H-Diplo FRUS Review of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXIII, Congo, 1960-1968
H-Diplo H-Diplo FRUS Review of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXIII, Congo, 1960-1968. Discussion published by George Fujii on Thursday, October 19, 2017 H-Diplo @HDiplo FRUS Review No. 33 Published 19 October 2017 H-Diplo FRUS Review Editors: Thomas Maddux and Diane Labrosse Web and Production Editor: George Fujii H-Diplo FRUS Review of Nina Howland, David C. Humphrey, Harriet D. Schwar, eds. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXIII, Congo, 1960-1968. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v23. URL: http://www.tiny.cc/FRUS33 Review by Lise Namikas, Baton Rouge Community College After a painstaking, twenty-year effort to select and declassify documents on the Congo crisis of the 1960s, historians now have access to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1965-1968, Volume XXIII, Congo 1960-1968 (hereafter referred to as FRUS, volume XXIII). The history of theFRUS volume and how it came to be published is as interesting as the volume itself. The new volume is part of the Johnson presidency 1964-1968, although about one third is devoted to the years 1960 to 1963. The preface points out that this volume should be read as a supplement to the1958-1960, Volume XIV, Africa and 1961-1963, Volume XX, Congo Crisis, which “did not contain documentation of the U.S. covert political action program” (iv) and “no records” on the U.S. planning to assassinate the Congo’s first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba. This latest volume includes previously unpublished documents from the earlier years and offers comprehensive coverage of U.S.
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