CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - CONGO

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06541038
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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: August 16, 1960

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Congo: gew moves planned by Lumumba to bolster his in-
ternal position have an authoritarian character. These report-
dly will include the suspension of judicial procedures in favor
f trial by military tribunal and passage of a law requiring that
c es for newspapers and periodicals be renewed every two
s> major internal crisis for Lumumba appears to have
n averted by postponement of the Abako party's convention
heduled for 13 August, at which the Abako had been expected
to declare the lower Congo region independent of the Lumumba
government Lumumba also may avoid an early showdown con-
cerning the political status of Katanga in the expectation that a
scheduled meeting of independent African states in Leopoldville
from 25 to 30 August will ta,ke a strong stand in favor of a uni-
fied Congo.
MIN Secretary General Harnmarskjold on 15 August summoned
a new meeting of the Security Council following Lumumba's charge
that the Congo had "lost confidence" in Hammarskjold. In an ef-
fort to retain the propaganda initiative, Lumumba also called for
the dispatch of a 14-nation UN commission to oversee the with-
drawal of Belgian troops3
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