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(James)
WICKS, Alastair Major
DOB: 17 November 1917
POB:
England
Citizenship: Rhodesian
1-601702
Jul 66 Address: 38 Montague Square
London W 1
Mercenary in Katanga gendarme, 1961
Mar 67 Address: 199 Bickenhall
Mansions
London W1
(listed under Janis Morris)
Former RAS (Rhodesian Air Services) official
Recruiter of South Rhodesian mercenaries for Tshombe forces. 1964
2nd in Command to Mike HOARE in 5 CDO
Left -Leopoldville Dec 1965 at termination of mercenary contrast
for 
Johannesburg.
One of mercenaries involved in July '66 plot to overthrow MOBUTU
(although 
still in the pay of MOBUTU)
Also, tried to involve Michael HOARE in the plot. He offered
HOARE 
20,000 L for 6 month contract and rank of full Colonel.
Recruiting Officer in South Africa for Tshombe's forces..166
Unwitting SMOTH contact 1966
Went to London in October 1966
Unscrupulous and undependable
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WICKS, Alastair
(IN 31010)
30 Sep 1963
Early Aug Subject came from Salisbury with sps for
PUREN 
from Pierre LAUREYS and Jack Nalloch (of Rhode-
sian 
Air Services).. LAUREYS was arranging for Malloch-
to fly out ams and ammo to Royalists in Yemen. Malloch
was to get contract to fly arms from Europe to Yemen also. PUREN
was to 
proceed w/plane via Salisbury to Yemen as official observer
for South African 
Defer.se HQS.
AHS 1016
CS DB 312/641-64
18 Sep 1964–
Alastair WICKS, former RAS official, returned to
Salisbury to begin the recruitme
recruitment 
of Southern
hodesians for service as mercenaries with TSCHOMBE
forces in the Congo In newspaper ad calling for
recruits, interested parties were requested to call Salisbury 55715,
which is the number 
listed for WICKS in S. Rhodesian telephone direc-
tory.
KINSHASA 0864
(IN 17389)
9 Mar 1967
AZPA 2201
16 Mar 67
HOARE stated he going London about 12 March to
check on 
Yemen deal. HOARE had previously received
letter from Alastair WICKS in London offering him
job with good pay and conditions. He believes this
job concerns Yemen.
Attached a letter from WICKS to HOARE, indicating WICKS
unable to develop 
proposition further. HOARE estimates
that the WICKS 
proposition relates to recruitment of mer-
cenaries for 
service in Yemen
. His only basis for this is develop..
ment reported in AZPA 2200.
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We are still held up in one business and Thave had to call
in my own supplies to give an estimate as the previous one,
who was virtually unknown to me, did sot seem to understand
the importance of security in the industrial field today. This
in fact should suit us better as I am sure I can do a bet
deal for us with our own man.
I have had to put off my departure for one week as a result
of this as it was important to keep my fingers on the pulse at
this moment. I have a meeting with the partners tomorrow when
I hope to get things moving and a firm proposal sent to bankers.
"I mentioned to the partners that you had some novel ideas
to solve the delivery problem and in view of the possible extra
cost, they have asked me to get an outline from you as to what
your ideas are, both from the point of view of additional expense
which, if adopted, would need to be included in the budget and also
to give some added encouragement since this particular problem
comes up again and again and so far I have refused to be drawn
on the subject though you know my first ideas. I think a letter
to the Club Nautico will reach me safely though it would obviously
be inadvisable to mention the Spice Islands.
--> at
I hear there is much afoot in your part of the world and both
Brazzaville and the Sudan have been mentioned, also another
operation. I hope you will not return to that sort of thing
least until we have fully explored the possibilities of the new -
company.
(dated 25 February 1970).
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ALASTAIR WICKES PROBABLY IDENTICAL
WITH JAMES ALASTAER EDMOND WICKS. WAS MERCENARY IN KATANGA GENDERME,
1961 IN JULY 1964, RETURNED TO CONGO AS SECOND IN COMMAND TO MICHA EL
HOARE'S WHITE MERCENARY GROUP. WAS LOCAL MERCENARY RECRUITED FOR
TSHOMBE IN SALISBURY. MAJOR IN HEADQUARTERS DETACHMEN OF 5TH COMMANDO
IN CONGO FEBRUARY 1965. RESIGNED FROM 5TH COMMANDO IN DECEMBER 1965,
WENT TO JOHANNESBURG ACTING AS MERCENARY RECRUITING OFFICER IN SOUTH
AFRICA. WAS ONE OF THE MERCENARIES INVOLVED IN JULY 1966 PLOT TO OVER-
THROW MOBUTU BY FORMER CONGOLESE PRIME MINISTER MOISE TSHOMBE INVOLVING
THE 5TH COMMANDO MERCENARIES. IN JULY 1967 WICKES REPRESENTED JACK
MALLOCH'S AIR TRANS AFRICA IN LONDON. FUNCTION IN LONDON DESCRIBED AS
LIAISON WITH AUTAIR OF LONDON AND TO ARRANGE MERCENARY FLIGHT TO CONGO.
HOWEVER, THESE OPS HAVE VIRTUALLY CEASED. AUGUST 1967 WICKES INVOLVED
IN MERCENARY PLANS TO OVERTHROW CONGOLESE GOVERNMENT.
MICROFILMED
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NEGOTIATING WITH PORTUGUESE ABOUT SENDING ASSISTANCE TO DISSIDENT
MERCENARY MAJOR JEAN SCHRAMME.
MAVICAR JOHN MALLOCH PROBABLY IDENTICAL WITH JACK MALLOCH
FORMER PILOT IN KATANGA AIR FORCE. IS NOW HEAD OF AIR TRANS AFRICA IN
RHODESIA. COMPANY HAS BEEN IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE SINCE 1966. IN ORDER TO
KEEP IN BUSINESS, IT APPEARS MALLOCH HAS BEEN OBLIGED TO ACCEPT CONTRACTS
WHICH ARE OBVIOUSLY ILLEGAL. IN AUGUST 1967 HE OPERATED TWO CONSTELLA-
TIONS AND A DC-4, LAST MENTIONED USED ON FREIGHT SERVICES FROM LUANDA,
BIAFRA
ANGOLA, AND LISBON, AND ON OPERATIONS FROM SAO TOME TO . IN LATE
AUGUST, MALLOCH FLEW 39 BELGIAN AND FRENCH MERCENARIES INTO PUNIA VIA
LUANDA IN A DC-6. HAD AT HIS DISPOSAL FOR THE AIRLIFT ONE DC-7, TWO
DC-4'S, AND ONE PC-3. WAS WORKING WITH ALASTAIR WICKES IN THE MERCENARY
PLANS TO OVERTHROW THE CONGOLESE GOVERNMENT. JOHN PETERS ATTEMPTED TO
TIE HIS EFFORT WITH THAT OF WICKES AND MALLOCH, AND THEY TENTATIVELY
AGREED TO A PLAN TO FLY REINFORCEMENTS TO SCHRAMME TO SERCRAF PLANTATION
AT UVIRA. NO INFORMATION ON EITHER WICKES OR MALLOCH IN FILE AFTER
AUGUST 1967, ALTHOUGH WELL KNOWN THEY CONTINUE ASSOCIATION WITH BIAFRAN
AIRLIFT.
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ACCORDING BRICK/1, WHO OPTAINED INFO FROM CAPT. O'DONOVAN,
OPS MANAGER OF CENTRAL AFRICAN AIRWAYS, WICKS. WICKS REPRESENTS
AIR TRANS AFRICA IN LONDON, WAS THERE ON 12 JULY, AND NO INDICATION
HE SUBSEQUENTLY LEFT LONDON. FUNCTION IN LONDON DESCRIBED
AS LIAISON WITH AUTAIR OF LONDON AND TO ARRANGE MERCENARY.
FLIGHT TO CONGO. HOWEVER, THESE OPERATIONS HAVE "VIRTUALLY
ŒEASED AND AIR TRANS AFRICA NOW APPEARS TO RELY SOLELY
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1: BRUSSELS 9749 (NOT WENT SALISBURY) REPORTS JOHN R. LATZ CÁME
BRUSSELS NINE MONTHS AGO AND CURRENTLY EMPLOYED AS SALES
INSPECTOR BY ETS FOURCROY SA, 119 RUE STEYLS, BRUSSELS, A WHOLESALE
LIQUOR DISTRIBUTOR.
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AUGUST 66 (LNGOLD TRAFFIC AT TIME CONFIRMS THIS) PASSED THROUGH
BRUSSELS ON WAY VISIT FAMILY LONDON; THEN VISITED BROTHER COTE
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'AZUR FRANCE. LATZ SETTLED BRUSSELS FALL 66 WITH FOURCROY AND HAS
NOT TRAVELED AFRICA SINCE.
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*WHO WIGEAR BELIEVES STILL EMPLOYED BY RHODESIAN AIRLINES AND
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CH 3 MARCH 1967 SECAROB/1 HAD MEETING WITH HASLANGER AND
REPORTED FOLLOWING ABOUT HIS HEETING WITH WISTATIC/I.
A.
SECAROB/1 TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO GET WISTATIC/I TO
OCUS ON WHAT GDRC WAS GOING TO GIVE HIM FOR PHASING OUT THE
COMMANDO AND FOR RECRUITING NEW MEN IN ENGLAND. BASED ON
VISTATIC/I'S ATTITUDE THAT SECAROB/I WAS SOMETHING OF A CAD
FOR BRINGING UP MONEY MATTERS, SECAROB/1 TOLD VISTATIC/1 HE
HAD NO INTENTION OF PHASING OUT 5 COMMANDO: UNLESS THIS FOL-
LOWED UP WITH RECRUITMENT OF 480 MEN FROM ENGLAND WITH
EVENTUAL EXPANSION THIS FORCE TO 800 MEN, MOST OF WHOM WOULD
ARTISANS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN; AND FINALLY SECAROB/1 TO BE
ALLOWED TO DEVELOP TOURISM INTHE EASTERN CONGO.
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AS A RESULT
OF THIS CONVERSATION SECAROB/1 STATED THAT HE NOW HAS RESERVA-
TIONS ABOUT BEING AX MAN FOR THE 5 COMMANDO BECAUSE HE HASE
NO ASSURANCE THAT THE GORC WILL PERMIT HIM TO CARRY OUT THE
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SECAROB/I ADVISED MISTATIC/I THAT PETERS COULD BE
DIFFICULT MAN TO HANDLE IF DISBANDMENT OF 5 COMMANDO
NOT PROPERLY HANDLED VISTATICA SAID HE SAW NO DIFFI-
CULTIES HERE. (SECAROB/1 LATER STATED HE DID NOT FEAR
PETERS BECAUSE THE LATTER STILL HAD AUSGEANT'S ATTITUDE
TOWARDS HIS CONFANDING OFFICER, SECAROB/1. HASLANGER
CAUTIONED SECAROB/1 AGAINST TAKING PETERS TOO LIGHTLY.)
D. WISTATIC/1 COMPLAINED TO SECAROB/1 ABOUT SECAROB/1
NOT HAVING GIVEN HIM A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION BACK IN
SEPTEMBER 1966. VISTATIC/I SAID ME HAD INTENDED. USE LETTER
ALONG WITH OTHERS TO PREVENT HIS REMOVAL AND THAT OF
GENERAL DELPERDANGE FROM THE CONGO BY THE BELGIAN ARMY.
SECAROB/1 CONCLUDED HIS DISCUSSION OF WISTATIC/1 WITH THE
COMMENT THAT WISTATIC/1 KNOWS THE CONGO AS FEW MEN DO AND
THAT HE IS A SENSITIVE HAN WITHOUT COURAGE. SECRET
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2. CONCERNING THE OAU MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, SECAROB/1
EMPHASIZED THAT MOBUTU TOLD HIM THAT IT HIS INTENTION TO
GET PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS OF OAU TRANSFERRED TO THE
CONGO. FURTHER THE GDRC WISHES TO BE A STRONG MILITARY
POWER IN CENTRAL AFRICA. WITH THIS COMBINATION MOBUTU
HOPES THAT THE GORG VILL BE THE LEADING POWER IN CENTRAL
AFRICA AND POSSIBLY IN ALL OF AFRICA.
WHILE "CONFIRHING HIS WILLINGNESS TO DISBAND THE COMMANDO
IF LNHARP WANTS HIM TO DO 80, SECAROB/1 EMOTIONALLY TOLD
HASLANGER THAT HE HAD GREAT RESPECT FOR LNHARP AND MOTACT;
HE WAS OUR MAN AND WOULD BE EVER LOYAL TO ENHARP WHICH HE
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BELIEVES MUST EXERCISE HORE INFLUENE IN AFRICA; LNHÄRP HAS
ALWAYS BEEN FAIR TO HIM; AND THAT WITHOUT WOFACT THE 5
COMMANDO COULD NEVER HAVE DONE ITS JOB. PRIOR TO LEAVING
HASLANGER'S HOME SECAROB/1 LEARNED THAT HASLANGER MIGHT
BE LEAVING THE CONGO AROUND AUGUST 1967.
