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>Attempted coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo thwarted
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13437171/congo-malanga-drc-coup-cia-utah-tiktok.html
DR Congo coup: US-Congolese father is killed as his son begs for his life after leading bungled bid to overthrow government as video shows moment they are captured
Christian Malanga, 41, shot dead in Congo after allegedly leading a botched coup against the autocratic government of Felix Tshisekedi
Malanga, who came to the US as a refugee in 1998, left Utah for Congo alongside his influencer son Marcel
Marcel was pictured pleading for his life as he and two other Americans were seized by the government
The CIA's involvement in DR Congo
The independent Republic of the Congo, now DR Congo, was declared on June 30, 1960.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was running operations in DR Congo aimed at stabilizing the government and minimizing communist influence from the Soviet Union.
According to a report on the CIA's activities in the country from 1960 to 1968, the agency 'comprised activities dealing with regime change, political action, propaganda, air and marine operations, and arms interdiction, as well as support to a spectacular hostage rescue mission'.
The US government at the time was concerned that DR Congo's elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was a potential communist.
Lumumba, who claimed neutrality in the Cold War, requested US military support after rebellions in the Katanga and South Kasai provinces - but the Eisenhower administration declined the request.
United Nations peacekeepers were deployed to help prevent a full-scale civil war, but Lumumba became in conflict with the UN after it failed to end the rebellion.
He then turned to Moscow for help, which then provided transport planes to fly Lumumba’s troops into Katanga.
Eisenhower then sent the CIA into the region, where it allegedly carried out operations to help DR Congo retain a pro-Western government and provided military support.
The CIA was involved in all of DR Congo's major political turning points and used bribery and paramilitary forced to keep a politically weak group in power during its first decade of independence.
The CIA had devised plans to remove Lumumba from his post and even orchestrated plans to assassinate him with poision, declassified agency documents revealed.
However, there is no evidence that the CIA ever attempted to follow through on the plan.
Lumumba was assassinated in January 1961 and, according to experts, then-CIA station chief in Congo Lawrence Devlin had direct involvement in the events that led to his death.
After Lumumba's death, Devlin and the CIA put its support behind Joseph Mobutu and helped him form and take over the new government.
Mobutu and the CIA worked together for several years before Mobutu threw out the US ambassador in October 1966 for failing to respect his status. However, two years later he asked the CIA for additional funding.
The CIA provided the money, but by that point had wrapped up its paramilitary program in the country. It was also limiting its political funding to Mobutu and four others.
Now, five decades after the CIA's programs in DR Congo, experts say the full scale of the agency involvement in the country remains partly obscured.
Some local outlets claimed the men were CIA agents as they were paraded in the street but the US ambassador denied any involvement in the coup
>the men were CIA agents
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13436591/congo-cia-americans-coup-kinshasa.html
At least three U.S. citizens - accused of being CIA agents - are arrested in Congo after failed coup:
Three people killed in shootout at presidential palace and home of close ally
US interest in the country has grown because of its huge reserves of cobalt and other minerals increasingly seen as crucial to a global green energy transition.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13437685/Christian-Marcel-Malanga-congo-coup-salt-lake-city-utah.html
How DR Congo coup leader Christian Malanga moved to Salt Lake City as a political refugee, had eight children and worked as a small businessman before returning to Africa for military service and plotting to overthrow government with his son, 21, Marcel
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/19/drc-coup-congo-americans-arrested/
Americans arrested in Congo amid accusations of coup attempt
An army spokesperson told state television that a coup attempt Sunday had been swiftly stopped by Congolese security forces.