They were completely unaware of the horrors going on inside of the said “perfect colony”. There was a clerk named Edmund Morel who found suspicion in the fact that many things were coming in from the Congo, yet nothing was going back to the Congo. He knew something was wrong so he quit his job to study Leopold II and figure out what was going on inside the Congo. Morel was even able to get documents leaked to him from some of Leopold’s men. This was robbery on a grand scale and Morel disapproved. Every time Morel was close to exposing Leopold, Leopold was able to somehow keep it covered. Leopold even went as far as to invite some people to the Congo, only taking them to the nicest possible part of the