CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06224753
• 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 20, 1961

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Situation in the Congo
Indian Brigadier I. J. Rikhye, who was Hammarskjold's
military adviser and with Undersecretary Ralph Bunche
seems to have assumed direction of the Congo operation, on
18 September gave American officials his analysis of the
difficulties encountered by the UN forces in Katanga. Ac-
cording to Rikhye, the original UN plan had had the limited
objective of closing down the Elisabethville radio station.
This action triggered the return to their units of many of
the European mercenaries who were in the process of repa-
triation, and fighting spread unexpectedly. Furthermore,
the Katangan soldiers often were better armed than the UN
troops, and the limited UN airlift capability has been unable
to provide either support artillery or transport in adequate
quantity. Rikhye stated that the Swedish and Irish troops
were trained mainly in nonce functions and were ineffective
In combat.
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