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Thomas Mboya (1930-1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist and political leader.<ref>[http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_mboya_thomas_joseph_1930_1969/ Mboya, Thomas Joseph (1930-1969)], King Research and Education Institute], Stanford University, accessed 4 October 2013.</ref>

==External resources==
D. Goldworthy, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i4QEprESUd4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget], East African Publishers, 1982.

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	Thomas Mboya (1930-1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist and political leader.<ref>[http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_mboya_thomas_joseph_1930_1969/ Mboya, Thomas Joseph (1930-1969)], King Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, accessed 4 October 2013.</ref>		Thomas Mboya (1930-1969) was a Kenyan trade unionist and political leader.<ref>[http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_mboya_thomas_joseph_1930_1969/ Mboya, Thomas Joseph (1930-1969)], King Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, accessed 4 October 2013.</ref>
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		+	Mboya, a former activist of the [[Kenyan African Union]], was General Secretary of the [[Kenyan Federation of Labour]] during the Mau Mau uprising. In order to get him out of the country, the colonial government paid for him to study in England, and a scholarship from the [[ICFTU]] was also arranged.<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.144.</ref> According to Ted Morgan, the scholarship at Ruskin College was facilitated by [[Walter Hood]] of the [[TUC]]'s [[Colonial Department]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.307.</ref>
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		+	Stephen Dorril cites Anthony Verrier as describing Mboya's 'virtual recruitment' by [[MI6]].<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.721.</ref>
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		+	In 1956, Mboya visited New York where he stayed with [[Maida Springer]]. During the trip he obtained $35,000 from [[George Meany]] for a Labour Center, and 81 scholareships from [[Jay Lovestone]].<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.305.</ref>
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		+	Mboya made a second visit to the US in 1959.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.307.</ref>
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		+	Mboya accused the Colonial Office of supporting the foundation of the [[New Kenya Group]].<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.146.</ref>
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		+	At a meeting of the [[CIA]]-funded [[International Student Conference]] in 1961, Mboya persuaded [[Jonas Savimbi]] to join the [[Union of the Peoples of Angola]] (UPA).<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.190.</ref>
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		+	In 1962, the former Governor of Kenya, [[Evelyn Baring]], wrote that Mboya was the man to back 'since the real danger was those who would look east'.<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.149.</ref> Baring proposed an alliance between Mboya, [[KADU]] and [[KANU]] moderates to be facilitated by withdrawal of Mboya's American funding.<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.150.</ref>
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		+	Griffith-Jones subsequently wanted Mboya to challenge [[Jomo Kenyatta]], a move Mboya resisted in the belief that Kenyatta was needed to isolate [[Oginga Odinga]].<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.150.</ref>
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		+	Mboya worked closely with the [[Ariel Foundation]], backing a socio-economic report on Kenya by [[Arthur Gaitskell]] that provided the basis for KANU's 1963 election manifesto, and supporting its scholarships for Zimbabwean nationalists.<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.152.</ref>
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		+	Mboya became minister of labour in the new government, which passed restrictive labour laws.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.308.</ref>
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		+	Mboya was assassinated in 1969. At the time, he had been seen as Kenyatta's most likely successor.<ref>Jonathan Bloch and Patrick Fitzgerald, ''British Intelligence and Covert Action'', Brandon/Junction, 1983, p.155.</ref>

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		+	*NameBase [http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_MBOYA_TOM_ MBOYA TOM]
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		+	===Books===
	D. Goldworthy, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i4QEprESUd4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget], East African Publishers, 1982.		D. Goldworthy, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i4QEprESUd4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted to Forget], East African Publishers, 1982.

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