Abstract
A systematic study of the CIA’s activities in Vietnam has revealed that covert operations are a decisive first step in military intervention.1 For instance, the Gulf of Tonkin incident was precipitated by covert CIA operations. Throughout the sixteen years the United States was at war in Vietnam, the CIA waged a ‘secret war’ in Laos, hidden from the eyes of the American public. The assassination of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo (now Zaire) in January 1961 was the result of the CIA’s massive covert operation directed against him.2 The CIA’s involvement in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba was revealed by a CIA officer who said he had ‘an adventure in Lubumbashi, driving about town after curfew with Lumumba’s body in the trunk of his car trying to decide what to do with it’.3
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