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

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700580022-1
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1
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December 16, 2016
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December 21, 2004
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22
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July 31, 1967
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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 Approved For Release 2005/01/05 CIA-RDP75-00149R000700580022-1