JAPAN: Eisenhower and the Bomb
"After finding out his role in the murder of Lumumba and the setting up to
the Mobutu regime in Congo, I wonder as to how high-minded he was with
non-white populations. As to why they did not test the bomb on Germany, I
understand that they ran out of time. Germany capitulated before they could
do it."
My comment: Lumumba was deposed in 1960 and killed in 1961 in
Elizabethville, presumably by Katanga Province tribesmen. Later that year,
UN secretary General Dag Hammerskjold was killed when his plane crashed in
the Congo. The whole episode is very complicated, and I know nothing about
Eisenhower's personal involvement in it. He should not be held responsible
for whatever the CIA did.
Ronald Hilton - 8/16/00
Rosa de Pena questions the idea of the benevolence of President Eisenhower:
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