Young and dumb
The CIA, I’m sure, will say that they are “not able to locate any records of employment” of these individuals, which of course does not in any way answer the question whether they worked there, nor whether the coup attempt was indeed an explicit covert op they were specifically tasked to accomplish.
Probably the choice of facing the Congo’s justice system wasn’t that attractive to them.
It’s largest prison was designed for 1500 inmates, and currently houses 12,000.
Popular Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams , the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under President John F. Kennedy, said in a press conference in 1961:
“Africa for the Africans.”
The moral of this story,
the moral of this song
is simply that one should never be
where one does not belong.
from The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (1967)
Why were the two not shot in the DRC upon capture?
Don’t guys like this usually get lined up against a wall and executed on the spot?
Where is victoria “nasty” nuland these days?