Fanon

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> There's an interesting point in Fanon's biography. In 1959 I believe he got 
> leukemia. He went to Tunis where he received medical treatment at a hospital. 
> And he met there the American ambassador in Tunesia and, as some say, some 
> guys of the CIA. He was brought to New York where he died in December 1961 at 
> the same day as "The Damned of the Earth" was published in Paris.
> kwp
> 
Don't know about the CIA angle but I think he was brought to the National
Institutes of Health at Bethesda, Maryland, (just outside Washington) and
died there.