to several individuals, including Verhaegen. Anthropologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt therefore concluded that "secret agent Benoît Verhaegen was secretly paid millions during the crisis to help eliminate Lumumba and other nationalists." Verhaegen explained that those funds were contributions for the creation of an International Centre for Cooperation and was labeled 'secret' since diplomatic relations between Belgium and the Congo were broken off. According to Verhaegen, those funds were thus used to pay for the payment and accommodation of technical cooperants. In a commentary on the workings of the Commission of Inquiry, he criticised that they failed to verify their claims by going to the archive of the International Centre for Cooperation at the Foreign Affairs Archives. Belgian academic Gauthier de Villers believed that "certain influential members of the group of experts or the Commission, too satisfied by being able to pinpoint in that way an engaged non-traditional and Marxist historian, were content with only doing a summary investigation." He retired to France and died at Montréal-les-Sources, Drôme on 14 October 2009. See also Merwin Crawford Young Jan Vansina René Lemarchand Georges Balandier Jean Suret-Canale References Bibliography Further reading External links 1929 births People from Merelbeke 2009 deaths Belgian Africanists Belgian sociologists 20th-century Belgian historians Belgian expatriates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Academic staff of the National University of Zaire Academic staff of Lovanium University Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni Belgian Marxist historians Belgian military personnel of the Korean War Historians of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Belgian expatriates in France Belgian political scientists 20th-century political scientists