CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY: CONGO

Created: 12/1/1961

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Current Intelligence Weekly Summary

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

OFFICE OF CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

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intelligence weekly summary

CONGO

defiant response to tbe UN resolutionejectedclala to Independence and authorised the UK to use force in ousting Tshombe's merce-narien--poaea tbe threat of new clashes between Katangan forces and the UN Command. Onovember, Tshombe charged that war had been brought to tbe Congo by UN members "utterly ignorant of thend warned that Katanga would choose "annihilation" rather than capitulate to the UN. The beating of two senior UN officials in Bllsabethvllleob of Katangan soldiers onovember probably stemmed ln part from Tshombe's efforts to arouse his followers against the UK resolution.

The UN resolution is not directed specifically to the problem of Glzenga'sactivities in Kivu and Orlentale provinces. Inon Katanga, however, lt reflects the prevailing opinion ln Leopoldville, where most of Adoula's supporters regard Tshombe rather than Glzenga as the main threat to Congo unity. The Security Council resolution once more confronts Tshombe with the threattwo-front war" ln which he will have to reslat new UN pressure for theof his white volunteers at the same time that he Is confronted with Gizenglatfrom the north.

vllle ln northern Katanga. These forces, moving south from Kivu Province, have been under the command of General Victor Lundula, who has recently aligned himself with Adoula's central government, but they are apparently being directed by Glzenga without any control from Leopoldville. The forces appear disposed to bypass rather than attackwhicharrison of anatangan soldiers ls Tshombe's main stronghold In the area, the massacre ofirmen at Klndu and the pillage of Albertville by the invaders, the US appears to have aasuaed soae security functions in tbe towns the Congolese have occupied.

trees there will De unc manned fromhile Swedish and Irish battalions are being rotated. The consulate observes that it would appear impossible for the UN Command to takeaction against Tshombe in the next several weeks, and that the UN may even be pressed to maintain security ln the Bllsabethvllle area.

In accordance with Itaof bolsteringman Congo force, the UN announced onoveaber that the UNwould bo reinforced byan Ghanaian battalion, The UN, however, has balked at Ghana's Insistence that Its contingent not be based anywhere except ln Leopoldville without clearance from Accra. Accra's lntorest ln seeing its troops

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based In Leopoldvllle suggests tbat tbe Ghanaian contingent say once again be politically active ln support of leftist elements ln the Congo.

In Stanleyville. theof the Congo River hashreat to public health and has aggravated the province's

long-standing economic Public security is also precarious, vithArmy soldiers In the area seemingly responsive neither to Gizenga nor to Lundula. An early return to citheror economic stability in the area appears unlikely.

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