Larry Devlin

Lawrence Raymond Devlin (June 18, 1922 – December 6, 2008), known as Larry Devlin, was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) field officer. Stationed for many years in Africa, he was CIA station chief in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Congo Crisis when Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the hero of Congolese independence, was assassinated on 17 January 1961 in a US-sponsored plot.