CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: December 12, 1961
• Content Type: REPORT

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12 December 1961
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
2. Congo: Sporadic ground and air action. continues around
Elisabethville; local UN officials considering 'all-out'
mop-up. (page t)
4. Albania-Bloc. Imminent meeting of Soviet bloc economic
council. may expel Albania. (Page t t t)
5. Dominican Republic: Armed forces chief rejects coalition
proposal but probably lacks. support needed to keep Bala-
guer in power or effect military takeover. (page tv)
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12 December 1961
DAILY BRIEF
*Congo- Sporadic fighting continued on 11 December in
and around Elisabethville with no indication. that either side
was ready to call a halt. UN aircraft continue attacks on
Katangan strongholds. Tshombe and Union Miniere. officials
claim the UN attacks have damaged mining installations at
Kolwezi and Luena and the important hydroelectric plant at
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KATANGA
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Le Marinel. A Katangan aircraft bombed Elisabethville air=
port the night of 10 December. Katangan forces appear to
control most of the city with the UN holding its positions on
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the north and west sides.
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The UN military command in Elisabethville reportedly
met on 9 December to discuss an "all-out" military mop-up
of Elisabethville, including a house-to-house cleanup with
"no holds barred:' American Consul Hoffacker comments that
such an action by the UN would cause heavy civilian. casualties
and large-scale property damage, and could touch off pro-
tracted guerrilla warfare by the Katangans. #Hoffacker re-
ports that the Indian charge from Leopoldville is in Elisabeth-
ville advocating all=out war against Katanga and is trying to
exploit the resentment in the UN military, particularly among
Indian officers, over the inconclusive UN action last Septem-
The US Embassy in Leopoldville reported on 8 December
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Adoula he must "break" him ~
that the Adoula government has prepared a five-page indictment
of Gizenga which it will submit to parliament in introducing a
motion of censure against him. The American officials doubt
that Adoula will push the indictment until parliamentary senti-
ment crystallizes or before favorable news is received from
Katanga. doula has been con-
sidering a move against Gizenga since. mid=November, and that
Gizenga's violent speech against him on 29 November convinced
(The outbreak of hostilities in Katanga has aroused deep
bitterness against the UN and the United States in Belgium.
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is being criticized as a mistake. Ambassador MacArthur pre-
dicts that Belgian-American relations are in for a "very, very
rough time:`
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Albania-Bloc: Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Rumanian eco-
nomic delegations left on 10 December for Warsaw to attend
the 15th session of the Council for Economic Mutual Assistance
(CEMA). CEMA membership is limited to the USSR and the
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European satellites, although the Asian Communist states have
occasionally sent observers.. The meeting will probably expel
Albania from .CEMA. There have been indications that the po-
litical consultative committee of the Warsaw Pact is also to
meet soon, possibly to expel Albania. Such Warsaw Pact meet-
ings, attended by the party first secretaries, have followed
CEMA meetings on at least two occasions in the past,1ance in
February 1960 when the Albanian disagreement with bloc pol-
icies first came to light
Dominican Republic-.Armed forces. chief Rodriguez
Echevarria has alienated the public and weakened his posi-
tion among the military by rejecting the agreement on a coali-
tion government which had been accepted in principle by Pres-
ident Balaguer and opposition leaders. The American consul
general and his military liaison officer agree that General
Rodriguez probably does not now have the requisite support
among his fellow officers either to impose a military regime
or to maintain the unpopular Balaguer government in power
of the militate
ether ranking military officers, particularly Interior
Secretary Hermida and Army Chief of Staff Roman, appear
dissatisfied with Rodriguez' stand. Survivors of the civilian-
military group which on 30 May brought about Trujillo's assas-
sination may attempt to encourage a move to replace General
Rodriguez. Such a move--or an attempt by Rodriguez to ef-
fect a militarSoup- might result in clashes between factions
until its term ends in August
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/President Balaguer, ill and disheartened, has not resisted
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Counsel to the President
Military Representative of the President
The Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
The Scientific Adviser to the President
The Director of the Budget
The Director, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
The Director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Under Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
The Assistant Secretary of Defense
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
The Director, The Joint Staff
The Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
The Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Justice
The Attorney General
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
The Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
The National Security Agency
The Director
The United States Information Agency
The Director
The National Indications Center
The Director
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