'OUR POINT OF VIEW' FEATURES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300510096-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: April 28, 1968
• Content Type: TRANS

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MOSCOW IN FRENCH TO AFRICA 17002 28. APR `66
("t'I_IR POINT OF VIEW" FI. LtRt)
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* `w OUR MICROP1{Ul r TO 1 JCA4~Jf?1P' N+ L, + +TS, OUN FINNEY, NA::
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IT APPEARS FROM WHAT ONE CAN i 'READ. OF CONGOLESE EVENTS
(SEVERAL WORDS INDISTINCT) FROLTHE FIRST DAYS OF ITS EXI1;T1"' 4E.
RING ITS ENTIRE' INDEPENDENTEXISTENCE, THI7 AFRICAN C .1.f1`IT^:'
HAS BEEN THE VICTIM OF GROSS INTE RFJERENCE,'.CPASSA(:iE,INDIST):N.C;I')
D DIRECT ARMED INTERFERENCE, STATE THE AMERICAN JOURi%ALJ:ST .
IS CONCLUSION HAS A RAISON D'ETTRE. THEY .QUOTE THE FACTS: U ICi1
H WE IMPELLED THEM TO THIS CONCLUSION.
THE CIA BEGAN ITS ACTIVITIES IN CONGO .LEOPOLDVILLE IN 1960.
T iIS ORGANT'Z.ATION SENT ITS AG MTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
EY BECNIE ACQUAINTED WITH CONGOLESE POLITICAL LIFE AND ENROLLED
TIOSE WHO COULD SERVE AS LEADERS. THROUGH THESE AGENTS, THE CIA
FINANCED THE PRESUMED -PRETENDERS TO POWER IN LEOPOLDVILLE. Ii
W S INDEED THE AMERICAN ESPIONAGE SERVICE WHICH' FOUND ,JO:;E'PR
V.ICTOR NENU)AKA AND ALB} RT NULEI.E.. THE AMERICAN
I T:'.LLI FENCE SERVICE ALSO PLAYED' AN IMPORTANT' ROLE IP MAXING
C CRIL ADOULA PROVISIONALLY LUMUMSA'S SUCCESSOR. TAE SUN S
E.RiiARKED BY CIA HEADQUARTERS AT LANGLEY, WERE A DECISIVE? FACTOR
I' THE VOTE THROUGH WHICH ADOULA CAME TO POWER. FOUR DEPUTIES
O THE CONGOLESE' PARLIAMENT,' PAID BY . THE IA, GAVE ADOIJL1 TiiE
P S SIBILITY OF GETTING THE MAJORITY OF T 'VOTES.
7H E NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS THEN. 'WRITE THAT TSHO'U r:, 'r10
F Ur D HIMSELF IN POWER IN TH CONGO, OBTAINED THIS 'CST
C THAT ORGANIZATION. FINALLY, TO CONSOLIDATE. TSHOIBE`: rOWE:R,
T IF. CIA HELPED ITS HENCHMAN -E 1 OLL MERCENARIES AND EQUIP THEM
1d T-! MODERN AMERICAN WEAPONS TO FIGHT AGAINST THE'INSIJRRECTION
N VEMENT. THE CIA ALSO PAID TEE COUNTERREVQLUT.IONAI Y CUBM
P LOTS, WHO HAD FLED THEIR COUNTRY. THE EUROPEAN riERCEN AF'IES
G )T THEIR WAGES FROM THE SAME SOURCir..
THE CIA IS CONTINUING ITS ACTIVITIES IN THE CONGO LEOPGLDVILI. =,.
IC NCLIJDE THE AMERICAN JOURNAi I'>TS. ITS AGENTS USUALLY WORK IN
C OSE CONTACT WITH GOVERNMENT OTPF1CIALS, LOCAL ESPIONAGE SERVICE,;,
A .D THE POLICE. MANY PERSONS ON THE CIA PAYROLL PRESENTLY
C) CUPY POSTS AT THE A,"ERICAN, EMBASSY IN LEOPOLDVILL'E IN
D FFERENT ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS. SUCH IS .THE POINT OF VIEW OF
T'E AMERICAN JO1JRNALI7T3 ON THOSE WHO GUID THE LATEST EVE'JTS.
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