White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa

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Thank you to NetGalley, Perseus Books, and PublicAffairs for an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. China too had stepped up its efforts to spread its ideology in Africa through military and cultural programmes. Dos Santos and Viriato da Cruz became infatuated with Maoism after their visits to China in 1954 and 1958. ‘The time spent in China,’ dos Santos later reported, ‘was a real school in Marxism-Leninism.’ Viriato da Cruz, the most committed Maoist of the Angolan anti-colonialists, regarded Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful co-existence as a betrayal of the principles of Marxism-Leninism. Neto disagreed: he remained much closer to the Portuguese Communist Party, which took its cue from Moscow. When Viriato da Cruz drafted the first manifesto of the MPLA – an organisation he and Andrade hoped would bring together the country’s disparate nationalist movements – neither Beijing nor Moscow had enough influence to determine its ideological position. In 1966, Viriato da Cruz opted for exile in China, where he remained until his death in 1973. Colloquium: The United Nations and End of Empire: Revisiting the Role of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold

In fact, the agents Nkrumah feared were already present. Not long after the event began, Ghanaian police arrested a journalist who had been hiding in one of the conference rooms while apparently trying to record a closed breakout session. As it was later discovered, the journalist actually worked for a CIA front organization, one of many represented at the event. Roberts, Andrew (24 August 2003). "Did the people want Wallis?". The Sunday Telegraph . Retrieved 28 January 2018.

The killing of Lumumba

Maybe I’m just more of a broad sweep kinda guy. However, there are some genuinely interesting passages in here, buried beneath mountains of minute, day-to-day details about various telephone conversations between ambassadors and CIA assets, right down to the personal idiosyncrasies and dress of the people involved. It’s almost like Williams wanted to turn this into a true-story spy novel. For someone who was looking for a heavy-duty historical analysis, it’s very disappointing.

Not by coincidence, the book revisits the circumstances of Hammarskjöld’s death and the relevance of Katanga. More room is devoted to a step-by-step account leading to the elimination of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent Congo. Williams’ new book seems like the third in a trilogy. Its title, White Malice, captures the racist arrogance of power, unscrupulously destabilising and (re-)gaining control over sovereign states as a form of colonialism by other means. I, too, traveled the pipeline from Libertarianism to the Far-right via Objectivism. Although I didn'... A sense of guilt or remorse remains absent. Mike Pompeo says it all. Then CIA director from January 2017 to April 2018 and Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, “celebrated immorality”, as Williams drily comments (p. 515). “I was the CIA director,” Pompeo boosted in a quoted speech in 2019: A United Kingdom. L'Amore Che Ha Cambiato La Storia, Un'incredibile storia vera, translation of Colour Bar into Italian

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Africa has become the real battleground and the next field of the big test of strength – not only for the free world and the communist world but for our own country and our Allies who are colonialist powers. This territory has proved fertile ground for Williams’s past investigations. In her 2011 book Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, Williams brought a microscope to the suspicious death in 1961 of UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld in an air crash over the then Northern Rhodesia, where he was flying to a meeting with Moïse Tshombe, the leader of the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga. Presentation to MSc students for the Department of Chemistry andChemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

The Hammarskjöld book had a huge impact. It prompted Lord Lea of Crondall to lead an enabling committee that in 2012 set up the Hammarskjöld Commission tasked to assess new evidence pertinent to the plane crash. That panel’s report led former UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon to invite Mohamed Chande Othman, the former chief justice of Tanzania, to conduct a full inquiry into the incident. This was a stunning result – for the first time an official enquiry had given voice to the theory that Hammarskjöld and his team’s deaths may have been deliberately planned. Cold War intrigues Paper presented at ‘Sowing the Whirlwind’: Nuclear Politics and the Historical Record, a conference held by ICWS/SAS We also get a picture of the wider struggle for independence across Africa particularly in the Portuguese colonies. Once again the dirty paws of the CIA are all over this. Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi from Angola are identified as CIA “assets.”of the book focuses on two countries on a vast continent with, what, 40+ states? During an 8-year period? Come on.