CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY REVIEW - CONGO

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06541083
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: May 25, 1961

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At thio stag
rorionmay present
probilem for the trench
neat than the continuing a
icy or eight-wing extremists'
France. Mere is reason to
lie.* that the oeteOrka of
plottera eenapiring against be
Gaulle sod his policleS have
not yet been full,' esSOned.
DembingS have contieued AP ?fame
and have even been stepped up
in Algeria; 4iStributtoo of
threatening letters and peephle
Pkot out� by rightist extremists'
goes on. Spelt activity may ho
further Stimulated by the trial
of the issergset gene-rola which
oPess en 20 Mayi Discontent
within the army is earn wA40-
spread. An the Evian stratia
tions proceed, the frustration
Of the rightist extremists may
ProwPt hone Or then to matte an
=sass-Mattel, attempt on De
Gaulie ea A lest desperate ef-
fort to prevent Algerian lode.
pendency.
- Soria
Soviet news nc11, vifle-
osing the start f &gotta -
have cautionci that the
tend Till de ermine
er ths Algerian problen
solved by "peaceful
etheralse." Bloc cos.
The government te Leopold-
vI10 Oa remained tim n its
cision to reconvene }Arlie.
meat there, although the Stan.
lopvilla regime continues to
demand that it moot at gamine.
Kaoavuhu appear* to regard 01-
xenga'0 claim 40 represent the
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ors predict that be
be -difficel
Moscow hes
only direct
rebels nod the
or equality Can rep
to Algeria. in hare
lag the announcement that
WOUld be held. Khronhchav
vernattess with Arab dip-
WO% an encouraging lion
Soviet anhasnader fl
nought out De Oaulle to
shrusbehev'e hope for
ful settlement. At the
me, Soviet First Deputy
:Kosysin tried to
a the rebels' rentetence
say coaprusjee with Trance,
-aiming them to demann recog-
nitiOn an the sole represents,
tives of Algeria.
d tense."
While there are advau
r the USSR t a cent
ion or the rebelUon. So-
the present
hahlY ibelined
a mettleoomt, pro-
nn emerge
Untie** In
or an tode
with limited,
th France.
nment as u
The beepotd -
-aid the Congo
"to tta final stages"'
a warned that no delaying
11 prevent,..the
n of parliament" by
bu.
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in coot ao thore Are
tn-
dtcttons that Leopoldville nay
bo negotiation vith ithonb64s
SoCeOnsors to assuro Natant-WO
partitipatiOn tn pArlihneot. The
Nuoongo triumvirate in Xataoga
portedlY has indicated Mt
R in prepared to accept it Congo
federat100 AS proposed bl KmAll-
bo. A Cengoleoe politician
haS interned Anhaasador Timber-
lake that tbs Rasavvbci govern-
moot hRs received a proPoSat
from hunongo and AS drafting a
ceontsrPrOpeaal.
25 /my
toopol probably f
tta SettLC blecolIng
Airs of W rrnIttA,t
the Con s streol,:t
ftd.
US offie Tnjtlidilay
woV14 not be
Leopoldville be-
e latest expreosions
a hostility toward
kT1. aralOold stated
hat P1.ry bad hcan inferood
mdhjd a rood tO retail
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IMMO mina* .
TCFP�Sttlittic.
The 3 oleyvillo reel
confronted watt Cie Politic
threat of A rapprocheaent be-
tween Leopoidvillo and nide.
hethville and with deteriorat-
ing aeonamiC condition-a le
Orieatale Province�has moved
to bolster Ate military positien.
Accerding to Press report,
trooOs free Stanteyville hare
appeared in force in Kaaai PrOW-
ince, Although there le no firm
information that 011eags plans
any major offensive action, in-
tercepted messages from Gizenga
to Nkrnmah have urged that the
Ghanaian PreStdent espodlte the
airlifting of Soviet firma to
Stanleyville.
Beportz c mtlitery
activ-
Kaoat mear to have led
ace Albert alonJi
Atte� in.COeuil-
UN report has al-
salve mOvements
al army against
Unwed a
r SWIM
hatvtlio.
lege4 that
by Kalooji'
tribal opposee
build-up fimaarod by a [Witten
mining co ay, Ohanaiao UN
troops, which recently sere
withdrawn from eouthorn Kaaai,
Rumors or a possible
tary coup have led the new
tan Government to tato ells-
precautions. Prime dints.
ter Ali *mint established a
partial military alert on the
evening of 19 Kay, and on 21
May be told an American official
that, "te be On the safe side,'
he bed asked General Timer
Bakhttar, former chief of the
National Intelligence and Secu-
rity Organisation WWII, to
go to the CeSplan for a foodaya.
Brigadier General Alavi-gta,
red back into the
md Charge Baba n ln
Lopjldv11le, who On hie ovn
initiative Mae labored actively
On. Glaangs's behalf, stated re-
Canny that he did not believe
imenga had enough votes in
parliament to become premier,
Bahnho speculated that if Olsen-
gs persisted in seeking the pre-
miership he would merely weaken
the "natio-mallet" position and
pave the way for dictatorship
by some member of the present
Leopoldville governaent.
Relations botoosa the UN
and Kat:saga antharities have
coatinUed Strained as a reSUlt
f UN moves( to retain central,
by force it necessary, of key
areas in northern Katange, Al.
thetigh Rimming� threatened armed
resistance if the UN moved to
take' over airfields at Albert
vtlle and ByUrien, he confined
himself to a forma protest
of the UN action and appeared
anxious to avoid a serious
rupture with the UN Command.
(TOP 43CRVT NOVOBP)
deputy e PAK. *0 -
ly has been reLieved of
i1'4 Ca-
naod temporar be left on 22
Kay for a trio to Israel.
oral Peridun Parokhote, tens oder
of the Second Independent infan-
try Brigade to Tehran. ties been
sent 00 an "lespoctloa trip."
lege s
�Attral
May s
had -at
former Prino
Mtnte-
eq has been llv.imz for
are had interned the
TOPMECRef`
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