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New York: Macmillan, May 1982. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. First printing review copy laid-in with publisher's press release. Appears unmarked. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxx + 466 pages. Examines how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations manipulated the 1960-1963 Congo crises and countered Soviet influence on Lumumba, Tshombe, and Mobotu. The centerpiece of this almost day-to-day account of the 1960s Congo crisis is the U.S. effort to get rid of firebrand Patrice Lumumba, by "Fair Means or Foul"--as came to light in the hearings of the 1975 Select Committee on Intelligence Activities and was published in the Committee report. The "Congo cables" are some 2500 other, recently declassified documents--mostly State Department cables--which Kalb utilizes to fill out the story. What is interesting is her observation that the Congolese effort to dispose of Lumumba may have been stepped up… Leer más