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SECAROB/1 TATED
THAT IF GUTHMAN AND HASLANGER WERE TO LEAVE THE CONGO
THE WOULD BE RELUCTANT TAKE ON HIS NEW JOB SINCE PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS MEAN A GREAT, DEAL TO HIM AND WERE IMPORTANT
IN PLEMENTING HIS NEW PROGRAM.
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STATED THAT HE GOING LONDON ABOUT.
12 MARCH TO CHECK ON THE YEMEN DEAL. HE SUGGESTED LNHARP
MIGHT WANT HIM TO GO TO YEHEN AND THAT HE WOULD DO SO IF
LNHARP DESIRED IT. HE NOT ENCOURAGED BUT TOLD TO REPORT
FULL INFO THIS SUBJECT. (SECAROB/1 HAD PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A LETTER FROM ALASTAIRE WICKES IN LONDON.
LETTER STATED THAT JOB AVAILABLE WITH GOOD PAY AND CONDI-
TIONS. SECAROB/1 BELIEVES JOB CONCERNS YEMEN. HE KNOWS THAT
(FNU) STERLING, OF LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP FANE, HAS LARGE
GROUP CF MERCENARISG IN YEMEN.)
INSTRUCTED SECAROB/1 TO CHECK WITH PRETORIA ON HIS RETURN
SOUTH AFRICA 4 MARCH.
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B. SALISBURY 2305 (EN S9541)
1. HGS NOTES THAT NAME ALASTAIR WICKS HAS NOT APPEARED
IN RECENT SECAROB/1 REPORTING OF WIQUIT/1 PLOTTING. DURING SUMMER
PLOTTING WICKS ALLEGEDLY ONE OF PRINCIPALS INVOLVED. REFERENCE
B, HOWEVER, SUGGESTS THAT WICKS CONTINUES BE INVOLVED IN WIQUIT
PLOTTING, WOULD APPRECIATE PRETORIA STATION DEBRIEF SECAROB/!
AT NEXT REGULAR MEETING ON WICKS PRESENT WHEREABOUTS AND
ACTIVITIES.
2. HQS HAS ALSO NOTED THE ABSENCE ANY SMOTH REPORTING
TO WOFACT ON THE MACHINATIONS OF WIQUIT/1 GROUP. BELIEVE
WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR LONDON STATION TAKE THIS UP WITH SMOTH
AND SOLICIT THEIR ASSISTANCE IN MONITORING ACTIVITIES AND CONTACTS
OF PETERS, WICKS, AND POSSIBLY JOHN TERRENCE PEET, SUBJECT
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DEBRIEFING REPORT PEET TRIP AND HIS CONTACTS WITH WIQUIT/1 GROUP.
WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE PRETORIA STATION POUCH DETAILED REPORT
OF SECAROB/1 RECENT TRIP.
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ACTION REQUIRED PEFERENCES
Reference: AZPA - 2084, 9 August 1966
Action Required: For Your Information
The letter
WOACRE for it a reference was submitted to
analysis.
herewith for your information.
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RE REF. WICKS TOLD SECAROB/1 HE RETURNING LONDON IN THREE DAYS.
ALSO REPEATED RUMOR HEARD IN SALISBURY THAT UNIDENTIFIED AMERICANS
RECRUITING MERCENARIES IN SALISBURY FOR PURPOSES OF COUP TO REPLACE
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12 October 1966
TSD/BAD MEMO #226-66
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Chief, AF/5
ATTENTION
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
Mr. Earl K. Myrick
Handwriting Analysis
Alastair Wicks.
AF/5 memo dated 29 Aug. 1966
Attached herewith is the handwriting assessment
Bass
report on subject as requested by reference. The
report was prepared by Mrs. Thea Hall of this office.
Any comments or criticism would be appreciated.
2. The data supplied is insufficient for further
psychological assessment. If contact reports and personal
observations of subject's manner and behavior become
available, we could produce a more precise assessment
oriented to subject's performance in intelligence.
activities.
William V.
William C. GOSWOOD (P)
Chief, TSD/BAB
Attachments:
Report &
h.. sample
SEALED
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Alastair Wicks AF
Handriting Assessment Report
The writer seems to be a very clever individual of a high
intellectual level who handles his affairs in a independent
manner. Endowed with a good intelligence, he is well educated
and cultured. He has not only absorbed but, also, assimilated
the material he has read and studied and utilizes it in a pur-
poseful fashion.
clear, logical and versatile.
His thinking 11 trained and differentiated,
His intellectual faculties are
and, to a large extent, they support his practical talents and
interests constructively. He discards superfluous matters, and,
whenever possible, he deals with only the vital points in a
problem or a situation. He possesses impressive mental agility
with well developed analyzing and synthesizing faculties. He
is quite intuitive and senses instinctively the implications of
happenings around him.
He is an alert and astute observer of small details which
he relates correctly to their larger aspects. Being quite re-
sourceful, he combines imagination with sober matter-of-factness.
He follows prescribed rules and regulations when absolutely
necessary and, whenever possible, exercises his mental indepen-
dence. He forms his own opinion and judgment and keeps his own
counsel in making decisions. He may accept somebody else's
suggestions that he considers suitable for his purposes but he
is not actually influenced by others. At times, he may deliber-
ately make somebody feel as if he is seeking his advice and
following it, but, in reality, he does what he considers best.
He is very critical and evaluates by high standards. He can be
very outspoken in his criticism or he can cautiously withhold it
depending on his appraisal of the circumstances. His interests.
cover small items of information to large size projects and
operations. While he notices everything that is going on, he
can concentrate on his work. When required, he can switch quickly
from one task to another. His memory functions well and he can
reproduce facts easily.
SECE
The writer has administrative ability on a supervisory level.
Within a military setup, he could take orders as well as issue
them, although he prefers the latter. He can be systematic and
methodical in his approach. He can work out a blueprint of an
intricate undertaking and supervise its proper execution. He will
quickly and
easily adapt to fluctuations in a situation and change
his tactics accordingly.
He is skillful in manipulating numbers, and he can think in
Apparently, he is quite interested
large terms and trans whow to get the best possible
ney and he seems
in money,
advantage out of a financial transaction.
He possesses great facility in expressing himself orally
n writing. He can make his points palatable and can be quite d
convincing in his arguments. Also, he can formulate his ideas
and purposes in different ways, depending on with whom he is
dealing. He should have talent for learning foreign languages.
He is a gifted person who will exploit his talents in line with
the demands that are put before him. He also seems to have
physical training and skills. He has a natural feeling for
form, sound and color. He probably has developed artistic
appreciation and may have an artistic hobby, possibly music.
Emotionally, the writer is complex but fairly well balanced.
Innately impressionable and sensitive, he has hardened himself
in the course of his life in order to be less vulnerable. He
has his feelings and impulses under fairly good control and avoids
being carried away by them. In his private life, though, he may
tend to be somewhat excitable and irritable. He is self-centered
and most interested in his personal advantage. This is a trait
that he tries to cover up by being smooth and pleasing in his
dealings with people. He possesses natural psychological under-
standing and can be very diplomatic. He manages to appear out-
going and social while basically he is quite reserved and detached.
He seems to avoid emotional involvements in order to preserve his
objectivity.
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His appearance is poised and sophisticated, and he knows
how to handle himself under different conditions. Being an
independent and sophisticated individual, he has developed his
own philosophy and code of ethics by which he lives. He does
rot seem to have any qualms a about doing things that would not
be conventionally acceptable. He is very broad-minded about
himself and others, and he detests pettyness, even in wrong-
doing. The purpose justifies the means for him as
:
transaction takes place on a large scale. He is moe 8 as the
skillful
in practicing various types of deception and he is s quite adroit
in manipulating people and situations. He is very active and
could have "his fingers in a number of pies." He is emotionally
somewhat strained, but he has sifficient stamina to support his
general functioning.
The writer is apparently an unusually talented person who
could function in different types of positions. He could be a
military officer, a business
executive, a
politician, an intelli-
gence agent or he could be a diplomat. He would not be suitable
for any kind of routine work, but he is well qualified for
mentally challenging assignments--the more challenging the better.
He is a diligent worker who is somewhat vain in showing off his
competence. He likes to demonstrate how successfully he can
carry out a complicated and delicate job. When he is willing
to accept an assignment, one can expect a high quality of work
performance, but anybody who would expect loyalty from him would
probably be disappointed.
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29 August 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Technical Services Division
Behavioral Activities Branch
SUBJECT
Request for Psychological Assessment
Attached is a photographic copy of a letter which is
- being submitted to your office for analysis of the handwriting and
possible psychological assessment of the writer. Unfortunately,
the original of this letter is not available. Hopefully the quality
of the attached copy will be adequate for your purposes.
2. If any further information is required, please contact
Earle R. Myrick, Africa/5, Room 7c18, extension 5032.
Michael S. Thompson
Acting Chief, Africa/5
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BUKAVU, BRUSSELS
ZIBET VIQUIT SECAROB SMOTH
REF. DIRECTOR 26813
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1. AT 11 AUGUST MEETING, SMOTH CONFIRMED THEY HAD HAD INDIRECT.
CONTACT WITH WICKS IN PAST, BUT THAT HE WAS UNWITTING SOURCE..
CONTACT MAN PRESENTLY UNAVAILABLE, BUT THEY PLAN PUT HIM BACK IN
TOUCH WITH WICKS ABOUT 17 AUGUST, IN HOPE HE CAN ELICIT INFORMA-
TION AS TO WICKS' FUTURE PLANS, ETC..
2. MEANWHILE SMOTH HAVE ASKED SPECIAL BRANCH (DIRECTLY,
NOT THROUGH JAGUAR) TO COVER WICKS, BUT TO DATE THEY HAVE NOT
LOCATED HIM. WE URGED THEM TO FOLLOW UP RETURN ADDRESS ON LETTER,
OFFERING MAKE AVAILABLE FLAT NEXT DOOR OCCUPIED BY FEMALE STATION
PERSONNEL AS OP IF DESIRED.
ONE PROBLEM IS PRESUMPTION WICKS
TRAVELLED ON U.K. PASSPORT, IN WHICH CASE IMMIGRATION WILL HAVE
NO RECORD HIS ENTRY OR INTENDED ADDRESS.
HAVE ADDRESSEES ANY
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3.
WITHOUT INDICATING ANY KNOWLEDGE FUTURE PLANNING
REFLECTED REF, ME SPECULATED ALOUD AT POSSIBILITY SECAR03/1
✓ SECRET
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MIGHT VISIT U.K. HEAD FULURE, SINCE HE CONTINUED BE IN
CORRESPONDENCE WITH WICKS AND WAS KNOWN INTERESTED FIND
PUBLISHER FOR ROOK."
BELIEVE WE WILL HAVE NO DIFFICULTY OBTAINING
SMOTH SUPPORT FOR WOFACT CONTACT WITH SECAROB/1 SHOULD HE VISIT,
.BUT SMOTH WILL WANT TO KNOW AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE CF HIS TRAVEL
PLANS. THIS ALSO APPLIES TO PETERS, SHOULD WE LEARN HE TO
VISIT U.K. AGAIN. SELIEVE WE SHOULD NOW KEEP SMOTH FULLY AND
PROMPTLY INFORMED ON ALL BRITISH PLAYERS IN THIS GAME, NOT ONLY
FOR USUAL REASONS BUT TO ENSURE THEY PUT OUT MAXIMUM EFFORT ON
COVERING THEM.
4.
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FOR SECAROB/1.
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REQUESTED THEM ATTEMPT COVER HIS ACTIVITIES HERE ON BASIS COMMENTS
REF C. PLEASE NOTE FER REF B. SMOTH HAVE BELATEDLY CONFIRMED
HIS INVOLVEMENT FROM SOURCE IN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT QUARTER.
2. SMESPY HAS ACKNOWLEDGED UNOFFICIALLY THAT MR: COLORTH HAS
BLENDLY BAS
HAD CONTACT WITH WICKS IN PAST AND IS NOW DEBATING WHETHER
APPROACH HIM ON FRIENDLY BASIS STEMMING FROM PREVIOUS CONTACT
OR ASK JAGUAR ATTEMPT COVER HIM FROM DISTANCE. MEETING 11 AUGUST
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VIQUIT SECARO
SECAROB/I HAS RECEIVED LETTER
15 RON WICKS DATED 31 JULY
ADDRESS 36 MONTAGUE SQUARE
WI SAYING WICKS MAG
WORD I WAT WICKS REMAINSON FULL SALARY AND COUP DELAYED FOR T
SECARODA SHOULD REPLY IN GENERAL TERMS 17 NE STILL
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MENHILE IS MAILING WICKS LETTER TO PRETORIA.
4. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT, POSSIBLY PERTINENT TO SECAROR/1
UPCOMING DEALINGS WITH WICKS, SECAROB/1 ONS AUGUST RECEIVED FROM.
MIZARD74 AIR TICKET TO LONDON, PROMISED WHEN SECAROR/1 LEFT CONGO,
AND WOULD LIKE USE IT. THIS SUGGESTS SECAROS/1 MERTING LONDON WITH WICKS.
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5. PRESENT ACTIVITY AND LOCATION.
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(WEIGHT)
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15 JUL 66 IN 57044
TASK
PICKS PHONED HOARE 14 JULY FROM SALISBURY WITH PROPOSITION
HOARE TO RECEIVE 22,000 POUNDS FOR SIX MONTH CONTRACT, ETC.
WOULD BE COORDINATION OF MILITARY EFFORT IN KATANGA AGAINST REACTION
BY ANC. RANK FILL COLONEL. HOARE STALLED AWAITING ARRIVAL MIGHELL
WITH REF. CUIDANCE.
2. HICKS CLAIMED HE ATTEMPTING POSTPONE. COUP UNTIL 27 JULY TO
PERMIT RECRUITMENT ADDITIONAL MERCENARIES SO AS ELIMINATE NECESSITY.
RELIANCE ON PETERS. WICKS REGISTERED KENTUCKY, HOTEL SALISBURY.
REGISTERED PARK LAKE ATEL PETERS PARTICIPATING IN
DELIBERATIONS ON AD HOC BASIS.
STATED THIS
3. HOARE ACCEPTED REF GUIDANCE EVENING 14 JULY.
ONFIRMED HIS UNDERSTANDING GOYONE POSITION AND HE WILL NOT ACCEPT
WICKS PROPOSITION. POINTED OUT PERSONAL LOYALTY TO PUGH PARAMOUNT
DISPITE GLITTERING OFFER. HOWEVER HIS FINANCIAL POSITION HAS
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NOARE STATED COUP TO PROCEED 17 JULY, WICKS AND PETERS WILL
RETURN JOHANNURG 15 JULY AND DEPARI JAN SMUTS AIRPORT 16 JULY WITH
FORTY THREE EX-S COMMAND TYPES RECRUITED JOHANNESBURG SINCE
TO STAGING ARUA
VALLOS
OUT, KINSHASA COULD SUGGEST MOSS
HOARE SUGGESTED KINSHASA INFORM MOBUTU OF PLOT. IN:
ARE
REQUEST VISIT HIM AT ONCE OR HE COULD GO TO MOBUTU ON OWN INITIATIVE
HOAPE WOULD ASK OBUTU DISPANO 5 COMMANDO AT ONCE IN VIEW THEIR
DISLOYALTY, PETERS' RACKETS, PAYMENTS TO FICTITIOUS MEN, MURDER OF VAN
OPPENS AND DURCIEÏT, STEALING OF PT. BOAT, ETC. THIS DISBANDMENT
VITAL TO MODUTC SECURITY AND AS SAFEGUARD AGAINST REPEAT PLOT.
:
....
WOULD RECOMMEND REPLACE 5 COMMANDO AND POSSIBLY 6 COMMANDO WITH NEW
GENDARMERIE FORCE RECRUITED INAU.K. HOARE COULD DO THIS AND ATTEND
TO: INITIAL TRAINING, ETC. MODUTU WOULD INGRATIATE HIMSELF WITH OAU
BY CITY.
ALLEGIANCE TO MODUTU.
HCARE.
SIMILAR MARINE UNIT COULD BE RECRUITED.
6. HOARE ADDED THE MALUBA WILL REVOLT IN RETALIATION FOR KIMBA
EXECUTION IF TSHONGE SUCCEEDS.
ALSO, BELIEVES UMHK FUNDS DEPOSITED
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3.
MORNING 15 JULY HOARE PHONED MICHELL TO ADVISE HE TALKED TO
WICKS IN SALISBURY PREVIOUS NIGHT.
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TURNED DOWN WICKS PROPOSITION
BUT DID NOT ELABORATE. WICKS SAID PETERS MAS PULLED OUT AND IS IN
LONDON. PLANNING FOR COUP CONTINUES TO PROCEED SALISBURY. TARGET
NO INDICATION ANY PLANS FOR MOVEMENT RECRUITS
DATE NON 21 JULY.
FROM JOAN SURG AS YET.
NO FURTHER INFO ON ROLE MALUMBA, IDENS OTHER MAJOR CONGOLESE
FIGURES INVOLVED, OR DEGREE INVOLVEMENT SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS IN PLOT.
PARTICIPATION SOUTH AFRICA AND RHODESIA: GOVERNMENTS BEING HANDLED BY
PROOF OF OFFICIAL PARTICIPATION
SECURITY SERVICES AS INDICATED.
LACKING. URCE UTMOST PROTECTION HOARE AS SOURCE SINCE HIS POSITION
AS U.K. CITIZEN IN SOUTH AFRICA MOST TENUOUS.
9. PRETORIA HANDLING DISSEM IN INTEL FORMAT.
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a number of reasons for ODYCKE 
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by small groups of Rhodesians from Salisbury. Major Alistair
WICKS former deputy command of No. 5 Commando, is now acting
as mercenary recruiting office in South Africa. Each of the
eight flights called out by her franc-Africa transported 70
mercenaries. One additional 
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REFERENCE NUMBERS ANY BI WE HAD SENT IN SO HE COULD PASS THEN TO ACSI.
TOLD HIM WE HAD NO SUCH BI, BUT RECALLED THAT PRESS HAD CARRIED.
CONSIDERABLE INFO ON HOARE BACKGROUND WHICH MIGHT BE AVAILABLE
AT KUBARK HEADQUARTERS. AS FOR WICKS, WE UNDERSTOOD HE RHODESIAN,
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OUT HAD INTENDED QUIT ON 31] DEC, HAD SEON REQUESTED BY KLBARK LEOP
TO RETURN UHICH HE AGREED TO DO. ACTUAL AGREEMENT ON TERMS OF PAY
WAS 10 JANUARY 1955. UNLESS ADVISED TO CONTRARY PLAN TO PAY HEM
$9,503 LISS $150 AS TOTAL SETTLEMENT OF ALL CLAINS,
2. S AGREED FOR PIPY TO REVIEU AIY PIOLICATION BY HIN. VE
DISCUSSED HIS SOCK UNICH MUST BE SIGHITTD) TO PUBLISHERS BY 31
KARCH. IT WILL NOT INVOLVE CONGO FOLITICS AND HE WILL NOT HAVE
"OHÉ MEAN THING TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE". WE WILL DO PREL IN ÍNARY
REVIEW OF OUTLINE AND PROGRESS OF BOOK IN ABOUT CHRIE VEIKS TO BE
SURE THAT HE DOES NOT CET INTO FINAL SINGES WITH SCHDTHING OBJECT-1
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AND AFTER STORE
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CES VAS 13 TO GET
INVOLVED IN RHODESIAN AFFAIRS AND THIS INCLUDED ANY RECRUITMENTS,
TRAINING OR ANYTHING ELSE. HE AGREED. UTTHOUT ANY EDICATION OF
ANY POSSIBLI FUTURE USE BY US, U¿ ASED HET IF KO MIGHT BE INNTERESTED
ATYTIC IN THE FUTURE IN TRAINERS K FOR CARLA TYPE ACT-
IVITIES. HE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT 12 $217. UNILE THIS DISCUSSION
WAS TOO VAGUE TO FLAN ON, WE THINK HE WOULD DO NEARLY ANYTHING VE
ASKED HIM TO.
TO HAVE BEEN SCH
REFUSAL TO TELL HIM GOOD3Y. HE SAID THAT HE DID NOT ASK TO SEE
HOSUTU. VICHES UARTED
KOSUTU. VICES VANTED TO SEE LOSUTU AND AFTER CONSIDERABLE URSING
SVE TO POUIS AND ASKED IF HOBUTU WOULD SEE VICKES. POUIS
ANSWERED NO SINCE MCBUTU WAS VERY BUSY.. POUIS TOLD S THAT HE COULD
SEE HOBUTU IF HE HAD ANYTHING HEU TO TAKE UP. S REPLIED THAT HE
NAD NOTHING. HE ADVISED THAT BOTH ME AND NOBUTU REGARDED THEIR
LUNCHION AFTER HOBUTU HAD TAKEN OVER AS GOODBY, - WICKES VAS
VERY HAD AND TOOK BUIDES OF PAPERS FOR HOBETU TO SIGN IN CADER
GET TO
SECAR03 WAS
UICKES WAS REFUSED ADHITTANCE
COMPLETELY RELAXED ON SUBJECT. COULD HE POSSIBLY KAVE BEEN TALKING
ABOUT UICIES IN LECP 2563, IF NOT ME CERTAINLY HAS RECONSIDERED
HIS VIEWPOINT.
° S IS NOT INTERESTD IN RETURNING TO CONGO AT THIS TIME. WE
DID NOT SLEGEST THAT HE DO SC. BUT AT SAME TIME HE DOES NOT EXCLUDE
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HAT IF THIRD VAS Y DEA
UOULD RETURN, PETERS COULD NOT BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE
HIS LE DISCUSSION INDICATE THAT I INVISIONS THAT
WAY RETURN. S ADVISED THAT END INSURED PAY FOR THE
ERCENARISS THROUGH 31 DEC BUT HE DID NOT KNOW THINGS WOULD
GO AFTER THAT.
SECARCE UAS HIGH IN HIS PRAISE OF HIS CASE OFFICER WHO
REGARDED AS VERY HELPFUL AND REGRETTED NOT BEING ABLE TO BID
FAREWELL TO COS LEOP
AS AN ASIDE, S CAUTIONED TH UNAT DELEVED TO BE LEOP'S
VEDU THAT COBUTU WAS FRIENDLY TO KLARK IS URONS. STATED THAT
HAD HEARD GUTU TALK TOO OFTEN FOR THERE TO BE ANY DOLET THAT:
DOES NOT LIKE KUSARK. SHAS NO IDEA WHAT THE BASIS OF THIS
DISLIKE IS AND THINKS THAT IT IS PROBABLY A SCUNTER-REACTION
THE GREAT SERVICES THAT KLBARK HAS RENDERED TO THE CONGO.
THAT THIS WAS A PECULIARITY OF MODUTU'S CHARACTER.
9.
HE SAID
S DOES NOT AT ALL EXCLUDE POSSIBILITY TSHOHDE BESCHING ONE
OF HOBUTUS MINISTERS. HE SAID THAT NODUTU HAS BEEN ACCEPTING SOME.
NOVICE AND GUIDANCE FROM TSHONDE. AS TO KASAVICU, S FEELS THAT HE
ALSO MIGHT AT A LATER DATE DECOME A MINISTER UNDER HOBUTU EVEN
THOUGH HE APPEARS TO BE FINISHED AT THIS TIME. BELIEVES THAT A
COMBINATION OF HOBUTU, TSHONDE AND HASAVEBU WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE
CONGO.
10. S'S SON HAS COMPLETELY RECOVERED, HOWEVER, S HAS HAD A
SEVERE ATTACK OF MALARIA.
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PRIORITY
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3314/13368-65
CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)
27 SEPTEMBER 1965
SURRECT
SITREP AS OF 0600 HOURS LOCAL TIME
CONGO, ALBERSVILLE
(27 SEPTEMBER 1965)
28 SEPTEMBER 1965
DISTIL
61285
RELD REPORT NO ACL 3936
ARPEST OF TWO SORALIS ALBERTVILLE.
THIS IS AN ALBERTVILLE SITUATION REPORT PREPARED AT 0600 HOURS LOCAL TIME ON,
28 SEPTEMBER 1965 8. CAS.
GN 27 SEPT. 1995
COLLPAN OF THE FIRTH COMMANDOS (5.000).
REACHED LULIMBA AND WAS
PREPARING TO MOVE TOWARDS LUBONDJA ON 28
SEPT. HIS COLUMN LED BY HAJUR ALISTAIR WICKES HAD 3 OF ITS
MEN WOLDED DUING THE MOVEMEN FROM SENDERA TO LULIMEA (SOURCE:
PILOT BRIEFING. CONGOLESE AIRFARE SUCRAFT HAVE HAD THE ONLYS
CONTACT
IT WITH THE FIFTH COO SINCE 26 SEPT).
2. ON 27 SEPT, CONGOLESE MIRFORCE PILOTS OBSERVED A 5.000
HICH LENCE OF DARAKA,
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UNIT WAS LATER SEEN LEAVING BARAKA APPARENTLY WITH THE INTENT OF
UNLOADING BARGES WHICH WERE ARRIVING NORTH OF BARAKA.
