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How the U.S. Issued its First Ever Order to Assassinate a Foreign Leader (www.politico.com)
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64 years ago today, the order to assassinate Patrice Lumumba was issued by Eisenhower.

Patrice Lumumba was the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo). He was assassinated on January 17, 1961.