176-10036-10013 AGENCY : : 176-10036-10013 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : RECORD NUMBER Seon ewe nes Season m eee a swam mn mene ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO: _ TITLE : : 7/27/1962 DATE _PAGES : SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM — NARA National Security Files Latest Proposal of Katanga President 2 9/10/2000 Congo Cables; restriction information innacurate/missing; box 1 /
. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY oa This material céntains Information affecting the National Defense of the United. States within the meaning vs ae ge tows, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs, 7. .. @93 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which tn. any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by Ia oa CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS CONFIDENTIAL NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL ‘COUNTRY . REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO . REPORT NO. SUBJECT _ LATEST PROPOSALS OF KATANGA PRESIDENT’ DATEDISTR. 28 yury 1962 THSOMBE TO PRIME MINISTER ADOULA DESIGNED TO EXPLOIT THE BRITISH*AMERICAN DIFFERENCES PRECEDENCE priority ON KATANGA ACTION ~ ‘DATE OF oe . - REFER INFO, 27 vuty 1962 ENCES " 3622 PLACE&. REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, .ELISABETHVILLE ‘DATE ACQ. (28 uuLy 1962) APPRAISAL | | _tHis 1s UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. RETAIN 02 DESTROY === — 1. KATANGAN LEADERS AND THEIR EUROPEAN ADVISORS ARE ELATED —RILDUFY. AND ENCOURAGED BY RECENT EVIDENCES THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT —SCHLET STRONGLY OPPOSES USE OF FORCE AGAINST KATANGA. GUIDED BY HIS oe JOHN 2 —KLE™ “ys v UNOFFICIAL POLITICAL ADVISOR, BELGIAN PROFESSOR RENE CLEMENS, | KATANGA, PRES IDENT i / TSHOMBE SEEKS TO EXPLOIT THE SEEMING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE { | BRITISH AND THE AMERICAN OFFICIAL VIEWPOINT WHICH APPEARS .TO KATANGA TO FAVOR ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND EVEN THE FURTHER USE OF ‘MILITARY FORCE TO END THE SECESSION. TO LEND SUPPORT TO BRITISH ARGUMENTS AND TO ANTICIPATE THE 31 JULY MEETING OF THE UN CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION ON THE CONGO, TSHOMBE AND ‘HIS ADVISORS ARE TAKING IMMEDIATE STEPS TO PROVE TO THE WORLD _| GONADENTIAL | Bal GROUP § - i
| CONFIDENTIAL - NOFORNCONTINUED Co ~ RATANGA'S DESIRE ‘To CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CENTRAL - LASSIFICATION — _ ~ DISSEMINATION CONTROLS GOVERNMENT . carne 1 2. SPECIFICALLY, “CLEMENS® ADVISED TSHOMBE TO PROPOSE TO THE ADOULA GOVERNMENT IN LEOPOLDVILLE VIA THE UNITED NATIONS | CHANNEL THAT A FIFTH MIXED’ Conbeission BE IMMEDIATELY SET UP TO DISCUSS CONGO FEDERATION AND/ PREPARE A DRAFT. FEDERAL CONSTITUTICH. THIS “TSHOMBE: DIO ON 27 JULY. AS: FURTHER PROOF of HIS“SINCERITY", AT ELEMENS: SUGGESTION, TSHOMBE PROPOSED may THAT ALL, "FIVE COMMISSIONS MUST=COMPLETE THEIR DELIBERATIONS =f, WITHIN THREE MONTHS’, REACTING To CLEMENS ARGUMENT THAT TSHOMBE 2 WAS LOSING WORLD’ SYMPATHY “BY DENYING THE LEGALITY OF THE “ADOULA |. WEAY. nag OF REGIME, ‘TSHOMBE ‘HAS PHRASED HIS” PROPOSAL TO LEOPOLOVILLE SO AS TO MAKE CLEAR’ THAT HE RECOGNIZES ADOULA AS HEAD OF THE CENTRAL - oh ek. : oa vo} MUA UR VAR Ey. GOVERNMENT « Golde US meats ene # 3e (FIELD. COMMENT 3. | ) REPORTED CLEMENS WAS" HURRY- ING BACK TO" KATANGA: To. PONT ‘our’ TO TSHOMBE THE DANGER. 16 KATANGA “ce BS HE DID NoT ADOPT. A. LESS INTRANSIGENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE ADOULA REG- IME» CLEMENS "ARRIVED IN ELISABETHVILLE O/A. 25: SULY. SEE ELISABETHVILLE CONTEL 187: TO THE. STATE DEPARTMENT FOR OTHER. EVIDENCES THAT KATANGA . SEEKS 2 TO. PLAY ON AMERICAN AND BRITISH DIFFERENCES OVER THE NEXT STEP TO BE TAK- 2 ENE TO SOLVE THE CONGO= KATANGA PROBLEM. ) 49nht eel FELD. DISSEM: Serer CLASSIFICATION = DISSEMINATION CONTROLS . “inc cl m RnnPA 29esasenm Ne a