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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 383: Congo 8/63-11/63. Box 4.

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REPUBLIC OF CONGO (LEOPOLDVILLE)

Jerome ANANY

Minister of Defense

Jerome Anany, Minister of Defense since July

1962, is one of the most capable and honest men in

the Congo government and has often been suggested

as a possible successor to Premier Cyrille Adoula.

Lacking the finesse of Adoula in his dealings with

foreigners, Anany is neither an orator nor diplomat;

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but a blunt, hard-working, and diligent person,

possessed with singlemindedness, a fair degree of

executive ability, impartiality

and integrity.

One

of the most popular men in the government, he has

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been acclaimed by all parliamentary groups and was

one of few ministers to receive an ovation upon entering the Chamber of

Deputies room during the November 1962 parliamentary crisis; his name

appears on almost all projected cabinet lists of both governmental and

opposition groups. Were he named Premier, he would probably be more

decisive and more willing to exercise his authority than is Adoula,

and would readily accept guidance from the moderate circle of advisors

who currently support Adoula. Conservative in his views, the Defense

Minister is staunchly anti-Communist, and friendly to Western interests,

although not necessarily ideologically motivated.

Anany is founder and

one of the principal leaders of the Parti Democrat Congolais (PDC), a

political party which is moderate in nature and, although still in

formative stages, may become a significant moderate national party.

Anany was born on 19 May 1919 at Lisala, (formerly Equateur province),

into a family originally from Kivu province

•- it is in Kivu that his

political base lies. A man of limited education, he served as a clerk

for many years until he moved into politics as vice president of the

Kivu section of the Union Congolaise. He joined the Parti National du

Progress (PNP) and soon became vice president of its Kivu section and

treasurer-general of the national organization.

Entering natiónal

politics shortly before independence, he attended the January-February

1960 Round Table Conference in Brussels and later that year was named

to head a study and information mission in Europe. He was a member of

the Congolese delegation to the Euro-African Interparliamentary Con-

ference on Conditions for Membership of African States in the Common

Market, Strasbourg, france, in June, 1961. Elected a Senator from Kivu

province, he came into political prominance when he was appointed to

head an investigating committee following the Kindu and Kongolo massacres

in early 1962, was appointed extraordinary commissioner for Kivu in May

of that year,

and entered the cabinet as Minister of Defense in July.

In October 1963 he was named head of a three-man state of emergency

committee constituted to govern the city of Leopoldville in view of im-

pending labor strikes.

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ANANY (cont .)

Considerably older than most Congolese politicians, Anany possesses

a quiet dignity and soft-spoken manner. He is described as a man of

vision, concentration, determination and force.. Following his appoint-

ment to the cabinet in August 1962, he began his tenure by asserting

his authority over General Joseph Mobutu,. Commander of the Congolese

National Army, and has gradually been earning increasing respect fron

all governmental spheres. He has traveled extensively and continuously

throughout the country, gathering excellent first-hand knowledge of

situations in the bush, although he has a tendency to oversimplify these

problems.

25 October

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