In Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat untersucht Regisseur Johan Grimonprez die Vergangenheit Belgiens rund um die Verschwörung gegen die Unabhängigkeit Kongos. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei der Jazz-Musiker Louis Armstrong, der ohne sein Wissen von der CIA zur Tarnung für ihre Pläne eingesetzt worden ist.
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00:00One of America's most popular emissaries arrives in the troubled Congo on a State Department's
00:07goodwill mission.
00:08Louis is on a swinging outrage at Radio Moscow, which blasted Armstrong's visit as a diversionary
00:13tactic.
00:14The people of the Congo are in tight to build up their country in peace and freedom.
00:19We were to go to Olympic to attend a concert given by Louis Armstrong.
00:35How much money do the Central Intelligence Agency has poured into the Congo?
00:39I don't know.
00:40Are you prepared to say?
00:41I certainly, of course, don't know.
00:42I wonder if it's quite honest to represent our policy as completely angelic.
00:49And seated out on the terrace was a man I recognized.
00:52He said, well, you have to assassinate Lumumba.
00:56He used those words?
00:58Yes.
01:00But who ordered him?
01:02He said, President Eisenhower.
01:03In the UN, when Khrushchev took off his shoe and was beating that shoe, and the interpreter
01:10said, how dare you talk about America?
01:15Khrushchev was saying, I love you, but it was the interpreter who hated America.
01:21You understand what I mean?
01:23But didn't he have rhythm?
01:25Uh-uh.
01:27Uh-uh.
01:29Uh-uh.
01:31Rhythm is my business.