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Rodrigue Mbock
Lumumba meeting with Dag Hammarskjold U.N Gen. Secretary
station chief in Léopoldville. Bissell also asks his special assistant for scientific problems, Dr Sidney Gottlieb, to prepare the biological material necessary to be able to assassinate an unspecified African leader.
While in Washington Lumumba is already sentenced to death, The Belgians are preparing their own plans. The archives remain silent on concerted action between Belgium and the United States. But it is logical to believe that the two Western nations whose spies were very present on the ground rubbed shoulders and should necessarily have discussed it. At the same time, the arrival of Joseph Désiré Mobutu to power with the support of the CIA is not trivial. It was the time when a document called "Operation L. Suggestions" was born on the keyboard of a typewriter. Its author is unknown, certainly a former Belgian-Congolese security officer, who writes from Brussels. The author says in the note that he has not yet been able to obtain a plan of Lumumba's house, but cites people who may be hired to provide information or participate in the action.
He also suggests how the operation could be carried out: to rely on "the taste of the person concerned for women", but also "to consider contact with his political opponents" and exploit the fact that a certain number of European collaborators of the person concerned “now feel committed beyond what they would have liked”. The note finally proposes to proceed by drug substitution, which says a lot about the purpose of this project.
Another project: at the end of August beginning of September, a former Force publique (colonial police) officer, back in Brussels, Colonel Dedeken receives from General Charles Paul de Cumont, the Chief of Staff of the Belgian army, the order to " kidnap Lumumba and bring him to Brazzaville ”. Dedeken must contact Consul General Dupret in Brazzaville, but also meet with an agent of the SDECE (the French services) placed in the entourage of President Youlou of Congo-Brazzaville, Antoine Hazoumé (whom he presents surprisingly as the " Prime Minister "). Hazoumé, on the other hand, ensures Youlou's support in terms of river transport, possible accommodation for his men, weapons, hiding places ... In a written testimony he left, Dedeken explains that he is going to Élisabethville to train his team. “The candidates,” he wrote, “are handpicked and begin their commando training in the surrounding woods. but three weeks later, as Dedeken returns to Brazzaville, he realizes that the operation has caused quite a stir. His name is even associated with a liquidation operation of Lumumba, called Barracuda. In full confusion about his role and his mission, Dedeken returned to Élisabethville, where he received from Baron de Rothschild, the head of the Belgian technical mission, the order not to deal with Operation Barracuda ... and to redeploy to South Kasai, no doubt to leave the field open to
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