How the U.S. Issued its First Ever Order to Assassinate a Foreign Leader
How the U.S. Issued its First Ever Order to Assassinate a Foreign Leader
www.politico.com
How the U.S. Issued its First Ever Order to Assassinate a Foreign Leader
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“What can we do in the Congo to out-evil the Belgians?”
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"Idk man the Belgians liked to cut off the hands and feet of little girls and send them to their fathers"
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It doesn't mention the exact wording in the article. Per Wikipedia: Allen Dulles, then the head of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) supported the murder reportedly as he had heard Eisenhower wishing that Lumumba "fall into a river full of crocodiles."
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Fun fact: Political assassinations were a legitimate tool until a Gerald Ford executive order in 1976:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11905
Don't worry, Jed Bartlett rescinded that in the early 2000s.
I don't remember this, so I'm assuming it was post-Sorkin?
After Sorkin and Schlamle left it was a shadow of its former self.
Studio 60 almost worked. Newsroom was always so transparently preachy and one-sided. But those first 4 seasons of the West Wing were...just phenomenal.