G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

We know only too well that UN forces would bring Lumumba's agents with them.
Godefroi Munongo, August 4, 1960
CHAPTER FOUR: THE MODERATES
For many years the United States has been financing and supporting the expansion of
international Communism around the world through measures which have been presented
to the American people as ways of fighting Communism. Foreign aid is probably the most
obvious example. President after president has told us that we have to send billions to
various Communist and pro-Communist countries in order to win them away from Soviet
domination. We have shipped them military equipment, trained their officers in our military
schools, sent them machine tools, built whole factories and power dams for them, and
sold them subsidized wheat. Our political leaders have shrewdly borrowed the required
money from our children and grandchildren who will be saddled with these debts for many
generations to come. The record is truly fantastic. But the most incredible part of all is that
this whole operation, which has been so necessary for Communist success, has been
sold to Americans as a way of opposing Communism. A glance at a few issues of the
People's World or the Worker or other Communist periodicals will cause even the
skeptical to realize that our foreign aid is very near and dear to the hearts of Communists
everywhere. The only criticism one finds of our foreign aid program in the Communist
press is that it isn't as large and doesn't grow as fast as the Communists want. One of the
prime reasons they advocate foreign aid even to countries that are not yet totally
Communist but are merely in the socialist (or transitional) phase, is that it helps to destroy
private enterprise and strengthen socialism within these countries. The money must never
be allowed to be used to develop private industry. It must be used only for government
projects. For instance, back in 1955 when the Communist party of India formally
announced its support of Nehru, the Communist Daily Worker carried a description of the
event. Toward the end of the article it quoted Ajoy Ghosh, general secretary of the
Communist party in India, as saving: "We want foreign aid coming at a governmental level
and not with a specific purpose." He further said Indians should be "free to use the aid for
anything we want." 1
That, however, is another story. It is mentioned here merely to point up a recognizable
pattern that has developed over the past few years regarding certain United States State
Department policies. This pattern is involved with convincing the voters that a particular
policy of the State Department or the United Nations is in the best interests of the United
States when, in reality, it is just the opposite. There is no better illustration of this than the
circumstances surrounding United Nations and Washington support of the so-called
"moderate" central Government that emerged after Lumumba's death. To tell that part of
the story, however, it is necessary to take a closer look at Antoine Gizenga.
Gizenga was a minor personality in Congolese politics until he was invited to Prague,
Czechoslovakia, for Communist cadre training. 2 When he returned, he became one of
Lumumba's strongest supporters and worked closely with him to implement plans for the
Communist take-over of the whole Congo. When Lumumba was arrested and then killed,
Gizenga set himself up as Lumumba's successor. He established a Communist regime in
the neighboring province of Orientale and gathered all of Lumumba's followers around
him. The Soviet and Czechoslovakian diplomats and consular officials who were kicked
out of Leopoldville by Colonel Mobutu popped up in the Gizenga stronghold of Stanleyville