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The following March 2006 article details some of the corporations, and associated people, involved in plundering the Congo (and Zaire before it was renamed)...

US diamond magnate Maurice Tempelsman has profited from Katanga concessions since the 1960s. Lawrence Devlin, the CIA station chief of Lubumbashi when Eisenhower was US president, helped Tempelsman’s in plundering Zaire, and was subsequently hired (kickbacks?) by Tempelsman.
Katanga’s militias and racketeering are connected to criminal businessmen, including Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, Billy Rautenbach, John Bredenkamp, and Marc Rich.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of those western agencies whose flights (including illicit activities) remain unaccountable.
IRC directors include Henry Kissinger, whose flights to, from and inside Congo, are unmonitored by MONUC arms embargo inspectors, because IRC flights are not within the MONUC "mandate".

See Jonathan Soros, David Miliband (President of the IRC) and George Soros (major donor of the IRC), with a picture of the greatest liar of the 20th century, and founder of the IRC.


George H.W. Bush's buddy Adolph Lundin from the Kingdom of Sweden controls mining concessions in Lubumbashi, Kolwezi and Mbuji Mayi areas in the Katanga (Shaba) and Kasai provinces.
Phelps Dodge from the US partnered with Lundin’s Tenke Mining in Katanga copper/cobalt mining projects. Phelps Dodge director Douglas C. Yearly is also a director of Lockheed Martin.

The World Wildlife Fund partnered with USAID and CARE in “conservation” projects (or should we say looting?) all over the Congo, while CARE’s “humanitarian” agenda is also financed by Lockheed Martin: http://web.archive.org/web/2008030421290...e2396.html