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Lessons From The CIA’s Cold War Meddling In Congo

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Stuart Reid, an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the CIA's Cold War plot to assassinate the Congo's Patrice Lumumba and explain how the U.S. government applied the manipulation it used in Congo to inform its future foreign meddling.

You can find Reid's book "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" here.

Host:
Emily Jashinsky