Cabinet Oppostion to Congo Government
Document date: 03/17/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TITLE : Cabinet Opposition to Congo Government

DATE : 3/17/1963

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REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

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PORT NO.

IBJECT

: TDC5-3/540,727

: CABINET OPPOSITION TO CONGO GOVERNMENT RESHUFFLE

ITE DISTR.

RECEDENCE

.: 17 MARCH 1963

: PRIORITY

ITE OF INFO. : 16 MARCH 1963

•FERENCES

: IN-8817D

•ACE. & DATE ACQ.: CONGO, LEOPOLDVILLE (16 MARCH 1963)

'PRAISAL

: 3

•ELD REPORT NO. : ACL-1293

JURCE

: A EUROPEAN BUSINESSMAN (B) FROM A GOVERNMENT

OFFICIAL WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE CABINET MEETING.

1.

ON 16 MARCH 63 THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CABINET UNANIMOUSLY

•POSED SUGGESTIONS PUT FORWARD BY PREMIER CYRILLE ADOULA FOR A

-SHUFFLE OF MINISTERIAL LEVEL POSITIONS IN GOVI. (SOURCE COMMENT:

IMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES PREVENTED THE SUB-SOURCE FROM GIVING A

:TAILED ACCOUNT OF THE ADOULA PROPOSALS. THE MEETING ENDED WITHOUT

IY DECISION BUT WITH AN AGREEMENT TO HOLD ANOTHER CABINET MEETING

117 MARCH, AT WHICH IT APPEARED LIKELY THAT ALL MINISTERS WOULD

IND IN THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO ADOULA.

2. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR CINCLANT.

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