{"id":1528487,"date":"2024-03-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=461998"},"modified":"2024-03-01T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T11:00:00","slug":"fatal-neutrality-lumumba-the-cia-and-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/01\/fatal-neutrality-lumumba-the-cia-and-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22fatal-neutrality-lumumba-the-cia-and-the-cold-war%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22deconstructed%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/deconstructed\/fatal-neutrality-lumumba-the-cia-and-the-cold-war?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">In 1960,<\/span> the Congo gained independence from Belgium. Patrice Lumumba was elected prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president. Within a year, Lumumba was deposed and assassinated. This week on Deconstructed, executive editor of Foreign Affairs and author Stuart Reid joins Ryan Grim to discuss U.S. Cold War paranoia and the plot to assassinate Lumumba. \u201cThe great tragedy of these events,\u201d says Reid, who has read the American cables, \u201cthe Americans are seeing Soviet ghosts everywhere and every possible move Lumumba makes is interpreted as he&#8217;s under Communist influence and from the flimsiest evidence.\u201d Reid\u2019s new book is titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/616779\/the-lumumba-plot-by-stuart-a-reid\/\">The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/01\/deconstructed-patrice-lumumba-cia-cold-war\/\">Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/01\/deconstructed-patrice-lumumba-cia-cold-war\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Grim speaks to Stuart Reid about his new book, \u201cThe Lumumba Plot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/01\/deconstructed-patrice-lumumba-cia-cold-war\/\">Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528488,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528487\/revisions\/1528488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}