CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06224695
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-01825
• Publication Date: July 5, 1961

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tc *Congo: Secretary General Hammarskjold has been alarmed
by reports at the French ambassadors in Leopoldville and
Brazzaville are encouraging Mobutu and Leopoldville's Foreign
Minister Bomboko to undertake a military coup against the Ileo
government, possibly this week if President Kasavubu's coopera-
tion can be secured. Hammarskjold also has reports of the ar-
rival of a new group of "French mercenaries" in Katanga, and
says the UN representative there has demanded they be expelled.
The secretary general sees these alleged French activities as
undermining hopes for a moderate Congo settlement and as play-
ing into Soviet handsj
In Brussels, US Ambassador MacArthur reports that For-
eign Minister Spaak has objected to the proposed immediate
withdrawal of Belgian military from Katanga Province on the
ground that it would provoke Tshombe and create a "definitive
rupture" between Elisabethville and Leopoldville. Spaa.k main-
tains that the Belgian cadres are the backbone of order and
stability in Katanga and that their sudden withdrawal would lead
to chaos made worse by the possibility of conflict with UN forces
deployed to replace them. Spook admitted that the powerful
Belgian mining interests in Katanga Might be "playing a differ-
ent game" there from that of the government, but insisted that
he needed -firm evidence of this in order to proceed against them.
CSpaOk.also opposed what he called the "British thesis" that thej
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