Americans CAPTURED In Congo COUP, CIA? 

The guy is a dual American Israeli citizen. This is related to dimond mines that billionaire Israelis have been wanting and they got kicked out

Matt Miller: "we dont interfere in the politics of sovereign countries" 😂

"Utah guy" had IDF links... shock

CIA seems to be outsourcing its coups to call of duty gamers.

You know what also died in Gaza. The myth of western humanity, democracy

The U.S. is involved in 378 different conflicts around the world, this insures that the war machine can always make money.

Our government needs to stop getting involved in everyone's business

The Guy arrested was "Benjamin Rueben" again an Israeli American

Look at Israel's involvement in the Congo.

You can keep them. Fuck the CIA.

What is laughable is that the West and the world always talk derogatorily about Africa, but in the meantime they cannot do without Mother Africa with their rich soil resources. Leave Africa alone

So to Palestine we tell them that it's their duty to overthrow hamas and they're responsible but with other countries we're more than eager to "liberate" them from their brutal governments....???

"There's trillions in mineral resources in the congo, but the gov't is too dysfunctional to access it" "We'll CIA about that"

With Congo, Cuba and Venezuela I am starting to think that the CIA is forgetting how to commit coup’s. I can only hope.

Benjamin Reuben sounds like a Mossad name, same thing I know

Once a company man, always a company man.

Its a little unfair to say china "just take the mining rights". They are actually paying fairly for those rights. They aren't "bribing" africa they are partnering with them. There is no gun under the table like with the US and France.

I guess competent assassins all work for Boeing now.

America losing its grip cant even do a coup in Africa 🤣🤣

It's not that complicated. France and the US are losing Africa and they are doing everything they can to grasp onto whatever power they can.

This wouldn’t be the first time we messed around in the Congo.

CIA is getting rusty

I was about to bring up Lamumba. I am so happy to see you guys bring him up. The CIA helped the Belgians make him disappear.

The president of the DRC gave an interview to DW accusing Apple and Rwanda of supporting M23 rebels in the trade of conflict minerals

The cia of the 60s would've been successful lol. Nowadays they dont know the difference between their arse and a hole in the ground.

One flew over the Coup Coup's nest...

No, the US intelligence agencies would NEVER do such a thing!😂

0:04 Did he actually said “Coup Drama “ ? This Americans Arrogance is disputable to say the least.

We gonna chase those crazy bald head out of town - Bob Marley

He knows nothing about Congo my wife is Congolese they love their president. The DRC loves this guy. Whoever his competition is doesn't stand a chance. Matt is way off.

Langley no longer training its guys to not carry their US passports on them anymore? 😂

For all we know now the CIA is HAMAS

Kid thought he was play call of duty

Would CIA agents use American passports? Would Mossad agents use American passports? Would military contractors (who have existed in DRC for ages) carry their U.S. passports? A major news network neglected to blur out one of the passport photos of the men caught by the Congo Army. That agent/contractor had an American passport with the name Benjamin Rueben Zalman-Polun. This passport listed this person’s DOB as August 12, 1987 and that they were from Maryland. Personally, I believe it is more likely that this agent is either Mossad or he is a military contractor who either was involved in a coup attempt or participated in a string of murders to cover up another (unmentioned) crime.

“Pot entrepreneur” “hate him already” Goddamn saagar chill he ain’t even start the story yet

"In the United States we looked at him and saw a communist... because... uh... he wore glasses" This is equally a joke and an accurate description of the depth of the US' foreign policy strategies over the last 8 decades.

You missed the part where he served in the military in the Congo. He wasn't some random person who went there later in life to run for office. He lead a military group of 250 people in the Congo war.

"All-cash business." Really Sagaar. Put down the pipe.

Africa is ressource rich, particularly ressources rich in minerals useful for the energetic transition. I'm pretty sure we will hear a lot about "bringing democracy" to African nations soon.

Does Nuland have an alibi ? She would run it for the agency. Congo will not fall for it. Get those fools outta there.

American Government disease is not contagious if caught in time, let hope the Congolese had caught them in time, US government is addicted to humiliation

Great information thank you !

This is so badly executed for CIA. This was just an idiot

Best coverage I've seen of this story so far. Great job, Ryan 👍

Wow. The CIA used to be much better at this stuff.

cia crying "and then the chinese, they, they, they offered more than the market price." "the monsters!"

