COURT HANDS TSHOMBE TO CONGO FORMER PREMIER NOW IS FACING DEATH SENTENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700580022-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 31, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release '2 z&dY RDP75-00
JUL 2.1 1967
Former Premier
;Now Is Facing
!Deafh Sent ene
Algerian Jurists.
Hear 'Popularity'
And CIA 6lame&
ALGIERS z---
ordered former -` Congolese Prey
mier Moise T
h
s
ombe extritd
ade to the. Congo where he .faces
execution on the all
V. y
ow
Tshombe the been tried in !;
absentia in he Congolese, capi.
tal of Kinshasa -and
sentenced:,
to di
e He was iil ip
..n exen Sain
at the time. ?I
him from one Spanish island t' . d
another wa
hi
s
jacked and flo''
wn to Algiers where he was jailed.
The r,,...
hi
s r Blames CIA
Court announced-its decision;,,
Tshombe said he was a victim
Of the'T7 C C
t
:_. ...
en
ral
out of difficult situations, faces
ex
ecutio
* b
'
n
y
the got
vernmen. of i
Gen.
J
oseph Mob
tu
bi
u
, _
s chief
val
"I was the victim of the CIA?
and of my popularity in , the
Congo," Tshombe said.
"'rhe imperialists could not
tolerate the fact that I was re-
ceived three times. by General
(Charles) De Gaulle."
The court heard the case on...
Wednesd ~r and announced its
decisiofwould be announced
earlier today. Twice the decision
was postponed until late in the '
Ittought From Prison :'
T hbmbe was brought back to
the ;court from El Harrash pri.
son in an unmarked vehicle
guarded by plainclothesmen. to
hear;;theverdict.
b'itial' approval must.' come
fron:Algerian President Hougri
flouxugdienne, but Boumediennn
is nat an: admirer of Tshonoe
and informed sources sa1d that
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