There was a CIA plot to kill Patrice Lumumba. There was an assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Those are two different facts — and confusing them makes the story weaker, because the documented history is extraordinary enough on its own.

In Episode 3 of The Shadow Files, Joshua T. Berglan — The World's Mayor, reporting from Cameroon — opens the Lumumba File and applies one standard: What do we know? What does the evidence suggest? What do we still not know? And who are we asking for answers?

Inside this episode:

• Congo independent for eleven days before Katanga — its mineral heart — broke away
• Shinkolobwe, the Manhattan Project, and why the atomic age has an African address
• Belgium's own parliamentary inquiry, and the phrase "definitive elimination"
• The July 196 ...