Situation In and Around Elizabethville
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/12/1962
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE : Situation in and around Elisabethville

DATE : 7/12/1962

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TELEGRAM INFORMATION REPORT

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COUNTRY REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO/KATANGA

SUBJECT STUATION IN AN AROUND ELIZABETEVILIE

REPORT NO. TDOS 3/516,614

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DATE DISTR

12 JULY 1962

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-DATE OF 12: JULI 1962, LATE MORNING (LOCAL TIME)

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KATANGA, ELIZABETHVILLE (12 JULI 1962)

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

SOURCE COMPID ANDRIAN OBSERVER (D) ICH PIASCAL ORSENTATORETAIN UR DESTROY

1. THE SITUATION IN ELIZABETHVILLE AND IN THE NATIVE COMMUNES IS TENSE AND

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POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE. OBSERVATIONS IN THE LATE MORNING OF 12 JULY OF THE U.N.

PLACEMENTS, AND BEHIND THE KATANGAN LINES, SHOWED THAT INDIAN FORCES OF THE U.N.

ARE NOW DEEPLY DUG IN AROUND A LARGE SCHOOL AREA NEXT TO THE ROADBLOCK ON THE

MAIN TRAFFIC ROUTE BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN AND THE AFRICAN CITY. THERE ARE NUMEROUS

ARMORED CARS AND COMBAT-READY TROOPS. THESE; TOGETHER WITH THE LONG-EXISTING

ROAD BLOCK WHICH HAS NOW BEEN STRENGTHENED BY TUNISIAN U.N. TROOPS ON THE AL-

TERNATE ROAD TO THE COMMUNES, HAVE VIRTUALLY SEALED OFF THE NATIVE CITY. TRAFFIC

WAS BEING ALIGNED TO PASS, BUI AFRICAN CROWDS WERE COLLBGTING NEAR THE BETPLACE-

MENTS ON BOTH SIDES.

ARMED KATANGAN TROOPS HAVE MOVED FROM DEEP IN THE COMMUNES TO HIDEN

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TDCS: 3/516,6141

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POSITIONS 100 YARDS FROM THE .N. ROAD BLOCK; WHERE THEY HERE ALERTLY FACING

U.N. TROOPS. THE POLICE WERE MUCH IN EVIDENCE TO KEEP - ORDER IN THE CONMUNES.

CIVILIANS WERE APPREHENSIVE BUT ORDERLY.

3. A LUNDA CHIEF TOLD A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE THAT THE AFRICANS EXPECTED A

U.N. ATTACK BEFORE THE END OF THE DAI.

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