PILOT DEBRIEFINGS).
SOURCE:
3. ON 27 SEPT A FATAC C-47 AIRCRAFT ARRIVED IN ALBERTVILLE
TO SUPPORT THE ANC OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE CONGOLESE REBELS NORTH
OF ALBERTVILLE. THIS AIRCRAFT WILL BE USED TO RESUPPLY ISOLATED
UNITS AND TO DROP SURRENDER LEAFLETS. FOUR, 7-TON TRUCKS, HAVE
ALSO BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO OPS SUD: TO CARRY SUPPLIES FROM.
ELIZABETHVILLE TO ALBERTVILLE (SOURCE: LT COL HARDIENNE PRINCIPAL
ADVISOR TO OPS SUD).
ON 25 SEPT 1965 THE TOWN OF LUSANGI FELL INTO REBEL HANDS.
NO DEFINITE INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE AS TO THE SIZE OF THE
ATTACKING FORCE OR THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE DEFENDING ANC TROOFS.
(SOURCE: HARDIENNE).
5. ON 27 SEPT 1965" TWO SOMALI CITIZENS WERE ARRESTED AT THE HOTEL
DULAC, IN ALBERTVILLE. THIS HOTEL SERVES AS THE PRINCIPAL BILLET
FOR THE EUROPEAN ADVISORS TO THE ANC IN ALBERTVILLE. THE SOMALIS
PAPERS WERE FOUND TO BE IN ORDER AND THEY WILL PROBABLY BE
RELEASED ON 28 SEPT.
6. ON 27 SEPT 1965, THE OPS SUD ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS PLANS
TO MOVE TO BENDERA AT THIS SAME TIME THE NINTH COMMANDO BATTAL JONN-
IS TO MOVE FROM LULIMBA TO MAKUNGU AND KATSHOKA. TWO DAYS LATER
THE FIFTH INF BN US TO COMMENCE ITS ADVANCE FROM BENDERA TO MAKUNGU,
SECRET YUNGU AND KABIMBA. (SOURCE: HARDIENNE).
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SEE FINE ODCUPROBLEMS SOLVED.
FIVE CDO DAY SYSTEM HAS BEEN EFFECTED WHERE PAY
FROM LEOP
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> EM SAID MONES WOULD PERMIT VERIFICA-
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RETURNS.
2. MAJOR WICKES DUE ALBV 14222, 27 AUGUST WITH REPORT HIS LEOP
MISSION CONCERNING PAY QOSOLVE (AS RCVD). SI INTENDS REPORT THIS
WORD TO TROOPS IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER. WILL ADVISE IMMEDIATE S1
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COL WILLIAMS INFORMED STATION THAT ON MORNING 26 AUGUST
LOGIEST AND MAJOR ICKES HELD MEETING WITH MOBUTU RE 5TH CONDO
PAY PROBLEM. AFTER ARRANGING FOR LOAN FROM DIRECTOR NATIONL BANK
MA
NDELE, MOBUTU CALLED IN PAY MASTER AND MADE ARRANGEMENTS PAY SOME,
.A
UNSPECIFIED, PORTION OF OUTSTANDING PAY IMMEDIATELY. WICKES THEN
WENT TO BANK TO INSURE THAT TRANSFER OF FUNDS TO JOHANESBURG WAS
LLIAMS FELT THIS ONLY STOP SAP MEASURE AND PROBLEM LIKELY
COME UP AGAIN IN A FEW WEEKS.
MADE. CILLIAM
2. WILLIAMS ALSO SAID THAT 80 MERCS KILLED SO FAR IN CONGO AND
GOVT OFDIGATED PAY FAMILIES ONE MILLION BELGIAN FRANCS FORMACH
BL
DEATH. ALTHOUGH CONGOLESE BUDGETED FOR DEATHS THEY
WID NOT BELIEVE
DEATH RATE WOULD BE SO HIGH.
3. WILLIAMS INFORMED HIS REP ALEV 26 AUG TO NOTIFY HOARE.
WICKES HAS PROBABLY NOTIFIED HOARE DIRECTLY.
4. PLS PASS ABOVE TO GUTHMAN.
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REVERSAL OF SOARE'S DEAKIDS HOT TO
RESSAN HIS CURRED AND TRATE THE CODIO
MESRIVILLE (25 AUGUST 1965)
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STATED THAR HR HAS HOW
CORD SHIF PAY FROBLEMS AIR HOT SEPTIED
80 TO LEOPOLEVIL-8 93 29 ALKKUR
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AND TKICER HIS RESIGNATION DIRECTA
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SOARE BAID THAT HE WILL LEAVE THE CO OF 2. SUPERGER. HOARE SAID THAT FIS
FRIDES NECESSITATES CARRYING THROUGH HAS MAKE TO RESTER,
2. EDARE ALSO STATED THAT ET AS INFORMATION THAT HIS SECOND IS
MAJOR ALISTAIR WICKE, HAS LET IT BONET ER WOULD ER MILLING TO STEP
LRIG THE BREACH SHOULD EQARE CYB OUT OF TER PICTURE. FURTHER, HOARE SEATED
THAT ON 25 AUGUST, 19 MISH MOTIATED OVERCONTION OF OUR OFFICER EXIED
SACKET BAZE HAS PLACED THESE HKH UNCER APHRST AND IS SHIPPING TO
The Eutional Def
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COUNTRY
GO (LECPO DVILLE)
DATE OF
AUGUST 1965
PLACI
14.309-168
SUBJECT
PRTHER DEVELOPMENTS CONCERNT
FIFTH COMMANDO PAY PROBLEMS
DATE AC CONGO, ALBERTVILLE (2) AUGUST 1965)
PRIORITY
314/11599
DISTE 23 AUGUST 1765
FELD REPO NO
37310
ACA 29
COMPETENT AMERICAN OBSERVER PROM LT. COLONEL MICHAEL
COM
CN 21 AUGUST 1965, TCOL MICHAEL HOARE, CO OF THE FIFTH
STATED HE HAD PAST RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM MAJOR GENERAL
MCBUTU TO THE EFFECT THAT MOBUTU PLANNED TO COME TO ALBERTVILLE
24 AUGUST TO DISCUSS FIFTH COMMANDO PAY PROBLEMS, HOARE NOTED.
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LEOPOLDVILLE. WICKS ON 23 AUGUST WILL PRESENT OUT WITH PAY
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COMPETENT AMERICAN OBSERVER FROM MAJOR ALISTAR WICKES, ACTING COMMANDIN
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SOUTH AFRICAN FIFTH COMMANDO (SCDOT CITED 61TTERLY THE WITHDRAWAL
ALBERTVILLE
OF THE SIXTH COMMANDO PERSONNEL FROKI
AND ADJACENT AREAS,
AT THE TIME OF THE ARRIVAL OF ADVANCE PERSONNEL OF THE
EARLY JUNE 1965.
STATED HIS DEVELOPMENT WAS MAKING
NECESSARY FOR HIM TO RESPOND TO LOCAL CONGOLESE
ALBERTVILLE™
ARLA THIS WAS
REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT IN THE
CONTRARY TO INSTRUCTIONS FROM LT COLONEL MICHAEL HOARE (SCDE
WHO NOW IN SOUTH AFRICA: PREPARING TO RETURN TO
APPROXIMATELY 200 NEW RECRUITS,
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ALBERTVILLE
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SUPPORT TO ANG GARRISONS IN THE AREA BUT ONLY FOR TRAINING OF
THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS AND THE IMMEDIATE SUBSEQUENT MILITAR
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NUMBER 2821007965
DATE: 2 JUNE 1965
SUBJECT: WICKS Allistair
CLASSIFIEATION: CONFIDENTIAL
FILE NO: NOT LISTED
SUBJECT:
PROBLEMS AFFECTING 5th Bde Operations,
Northern 
Congo
THIRD AGENCY
Wiels Allista
Deer Clunga End Mr. Kanza wil
them the recent developments
SAY
SENG TO TALK 3
English 1224 GT 25
(FOR OFFICIAL USE
have been sent to
(Text). Cars--Four Congolese insurgent"
Thembe on a peaceful Settle-
spoloville for talks with Prime Min
ment of the Congo problem, insurgents
are today. The source said
the emissaries had been dispatched by the president of the "Congo Hational
sin Cairo.
Comitee," Boteneley-Davidson, whe
The ar said that because or visions in the insurgens ranks, the Sudanese
Govenient had informed them it could nonger allow the transport dams 
or
The source also said 
the UAR
equip through its territory to their forces.
Government had told the insurgent leaders
ceasing arms shipments and
cutting off financial help because there was he evidence of a united insurgent
government.
CONFIRMS HORE'S RESON
STA
Parić 633 in French 2230 min 23 April 1965-
(Text)
named "d"
his resignation
Major Allist
One last
23
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Herendes being the bedpove vemment, has turned in
beachable source of history confirmed. Here,
leave the Congo together with his aquitant,
of incesty and perhaps of the 300 men in his unit.
contract expiresy way.

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SECAROB/2 (S/2) AND BABY LEFT FOR DURBAN AFTERNOON 3 HAY.
STAYING AT MOTEL EVENING 3 NAY AND ARRIVING DURBAN 4 MAY.
GICKS HAS BEEN CALLING S/2'S MOTHER BUT NO ONE INCLUDING HER MOTHER
KNEW WHERE SHE WAS. SHE WELCOMED REF AND WILL CALL WICKS FROM
DURBAN.
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RETURN PROBABLY AROAND BEGINNING JUNE FOR ONE MONTH LEAVE.
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40.338
FFICIAL BRITISH SERVICE FROM A SOLACE DESCRIBED AS HELL IONON, EXPERIENCED
ABLE FROM ALISTAIR WICKS.
HAJOR MIKE, HOAR
MERCENARY FORCE, TOGETHER MITE HIS SECOND-IN-COM
CONGOLESE GO
ALISTAIR WICKS,
RETURNED TO STANLEYVILLE AREA OF CONGO TO RESUME OPERATIONS DURING
THE THIRD WEEK OF JANUARY THEIR RETURN FOLLOWED FURTHER DIRECT
NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRESIDENT: TSHOMBE DURING WHICH TSYOMBE ACCEPTED
RECOMMENDATIONS PUT TO HIM IN STRONG TERMS GY: HOARE AND ASSURED HOARE
OF MIS CONFIDENCE IN HIM,
THE MERCENARY: FORCE LEADERS WERE CONFIDENT THEY COULD NOW DEAL
WITH THE AGRTHERN CONGO SITUATION PROVIDED THE 30% ADDITIONAL
MERCENARIES, WHOSE ENGAGEMENT TEHOMME HAS ACCEPTED, ARE BROUGHT INT
using Que National Deton Rate the Espinzage
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INDISPENSABLE IN THE FACE OF IMPROVED ARMAMENT, WHICH HAS SEEN SUPPLIED
THE REBEL FORCES AND WHICH HAS ALREADY INFLICTED UNNECESSARY.
CASUALTIES UN MERCENARIES USING CONVENTIONAL TRANSPORT
3. FIELD DISSEM: STATE CINCHEAPSA ALSO SENT LE POLOVILLE PRETORIA
BRUSSELS KHARTOUM ELISABETHVILLE CAPE
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REPORT NUMBER: 1821001665
DATE: 28 Jan 65
SUBJECT: WICKS ALISTAIR
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SAYS THAT CONTRARY TO CENERAL BELIEF, ARMS LANDED
+CRUIR AIRFIELD ARE NOT TRANSSHIPPED TO ARUA. INSTEAD
GAR, BICYCLE AND FOOT SHOT TO ADD OVER ROAD NOT SHOWN
SHE SUSPECTS THAT CHIERS RESIDENCE IN ADE USED AS AMMO
(AGCORDING 5/1 KLEINSCHR ES ALL-ROUND EXPERT ON NORTHEAST
WE HAVE ADDRESS AND CAN DESNIKF FURTHER IF DESIRED. SHE
HING STATES MARCH (5).
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A 8, (GAAP) ON 25 JAN, HIRST, WHO PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ON
PAGE, OFFERED TO TAKE OVER SQUADRON" AND TO OBTAIN
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FILE N.: Not Listed From: Leopoldville
SUBJECT: Not listed
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DATE:
23 January 1965
SUBJECT: WICKS, Alister
CLASSIFICATION: Confidential
FILS #: Not listed
FROM: Leopoldville
SUBJECT: Not listed
THIRD AGENCY
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DATE: 30 May 64
SUBJECT: WICKS ALISTAIR
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
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SUBJECT:
21st Support Squadon
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1. BY LETTER TO MRS. PUGH DATED 8 OCTOBER SECARO3/2 ADVISED
SHE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. SHE WAS CONFINED TO BED WEEK PREVIOUS.
