CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - SITUATION IN THE CONGO

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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: March 17, 1961

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17 March 1961
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CENTRAL
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Situation in the Congo
Katanga President
Tshombe was reserved but cordial and did not discuss the
specifics of the Indian troop movement. It is impossible to
determine whether Tshombe intends to carry through his im-
plied threat against Americans, but the consul believes that
if violence does occur, it will have been instigated by ,Tshombeis
Belgian advisers. according to another report, a European in
Elisabethville stated on 15 March that "immediate and serious
internal disorder Will result throughout the Congo" if Indian
troops are brought ing
rifro-Asian representatives at the UN apparently have not
yet developed a position toward the Tananarive conference.
Most of them, with the exception of Guinea, are reserving
judgment on the conference.r
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!whether Kasavubu's installation as head of the confedera-
tion invalidated his claim to recognition by the UN, which has
acknowledged him as chief of the republic set up last June.
This question was later raised publicly by Ghana, which asserted
in a 15 March statement that Kasavubu had abdicated "by ac-
cepting an office which is dependent upon the dissolution
Congo Republicl
the
Sudanese urovernment nas postponed the withdrawal of its troops
from the Congo as a result of a strong plea from Hammarskjold.
The government reportedly has not decided whether to remove
these forces or not.
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