U.S. government documents In the early 21st century, declassified documents revealed that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Lumumba. The documents indicate that the Congolese leaders who overthrew Lumumba and transferred him to the Katangan authorities, including Mobutu Sese Seko and Joseph Kasa-Vubu, received money and weapons directly from the CIA.Stephen Weissman, "Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba's Murder", Washington Post, 21 July 2001. The same disclosure showed that, at the time, the U.S. government believed that Lumumba was a communist, and feared him because of what it considered the threat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.Blaine Harden, Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent, p. 50.
U.S. government documents In the early 21st century, declassified documents revealed that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Lumumba. The documents indicate that the Congolese leaders who overthrew Lumumba and transferred him to the Katangan authorities, including Mobutu Sese Seko and Joseph Kasa-Vubu, received money and weapons directly from the CIA.Stephen Weissman, "Opening the Secret Files on Lumumba's Murder", Washington Post 21 July 2001. The same disclosure showed that, at the time, the U.S. government believed that Lumumba was a communist and feared him because of what it considered the threat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.Blaine Harden, Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent, p. 50.