weekly summary
OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
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central intelligence agency
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TROUBLES TN THE CONGO
US and UN officials in the Congo are alarmed by UN Secretary Generalroposal toUN forces. They report that by the end of this year no morealf Congolese Army battalions will havetraining to be reliable for maintaining order. Theseforesee disturbancestho civilian population and the army in Katanga, and possibly another mass flight of Belgians. Thant, preoccupied with the UN's financial problems, has planned to withdraw all UN troopsight do so even earlier.
In Katanga tensions still remain high, although Furopean workers at the Union Kiniere plants in Jadotville haveto work trike over the killing of one of their colleaguesongoleseerious incident nearly took place ln Elisabethville onay when the central government representative there decided to use Congo Army troops to strip
TshomM of his Katanganbodyguard. The troops were prevented from ransacking Tshom-bd's residence onlyhreat from UN officers to use force against them.
Another source of serious disturbances is the Congolese Parliament's decision toew Lualaba province ln western Katanga. Two largeLunda and their traditional enemies thethis area. Tshombe has stated publicly that he opposes any division of Katanga. The struggle over division will be the more Intense because the new province ls supposed tothe Kolwezl area, where some two thirds of Katanga's minerals and three quarters of its electric power are produced, and where the Union Mlniere hashird of its processing facilities.
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