48AM
Jennifer Abdo
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"The American intervention in the Congo was an early battle in a decades-long series of covert actions that would showcase the conflict between interests and values in American statecraft. The relatively genteel strategies crafted by the so-called wise men of U.S. foreign policy in the 1940s and 1950s gave way to the darker pursuits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s."
— Nov 23, 2025 12:00PM
