STANLEYVILLE AIRFIELD REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE) 0031N 02509E

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 24, 1964
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. PROVIDES COVERAGE OF 25X1
STANLEYVILLE AIRFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.
i 2. FACILITIES OBSERVED AT THE FIELD CONSIST OF ONE TERMINAL/
CONTROL BUILDING, ONE HANGAR, ONE PROBABLE MAINTENANCE BUILDING, ONE
BUILDING, AND 7 OTHER BUILDINGS. ALSO NOTED ON PHOTOGRAPHY
THE SABENA GUEST HOUSE, THE GOLF COURSE AND SEVERAL VEHICLES.
3. THE GOLF COURSE, LOCATED NORTH OF AND ADJACENT TO THE AIRFIELD.,
AS A DROP ZONE FOR BELGIAN PARATROOPERS ENTERING STANLEYVILLE
4. THE SABENA GUEST HOUSE AT THE AIRFIELD SERVED TO IMPRISON
HOSTAGES WERE REPORTED KILLED HERE ON 24 NOV.
I 5. THE SABENA GUEST HOUSE AND STANLEYVILLE AIRFIELD WERE SEEN
PREVIOUSLY THIS MISSION WAS ALSI ALL 25X1
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THE ASSAULT ON STANLEYVILLE THE MORNING OF 24 NOV 64 WAS A CONCERTED
EFFORT BY THE CONGOLESE, BELGIAN AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTS TO RESCUE
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN HOSTAGES BEING HELD IN THE REBEL CAPITAL, *M TO
RECAPTURE THE TOWN..
THE OPERATION WAS A 2-PRONGED EFFORT INVOLVING AN AIRDROP OF BELGIAN
PARATROOPERS FROM UNITED STATES FLOWN C-130 TRANSPORTS, AND THE ADVANCE
OF A CONGOLESE ARMY COLUMN FROM THE SOUTH.
AT 5 A.M., 24 NOV 1964, 10 UNITED STATES C-130'S AIRDROPPED ABOUT
320 PARA'T'ROOPERS ON THE GOLF COURSE ADJACENT TO AND NORTH OF THE STANLEY-
VILLE AIRFIELD. THESE PARATROOPERS THEN REPORTEDLY CLEARED THE AIRFIELD
OF OBSTACLES PUT THERE BY THE REBELS ENABLING THE PLANES TO LAND ABOUT
280 ADDITIONAL TROOPS. SEVERAL PLANES WERE FIRED UPON BY REBELS AND
DAMAGED SLIGHTLY.
REBEL REACTION TO THE INVASION WAS SWIFT. WHEN THE FIRST UNITS OF
PARATROOPERS ARRIVED IN THE CITY, REBELS BEGAN ROUNDING UP EUROPEANIAND
AMERICAN HOSTAGES. ABOUT 250 OF THEM WERE HERDED INfiO LUMUMBA SQUARE
AND LINED UP IN FRONT OF THE MONUMENT TO LUMUMBA. REALIZING THEY WERE
ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED THE HOSTAGES BROKE AND RAN FOR SAFETY. AT Tilt POINT
THE REBELS OPENED FIRE UPON THEM WITH MACHINE GUNS, KILLING 15 TO 20 AND
WOUNDING 40. AMONG THOSE KILLED WERE TWO AMERICANS, DR. CAUL CARLSON AND
MISSI PHYLLIS.RINE, BOTH MISSIONARIES. THAT MORE OF THE HOSTAGES WERE NOT
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KILLED IN THE MASSACRE WAS DUE ONLY TO THE SWIFT ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN
PARATROOPERS ON THE SCENE. AMONG THOSE WHO ESCAPED WERE THE AMERICAN
CONSUL, MICHAEL HOYT, AND ATTACHE DONALD PARKE.
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APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR AFTER THE AIRDROP A CONGOLESE NATIONAL
GROUND UNIT ENTERED STANELYVILL$ FROM THE SOUTH AND JOINED IN THE RES-
OOP DROP. 15 WERE KILLED WHEN REBELS FIRED UPON THE BUILDING.
ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE AIRPORT HOTEL (SABENA?GUEST HOUSE)
APPROXIMATELY 6o HOSTAGES WERE TAKEN BY THE REBELS FOLLOWING THE
CUE OPERATIONS. THIS COLUMN HAD BEEN AMBUSHED IN THE DARKNESS, RESULTING
IN THE DEATH OF NBC CORRESPONDENT, GEORGE CLAY, WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
WITH THE RESCUE OPERATIONS COMPLETED, THE PARATROOPERS WITHDREW TO
THE AIRFIELD DECLARING THAT THEY WOULD NOT GO BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF
STANLEYVILLE TO RESCUE REMAINING HOSTAGES IN THE AREA. CONTROL OVER THE
,CIT~ ITSELF IS IN THE HANDS OF THE CONGOLESE NATIONAL ARMY, AND ONLY SPOR-
ADI FIGHTING CONTINUED AS OF TUESDAY EVENING (NOVEMBER 24). HOSTAGES
RES AT STANLEYVILLE ARE BEING .TRANSPORTED TO THE LOVANIUM UNIVERSITY
HOSPITAL IN LEOPOLDVILLE. BY 6 P.M. TUESDAY APPROXIMATELY 790 HAD BEEN
SPORTED IN 16 OR 17 PLANELOADS. STATISTICS AS OF 10 P.M. LISTED 35
DEA) AND 80 WOUNDED, 11 OF THEM CRITICALLY.
ALSO ON 24 NOVEMBER, IN A MOVE INDEPENDENT FROM THE STANLEYVILLE
OP ION, CONGOLESE ARMY GROUND FORCES RECAPTURED THE CITY OF AKETI,
AP OXIMATELY 150 NM NORTHWEST OF STANLEYVILLE, FREEING-10 AMERICANS AND
13 BELGIANS. THIS LEAVES 20 AMERICANS UNACCOUNTED FOR 'IN THE REBEL
ARIA. EXACT"WHEREABOUTS OF THESE AMERICANS ARE UNKNOWN BUT VARIOUS
RE~OBTS PINPOINT SEVERAL TOWNS HOSTAGES1 KNOWN TO BE HELD THESE
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TOWNS INCLUDE BUNIA, BASOKO, BAFWASENDE, PAULIS, BUTA, AND OPALA.. OUT
OF CONCERN FOR THE SAFETY OF THESE HOSTAGES, THE PARATROOPERS HA
ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL RAIN IN STANLEYVILLE FOR SOME TII~
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