LETTER DUE TO USUAL "HEART BUSINESS" BUT OTHERWISE EVERYTHING IS
GOING EXCELLENTLY. DOCTOR CONFIRMS THIS AND ADVISES THAT BABY
SHOULD ARRIVE ABOUT 17 NOVEMBER. LETTER NOT. CLEAR ON FOLL POINT
BUT APPARENTLY DOCTOR HAS REQUESTED SECAROS/1'S BLOOD GROUP.
ADVISE IF POSSIBLE.
2,
PLS
SECAROS/2 RECEIVED CALL FROM JOHANNESBURG 6 OCT FROM DES
BARNES, WHO SAYS HE IS IN CHARGE JOHANNESBURG OFFICE AND THAT
PATRICK C'HALLEY HAS BEEN RELIEVED.
GRANT TO SEE SECAROR/2 ON 7 OCT BUT HE DID NOT ARRIVE. ASK SECAROB/1
FOR BACKGROUND ON BARNES AND GRANT.
BARNES WAS SENDING DONALD
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THE FIELD. THEY ARE LOCATED AT SUNAVU, LISALA, GENENA, INGENDE.
THERE ARE THREE LEFT AND ARRANGEMENTS ARE BEING MADE FOR ONE HUNDRED
MORE MEN. THESE MÉN WILL ARRIVE SCON AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEM
ARE BEING MADE BY SECARO3/1 PERSONALLY, SINCE ALISTAIR SICKS AND
PATRICK O'MALLEY HAVE MADE SUCH A MESS OF PREVIOUS RECRUITING
THE MERCENARIES ARE GENERALLY IN GOOD SPIRITS AND SECAROB/1
ESTIMATES THAT THE REBELS WILL BE SUBDUED IN ABOUT SIX WEEKS IF
HE IS ALLOWED TO USE HIS JUDGEMENT IN FIGHTING. SECAROB/1
BELIEVES THAT THE BELGIANS ARE NOT ANXIOUS FOR THE WAR TO BE OVER
TOO SOON AS THEY ARE BUILDING UP ANOTHER SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN
THE CONGO WITH DOZENS OF OFFICERS AND MEN RUNNING HEADQUARTERS AND
LOGISTICAL TEAMS.
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(Pascibility moved coup against Postombe
(much 
dissatisfaction of Mabuit in Army)
ON 5 SEPTOBER 64, HERCENARY COMUSER MAJOR MICHAEL HOARE TË
SAID PRIVATELY THAT WE STILL IN ALGERTVILLE EARLIER THAT WEEK HE
HAD RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSOLEST NATICHAL ARNY (ANC)
COMANDER-IN-CHIEF MA
ALMOST TO CANCEL ALL IN-
COMING DRAFTS OF MERCENARIER HOARE USEDIATELY SENT TELEDRANS
TO PATRICK O'MALLEY IN JOHAISESBURG AND ALASTAIR WICKS IN SALISBURY
TO STOP RECRUITING. 3 SEPTEMBER, HOARE PLEM ER ALBERTVILLE
TO KAMINA CASE; WERE ON SEPTEMBER 1978 WICKS WHO ARRIVED ABUARD
A. DC-3 WITH 33 FN JUST AS HOARE HAS ASCUT TO LEAVE FOR LEOPOLOVILLE
WICKS EXPLAINER
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THAT THE VEN HAD ALREADY SIGNED CONTRACTS; AND THAT BY 7 SEPTEMBER
THERE WOULD SE A TOTAL OF 789 MERCENARIES AT KAMINA; 440 ALREADY.
THERE, 260 TO ARRIVE, (FIELD COMMENTS A MERCENARY BOLL CALL FROM
KAMINA BASE DATED 32 AUGUST SHOWED A TOTAL STRENGTH THEN OF 216.)
HOARE DESCRIBED THE GENERAL LEVEL OF THE MERCENARIES AT KAMINA
AS EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD SOME 20, HE SAID, HAVE DEEN WEEDED OUT
AND SENT BACK FOR VARIOUS PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES, THE REST ARE
"YOUNG, ADVENTUROUS AND EAGER,
TROOPS,
EXCELLENT SOLDIERS,
THERE IS CHE PLATOON OF 25 PARA-
HOARE FOUND THE QUARTERS ASSIGNED HIS
MEN UNSATISFACTORY AND TOOK OVER THE LAST AND REST BUILDINGS ON
THE BASE THREE BUILDINGS BUILT AROUND A QUARDRANGLE AND, HE SAID,
EASILY DEFENDED IF NEED BE. HOARE ADMITTED THAT THE EQUIPPING AND
ARMING OF THE MERCENARIES GOING VERY SLOWLY, HE HAD MANAGED
HOWEVER, TO GET EACH AN A RIFLE AND AMANITIONS POST EQUIPMENT
COMES FROM BELGIUM,
3. DURING THE MORNING OF 5 SEPTEMBER, HOARE SAID, HE SAW COLONEL
FREDERIC VANDERVALLE, MICITARY ADMISER TO CONGO PREMIER MOISE TSHOMBE.
VANDERWALLE, WHO ACCORDING TO HOARE MADE NO ATTEMPT TO BE PLEASANT,
GREETED HIM WITH, WHY DON'T YOU OBEY INSTRUCTIONS; 1: SAID, NO MORE
MEN HOARE SAID THAT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES HE FELT THE MATTER
SHOULD BE TAKEN UP DIRECTLY WITH MOBUTU. HCARE, VANDER MALLE AND
BELGIAN AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL (FNU) BOUZIN THEN MET WITH
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THE SAME QUESTION, HARE REPLIED,
YOU ASKED FOR 1,909 ME OUT THEM; AND I CAN'T-STOP W
WHAT DO YOU WANT
OR ADMINISTER 1,
TO DO?" MOBUTLEREPLIED,
HCH AT ONE TIME,
"WE CANNOT EQUIP
YOU MUST REDUCE YOUR UNIT TO
MEN AT ONCE.
• AFTER RELATING. THE ABOVE, HOARE COMENTED THAT HE BELIEVED
THE DECISION TO REDUCE THE MERCENARY. FORCE IS MOBUTUS AND VAN-
DERMALLE 3. HE THINKS THAT MOSUTU FEARS THAT THE
MEN-AT
THE EVENT OF
HOARE SAID THERE
KAMINA BASE WOULD BE LOYAL TO TSHOMBE PERSONALLY
AN UPHEAVAL. ASKED WHAT HE MEANT BY CAN UPHEAVAL
WAS EVERY POSSIBILITY OF A COUP DE FORCE AGAINST TSHOMBE
ENGINEERED BY NOSUTU WITH THE SUPPORT CE CHIEF OF STATE JOSEPH
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TO A HEAD WITHIN THE ANC, AND THERE IS SOME POSSIBILITY OF AN
OFFICERS UPRISING ALA INST HIM.
15. HOARE CONCLUDED BY COMMENTING THAT THE ANC COMMAND SEEKS TO
HAVE NO HEART IN WHAT IT IS TRYING TO DO FORCES ARE TOO THINY
SPREAD, AND LEADERSHIP IS INADEQUATE VANDERWALLE IS NO TACTICIAN,
AVILO RADIATEUR42
TOO EASILY INFLUENCED, PARTICULARLY BY A CERTAIN (FN) WATTIER,
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TIES WHO WERE RECRUITING HERE
AT
TURN TO CONGO WAD NO MONEY BUT WERE ALWAYS EXPECTING
FROM TONER. EVIDENCE THIS IN SECAROB DIARY REFERRED
IS STATEMENT REGARDING TSHOMBE'S 18 JULY. CABLE TO
SAAN TSHONDE ONES THEM ABOUT SIX THOUSAND POUNDS".
POINT. IN DIARY. AFTER TS HOMBE HAD TOLD SECAROS PROCEED WITH
DUILDING MR MARCENARIES, SECAROB HOTED "TOLD HIM WE MUST HAVE THE
CONTRACT BY 1003 FRIDAY SO THAT MY MEN COULD RETURN TO SALISBURY
TOTERING UP THE SMALL ARMY. RATES OF PAY
SO TICKET NO LAUNDRY" AT ANOTHER POINT.
S
HAVE HAD TIFTEEN THOUSAND ROUNDS TRANUFERRED TO
NG TO PAY POD-AIR CRAFT REPAIRS, TRAVEL TICKETS,,
AT ANOTHER FOINT HE NOTED THAT HE
TO JOHANNESBURG AND NICK TO SALISBURY BUT
1. E. SIGNING OF CONTRACT.
3476 HE SAIDING (JULIA (PUREN JOHANNESBURG WITH THE
MONEY. IN VIEW AGOVE PLUS PREVIOUS DISSERS WOULD CLEARLY INDICATE
TSHIME IS PAYING MERCENARIES.
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DATE: 28 August 1964
SUBJECT: WICKS, ALISTAIR
CLASSIFICATION: LIMITED OFFICIAL USE
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about 500 he says.
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luck. Live Suiting & frost returned to Joburg on 23th.
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by
ed the front, not like other
caused by Jeep Recident. A spent forfo.
=all been. Met Minister
at tells on currency
left in the till in frille. Koited 16 de ce left without accing
him. auL:-5e overwzeArd Artet, Ckzryirs rcs by thre Ecz
Dhekelês and clearly at the
Tab Mobutu and in that order.
buck implentation for lack of
No go.
Not quite the firebrand heating 61 but still a
powerful and ruthless quite expable of forming a secret police on the
spettore.
-ttis &ifqdr ܐܤܪܘܐ ܘܪ ܪ ܐܕwzvta fe
Iveco at Mustic cavaneeth by 205 212 of ca Colonio Magassa a
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allfrents.
NE of Kaze 5630 andar as
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and oven bo
not to enTe.
3151d mohs had
3. tired and looking.
gebring.
to around town but
ned if treener.08 are used
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ܕܪ .o: ܚܐܪ ؛ ܝ ܘܐܐ 
forcesd te öe':
ins to forbid
ܘܐ ܕܒܐܐܟܐ ܘܐ ri edܝܵܐ ܐ ܐܕܐ ert & arat:y stetesܯ Saak
be used, but western world plainly dous for the ceas to be cleared
ܘ 116 1o-x ܕ iitarysfattoa not dz-T& de wiat it£
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dܩ ܙs, ie ard ccr; re&atc to be sted duܐܐ sé-athiza
estroyed.
ܐ ܐܪܝ ܘܐܐܕܪ ehT pes zis cMation؛hiut tuo adta
The retaking of speely like succes
failure.
be the th At the posat they are anisera
Munongo told no he had resuscitated Rome with 8 tems food and
35m frances. Three days later efteration boon
(ܘܐܐܗܘ zaziaz $ܕ ܗܕܗ ܐܠarve in y abutu (eoq
. ܪܪܡܐ ܠܟ ܐd otrܝriot kiling a
the village was deserted and had run
Some fun.
e !t the rout
Gerry and Julian (Gerry's wife) had tea with songs on Sunday 8th.
I was 
invited but feel Gerry outineered no for some reason.
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other business. Says he will part
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• troops not
Noll armed S
ast is by
pe that there
2itter
recognis
of
Cross
saved the nations of the world to
vas begirains to Loscher Teis decision.
Juss
Sent for
me
Say Montic
Sears Lotativ- unfounded.
3 to shobo to Slazie
the ance, see God
to the io dut
, officicat, poverty
pay
&,pointment for day, cart all the way, Car at
our dia osal, laisser passer, everything.
Next day
b.
thing. Spunt
Whole dam.
in the hotel waiting
eattively medieval.
Next day, Thursday sense of
and rod carpet laid out grain,
with hia in the evening white be disced his escape froa
Kipushi in 1952! Very convivint but the tired to finalis our
contracts. Tomorrow at 10. Monchile Nebate getting maxious
and has done what he can. Alapted General Bibero whi is waiting
for me in Kazina. Ian to fly there tonero
ail materiel, transport, planet of the
detic Major pour vous. Ito ay three times to
make I had not misheard is
Grey Besturul to tabuta ead Takombo
Taco twice and crank boar
acti
2
5. Assures me
Complet entomonta
on général.
me to be under ty
Gerry took it very
role there. Got my
15 ? des pilots Puren.
well but I do not intend to play a hndry
task from home personally- give
the Congo, Muneno
Kabato yangu Albertvitto Urald Si vering a fat hand and
laughing. Tlocks fit des site stoging
tile. Eyes shining
aite for avor, body. A dipteral in the world acres Told
him ve ust Have the contract by on Friday so that by sta
could retrun to Salisbury' and Joburg to bring up the small cray.
Rates of pay must be finalised, no ticket no tendry. He laughed
Get as many white troops as I vit he said. 1 told him ve
vou! began with 200.
Friday today.
Waited all morning for bomb and Nobutu! Pinally
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ܪ ܝܘ ܐ: ܘܡ iscce faluo- ܕ ܥܠ ܢܘܬ Their fixsmission
Too Härwards took off yesterday at 1340 to blast the rebels
L this morning.
ent.
