CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN <SANITIZED>

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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: September 12, 1960

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Congo: The UN command in the Congo appears to be involved
in an all-out effort to establish the authority of Congolese Pres-
ident ICasavubu and set the stage for an early attempt to remove
Lumumba from power. Working through Col. Mobutu, the chief
of staff and most important figure in the Congolese Army, the UN
apparently arranged the surrender of arms on 10 September by
the bulk of the 3,000 Congolese troops stationed in the Leopold-
ville area. In addition, the UN provided the troops with their first
pay in two months and announced an order--attributed to the Con-
golese Army�calling for a general cease-fire throughout the
Congo. Plans were revealed for the dispatch of a special UN
team to supervise along the borders of separatist Katanga Prov-
ince the truce which the UN command clearly hopes will result
from the cease-fire order. The cease-fire order has been cau-
tiously welcomed by Katanga President Tshombe and his allies in
Kasai Province, but has in effect been denounced by Lumumba who
stated on 10 September that Congo Army operations would continue
In Katanga and Kasai.
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Meanwhile, Kasavubu has transmitted to Hammarskjold an
initial list of a new cabinet, headed by moderate leader Joseph
Ileo, to replace Lumumba's cabinet, which Kasavubu insists was
legally dismissed last week. Efforts apparently are being made
by Kasavubu supporters to line up support for the new group, pre-
sumably with a view to reversing at a new parliamentary session
the endorsement won last week by Lumumba in both houses. Di-
rect action looking to the arrest of Lumumba is also apparently
under consideration.
At the UN, the Security Council is scheduled to resume meet-
ing on the Congo this afternoon.
III. THE WEST
Dominican Republic: Reacting to the recent OAS decision
to impose sanctions on the Dominican Republic, the Trujillo
government has called a huge Castro-type rally for 24 Septem-
ber to demonstrate its popular support. The government-con-
trolled radio has also begun warning US businessmen to defend
Trujillo from US attacks if they wish to catinue doing business
in his country. American officials in Ciudad Trujillo see the fu-
ture of US interests there as "increasingly bleak" as long as
Trujillo retains control. Dominican Foreign Minister Herrera
Baez is visiting Western Europe in an attempt to counter antici-
pated trade and shipping boycotts by Western Hemisphere coun-
tries.
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El Salvador: The stability of President Lemus' middle-of-
the-road regime is under serious strain, although developments
of the past few days have lowered tensions somewhat. While the
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state of siege.declared on 5 September continues, Lemusi con-
ciliatory moves have apparently succeeded in reducing the strong
public resentment caused by the government's indiscriminate use
of force against the Communist-encouraged student demonstra-
tion on 2 September. Communist and pro-Castro elements will
probably be quick to encourage new demonstrations as opportunity
offers, but student leaders seem for the present to be taking a
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The Congo Situation
The UN commandl in the Congo appears to have embarked
on an all-out effort to establish the authority of Congolese Pres-
ident Kasavubu and set the stage for an early attempt by Premier
Lumumba's Congolese opponents to remove him from power. defin-
itively. This effort apparently has the support of Col. Mobutu, the
chief of staff and most important figure in the Congolese Army
control of which will probably prove decisive in determining the
outcome of the Kasavubu-Lumumba power struggle. Mobutu, who
recently claimed that three quarters of the army was loyal to him,
reportedly arranged the surrender of arms by the bulk of the 3,000
Congolese troops stationed in the Leopoldville area. This action
took place at a UN-controlled army camp on 10 September. In ad-
dition to its virtually certain inspiration of this development, which
would seem seriously to undermine Lumumba's position, the UN has
provided the troops with the first pay many of them have received in
two months.
These moves by the UN command coincided with its announce-
ment of an order�attributed to the Congolese Army--calling for a
general cease-fire throughout the Congo and of plans to supervise the
execution of the order along the borders of separatist Katanga Prov-
ince. The cease-fire order has been welcomed "in principle" by
Katanga President Tshombe, whose regime Lumumba has vowed to
crush, and by Tshombe's ally, Albert Kalonji, the leader of the
hard-pressed anti-Ltunumba movement in neighboring Kasai Prov-
ince. Ltunumba, on the other hand, denied the validity of the cease-
fire order and announced that his troops were continuing to operate
"with great success" in Katanga and Kasai. Press reports from
Elisabethville, however, indicate that last week's incursions into
Katanga from Kivu Province by Congolese Army elements have not
yet been followed by any invasion in force.
Meanwhile, Kasavubu and his supporters have pushed ahead
with the formation of a new cabinet composed of moderate, fed-
eralist-minded elements to replace Lumumba's leftist regime, de-
spite the latter's continued claims to be the only legal government
of the Congo. Headed by Senate President Ileo, the cabinet list trans-
mitted by Kasavubu to Secretary General Hammarskjold over the .
week end names Kalonji as interior minister and Justin Bomboko as
Th'EeRE.
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foreign minister�the post Bomboko held until recently in the
Lumumba government. There is evidence that Lumumba's op-
ponents are making strenuous efforts to develop wider support,
apparently with a view to reversing at an early date the votes of
confidence won last week by Lumumba, after demagogic appeals,
in both houses of the Congolese parliament. Kasavubuts group
may also attempt to arrest Lumumba in the near future, espe-
cially if it becomes convinced it can rely on substantial support
from Congolese troops as well as the neutrality of UN forces in
the Leopoldville area. The group probably drew encouragement
from the firm stand taken on 11 September by Ghanaian troops in
the face of an attempt by Lumumba to regain by force control
over the UN-guarded Leopoldville radio station.
Bomboko departed for New York on 11. September to speak
at the UN in behalf of the proposed Ileo government, and It is pos-
sible that representatives of Lurnumba's regime may also arrive in
time for the Security Council's next meeting on the Congo crisis,
now scheduled for the afternoon of 12 September.
Moscow's immediate negative reaction to liammarskjold's
blunt speech of 9:September suggests that the USSR may veto any
resolution aimed at strengthening the secretary general's hand in
the Congo. � Some UN members reportedly are considering the ad-
visability of calling an emergency session of the General Assembly--
posSible on.247hour notice�in order to keep the UN in the Congo.
Hammarskjold's prestige is still sufficient, Particularly among the
smaller countries, to command large-scale sum:sort from the as-
sembly.
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