Nope nope nope nope 👎 it was a scenario planned to eliminate a candidate to the post of congress executive and who's the president's main adversary; and to accuse the actual Defense minister whose father worked at the time when the Congo was named "Zaire" to plot a coup against the president. For the case of the minister, the goal was to use a scenario of fake revendication from the "New Zaire" movement to put him into a context in which he wouldn't have been able to defend himself, as the government would use the fact that he had a family relationship with the president who ruled the country in the time of "Zaire" (1965-1997). Thus making him an infiltrate, but there's an error: Malanga has been in connivence with the president during the elections period. Making this coup attempt totally fake. The question is: why would the president of the repulic do such a foolish decision?? The reason is that He wants to change the constitution to obtain an endless mandate.

"No worries, folks! We're just here to bring some democracy into your country." -That See Eye Aye Guy

African immigrants in Utah are built different.

What happened to the old CIA that was evil but (mostly) competent?

Benjamin Rueben, guys. An Israeli-American. Why am I not surprise?

If they're really that incompetent it should be easy to disband them here. I'm guessing he may have some 2nd 3rd party associations with CIA but its been suggested on another site he's massad

Now all three have been sentenced to death in a military court.

Why does Saagar hate weed so much lol

You wouldn't be talking like this if there was such a coup attempt in the US regime

It takes a long time for Ryan to tell a story lol

No one from State dept was handing out cookies.

The first question should be why are we there?

Most third world revolutionaries wanted close ties with the U.S. But U.S. support was conditional on the leaders structuring their economies according to U.S interests rather than for the benefit of their citizens.

Wonder why Saagar hates weed so much? 1:13

The father and son watched Rambo and Terminator movies then went to the Congo to act out the scenes. Reality hit them hard and they have paid the ultimate price!

Everyone wants a slice of that rare earth

They have their hand in all the evil in the world. EVERY SINGLE TIME. 🤮🤮🙄

That would be a low for the CIA. The CIA helping a coup in Congo would be like Muhammad Ali helping Mike Tyson fight a toddler.

CIA really has never given two f-ks

Another Coup?! With americans involved?! no way... Anyway, please do a story about Israel and Eurovision.

Man Ryan Grimm is really growing on me. He gets the most interesting scoops and he really goes and gets it.

C.i.a is gettin sloppy lol. Must be dei hires

You guys did an amazing breakdown 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Am congolese and am in congo . It was a joke. Not a serious coup. Weird story what happened . Look like an inside job just distract people.

The CIA with over a hundred years of overthrowing experience

Saager is such a Quaker. I can’t stand his position on marijuana

Looks like they got Tom Green

Prepare to get freedomed.

Who will trust America these days

Took too long to get to the point

I hope the Congo KEEPS those Americans.

Of course, but they are getting more and more sloppy.

Matt Miller: "As with any American citizens in custody, we are requesting consular access." White House Press Corps: Nodding compliantly The entire rest of the world: You mean like Gonzalo Lira?

They were crying, Russian special service will not cry like that. It was embarrassing. This guys literally ferment coup detat that destroy countries, but when they get catch they cry.

As a permanent graphic, Breaking Points should just have a globe with all the locations the US has military bases…just spinning away in the bottom corner of the screen.

"it's gonna stop being funny in a moment ... but not really" 😂

Call them out!!!!

Of course CIA!

a failed cia attempt, Ryan has a hard time being direct

If I remember this is a line from Mission Impossible - If you get caught, we never met!

Thanks Ryan

That sob Van Owen betrayed them.

Revux is being mentioned everywhere - definitely a project to watch!

This is American freedom and justice and democracy at work. This is what it looks like.

Great episode

Imperialists still out for a piece of the african cake

Grt covering of it

No offense, but those are the most obvious looking CIA agents lol

The CIA is not that sloppy. The association with that amateur hour is insulting!

Great reporting

Their plan was horrible, they didn't even know where to go, I don't believe the C.I.A was apart of this. It was waaaaaay too sloopy

Interesting you guys are making light of the situation. That's the problem. I remember some American guy saying Russia was no more than a gas station posing as a country. America should wake up and take serious the things going on in the world today.

Moral of the story is that our foreign policy has sucked for quite a while, and now it’s all falling apart. Time for America to internalize and focus on building back up its domestic industries. To stop meddling and causing disasters abroad would be a smart direction to move in.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't serious that rich american and his cohorts tried to stage a coup on Congo it sounds like a typical classic CIA plot.