ܕܕܢܐܝܬ atvod ܐܒܘ r Congo؛ܐ tra eat bages ed ex br
ete the mission today in theother Harvard
Sasoned to the Palace at 1303 hrs. Mobutu arrived at 1335 and
·● gave him the pro forma contract we had prepared for the entistmeat.
Ushered in to the presence 1800 Ers.
,aboéaܝܺ ܘܗܒzezcat Mcrc
Tshomba
Metutu, Lindaka (Security Minister), Julia and cyself.
mat as hell with Julia.. Why does it take five visits to get the
satiest thing fixed etc. Julia answered him back.
Finally put a straight question to me
I said yes but owing to the Cost
.ܖܡ a contract of C as arܟܒEata
of living expected higher rates. Thobe pointed to the Index clause
and said that took care of the evaluation of money. I insisted on a
written contract which they do and signed there and then. Have origi
o. hy ws 1 not in dazies .:rܗ ܘܐ ܠܪܟܐ Next As5uta very isita::A
Gra Eobozo was waiting for no and why were the SA mon not there as
romised today? Explained.
Na
.frc- Tszo.ba ܐܐܢܐܕܕܐ £
od it take to bring one than 1000.
I said a month.
Must cruc
Hobutu tE¢ads hi
.sed cticn! ozitíoaܪܐܚܐ .ܪܐܢܢܡ ܘtas zsosi yita qu
..ܐthe re5o1s, Eo ݇, nox, a:- asti:s :ist cs ta5
 ܺܪܘܐ ܘ؛x and proܡܕ ܐܘ cet pice:
.Adurtvíl e, Urire ,ܪܐܘx ,ܖzsa
my orders. First
ܗܘ , & ,a oega uit؛ 50 ,s؛ܟ ܘܪܥܥ ܕozt Sten. Gatorcs . Croc
ܕ t be doe؛ ܕC ܪܕs .ith Tesá grceܪܘܚܝ Eo to ke ond of zy
Rosied yes, if you give me the material and force ariche.
everything. Stayed and had spirith Tehabe.
Told him how Churchil
had called Wingate and to conquer Burda –
desting said Churchill. Now you cha
your Fan of destiny.
to give you the Conge, I in
bly novel and shook by saraly by the
ill succeed.
hand folto ed by the cerche,
great confidence in you, Inc. I was deeply Evelyn the
•
instrument to reshare the Congo and verlays ava
to be their
& decades
sit free of an
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the hotel
3.
de me this evening
trafeferred to Jon
- request) and vi
to getting the
they were busy with
ed early this mornin
Heanwhile have had
who to pay for eirce ref:
Tisbury.
Eriority Eist nov
Gerry de 19 Elself with cent tɔday..
to a field scar there.
in one, and
civilies clothes, no helmets,
pretty rough kitos.
no ho cots th
uch time
they set
in the other stillevens
butes ca that lock like
plenty of nuts but little judgment
will take threeders.
2230 hrs.
(Aristinct)
will Ply to Jo'burg vid 1.
livia) & bui
2005207. Latest Wedsed
expecting first list
Red 100 each (8 of us) in
taly Livetical pay..
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15-signallers canab of working
8 days time.
over GU"
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SUBJECT: INSTRUCTIONS FROM TSHOMSE AND MOBUTU FOR CONCENTRATION
OF 15 MERCENARY PILOTS AND 200 MERCENARY GROUND TROOPS AT 
KAMINA
;
PRESUMED PLAN OF CAMPAIGN; PREPARATIONS.
DOI:
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CONGO REPUBLIC, LEOPOLUVILLE 12 AUGUST 64.
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INSTRUCTIONS OF SHOMBE AND MOBUTU FOR CON-
CENTRATION OF MERCENARIES AT KAMINA PRE-
SUMED PLAN OF CAMPAIGN;
PREPARATIONS
PLACE &
"DATE ACQ. CONGO,
LOVILLE (12 AUGUST 1964)
SOURCE
REF
49806
FIELD REPORT NO.
ACL 2788
AND
APPRAISAL A WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (B) FROM A FORMER KATANGA MERCENARY (C) FROM HOARE.
APPRAISAL: 2 (THAT MOARE MADE THESE STATEMENTS AND THAT THEY ACCURATELY
REFLECT THE FACTS AS HE KNOWS THEN)
ON 11 AUGUST 64, EUROPEAN MERCENARY COMMANDER MICHAEL HOARE
SAID PRIVATELY THAT AT 0915 HOURS THAT SAME MORNING, PREMIER MOISE
TSHOMBE HAD SENT A CAR TO PICK UP HIM AND MERCENARY AIR COMMANDER
JEREMIAH PUREN AND WIFE, FOR AN 0932 APPOINTMENT. THEY WAITED UNTIL
1000 HOURS AND THEN SAW TSHOMBE FOR "EXACTLY FOUR MINUTES. THIS
WAS. HOARE'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH HIM SINCE ARRIVING IN THE CONGO
ON 25 JULY. THE GIST OF WHAT TSHOMBE SAID WAS, "HOW SOON CAN YOU
BRING YOUR MEN IN THIS IS VERY URGENT, AND WE WANT
YOU IMMEDIATELY." (FIELD COMMENT:
THE MENTION OF "YOUR
MEN" IS CEVIOUSLY A REFERENCE TO OTHER EUROPEAN MERCENARIES STANDING
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SY TO SOME TO THE CONGO.) TSHOME THEN WROTE A PASS IN HIS OWN!
HAND AND SENT HOARE AND THE PURENS IN A STAFF CAR TO SEE CONGOLESE
NATIONAL ARMY (ANC) COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH MOBUTU.
HOARE COMMENTED; RECEIVED RED CARPET TREATMENT ALL THE WAY."
SPENT HALF AN HOUR WITH MOBUTU, DURING WHICH PERIOD TSHOMBE
TELEPHONED, TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE THERE AND TO TELL THEM TO REPORT
BACK TO HIM AFTER THEIR TALK WITH MOBUTU
A TO HIMTA
IM AFTER T
HOARE SAID THAT THROUGH-
OUT THE MEETING MOBUTU WAS "CHARMING AND MOST COOPERATIVE, AGREEING
TO EVERYTHING. HE APPEARED "MORE ENTRENCHED THAN EVER" AND
"IN FULL CONTROL (SIC) OF THE SITUATION."
3. MOBUTU SAID THAT HOARE, THE MERCENARY PILOTS AND 200 ADDITONAL
MERCENARIES ARE TO BE FLOWN, TO, KAMINA. MOBUTU THEN TOLD PUREN HE
COULD HAVE 15 PILOTS. PUREN IMMEDIATELY PRODUCED A LIST OF SEVEN
PILOTS WHO HAD BEEN WITH HIM IN KATANGA IN 1961 AND ARE NOW WAITING
IN LONDON AND BRUSSELS. TO HOARE'S SURPRISE, MOBUTU QUICKLY STARTED
PUTTING THROUGH LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS AND IN TWO HOURS
THE JOB WAS DONE." THESE SEVEN, PLUS THE THREE NOW IN LEOPOLOVILLE
(JAMES HEDGES, ERROL KINGMAN AND PETER MACKINTOSH), PLUS PUREN, LEAVE
FOUR STILL NEEDED. PUREN IS SENDING TO JOHANNESBURG FOR THEM.
HOARE COMMENTED THAT AT THE MOMENT THERE ARE SIX T-6'S AVAILABLE
• IN LEOPOLOVILLE. (FIELD COMMENT: THIS APPEARS TO BE A MISTAKE.
FOUR ARMED T-6'S ARRIVED IN LEOPOLDVILLE FROM LUANDA ON 8 AUGUST,
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BUT THEIR CONDITION IS UNCERTAIN SINCE PRIOR TO THIS FLIGHT THEY
HAD NOT BEEN FLOWN FOR AT LEAST A YEAR. EIGHT MORE ARE: EXPECTED
FROM LUANDA. THERE ARE ALSO SIX T-6'S SUPPLIED BY THE ITALIAN AIR
FORCE TO THE CONGOLESE AIR FORCE. THESE LATTER ARE NOT ARMED;
THE FIRST ONE SHOULD ASSEMBLED AND READY TO FLY DURING THE
WEEK BEG HING 9 AUGUST.).
4. MOEUTU OFFERED HOARE THE RANK OF MAJOR, WHICH HE ACCEPTED
WITH THE PROVISO THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO BELGIAN OF SUPERIOR RANK
IN THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. ASTAGREED WITH MOBUTU. THE COMMAND LINE WILL
RUN FROM TSHOMBE TO MORUTU TO MAJOR-GENERAL LOUIS BOBOZO TO HOARE;
AND THE WHOLE FORCE WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO THE ANC.
HOARE SAID. HE
805OZO
HAS CHRISTENED THE OPERATIONAL UNIT #FIVE COMMANDO-ANC."
HE ADDED, IS NOW WAITING FOR HIM ATİKAMINA; AND THERE IS A POSS-
IBILITY THAT HE AND ALASTAIN WICK, HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND, WILL
HOARE SAID HE IS PRE-
DE FLOWN THERE ON THE NIGHT OF 12 AUGUST.
PARING A LIST OF THE SUPPLIED AND EQUIPMENT HE WILL NEED AND CLAIMED
THAT MODUTŲ AGREED, "WITHOUT ACTUALLY SAYING SO," THAT THE LIST COULD
BE AMENDED AFTER HOARE HAD PERSONALLY CHECKED OUT THE SITUATION.
5. HOARE SAID THAT. THE MILITARY OBJECTIVES AS HE SEES THEM ARE
TO BE MANONO, KONGOLO AND ALBERTVILLE. HE PLANS TO SEND PATRICK
O'MALLEY, WHO ARRIVED IN LEOPOLDVILLE ON 8 AUGUST OSTENSIBLY AS A
JOURNALIST BUT ACTUALLY ON HOARE'S INSTRUCTIONS, BACK TO JOHANNES-
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ON A SATISFACTORY CONTRACT" (FIELD COMMENT: SEE ACL-2764-
FROM THE SAME SOURCE FOR AN EARLIER REFERENCE BY HOARE TO
AS HIS CONTACT MAN" WITH THE MERCENARIES ON CALL IN JOHANNES-
BURC.) HCARE WANTS THE FIRST PLANELOAD OF MEN FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO ARRIV
AT KAMINA BY 17 AUGUST, AND THE SALANCE WITHIN 10 DAYS. HE PLANS TO
SEND WICKS TO SALISBURY ON 16 AUGUST TO RAISE 30 MEN THERE.
RETURNING TO THE SUBJECT OF THE CONTRACT, HOARE SAID THAT THE
ONE USED IN 1961 IS NOT ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY AS A MODEL FOR A NEW
ONE AND WILL HAVE TO BE AMENDED IN "CERTAIN RESPECTS". ONE NEW CLAUSE
THAT: HOARE INTENDS TO HAVE INCLUDED IS THAT HE MUST BE ABLE TO
TERMINATE THE CONTRACT ON HIS OWN JUDGEMENT." HE ADDED THAT HE
FORESEES NO DIFFICULTY WITH MOBUTU ON THIS SCORE.
.7. AFTER THE INITIAL HALF HOUR MEETING WITH MOBUTU ON THE
MORNING OF 11 AUGUST, HOARE AND THE PURENS RETURNED TO SEE HIM AT
1530 HOURS THE SAME DAY. MOBUTU WAS JUST THEN LEAVING TO SEE TSHOMBE
AND THE GROUP FOLLOWED. THEY WERE KEPT WAITING UNTIL 1900 HOURS
WHILE MOBUTU AND TSHOMSE CONFERRED IN PRIVATE. WHEN THEY WERE
FINALLY RECEIVED, THEY PRESENTED NOSUTU WITH AN ESTIMATE
OF EXPENSES TO BE INCURRED WHICH HE. READ OVER AND APPROVED.
8. FIELD DISSEN:
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60 MERCE TIES AND THE PRO-
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ALBERTVILLE AND SUBSEQUENT
HOW RELGIAN MILITARY ADVISORS TO ANC
. PLACE &
DATE ACC..
REFVULIC OF THE Comas, LEPOLOVILLE (20 AUGUST 1964) RƠ
1057575
SQUICE
FIELD REPORT NO.
ACL 2822
AND
APPRAISAL WESTERN BUSINESSMAN (8); FROW CHATANGA HERCENARY (C), FROM HOARE.
APPRAISALI 2 (THAT HOARE'S STATEMENTS ACCURATELY REFLECT HIS
VIEWS AND THE FACTS AS RENOUS TREN).
