Document:US intelligence services return to the practice of eliminating inconvenient African leaders
| A press release by the Russian SVR Press Bureau in the aftermath of the 2023 coup in Niger |
press release by SVR dated 07 September 2023Subjects: Niger, Africa
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This text is from an automated translation, the German version of RT reported about it on September 11, 2023 [1].
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U.S. intelligence services return to the practice of eliminating "inconvenient" African leaders
Russian SVR Press Bureau, September 7
According to information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, the United States is clearly not satisfied with the development of events in Niger, where an interim administration headed by General A. Chiani recently came to power as a result of a military coup. Washington is thinking about how not only to slow down the trend of Africa turning into one of the centers of power of the multipolar world, which is dangerous for the West, but also to take over the French "inheritance" in the strategically important Sahel.
The White House is working on various options for "strengthening democracy" in Niger. It is considered unreasonable to do it with the hands of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has close ties with Paris. The Americans see a more "effective" option in physically eliminating the "putschist leaders" who have the support of the majority of the population. Representatives of the U.S. intelligence services are directly discussing with their partners potential perpetrators of possible assassination attempts, betting on persons from the inner circle of the leaders of the transitional structures, preferably from among those who have undergone special training at Pentagon educational institutions.
There is nothing new in such use of "dirty methods" by Washington. It is well known that since the 1960s, the Americans have been working to "rid" the African continent of strong national leaders. The CIA, in particular, had a hand in the assassination of P. Lumumba in Congo. Lumumba in Congo, the overthrow of K. Nkrumah in Ghana, and the arrest of N. Mandela in South Africa. American intelligence acted so brutally and defiantly that even U.S. President L. Johnson called it a "bloody corporation of murderers".
It seems that faced with the unexpected and extremely unpleasant geopolitical awakening of Africa, the White House decided to resort to the old, as they call it, proven recipes.
