Aspect of Katangan Political Attitudes
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/05/1962
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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BUNGAN

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REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

REPORT NO. TDCS -3/524,506ILDUFF

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ASPECTS OF KATANGAN POLITICAL ATTITUDES

DATE DISTR. 5 OCTOBER

1962CHLESINGER

AS OF EARLY 5 OCTOBER

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ELISABETHVILLE (5 OCTOBER 1962)

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FIELD REPORT NO. ACE 780 -SAUNDERS

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

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KATANGA GOVERNMENT. EMPLOYEE (F) WITH DAILY ACCESS TO SENIOR KATANGAN OFFICIALS

AND EUROPEAN AQVISERS.

RETAIN OR DESTROY

KATANGA PROVINCIAL PRESIDENT

- 1. / TSHOMBE PERSONALLY IS READY TO ACCEPT RECONCILIATION BUT

HAS ALLOWED HIS EUROPEAN ADVISORS TO PERSUADE HIM TO INSIST ON

KATANGAN EXPERTS PARTICIPATING IN DISCUSSIONS OF

A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. PROFESSOR RENE CLEMENS IS PRESSING ON

TSHOMBE HIS VIEW THAT AGREEMENT OF A FEDERAL CONSTITUTION MUST

PRECEED ANY AGREEMENT BY THE MIXED COMMISSIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE

RECONCILIATION PLAN. KATANGANS BELIEVE A DRAFT CONSTITUTION,

WHICH RESEMBLES THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW AND DOES NOT FOLLOW THE UN

PLAN, HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED IN LEOPOLDVILLE.

2. TSHOMBE AND HIS MINISTERS WERE STRONGLY IMPRESSED BY WHAT

IHEY REGARD AS IHE CONGO NATIONAL ARMY COUP DE FORCE IN SOUTH

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KASAÏ. . THEY ARE NOW WORRIED FOR THEIR OWN SKINS AND NO LONGER

SPEND THEIR NIGHTS IN ELISABETHVILLE. TSHOMBE HAS HAD A SPECIAL

ROAD TO KIPUSHI AND INTO THE BUSH PREPARED IN CASE THE UN SHOULD

TRY TO ARREST HIM AND HE MUST SUDDENLY LEAVE ELISABETHVILLE.

•3. KATANGAN LEADERS PROFESS TO ACTUALLY BELIEVE UNOC CHIEF

ROBERT GARDINER: LEFT ELISABETHVILLE 4 OCTOBER MORE OR LESS

CONVINCED TSHOMBE WANTS RECONCILIATION. THEY BELIEVE GARDINER

WILL SEEK TO PERSUADE/ADOULA TO BE MORE

SENTRAL CONGDA TE BE MORE MODERATE IN HIS DEMANDS

ON KATANGA.

4. BOTH TSHÖMBE AND HIS ADVISORS ARE PLEASED AND FLATTERED

BY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE MCGHEE'S VISIT TO ELISABETHVILLE

AND ARE DETERMINED TO GIV: HIM A GOOD RECEFTION. IT IS REPORTED

GOVERNMENT OF KATANGA (GOK)

WITHIN THE / THAT MCGHEE HAS ALREADY ASKED TSHOMBE NOT, DELAY

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN PLAN; IF HE DOES DELAY, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

WILL SUPPORT ECONOMIC PRESSURES AGAINST KATANGA.

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