11. ON 20. AUGUST 64, MERCENARY COMMANDER MICHAEL HOARE SAID
PRIVATELY THAT MRS JEREMIAH PUREN, WIFE OF THE MECENARY AIR FORCE
COMMANDER, HAD ARRIVED IN JOHANNESBURG FROM LEOPOLOVILLE ON 17
AUGUST WITH THE CONGOLESE GOVT FUNDS NEEDED TO PROCEED WITH MER-
CINARY RECRUITING. ALTHOUGH HOAPE HAS HAD NO NEWS OF HER MOVEMENTS
SINCE THEN, HE CONFIDENTLY EXPECTS THE FIRST DRAFT OF MERCENARIES,
ETWEEN AND OF THEM, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS SECOND-IN-COMAND ALASTAIR.
MICHS, TO ARRIVE AT KAMINA BASE FROM JOHANNE SUURG ABOARD A RHODESJAN
AIR SERVICES FLIGHT ON 21 AUGUST. SOME OF THEM WILL HAVE BEEN RE-
RITED IN JOHANNESBURG, SOME IN SALISPLAY, SILLETS, EQUIPMENT AND
Thoracic ferding the item of the themaning of the Sagtige Lowe TR
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SUPPLIES ARE READY FOR THEM. HOARE HIMSELF PLANS TO FLY TO KAMINA
EARLY ON 21 AUGUST. ON ARRIVAL THERE, HIS FIRST TASK WILL BE TO
SET UP A HEADQUARTERS CAPABLE OF HANDLING AN INFLUX OF UP TO 100
MEN AT A TIME.
2. HOARE THEN SAID THAT HIS PRESENT PLAN IS TO FORM FIVE COMMANDOS
OF 197 MERCENARIES EACH (COMMANDOS "A" THROUGH "E"). - EACH IS TO HAVE
AN ARMORED SPEARHEAD IN THE FORM OF A "FERRET" OR OTHER LIGHT ARMORED
CAR; AND ALL COMMANDOS WILL HAVE TO OPERATE UNDER HOARE'S CONTROL,
SINCE HE HAS NO ONE ELSE CAPABLE OF ASSUMING SUBORDINATE COMMAND
-:
AT THIS TIME.
3. HCARE SAID HIS FIRST OBJECTIVE IS ALBERTVILLE, WHICH HE PLANS
TO TAKE FROM THE LAKE, HE HAS CHRISTENED THE ATTACK "OPERATION
WATCHCHAIN" AND HAS DISCUSSED IT IN DETAIL WITH CONGOLESE NATIONAL
ARMY (ANC) COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH MOSUTU AND WITH
COLONEL GUY LOGIEST, RANKING BELGIAN MILITARY ADVISER TO THE ANC.
MOBUTU, ON 19 AUGUST, CONCURRED FULLY IN THE PLAN AND SAID ALL NEEDED
SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT WOULD BE AVAILABLE AT ONCE. HOARE THEN ASKED.
HIM FOR RECONNAISSANCE PLANES, FOR USE IN THE ALBERTVILLE AREA,
WHICH SELGIAN OFFICERS HAD REFUSED HIM DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO
ΚΑΜΙΝΑ. MOSUTU GAVE HIS AGREEMENT TO THEIR USE. ON: 20 AUGUST,
LOGIEST "ENTIRELY APPROVED" OPERATION "WATHCHAIN". ME THEN WENT
ON TO DISCUSS WITH HOARE THE CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE BELGIANS IN
“ALBERTVILLE, WHERE SOME 30 ARE IN PRISON AND SOME IS OTHERS AT LIBERTY
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REFERRING TO THIS CONVERSATION, HOARE SAID IT IS
ESSENTIAL THAT THE WHOLE TOWN BE TAKEN AT ONCE AND NOT PIEGEMEAL,
SINCE. OTHERWISE THE REBELS WILL HAVE TIME TO KILL THE EUROPEANS
THE THEN REVEALED, IN STRICTEST CONFIDENCE, H-HOUR FOR THE ATTACK
OH ALBERTVILLE AS #300 HOURS 30 AUGUST. "NO ONE HAS THIS INFORMATION
NOT EVEN MOBUTU." THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES WILL BE
THE HOTEL DU LAC AND THE WHARF (FIELD COMMENTS
(10cs-314/01366-64 1) FOR A GARBLED VERSION OF HOARE'S
PLANNING FOR THIS OPERATION.)
4. AFTER ALBERTVILLE, HOARE'S TENTATIVE OBJECTIVES ARE FIZI
ALL IN LINE WITH THE GENERAL OPERATIONAL PLAN SUBMITTED
AFTER UVIRA, "THE REAL WAR STARTS,
AND W
TO AND APPROVED BY MOBUTU.
THE OBJECTIVES BEING BUKAVU AND STANLEYVILLE.
HEARE SAID THAT WHEN
HE SAW MOBUTU ON 19 AUGUST, HE HAD ASKED HIM WHAT SHALL I DC WITH
(GASTON EMILE) SOUMIALOT, (PIERRE) MULELE AND OTHER REBEL LEADERS
IF CAPTURED. SHALL SHOOT THEM OR TAKE THEM PRISONER?" MOSUTU'S
ANSWER WAS, "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THESE THINGS," WHICH
HOARE SAID HE INTERPRETS AS TACIT AUTHORITY TO KILL THEM.
5. HOARE THEN SPOKE ENTHUSIASTICALLY ABOUT HIS RECENT CONTACTS.
WITH SELGIAN MILITARY ADVISERS TO THE ANC. ON 19 AUGUST, BELGIAN
AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL (FNU) BOUZIN, WHOM HOARE DESCRIBED AS
AN UNPOPULAR LITTLE MAN; IDLE AND IRRITABLE ALTHOUGH PROBABLY
QUITE CAPABLE," SAID HE WAS PREPARED TO GIVE HOARE "EVERY ASSISTANCE."
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MARLIERE WAS EXTREMELY
COOPERATIVE ALLOWING HIM TO EXAMINE AVAILALBE SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT.
HOARE WAS ASTOUNDED TO DISCOVER 20 NEW AMERICAN-BUILT ASSAULT
BOATS AND 15 NEW 25-HP ENGINES, WHICH HE WILL USE IN THE ASSAULT
ON ALBERTVILLE. HOARE LISTED HIS REQUIREMENTS AND MADE ARRANGEMENTS.
FOR THE SUPPLIES TO BE TRANSPORTED TO NOJILI AIRPORT FOR AIRSHIPMENT
TO KAMINA BASE BY C-130. (FIELD COMMENT: THE BOATS AND ENGINES.
AE EN ROU
WERE EN ROUTE TO KAMINA BY AIR ON 21 AUGUST.)
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STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCHEAFSA.
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APPRAISAL:
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AT 10 HOURS ON 14 AUGUST 64, MERCENARY AIR FORCE COMMANDER
EREMIAH PUREN, MRS. PUREN AND THE MERCENARY PILOTS, JAMES HEDGES,
ERROL WINGMAN AND PETER MACKINTOSH, ATTENDED A BRIEFING ON THE MILITARY
SITUATION GIVEN AT CONGOLESE NATIONAL ARMY (ANC) HEADQUARTERS BY
BELGIANT COLONEL (FNU) BOUZIN. FROM WHAT THE PILOTS SA:D AFTERWARDS,
THE PURPOSE OF THE BRIEFING WAS 10 PREPARE THEM FOR A MISSION TO
WHICH CONGO PREMIER MOISE TSHOMBE ATTACHED GREAT IMPORTANCE. THEIR
REMARKS INDICATED THAT IT WAS A RECONNAISSANCE MISSION IN THE VICINITY
OF LULLABOURG, WHERE THERE IS AN ANC TRAINING SCHOOL THAT MUST BE HELD
„ÁGA OUT THE REBEUS. BOUZIN REPORTEDLY TOLD THE PILOTS THAT LULUABOURG
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HANDS, ALTHOUGH SURROUNDED BY REBEL FORCES.
THE BRIEFING, THE PILOTS INQUIRED AS TO THE AVAILABILITY
HOLMETS, PARACHUTES, MAPS, ETC BCUZ IN REPLIED,
WILL TRY TO GET IT FROM THEM." THOSE AT
REPORTED THAT BOUZIN HAD TRIED TO DISCOURAGE THEM AND
CONDUCTED HIS SPIEFING IN THE MOST SKETCHY FASHION, PUREN AND THE OTHER
PILOTS THEN WENT TO NDOLO AIR FIELD TO FREPARE FOR THE MISSION.
MAS. PUREN RETURNED TO THE MEMEING HOTEL
3. AT 10 HOURS, PUREN AND KINGMAN TOOK OFF IN ONE OF THE T-6'S,
HEDGES AND MACKINTOSH IN ANOTHER. BOTH PLANES WERE COMPLETELY.
STRIPPED DOWN: NO HELMETS, NO PARACHUTES, NO RADIOS, NO ARMS, NO
MARS; BUT PUREN INSISTED ON GOING. BEFORE THE PLANES TOOK OFF, MRS.
PUREN GAVE EACH OF THE FOUR MEN $280 WHICH SHE HAD RECEIVED FROM ANC
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH MOBUTU THAT SAME MORNING.
SHE KEPT THE SAME AMOUNT FOR HERSELF AND DISTRIBUTED THE SAME AMOUNT
ALSO. TO EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: MERCENARY COMMANDER MICHAEL HOARE,
MIŞ BELOADHIN-COMMAND ALASTAIR (WICKS, AND PATRICK O'MALLEY.
4. THE TWO PLANES WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE RETURNED LATE ON 14
AUGUST, BUT AT 1 HOURS 15 AUGUST, HOARE DISCLOSED PRIVATELY
THAT HE HAD HEARD NOTHING AND EXPRESSED CONCERN AS TO WHAT MIGHT HAVE
HAPPENED TO THE FOUR MEN.
5. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCMEAF SA.
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BE FLOWN THERE ON THE WIGHTOPS. HOARE SAID HE IS PRE-
PARING A LIST OF TAI SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT HE WILL NEED AND CLAINED
THAT MOBUTU AGREED, "WITHOUT ACTUALLY SAYING SO," THAT THE LIST COULD
BE AMENDED AFTER HOARE HAD PERSONALLY CHECKED OUT THE SITUATION.
5.1 HOARE SAID THAT THE MILITARY CEJECTIVES AS HE SEES, TRIM, AND
LE. THE PLANS TO SEND PATRICK
TO BE MANONO, KONGOLO AND ALETATI
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ON 5 AUGUST 64, JEREMIAH PUREN, ONE OF THE WHITE MERCENARIES
NOW IN LEOPOLDVILLE, SAID PRIVATELY, THAT MARCO KALIBIONA, CHEF
DE CABINET TO PREMIER MOISE TSHONGE AND HIS LIAISON OFFICER WITH THE
MERCENARIES, HAD SEEN HIM AND JAMES HEDGES AT 1909 HOURS.
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LESF NATIONAL ARMY (ANC) COMMANDER IN CHIEF MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH
MOBUTU HAD HET THAT SAME DAY AND DECIDED THAT THE EUROPEAN MERCEN-
ARIES WOULD BE USED: AND THAT PUREN, WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF THE AIRFORCE.
(INFORMANT COMENT: KALIBIONA IS VERY CLOSE TO JSHOME AND HAS:
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LY THAT KALIBIONA HAD TOLD HIM CN 3 AUGUST THAT MCBUTU INTENDED TO
USE THE WITE MERCENARIES IN THE DEFENSE OF STANLEYVILLE.
(FIELD
COMMENT STANLEYVILLE FELL TO THE REBELS ON 5 AUGUST.) IN RELATING
THIS, HOARE COMMENTED THAT THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN THIS FASHION WOULD
HAVE BEEN FATAL AND THAY THEY WOULD ALL HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED.
3. ON THE SAME OCCASION, HOARE PRIVATELY EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT
THE CURRENT HESITATION" OVER USING THE MERCENARIES MIGHT END WITH
THEIR ALL BEING ASKED TO LEAVE. HOARE CLAIMED THAT THE PRINCIPAL
REASON FOR THE DELAY IS BELGIAN PRESSURE. THE REASON FOR THE PRESSUR
IS THE THREAT BY INSURGENT LEADER GASTON EMILE SOUNIALOT COMMANDER
IN THE EASTERN CONGO, TO KILL THE 100 EUROPEANS NOW HELD IN ALBERT-
VILLE IF THE MERCENARIES GO INTO ACTION. HOARE COMMENTED THAT "IF
THE SITUATION WARRANTS," HE INTENDS TO ASK MOBUTU TO APPOINT, HIM
TOHIS STAFF IN AN ADVISORY CAPACITY. HE WILL THEN SUBMIT A PLAN
FOR THE RECAPTURE OF ALBERTVILLE. HE WILL ASK MOBUTU FOR 100 MEN
AND AUTHORITY TO USE APPROXIMATELY 10 EUROPEANS. (INFORMANT COMMENTS.
