White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

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ACUNS (Academic Council on the United Nations System) at The Hague Institute of Global Justice: The UN at 70 It is obvious that U.S. would be worried about increasing Russian influence in Africa, but on occasion, the U.S. also seemed happy enough to push leaders it had already decided were a problem closer to the USSR. When Lumumba travelled to the U.S. in the summer of 1960, to try to enlist U.S. help to get Belgian troops out of Congo, for example, he travelled there in a plane supplied by the USSR. This was not a pro-Russian gesture, but simply the result of the U.S. refusal to make one of their planes available to him. It was nevertheless seized on by the U.S. media as evidence that he was a communist and therefore an enemy of the USA. Similarly, when Nkrumah embarked on a nuclear-power programme for Ghana, he first approached Canada to obtain a reactor. He turned to the USSR only after the U.S. had forced Canada to turn him down. Yes, indeed, Andrew Paulson had quite an imagination . . . but I think I like the “true” version better. It just seems to nail Ayn Rand.

China too had stepped up its efforts to spread its ideology in Africa through military and cultural programmes. Dos Santos and Viriato da Cruz became infatuated with Maoism after their visits to China in 1954 and 1958. ‘The time spent in China,’ dos Santos later reported, ‘was a real school in Marxism-Leninism.’ Viriato da Cruz, the most committed Maoist of the Angolan anti-colonialists, regarded Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful co-existence as a betrayal of the principles of Marxism-Leninism. Neto disagreed: he remained much closer to the Portuguese Communist Party, which took its cue from Moscow. When Viriato da Cruz drafted the first manifesto of the MPLA – an organisation he and Andrade hoped would bring together the country’s disparate nationalist movements – neither Beijing nor Moscow had enough influence to determine its ideological position. In 1966, Viriato da Cruz opted for exile in China, where he remained until his death in 1973. Colloquium: The United Nations and End of Empire: Revisiting the Role of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold As a person who in later times suffered (as like many) for the failures of that time I genuinely came away more educated on the DRC and the parties that were involved. I kind of wished that it went a little bit more into the Mobutu reign but you can't have it all. I appreciated that the author chose to dive into the more personal stories of the leaders that were focused on because while time has changed and easy to rewrite history I think to disprove the perception brought through fear and propaganda is key in understand what those external powers really did. P. 128: ‘With the exception of the heroes, to whom she gave Irish names (Roark, Rearden, Galt) in honor of Frank O’Connor, everybody, good or bad, is a Wasp.’Paper presented at ‘Sowing the Whirlwind’: Nuclear Politics and the Historical Record, a conference held by ICWS/SAS Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa, London: Hurst, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84904-158-4 Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa, 2nd edn with an additional chapter co-authored with Henning Melber and David Wardrop

And not to be overly long-winded on the subject of Roald Dahl, Malice writes that Dahl was mainly known in 1944 for having been a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who got shot down and badly burned in a crash in Libya early in the war (not in Greece, as Malice says). But no, he had been publishing short stories that were well received, and he wrote a popular kiddy book called The Gremlins, which Walt Disney planned to make into an animated film (but didn’t, because of RAF oversight restrictions). [4] When Nkrumah learned of Lumumba’s assassination, he felt it “in a very keen and personal way,” according to June Milne, his British research assistant. But horrifying as the news was to him, the Ghanaian statesman was hardly surprised. A compelling, meticulously researched account of decolonisation and the forces seeking to thwart that chaotic, protracted, but ultimately liberating process. An informative read which, in examining the death throes of the rapacious colonial project, lays bare the profound injustice imperialism inflicted on Africa and beyond.’ — Shashi Tharoor, Indian MP and author of Inglorious Empire Dr Williams has continued, since the publication of Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, to serve as a historical advisor on a variety of fronts relating to its themes. The book argues the case for a new inquiry into the plane crash that killed UN SG Dag Hammarskjold. It triggered led in 2012 to the independent Hammarskjöld Commission, chaired by Sir Steven Sedley, to which Dr Williams provided historical expertise. On the recommendation of the Commission’s report in 2013, in December 2014 a Resolution was adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly, authorising the Secretary General to appoint a UN Panel of Experts to examine the evidence; the Head of the Panel was Chande Othman, Chief Justice of Tanzania. In June 2015 Justice Othman submitted his report to UN SG Ban Ki Moon, who stated that ‘further inquiry or investigation would be necessary to finally establish the facts’. Following the adoption of a further Resolution by the UNGA in December 2016, Justice Othman was selected in 2017 by Secretary General António Guterres as Eminent Person with the mandate to review potential new information, assess its probative value, and determine the scope that any further investigation should take. The Judge has submitted threefurther reports to the SG; his report of 2022can be found here: http://www.hammarskjoldinquiry.info/pdf/ham_327_Eminent_Persons_report_250822.pdf. On 30 December 2022, Sweden -- together with 140 co-sponsor nations -- led the UN General Assembly to adopt without a vote a resolution that ensured the continuation of the inquiry under the leadership of JudgeOthman.

In connection with the publication of her book Who Killed Hammarskjold, Susan was interviewed on Newshour, BBC World Service. It is difficult to know how great an impact the CIA truly had on the Congolese civil war, as it is difficult to know whether its plot to assassinate Lumumba ultimately had any success. According to the Congressional Church Committee, which began to investigate CIA malfeasance in the 1970s, the CIA did not kill him. But Williams distrusts the committee's findings. She focuses a full chapter on justifying her belief that American intelligence had a clandestine hand in Patrice Lumumba's death. Although she cannot prove this point — her argument hinges, ultimately, on a CIA asset's gas-reimbursement paperwork, a finding too small to be conclusive — she effectively calls the Church Committee's findings into question.

Bad Guy? Actually just a naïve simpleton, a stooge, of a sort that was not unknown in those days. Like another woolly-headed fool that we’re coming to shortly: Henry Wallace.

Research Summary and Profile Research interests: Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communications, Communities, Classes, Races, Contemporary History, Cultural memory, Gender studies, Globalization & Development, Human rights, International Relations, Metropolitan history, Modern History , Political Institutions, Politics Regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America, United Kingdom Summary of research interests and expertise: A needed corrective. Hard to explain the Napoleon-love on the Right, other than that words like "...