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===Congo=== Dulles was strongly opposed to Congolese Prime Minister [[Patrice Lumumba]]. In 1960 a plan to kill Lumumba was considered and Dulles allocated $100,000 to the plan, but it never materialised.<ref>{{cite journal| first= Herbert F.| last= Weiss| title= Review "INSIDE THE CIA: CONGO IN THE 1980s", of book by Larry Devlin. Chief of Station, ''Congo: A Memoir of 1960β67''. New York: Public Affairs| date= 2007| journal= African Studies Review| volume= 51| issue= 2| pages= 143β145| doi= 10.1353/arw.0.0078| s2cid= 145650236| doi-access= free}}</ref> Dulles believed that Lumumba posed "a grave danger as long as he was not disposed of".<ref>{{cite book |author1=Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities |title=Alleged assassination plots involving foreign leaders |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=62}}</ref>
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