#Africa

5 entries tagged Africa.

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Mobutu Sese Seko Mobutu Sese Seko was the CIA-installed dictator of the Congo (renamed Zaire in 1971) from 1965 to 1997, whose seizure of power was facilitated by CIA station chief Larry Devlin in 1960, who received enormous U.S. Cold War support as an anti-communist anchor in Central Africa while extracting an estimated $4-5 billion from his country, and who served as the base for CIA Angola operations in the 1970s and 1980s.
Patrice Lumumba Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of the independent Congo (June 1960), deposed and delivered to Katangan forces by a CIA-backed conspiracy involving Joseph Mobutu within months of independence, and killed on January 17, 1961 - a case the Church Committee found involved CIA assassination planning, making him the emblematic victim of Cold War CIA intervention in African decolonization.

Organization of African States The Organization of African States (OAS) is a continental organization consisting of the countries of Africa.
Safari Club The Safari Club was a 1976 informal intelligence alliance organized by SDECE director Alexandre de Marenches to conduct anti-Soviet operations in Africa and the Middle East when the CIA was constrained by Church Committee oversight, with France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and Iran as core members.

Congo The Democratic Republic of Congo (known as Zaire 1971-1997) is a Central African country whose CIA-facilitated assassination of first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, subsequent support for dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, use as a staging base for CIA Angola operations (IAFEATURE 1975-1976), and uranium deposits at Shinkolobwe mined for the Manhattan Project make it a significant subject in this vault.