CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - CONGO

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06540774
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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: December 27, 1960

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� *Congo:CHammarskjold has sent a letter to KasavOu im-
plying that he will ask ;the Security Council to take the UN out
of the Congo if Mobutu uses force in an attempt to take Orien-
tale Province �still nominally controlled by Antoine Gizenga's
"government." Hammarskjold told US officials, however, that
he does not expect civil war in the Stanleyville area, since he
believes neither Gizenga nor Mobutu is strong enough to force -1'
a military showdown. Hammarskjold plans to be in the Congo
on 3 and 4 January-J Khrushchev, after a delay of ten days, re-
sponded to Gizenga's appeal for support by reiterating Soviet
promises of support and sympathy but avoiding any specific com-
mitment of assistance. CSudan continues to refuse transit to 'UAR
planes bound for Stanleyville, but President Abboud admits that
flights over remote areas of the country could probably be made
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Hammarskjold's Views on Congo
CUN Secretary General Hammarskjold has sent a letter to
President Kasavubu implying that he will ask the Security Coun-
cil to take the UN out of the Congo if Mobutu uses force in an
attempt to take Orientale Province--still nominally controlled
by the "government" of Antoine Gizenga. On 25 December
Lumumba supporters entered adjacent Kivu Province and ar-
rested the governor and several other provincial officials.
Mobutu may be expected to take some kind of retaliatory ac-
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CHammarskjold told US officials that he does not expect civil
war in the Stanleyville area, since he believes that neither Gizenga
nor Mobutu is strong enough to force a military showdown. The US
ambassador in Leopoldville, however, believes that barring sub-
stantial airborne assistance from the bloc or the UAR, economic
collapse will come to Orientale Province in two to four weeks, and
that there may then be attacks on Europeans and their shops. He
points out that since the Europeans are widely scattered throughout
the province, it will be very difficult for the UN force to protect
them. The Sudan continues to refuse transit to UAR planes bound
for Stanleyville, but President Abboud has admitted that planes.could
overfly remote areas of the country without Sudanese knowledge
Cilammarskjold, who plans to visit the Congo on 3 and 4 Jan-
uary, hopes soon to get the Guinean troops out of the country, as
he considers them Communists for all practical purposes. He does
not think that either. the UAR or India will withdraw its forces, and
he hopes to be able to keep the Moroccan troops in the Congo. The
army personnel who returned to Morocco on 25 December were mem-
bers of a special training mission and not part of the Moroccan UN
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Soviet Premier Khrushchev, after a delay of ten days, respond-
ed to an appeal for support from Gizenga by reiterating promises of
Soviet support and sympathy but avoiding any specific commitments
for assistance to the Stanleyville group. Moscow may be awaiting the
outcome of the Rabat meeting of African leaders, to begin on 3 Jan-
uary, before taking a definite stand toward Gizenga and his rump
government.
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