G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

the Red cause. . . . Some African UN officers I interviewed surprised me
by revealing they spoke Russian, had visited Russia, and were openly
sympathetic to the Red cause. "The UN opens the doors to
Communism" was a comment I heard all over the Congo. 18
Just as a quick aside, it is interesting to note that Kwame Nkrumah, the prime minister of
Ghana, has written that he long ago decided the philosophy of Marx and Lenin was
capable of solving his country's problems. He has consistently supported the Soviet Union
and Cuba in the United Nations. In 1960 Red China announced that it would extend
$25,000,000 in aid to Ghana over a three-year period. And in 1962 the Kremlin awarded
Nkrumah the Lenin Peace Prize. In speaking of the award, his own newspaper described
him as the Lenin of Africa. 19 One of the letters found in Lumumba's briefcase had been
written by Nkrumah personally and said: "Whenever in doubt, consult me, brother. We
have been in the game for some time and now we know how to handle the imperialists
and colonialists. The only colonialist or imperialist that I trust is a dead one." 20
Mobutu had good reason to be concerned over the presence of troops from Guinea and
Ghana and he was certainly justified, in view of their activities, in requesting the UN to
withdraw them. His appeal was duly considered. The next day, the United Nations
specifically assigned soldiers from Guinea and Ghana to provide twenty-four-hour
protection for Lumumba. The same protection was extended, wherever possible, to
Lumumba's followers as well. Conor O'Brien cautiously explained it this way: "During this
time, Hammarskjold and Dayal, his representative in Leopoldville . . . resisted . . .
Mobutu's demand that Lumumba, who had sought UN protection on September 15th,
should be handed over." 21
On September 18 Lumumba left the Guinean embassy in a United Nations car and was
taken to his well-guarded residence. He shouted from a balcony to the mob below, "I am
not a prisoner! I am still master! He accused Mobutu of being a fascist and promised that
he would soon bring back the Communist embassies. That same day, a Lumumbist
attempted to assassinate Mobutu who miraculously was not hurt. When Vital Pakasa, the
man who organized the attempted assassination, was found and arrested he explained
that the Soviets had offered him ten thousand dollars for Mobutu's death. 22
A few weeks later, still under strong United Nations protection, Lumumba was escorted to
a gala two-hundred-guest dinner party given by the general from Guinea. 23
By this time, most of Lumumba's close supporters were fleeing to neighboring Stanleyville
where another Communist dictator by the name of Antoine Gizenga ruled the roost.
Finally, Lumumba decided to make a break for it to rejoin his comrades in Stanleyville. He
slipped away from his UN guard and was promptly intercepted and arrested by Colonel
Mobutu's forces and deported to Katanga. A few days later, he escaped from his captors.
According to the story he was seized by villagers and beaten to death.
There is also the story that Lumumba was already dead before they put him on the plane
and shipped him to Katanga. (Quite possible.) There is the assertion that Lumumba's old
enemy Albert Kalonji in Kasai province had agreed to dispose of Lumumba but changed
his mind at the last minute. When the plane arrived, it found the runway covered with oil
drums to prevent a landing. Running low on fuel, the plane proceeded to Katanga where
no one expected it. (Not too plausible.) There is the UN "theory" that Tshombe personally
plunged the death knife into Lumumba as he was dragged off the plane. (Unlikely, to say
the least.) Regardless of which story appeals most to the imagination, certain facts should