CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - CONGO

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06541077
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: May 8, 1961

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Congo: Foreign Minister Bomboko's statement on 7 May
that the Leopoldville government plans to try Tshombe for
treason will heighten tension among his followers in Katanga,
who are already concerned regarding possible UN moves to
disarm Tshombd's armed forces. An official of the Katanga
government has alleged to the American consul that the UN
Is preparing an "offensive" against Katanga, and warned that
the Elisabethville government would sabotage key mining in-
stallations rather than permit them to be turned over to the
central government.
Hammarskjold his previously indicated that he hoped
to appoint a committee to assume Dayal's functions, possibly
after his return to Leopoldville for a token period-7
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USSR: Khrushchev's remarks oh the international situa-
tion during a 6 May speech in Yerevan were apparently in-
tended to assure the US that recent events in Laos and Cuba
have not damaged long-term prospects for the improvement
of Soviet-US relations. According to Ambassador Thompson,
the Soviet premier laid strong emphasis on the need for dis-
cussion of substantive matters in bilateral disarmament ne-
gotiations with the US. Khrushchev referred to talks which
were to take place "soon" on the disarmament question and
asserted that Moscow was preparing for these talks with O k.
"complete seriousness." Turning to the recent events in Cuba,
Khrushchev called upon Cuba and the US to "live like good
neighbors," and in generally restrained remarks on the situa-
tion commented that the USSR would like to look "optimistical-
ly" on the future course of Cuban-American relations. Khru-
shchev reiterated that Moscow desires a genuinely independ-
ent and neutral Laos. He made clear his view that an improve-
ment in relations with the US depended not only on the outcome
of disarmament negotiations but on the settlement of the Ber-
lin and German problems as well. He repeated standard de-
mands for a reorganization of the United Nations, but called
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