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Declassified CIA Family Jewels memo, June 2007 release. OCR transcribed by tesseract.js.

MORI DOCID 1451843

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MORI DocID: 1451843

14 February 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

In November 1962 Mr. [REDACTED] advised Mr. Lyman
Kirkpatrick that he had, at one time, been directed by Mr. Richard
Bissell to assume responsibility for a project involving the assass-
ination of Patrice Lumumba, then Premier, Republic of Congo.
According to [REDACTED] poison was to have been the vehicle as he
had made reference to having been instructed to see Dr. Sidney Gottlieb,
in order procure the appropriate vehicle.

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