A Green Beret's True Story of His Jack Lawson with Sully de Fontaine

Silence in Inkisi
Neither capture nor surrender was an option. He pushed both to
the recesses of his mind, as the years of special operations training
had taught him.
Sully led this desperate classified mission at the request of Clare
“Tim” Timberlake, who became the first U.S. ambassador to the
Democratic Republic of Congo on July 5, 1960. The Belgians had
asked for emergency help to extricate and save foreigners from
certain death at the hands of roving bands of rebels in remote areas
of the Congo. They were Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba’s rebels
who were intent on killing all foreigners and rival tribal members in
the newly independent Belgian Congo. Anyone could be their victim
and the only qualification was to be white, European, or not of a
tribe that supported the new prime minister.
Sully had issued orders for his men to openly carry weapons at
their discretion if they were alone on a rescue mission, even though
the initial plan was to appear unarmed when entering village so as
to provoke rebels.
In his medical backpack adorned with a large red cross that usually
gave him safe passage with the rebels, were his radio, medical supplies
and magazine pouches. He was traveling light, but it was unbearably
hot, and his backpack seemed to weigh three times its weight of
twenty-five pounds.
Each time he searched a building, he prepared to fire his nine-millimeter
submachine gun that he carried with a sling over his shoulder.
A putrid odor hung in the humid air. The dismembered corpses
of scores of Africans and a few white missionaries, farmers and
businessmen lay where they had been killed. Their bodies and pieces
were covered with thousands of flies and ants. They had been viciously
hacked by rebels intent on killing their victims in the most
primitive and horrendous fashion, with semi-sharp machetes. They
preferred this to using ammunition from their weapons.
Hundreds of bodies filled the streets. There were more in the
buildings that Sully searched. As the engine noise from the departing
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