Why no, I've never done literally any research on this topic, but I'm pretty sure I've cracked this mystery.

Bonus lib wank

  • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The CIA and State Department had to coup Sukarno [I meant Patrice Lumumba] days before JFK got into office because they correctly assumed he would've tried to stop it. He was a Cold Warrior dedicated to the American project, he just wasn't a psychotic Nazi like the people who shortly came to run everything.

    • MitchFucko [any]
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      2 years ago

      yeah trying to remember where I learned this from. I think Jakarta Method? But in any case pretty sure it's well-documented

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They didn’t successfully coup Sukarno until a couple years after JFK died though. Are you thinking of Patrice Lumumba?

      • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Definitely. I've been sleeping very poorly so my memory isn't the best.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 years ago

      I don't doubt the makeup of the factions involved in the happenings here, but the timing is a bit off. There was definitely CIA action against Sukarno in the last few years of the Eisenhower administration, but he'd largely defeated the rebels in '58, and the biggest assassination attempt against him occurred in March 1960. Sukarno lasted until well into the Johnson administration.

      • MitchFucko [any]
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        2 years ago

        Thanks! I think we were thinking of Lumumba in Congo and mixed up the timeline a bit.