176-10036-10006 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY : NARA RECORD NUMBER : 176-10036-10006 RECORD SERIES : National Security Files AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : TO: TITLE : Views of General Mobutu DATE : 12/24/1961 PAGES : 3 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Congo Cables; restriction information innacurate/missing; box 1
oe eB Se, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: eRe , This material contalns Information’ affecting the’ National’ Defense .of ‘the United States within the meéariing of the™ Espionage ‘Laws, Title, 18,: U.S.C. ‘Secs. : FFI and.-794, the ‘transmission’ or revelation of which In any.manner to'an unauthorized person is prohibited’ by lew. ‘SECRET “CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS simian) HOFORHICONTINED C0 ~. COUNTRY. REPUBLIC: OF, CONGO... : REPORT.NO. “TDCS -3/497;052 ‘SUBJECT "YIEWS: OF GENERAL. MOBUTU- CONCERNING THE ’.”.’, . -.” DATE DISTR. 24 pecemBer 1961. - ; ‘THE PROPOSED ASSIGNMENT OF CNA TROOPS . TO THE UNOC MILITARY COMMAND IN KATANGA PRECEDENCE PRIORITY : DATEOF. 22 pecember 1961 Se Ca REPERENCES =; IN 42850 INFO. ee -_ . PLACE & CONGO, LEOPOLDVJLLE (23 DECEMBER 1961) - ' DATE ACQ. i _ APPRAISAL 2. (DocuMENTARY) a __- = FIELD REPORTNO, __AcL-637 7 Ts is UNEVALUATED mnroemarion. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. SOURCE SENIOR GOC OFFICIAL {c). 1. MAJOR GENERAL JOSEPH MOBUTU, IN A LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER _CYRILLE ADOULA DATED 22 DEC 1961, EXPRESSED THE FOLLOWING VIEWS REGARD NG THE PROPOSED ATTACHMENT. OF CONGOLESE NATIONAL ARMY (CNA) TROOPS TO THE UNOC MILITARY COMMAND: | A. THE UN PROPOSITIONS FOR CNA PARTICIPATION IN KATANGA OPERATIONS DO NOT EXACTLY CORRESPOND TO THE GOVERNMENT OF CONGO (GOC) PROPOSALS, THE PRINCIPAL PROPOSAL BEING THE PLACEMENT OF CNA TROOPS AT THE KAMINA BASE. (SOURCE COMMENT: MOBUTU CONSIDERS KAMINA THE MOST IMPORTANT STRATEGIC POINT IN KATANGA, ) WITHOUT POSSESSION OF THIS STRATEGIC. POINT, NEGOTIATIONS WITH GOVERNMENT OF KATANGA (GOK) REPRESENTATIVES ARE USELESS. CNA OCCUPATION OF KAMINA WOULD SECRET a pLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS | Spat tv60 hud, al: 679 b: 4
CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION GONTROLS PERMIT THE GOC To: toes -3/497,052 Secaer hen Wliled tH) tac en NEUTRALIZE GOK TROOPS IN KANIAMA AND KABONDO; ENGAGE 1N NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHIEF KASONGO-NIEMBO; AVOID THE DESTRUCTION THAT WOULD ENSUE TO PROPERTY BETWEEN “LULUABOURG ‘AND ELISABETHVILLE IF CNA TROOPS: LAUNCHED A GROUND ATTACK "IN KATANGA FROM LULUABOURG; AND | GIVE THE CNA A BASE FROM WHICH TO MOVE AGAINST SOUTH KATANGA | VIA BUKWAMA AND KOLWEZI. | 3 B. TO SUPPORT THIS OPERATION, THE CNA CAN PROVIDE A BRIGADE ! COMPOSED OF THE FOLLOWING TROOPS: 3RD COMMANDO BATTALION, 8TH INFANTRY BATALLION, 13TH INFANTRY BATALLION, 2ND RECONNAISANCE SQUADRON, HALF A COMPANY OF COMBAT ENGINEERS, AND THE 17TH INFANTRY BATALLION FOR GUARD DUTY, THE 2ND RECONNAISANCE SQUADRON AND THE “23RD COMMANDO BATALLION ARE STANDING BY IN LULUABOURG AND ARE READY TO DEPART IMMEDIATELY. THE REMAINING TROOPS CAN BE CONCENTRATED AT LULUABOURG ON 48 HOURS NOTICE,  “ : C. THE MOVEMENT OF THESE TROOPS DEPENDS EXCLUSIVELY ON UNOC. a MEANS OF COORDINATING THE GENERAL KATANGA OPERATION CAN BE DISCUSSED | AFTER THE CNA TROOPS ARE AT KAMINA BASE, HOWEVER, IT WOULD BE 7 A MISTAKE TO WAIT FOR THE END OF SUCH DISCUSSIONS BEFORE TRANSPORTING | : THE. TROOPS, ‘WHICH MOVEMENT WOULD ITSELF STRONGLY INFLUENCE THE COURSE. OF THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH UNOC. INSOFAR AS. COMMAND OF THE OPERATION 1S CONCERNED, THE ‘CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS [secrey NIFC CONTROL
CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET MOFORN/CONTHIED CONTR GOC MUST BE PRUDENT IN ITS DEMANDS FOR THE MOMENT. THE UNOC PROPOSALS IMPLY A TOTAL ABANDONMENT OF GOC AUTHORITY OVER THE TROOPS PUT AT THE DISPOSAL ‘OF UNOC AS THE OBJECTIVES OF THE UN COULD DIFFER FROM THOSE OF THE GOC AND AS THE UN, UNDER THE PRESSURE OF CERTAIN INFLUENTIAL MEMBER STATES, COULD CEASE TO PROSECUTE THE KATANGAN OPERATION. THUS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR THE GOC TO OBTAIN FORMAL " GUARANTEES FROM UNOC BEFORE AGREEING TO ITS PROPOSALS. (E£. GENERAL MOBUTU DOES NOT BELIEVE INTEGRATION OF CNA TROOPS WITH UNOC TROOPS iS WISE. COORDINATION ONLY TO ACHIEVE COMMON GOC/UNOC OBJECTIVES WILL LEAVE THE GOC,IN THE EVENT DIFFERENCES ARISE WITH UNOC. LIBERTY OF ACTION; | UNOC CONTINGENTS PRESENTLY IN KATANGA HAD TO BE INTEGRATED IN ORDER TO ENSURE THEIR EFFECTIVE LOGISTICAL SUPPORT, BUT THE CNA 1S ON ITS OWN TERRITORY. AND HAS EXISTING BASES AND LINES OF SUPPLY FOR MUNITIONS AND EQUIPMENT, INTEGRATION WOULD TAKE AWAY FROM THE CNA ITS NATIONAL CHARACTER AND WEAKEN THE GOC!S DIPLOMATIC POSTURE VIS A VIS THE UN AND FOREIGN POWERS. | F. THE ONLY IMPORTANT AND IMMEDIATE GOC REQUIREMENT IS AIR TRANSPORT FOR TAKING THE CNA TROOPS TO KAMINA, ALL OTHER ASSISTANCE — CAN BE DECIDED THROUGH DISCUSSION WITH UNOC AFTER THE TROOPS HAVE - ARRIVED, IN HELPING TRANSPORT CNA TROOPS TO KAMINA, UNOC WILL BE - FURTHERING ITS OWN OBJECTIVE: THE DEFINITE ENDING OF KATANGATS SECESSION. . 2. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCLANT. . Lo CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS SECRET |