CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06224750
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 13, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-01825
• Publication Date: September 18, 1961

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Situation in the Congo
iDuring Hammarskjold's stay in Leopoldville, �he told Am-
bassador Gullion that he believed the Adoula government would
be the "greatest winner" from the UN Katanga operation. He
asserted that Adoula had been under great pressure from the
Gizenga faction to bring Tshombe to heel. The secretary gen-
eral said he believed that if this could be accomplished, Adoula,
whom he characterized as the most purposeful, energetic, and
capable African he knew with the possible exception of Nigerian
Premier Balewa, would be master of the situation. Otherwise,
according to one of Hammarskjold's aides, there was a danger
that General Lundula in Stanleyville would take action against
Katanga on his own account.7
The UN officials expressed concern over the appointment
of Egide Bocheley-Davidson as the chief Leopoldville represent-
ative in Katanga. However, they said he was presently under
the control of the UN and they hoped he would remain so.
Bocheley-Davidson has thus far been confined to Elisabethville
airport by the fighting in Katanga.
more accurate evaluation of the situation may be that
provided by Arthur Doucy, a Belgian socialist called by the
American Embassy in Brussels "one of the most knowledge-
able Westerners" on Congo affairs. Doucy, who is a friend
and adviser of Congolese Foreign Minister Bomboko and has
known Adoula for ten years, told American officials that he
fears the UN is unwittingly abetting a Gizenga takeover. He
asserted that anti-Communist elements in the government, such
as Bomboko and Surete chief Nendaka, were being isolated through
the appointment of Gizengist assistants, and that the dispatch of
Bocheley-Davidson to Elisabethville was part of a Gizengist plan
to take over Katanga after the UN had neutralized Tshombe and
his associate,s.-
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g According to Doucy's informants, the radical neutralists at
the Belgrade conference worked to impress Adoula with the
necessity of retaining Gizenga's support; as a result, Doucy feels
that Adoula, who he says is not a particularly strong personality,
would prefer to make concessions to Gizenga rather than put up
a determined fight against Gizenga's efforts to gain control. Doucy
stated that he fears the Gizenga bloc may take over from Adoula
within three or four months.'
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