CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - CONGO

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06541086
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: July 5, 1961

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would be suitable for the premiership because both had been
"too much involved,"
Meanwhile, Souvanna continues to linger in Paris,
While Souphannouvong is scheduled to leave Peiping for Hanoi
on 5 July.
[Military action during the past few days has been limited
to small-scale skirmishes, the most notable of which were
� several enemy probing actions against government positions
about 30 miles north of Vientianej
Bloc airlift operations continue to be scheduled through
5 July. (Backup, Page 5)
i *Congo: Secretary General Hammarskjold has been alarmed
by reports at the French ambassadors in Leopoldville and
Brazzaville are encouraging Mobutu and Leopoldville's Foreign
Minister Bomboko to undertake a military coup against the Ileo
government, possibly this week if President Kasavubu's coopera-
tion can be secured. Hammarskjold also has reports of the ar-
rival of a new group of "French mercenaries" in Katanga, and
says the UN representative there has demanded they be expelled.
The secretary general sees these alleged French activities as
undermining hopes for a moderate Congo settlement and as play-
ing into Soviet handsj
In Brussels, US Ambassador MacArthur reports that For-
eign Minister Spaak has objected to the proposed immediate
withdrawal of Belgian military from Katanga Province on the
ground that it would provoke Tshombe and create a "definitive
rupture" between Elisabethville and Leopoldville. Spaak main-
tains that the Belgian cadres are the backbone of order and
stability in Katanga and that their sudden Withdrawal would lead
to chaos made worse by the possibility of conflict with UN forces
.deployed to replace them. Spaak admitted that the powerful
Belgian mining interests in Katanga might be "playing a differ-
ent game" there from that of the government, but insisted that
he needed firm evidence of this in order to proceed against them.
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_Congo parliament should convene in the near future even if
it meant a government dominated by Gizenga.i
Indonesia: Continuing surrenders of leaders of the insur-
gent Federal Republic of Indonesia have encouraged Djakarta
officials to believe the three-year rebellion will collapse within
a few weeks. The recent surrender of the dissident commander
in Central Sumatra followed closely the capitulation of most
leaders in North Celebes. Negotiations with important rebel
leaders in North Sumatra are reported to be progressing well.
(Backup, Page 7)
Mali-USSR: A central maintenance base for Soviet-built
aircraft supplied to Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, utilizing Soviet
technicians, may be established at Bamako in Mali,
The French military who now
occupy the base will be completely evacuated this month. Mali re-
portedly has contracted for two IL48s and three IL-14s as well
as other smaller Soviet aircraft for its civil airline.
50 Soviet air and ground crew personnel
will arrive in Bamako in the next few weeks.
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