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TITLE : Tshombe's Initial Rection in Katanga

DATE : 12/22/1961

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 9/10/2000

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COMMENTS : Congo Cables; restriction information innacurate/missing; box 1

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CENTRAL INTELIGENCE AGENCY

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REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

• REPORT NO. TDCS -3/497,015

SUBJECT.

TSHOMBE'S INITIAL REACTION IN KATANGA, TO:

DATE DISTR.

22 DECEMBER 1961

AGREEMENT WITH ADOULA

PRECEDENCE

PRIORITY

DATE OF

EARLY DECEMBER 1961.

REFERENCES

IN 42359

INFO.

'PLACE &

CONGO, ELISABETHVILLE (22 DECEMBER 1961)

DATE ACQ.

APPRAISAL

FIELD REPORT NO. ACE 445

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

SOURCE

EUROPEAN BUSINESSMAN (B) WITH CONTACTS AMONG AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN ADVISORS

TO THE GOK.'

1. AS OF EARLY 22 DEC TSHOMBE, UNDER HEAVY PRESSURE FROM

AFRICAN COLLEAGUES IN THE GOK, WAS CONSIDERING EITHER IMMEDIATELY

MAKING A PUBLIC STATEMENT REPUDIATING HIS AGREEMENT

WITH ADOULA AT KITONA OR LATER TO HAVE HIS COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, (PORTION

GARBLED) *

OFTEN IT HAS QUICKLY RATIFIED THE AGREEMENT TO PREVENT ACCUSATIONS

OF FORCING TSHOMBE TO ACT IN BAD. FAITH, INSTRUCT THE KATANGAN

ASSEMBLY NOT

TO RATIFY THE AGREEMENT. THE KATANGAN PARLIAMENT

CANNOT BE ASSEMBLED WITHOUT - CONSIDERABLE DELAY SINCE RECENT

FIGHTING IN ELIZABETHVILLE HAS CAUSED MEMBERS TO DISPERSE

STATE

INTO THE COUNTRY.

2. IN EITHER CASE THE ASSERTION WILL BE MADE THAT TSHOMBE

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STATE (RCI) (FOR •HILSMAN)

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SANITIZED ME. 01.029.6.1.4

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WAS FORCED BY IRREBUTTABLE PRESSURE FROM OUTSIDERS AT KITONA

(THE U.S., U.N. AND OTHERS) TO MAKE THE AGREEMENT.

3. VICE PRESIDENT KIBWE, WHO ACCOMPANIED TSHOMBE TO KITONA,

IS BELIEVED BY GOK OPPONENTS TO THE AGREEMENT TO HAVE INFLUENCED

TSHOMBE TO AGREE TO IT. THESE OPPONENTS BELIEVE KIBWE HAS

BEEN ON SUSPICIOUSLY GOOD TERMS WITH THE UN SINCE HIS ARREST

BY LATTER ON 13 SEPT AND IS NOW PURSUING DISHONEST PERSONAL

GOALS IN PUSHING TSHOMBE TOWARD RAPPROACHMENT WITH THE UN AND

THE GOC.

4. FIELD DISSEM:STATE CINCLANT.

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