Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67 / Larry Devlin.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : PublicAffairs, [2007]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2007الطبعات:1st edوصف:xi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781586484057
- 1586484052
- Devlin, Larry
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965 -- Personal narratives, American
- Diplomats -- United States -- Biography
- Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
- Espionage, American -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States
- DT658.22 .D485 2007
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DT658.22 .D485 2007 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000047154 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DT658.22 .D485 2007 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000047925 |
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DT658 O28 2000 The Congo-Zaire experience, 1960-98 / | DT658 .Y6 1965 Politics in the Congo; decolonization and independence / | DT658.22 .D485 2007 Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67 / | DT658.22 .D485 2007 Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67 / | DT658.22.L85 W5812 2005 اسرار اغتيال باتريس لومومبا/ | DT658.22.L85 W5812 2005 اسرار اغتيال باتريس لومومبا/ | DT658.22.L85 W5813 2001 The assassination of Lumumba / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry boat, all he could see were lines of people trying to travel the other way-out of the Congo. Within his first two weeks he found himself on the wrong end of a revolver as militiamen played Russian-roulette, Congo style, with him. During his first year, the charismatic and reckless political leader, Patrice Lumumba, was murdered and Devlin was widely thought to have been entrusted with (he was) and to have carried out (he didn't) the assassination. Then he saved the life of Joseph Desire Mobutu, who carried out the military coup that presaged his own rise to political power. Devlin found himself at the heart of Africa, fighting for the future of perhaps the most strategically influential country on the continent, its borders shared with eight other nations. He met every significant political figure, from presidents to mercenaries, as he took the Cold War to one of the world's hottest zones. This is a classic political memoir from a master spy who lived in wildly dramatic times."--Jacket.