Original sentence: 105, Stockwell, John 1978 In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story), Stockwell, who knew Devlin well felt Devlin knew more than anyone else about the murder (71-72, 136-137).Despite the fact that Lumumba adopted an explicit policy of cold war neutrality , the U.Eisenhower's reported call, at a meeting of his national security advisers, for Lumumba's elimination must have been brought on by the misalignment of Congolese neutrality with American Cold War objectives.Lumumba gravitated to the Soviet Union because it was the only place he could find support in his country's effort to rid itself of colonial rule, not because he was a communist.The failure of Belgium, which had supported the secession of Katanga, and of the United States to provide needed support to Lumumba's government contrasted with the aid provided to Lumumba's government by the Soviet Union.Unlike the dictator who ruled the Congo with American assistance for decades from 1965, Lumumba refused explicit alignment with the United States against the Soviet Union.nonetheless branded Lumumba as a communist
Edited sentence: 105, Stockwell, John 1978 In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story), Stockwell, who knew Devlin well, felt Devlin knew more than anyone else about the murder (71-72, 136-137).Both Belgium and the US were clearly influenced in their unfavourable stance towards Lumumba by the Cold War.Eisenhower's reported call, at a meeting of his national security advisers, for Lumumba's elimination must have been brought on by this perception.He seemed to gravitate around the Soviet Union, although this was not because he was a communist but the only place he could find support in his country's effort to rid itself of colonial rule,.The US was the first country Lumumba requested help from.This same disclosure showed that U.perception at the time was that Lumumba was a communist