Her book Who Killed Hammarskjold? (2011), [7] [8] [9] about the death in 1961 of the then- United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, triggered a new UN investigation in 2015. [ citation needed] When Nkrumah learned of Lumumba’s assassination, he felt it “in a very keen and personal way,” according to June Milne, his British research assistant. But horrifying as the news was to him, the Ghanaian statesman was hardly surprised. In fact, the agents Nkrumah feared were already present. Not long after the event began, Ghanaian police arrested a journalist who had been hiding in one of the conference rooms while apparently trying to record a closed breakout session. As it was later discovered, the journalist actually worked for a CIA front organization, one of many represented at the event. A United Kingdom. L'Amore Che Ha Cambiato La Storia, Un'incredibile storia vera, translation of Colour Bar into Italian

Armstrong was basically a Trojan horse for the CIA … He would have been horrified. Facts, not fiction We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment. Before long, Lumumba’s enemies closed in: on 5 September, Kasavubu illegally dismissed Lumumba as prime minister, citing his decision to involve the Soviets in Katanga. Gizenga, too, was dismissed. When Lumumba was later arrested, Andrew Djin, Nkrumah’s envoy to the DRC, intervened to secure his release but the damage was already done. On 14 September, Mobutu announced that the army had seized power and suspended civilian rule; Kasavubu hurriedly signed a decree to legalise Mobutu’s military dictatorship. The Soviet and Czech embassies were closed and their diplomats expelled. A bit muddled there. Toohey is an Irish name, and so, oft as not, is Keating. Also, “Wasp” and “Irish” are not mutually exclusive classes. Strictly speaking, WASP means upper-class East Coast elite. That’s what Digby Baltzell meant by it, and he coined the acronym. I don’t think anyone in The Fountainhead would really qualify, moreover I doubt Ayn Rand crossed paths with many Social Register types. American society remained a closed book to her, so she could let her imagination soar. Like Edna Ferber writing about rich Texas cattlemen in Giant.The Hammarskjöld book had a huge impact. It prompted Lord Lea of Crondall to lead an enabling committee that in 2012 set up the Hammarskjöld Commission tasked to assess new evidence pertinent to the plane crash. That panel’s report led former UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon to invite Mohamed Chande Othman, the former chief justice of Tanzania, to conduct a full inquiry into the incident. This was a stunning result – for the first time an official enquiry had given voice to the theory that Hammarskjöld and his team’s deaths may have been deliberately planned. Cold War intrigues Even if such conflicting plans shared a common goal, it’s not unreasonable to ask whether we should consider them colonialism — neo- or otherwise — or rather the schizophrenic response of an agency drunk with power it never should have been afforded. In White Malice, the CIA’s capacity for committing murder and sowing discord is on full display. Its capacity to rule, however, is less so. Sitting on the AAPC’s organising committee, Bill Sutherland was an American pacifist who was an active supporter of Nkrumah. He also hosted the visit of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King to the 1957 independence celebrations. In the early days of the first Ghanaian government he served as private secretary to finance minister Komla Gbedemah.

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A mainstream version of events might have it here that the CIA plots to assassinate Lumumba were forestalled by local Congolese action and that the U.S. therefore bore little responsibility for his actual murder. As Williams sets out here, however, there is evidence for a CIA presence at the location where Lumumba, Mpolo and Okito were killed, in the form of an expense claim for travel there. It therefore appears that there was more direct CIA involvement in the actual event than has often previously been recognised. We also get a picture of the wider struggle for independence across Africa particularly in the Portuguese colonies. Once again the dirty paws of the CIA are all over this. Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi from Angola are identified as CIA “assets.” The White Pill has the look and feel of a young adult non-fiction read (“YA” literature being books actually aimed 12-year-olds). It is, however, not dumbed down in any way. What it’s largely about is the politics of terror, as utilized by the Bolsheviki. I emphasize this because a few years ago I was reading James Burnham’s The Struggle for the World (1947), and therein Burnham identifies and skewers that aspect of Communism. Terror is not some expedient, short-term solution to simplify operations; no, it’s the whole deal. And Communism is not some theory of economics — or, Lord knows, an idealized “humanist” plan to give people free healthcare and borscht. Organiser with Dr Mandy Banton of a high profile conference of prominent campaigners, practitioners and historians, June 2012 Once any White society accepts that all the races are equal, that so-called racism is a real and...A deeply distressing history of CIA involvement in plots to eliminate certain regimes in Africa, particularly in the Congo and Ghana, just as the countries shook off European colonial rule in the mid-20th century. A compelling, meticulously researched account of decolonisation and the forces seeking to thwart that chaotic, protracted, but ultimately liberating process. An informative read which, in examining the death throes of the rapacious colonial project, lays bare the profound injustice imperialism inflicted on Africa and beyond.’ — Shashi Tharoor, Indian MP and author of Inglorious Empire Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb (UK); Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (USA)

Indeed, after reading this book, one could get the impression that every American or European living and working in Africa at this time was an intelligence operative with a shadowy agenda. Williams’ new book seems like the third in a trilogy. Its title, White Malice, captures the racist arrogance of power, unscrupulously destabilising and (re-)gaining control over sovereign states as a form of colonialism by other means. Dr Williams is a historian who seeks to investigate the role and the impacts of imperialism and neo-colonialism on the continent of Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries. Closely associated with this focus is the history of the United Nations. At the centre of these concerns is the contestation over the human and democratic rights of justice and freedom. Herresearch draws on a wide range of sources in different nations: primarily on archives, official and private; and also on oral testimony, media, and visual observation. I mean all those Bildungsromane of the late 18th and early 19th century. Russian classical writers...As for those “racist and anti-Semitic comments,” they consist mostly of critical remarks about Israel. Dahl and “anti-Semitism,” if that’s what you want to call it, ranks somewhere south of Taki Theodoracopulos. The Forward, a very lively Jewish publication, listed a few of what are ostensibly the five most rancid remarks, but these are a pretty tame lot. I’ve known Jews who routinely said much more mordant or vitriolic things. Self-hating? As Larry David said, “Yeah, I do hate myself but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.” Move over, Ron Unz. Susan was a convenor with Professor Robert Holland of this one day conference, which looked at Independence Day ‘moments’ in several British colonies – India, Pakistan, Ghana, Guyana and Zimbabwe; it also examined the role of the media, of the monarchy, and of independence anniversaries. This focus was complemented by a comparative dimension, looking at how such junctures – amongst the most important in the twentieth century – were conducted in the French Empire. Dag Hammarskjold and the Decolonisation of Africa: Looking through a telescope at Ndola airport, 17-18 September 1961 Williams does a nice line in intrigue. There is a John le Carré quality to many of the episodes [in White Malice]. CIA operatives turn up as journalists, interpreters, businessmen and private secretaries, sometimes bearing suitcases of cash. … [An] entertaining narrative.’ — Financial Times