Coming in from the Cold

Biographies

Judd Devermont is the director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, he served as the national intelligence officer for Africa from 2015 to 2018. He was the Central Intelligence Agency’s senior political analyst on sub-Saharan Africa from 2013 to 2015. Judd hosts Into Africa, a biweekly podcast series on African politics and policy.

The views expressed in this podcast by Judd Devermont do not represent those of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Intelligence Community, or the U.S. government.

Pamela Faber is an expert in security and development in conflict and post-conflict regions in Africa and the Middle East. She focuses on terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, failed and fragile states, non-state armed groups, transnational challenges, and issues of governance. Faber has conducted multi-year monitoring and evaluation (M&E) projects on USG counterterrorism programs, which have involved extensive fieldwork in Africa.

Additional Reading

• “Interview with Congo Chief of Station,” Miscellaneous Records of the Church Committee, Record Number 157-10014-10178, May 3, 2000, U.S. National Archives and Record Administration, https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/157-10014-10178.pdf.
• United States Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities [“Church Committee”], Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Washington: USGPO, 1975), https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94465.pdf.
• Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, “The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965,” https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/congo-decolonization.
• “The Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: A Critical Oral History Conference,” Cold War International History Project and Africa Program, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars September 23-24, 2004, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/uploads/documents/The%20Congo%20Crisis%2C%201960-1961.pdf.
• David Robarge, “CIA’s Covert Operations in the Congo, 1960–1968: Insights from Newly Declassified Documents,” Studies in Intelligence 58 no. 3 (September 2014), https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-58-no-3/pdfs-vol-58-no-3/Robarge-FRUS%20and%20the%20US%20in%20Congo-1960-68-12Sep2014.pdf .
• “Why They Killed Patrice Lumumba: An Interview with Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja,” Jacobin, January 17, 2020, https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/patrice-lumumba-assassination-anniversary-congo.
• Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Vol. XXIII, The Congo, 1964-1968 (Washington: USGPO, 2013), https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v23.