PRESUMABLY THE NUCLEUS OF THIS GROUP WOULD BE THE MERCENARIES ALREADY
IN LEOPOLÓVILLE.)
THE PLAN HOULD INVOLVE THE USE OF THE LAKE TANGANYIKA
STEAMER, "BARON CHANIS". HOARE WOULD USE IT AS A TROOPSHIP; HE
CLAIMS IT CAN CARRY. 50% MEN FOR A SHORT HAUL. HE SAID HE WOULD HAVE
THE SHIP APPROACH ALBERTVILLE FROM THE NORTH, VIA UNIBA AND KIGOMA,
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INCOLETE IS CONFUSING,
THE PLAN AS RECEIVED AND 06YCUSLY
UVIRA IS IN REBEL HANDS. KIGOMA IS
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE IN TANGANYIKA, PERHAPS, HOARE MEANT
THAT THE FORCE ABOARD THE BARON DHANIS WOULD ATTACK UVIRA BEFORE
PROCETOING TO ALBERTVILLE.).
5. OARE'S SECOND-IN-COMMAND, ALASTAIR WICKS, WHO LEFT LEOPOLD-
FROM THERE
VILLE ON 1 AUGUST FOR JOHANNESBURG. IS NOW IN SALISBURY.
HE HAS TELEPHONED THAT RHODESIAN AIR SERVICES (RAS) IS NOW "SQUAR: D
(INFORMANT COMMENT: THIS MUST BE A REFERENCE TO EARLIER
TO USE THE RAS TO SUPPORT THE MERCENARY ACTIVITIVE IN THE CONCO
THE FORMER KATANGA MERCENARY, "BOB" DENARD IS NOT IN YEMEN
PIRED. HE IS ACTUALLY IN PARIS, RECRUITING MEN THERE FOR SERVICE
FELD DISSEM; STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCHEAFSA.
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STATES SECARCE ACTUALLY LEFT JOBURG EVENING 25 JULY, CARRYING
LETTER. OMALLEY STILL IN JOBURG, TALKED TO HER ON PLONS 26.
JULY.
2. SUMMARY LETTER FOLLOWS: LEAVE THIS EVENING RHODESIA.
AÏR SERVICE CHARTER DC-4, CAPTAIN MULLOCK. WHOLE AUTHORIZATION
FOR MOVEMENT RESTS ON ONE TELEGRAM FROM TSHOMBE WHICH COLONEL
BUYS(SECURITY) HELD WAS AMBIGUOUS. TOUCH AND GO UNTIL 1400
HOURS WHEN BUYS FINALLY GAVE GO AMSAD.
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THIS MORNING, INSTEAD LEFT LAST NIGHT WITH (WICKS, HEDGES,
AND
PILOTS INCLUDING MACKINTOSH. PUREN VERY UNPOPULAR WITH
SEGURIITY AT MOMENT, OUR SELVES ALSO.
ABOUT 45 MEN, ALL OTHER RANKS, FLY WITH ME TONIGHT.
EXPECT SECOND FLIGHT WILL BE IN 7-10 DAYS TIME. MEANWHILE
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1. ON 15 AUGUST 4 MERCENARY COMMANDER MICHAEL HOARE SAID PRIVATELY
THAT, DESPITE THE ASSURANCES GIVEN BY PREMIER MOISE TSHOMBE ON 13
AUGUST, THE LATTER DID NOT CONVORE HIM, HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND
ALASTAIR WICKS; MERCENARY AIR FORCE COMMANDER VEREMIAN PUREN AND MAS.)
PUREN ON 18 AUGUST TO COMPLETE THE NEGOTIATIONS ON PAY AND ALLOWANCES
AND SIGN A CONTRACT FOR THE 2703-000 EUROPEAN MERCENARIES TSHOHGE
WISHES BROUGHT TO THE CONGO. (FIELD COMMENTS FOR THE EVENTS OF 13.
AUGUST, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH TSHONGE GAVE SUCH AN ASSURANCE;
SEE ACL-2799.)\TDC2-313/01/79-091)
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JOSEPH MOSUTU TO DISCUSS THE FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SITUATION
OF THE MERCENARIES ALREADY IN LEOPOLOVILLE AND THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL
FUNDS TO RECRUIT THE OTHERS STILL NEEDED, AT 1730 HOURS, SHE
SUDDENLY
UDDENLY 
PRODUCED FROM HER HANDBAG A CHECK FOR THE EQUIVALENT. IN BELGIAN
FRANCS OF APPROXIMATELY 9,000 POUNDS STERLING, DRAWN ON A BELGIAN BANK,
WHICH SHE SAID SHE HAD RECEIVED THAT MORNING FROM MOBUTU BUT WHICH
SHE HAD WAITED UNTIL THAT MOMENT TO MENTION. AT FIRST, HOARE SAID,
IT SEEMED IMPROBABLE THAT THE CHECK COULD BE CASHED. HOWEVER,
THROUGH THE INTERVENTION OF MOBUTU, MAS. PUREN FINALLY MADE CONTACT
WITH A "HICH-LEVEL SURETE OFFICIAL" WHO CASHED THE CHECK IN U.S.
DOLLARS, IN FIFTY-DOLLAR AND ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS." (FIELD COMMENT:
A FAIRLY RELIABLE SOURCE, A HIGH-RANKING NATIONAL SURETE OFFICIAL,
"REPORTS THAT THE CHECK IN QUESTION WAS FOR 1,120,00 BELGIAN FRANOS,"
PAYABLE BY THE BANQUE NATIONALE DE BELGIQUE TO MISS 2.F. RENGA PREZ.
SENOLPREZ IS MAS. PUREH'S MAIDEN NAME.)
3. HOARE THEN SAID THAT, PERHAPS BECAUSE OF HER HUGRAND'S ABSENCE
ONIA SPOCIAL MISSION, SHE DID NOT FLY TO JOHANNESBURG WITH. THE MONEY
ON THE 14 AUGUST ALITALIA FLICHT AS SHE HAD ORIGINALLY.
LEVELD COMMENT: FOR DETAILS ON THE MISSION, SẸT AIL-2625)! SHE IS NOW
NEEPING THE MONEY IN A SATCHEL IN HER LEGHOLDVILLE KOTEL ROOM.
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HOARE EXPLAINED THAT THE CONTRACT IS ALL DRAWN UP, LACKING ONLY
THE FINAL PAY RATE AND TSHOMBE'S SIGNATURE. (SOURCE
COMMENT: HOARE HAD PREVIOUSLY SAID THAT HE IS ASKING FOR
BASE PAY OF 140 POUNDS STERLING PER MONTH FOR THE ENLISTED-MEN, WITH
ALLOWANCES THAT COULD BRING THE TOTAL UP TO 225 POUNDS STERLING.).
4. ON HOARE'S INSTRUCTIONS, O'MALLEY WILL PROCEED AT ONCE FROM
JOHANNESBURG TO SALISBURY AND STAND BY THERE FOR FURTHER WORD BEFORE
STARTING RECRUITING. WICKS HAS INSTRUCTIONS TO START RECRUITING
IMMEDIATELY IN JOHANNESBURG.
5. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCHEAFSA,
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1 LATE ON 13 AUGUST 64, MERCENARY COMMANDER MICHAEL HOARE SAID.
"PRIVATELY. THAT AT 1930 HOURS THAT SAME DAY, HE AND ALASTAIR WICKS,
[HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND, MERCENARY AIR FORCE COMMANDER JEREMIAN PIREN
(AND, MIS PUREN MOT WITH CONGOLESE NATIONAL ARMY (ANC) COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF MAJOR NEPAL JOSEPH MORUTU. THE FRINCIPAL DECISION REACHED
WAS THAT HOARE'S MERCENARY FORCE, WHEN FORMED, WOULD BE "AUTONOMOUS"]
PRESURABLY THIS MEANS IT WOULD NOT BE BRIGADED
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2. AT 1230 HOURS, HOARE, WICKS AND THE PURENS SAW PREMIER MOISE
ISHOMBE ASKED
TSHOME. THE MEETING LASTED "EXACTLY TEN MINUTES."
PUREN IF HE WOULD ACCEPT THE MISSION OUTLINED BY MOBUTU ON 11 AUGUST,
PUREN "EAGERLY" DID SO. HCARE COMMENTED THAT THIS APPEARED TO HAVE
SEEN THE SOLE REASON FOR TSHOMBE'S HAVING WISHED TO SEE THEM.
TSHOME, HE SAID, APPEARED "WILDLY EXCITED."
(FIELD COMMENTS.
FOP DETAILS OF THE MISSION, SEE SELOW AND ACL-2788
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3. AT 1500 HOURS, THEY AGAIN SAW MOBUTU, WHO TOLD THEM THAT A
SECOND APPOINTMENT HAD BEEN MADE FOR THEM WITH TSHOMBE FOR 1700 HOURS,
TO SETTLE THE LAST DETAILS AND SIGN THE CONTRACT. HOWEVER, AT 1785
HOURS THEY WERE TOLD TO RETURN TWO HOURS LATER.
THEY RETURNED
AT 1900 HOURS, FOUND MOBUTU WAITING AND, AT 1920 HOURS, WERE ALL
ADMITTED TO TSHOMBE'S PRESENCE. TSHOMSE GAVE THEM INSTRUCTIONS
TO "RETAKE THE CONGO": MORE SPECIFICALLY, MANONO, KONGOLO, ALBERT-
MI PROMISED ALL SUPPORT,
VILLE, UVIRA, STANLEYVILLE, IN THAT ORDER.
WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS OF ANY KIND, WHICH, HOARE LATER COMMENTED,
WAS "RATHER DISTURNING AND A BIT TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING."
ALSO NOTED THAT NEITHER SHOME NOR NOGUTU SEEMED PARTICULARLY
CONCERNED AS TO HOW THE
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WHEN THE QUESTION OF THE CONTRACT CAME UP, TSHOME APPEARED UNWILLING
TO CORE WITH IT THEN AND MADE ANOTHER APPOINTMENT FOR THEM FOR 18
HOURS CAUCUST." ME SEEMED TO HOARE FIT BUT EXTREMEL
HCARE SAID THAT WIEKS, PATRICK DINALLEY AND MRS PURCH WILL
ANNESBURG AGAPO THE 14 AUGUST ALITALIA FLIGHT. HE COMMENTED
THAT IT WAS NOW LESS URGENT FOR WICKS TO ACCOMPANY HIM TO KAMINA,
AG PLANNED, BUT THAT RECRUITING CONTINUES TO HAVE A HIGH PRIORITY.
IN JOHANNESBURG ON 15 AUGUST, WICKS WILL ALERT THE MEN WAITING
THERE AND SHOULD BE AGLE, HOARE ESTIMATED, ARRANGE TO HAVE 50 OF
THE READY TO PAY 18 AUGUST. AND 20 MORE BY VÌ AUGUST.
LATER ON 15 AUGUST, WICKS WILL FLY ON TO SALISBURY, WHERE IS TO
RECHOIT AS MANY MEN AS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT LESS THAN 30. HCARE SAID
HE HAS CLEARANCE FROM THE SOUTHERN RHODESIA SECURITY SERVICE FOR THIS
ACTIVITY. HE ADDED THAT THE "FIRST 120 ARE VITAL," THAT HE WOULD
TAKE AT LEAST ANOTHER UT COULD USE AS MANY AS WICKS CAN RISE."
MPO PUREN WILL RETURN TO LEOPOLOVILLETON 17 ANST. THE PUREME
AND THE MERCENARY PILOTS WILL PROLAGLY REMAIN HERE UNTIL
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RELATORE THE FORING, HOARE, WID APPLAMED RELAXED
AND ENTHUSIASTIC, SAID HE IS PASSOLUTELY DELIGHTED" AT THE WAY THE
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HOPE FOR." AMONG THE VARIOUS ADVANAGES ARE THE FACT THAT "NO BELGIANS
ARE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE ARC COMMAND AND THAT HE WILL HAVE
"HOT LINE DIRECT TO MOSUTU. NOTED THAT ADEQUATE WIRELESS SETS
ARE ESSENTIAL, AND THAT THESE MAY NOT BE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE.
HE ALSO NOTED THAT "THE DIFFICULTY WOULD NOT BE IN TAKING
IN HOUDING THEM ONCE TAKEN.
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HENCE THE NECESSITY FOR T-
GARRISON TROOPS TO TAKE OVER WHEN THE MERCENARY FORCE MOVES ON.
HE HAS ALREADY SUGGESTED TO MOBUTU THAT HE COME PERSONALLY TO KAMINA
TO CONDUCT AN INSPECTION TWO WEEKS AFTER HIS OWN ARRIVAL THERE.
HE ADDED THAT HE HAD A VERY HIGH OPINION" OF MOGUTU'S CAPABILITIES.
7. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCMEAFSA.
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