Carlucci in the Congo

"There's no substantiation to that charge in any of the reviews done on Lumumba's death by the United Nations or the recent Belgian book or Maddie Kalb's book. ... If you go through the Kalb book [which was based on declassified U.S. cables], you'll find no references to me."

- Frank Carlucci's Lawyers

" "Who is Carlucci?" Kennedy inquired of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "

" On September 14, 1961, Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Dag Hammarskjold, who had returned to the Congo, to complain that President Kennedy was upset that UN troops had been used to quell a recent outbreak under Cyrille Adoula's control and those fighting to preserve "free Kantanga," which Tshombe insisted was independent of the Congo. 

Hammarskjold, his reputation facing ruination by a UN probe of the assassination of Lumumba, became furious and accused Rusk of essentially asking him to use UN forces against another Congolese leader. 

Three days later, while trying to arrange a cease-fire along Katanga's borders, Hammarskjold was killed in a mysterious plane crash. It is now believed that gunfire from mercenaries caused the crash.

[ANGEL IS NEXT : How did "Mercenaries" on the ground identify, track and target Hammerskold's plane from the ground, or bring it down using small-arms fire mid-flight?]

When he went to the White House for dinner with President Kennedy on February 5, 1962, [Congolese Prime Minister and usurper] Adoula became upset upon discovering that the man he credited with bringing him to power wasn't invited. In fluent French, he asked, "C'est Carlucci? C'est Car-lucci?" 

"Who is Carlucci?" Kennedy inquired of Secretary of State Dean Rusk. "

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"I didn't become aware of that until after I'd read the Church Committee hearings. I did not know that anybody had even talked to Devlin about that. 

None of us had any foreknowledge. You'd have to ask Devlin. He tells me he had no foreknowledge of the plan to ship Lumumba to the Katanga. 

The film portrayal of the meeting regarding Lumumba is gratuitous, inaccurate, contentious, and libelous. 

It never happened. 

Other than that, it's a great movie. 

The very idea that, first of all, Kasavubu would invite a young Embassy official to attend a cabinet meeting, and secondly, to vote on Lumumba's certain death, is absurd. 

The idea that a 30-year-old second secretary of the Embassy would be empowered to pass on a sanction, in effect killing a Prime Minister of a country, is absurd. 

The meeting never took place. 

It was a cheap shot. 

I guess it was done to sell the film. 

Why they singled me out, I can only guess. 

Maybe they picked me because it's harder for a public figure to sue." 

Frank Carlucci

Interview undertaken by Phillip Zelikow

Ronald Reagan Oral History Project

2005

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