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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400050003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 2, 1964
• Content Type: TRANS

FOREIGN BROADCAST
Sanitized - Approved
DECEMBER 2, 1964
CPYRGHT
Moscow in Finnish to Finland 1630 GMT 2 December 1964--L
(Summary) Contrary to repeated Washington and Brussels claims about the humanitarian,
character of the Belgian paratroopers' mission in the Congo, including Foreign
Minister Spaak's assertion that the paratroopers were not in the Congo to aid Tshombe's
troops to enter Stanleyville but to prevent mass murder, the. Belgian paratroopers,
ferried in U.S. aircraft, specifically helped Tshombe's forces to enter the town
and this was the,signal fora veritable bloodbath. Western eyewitnesses have
testified to this, including the correspondents of AP, 'FIGARO, and GIORNO.
"If the,interventionists saved anything in the Congo it certainly was not human
lives. They saved the profits of the bankers of Brussels, New York, and London."
The,operation was planned under the leadership of Averell Harriman, who-owns the
Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co. bank, and,this bank has large-investments in the-Congo.
Tshombe suits Harriman, for Tshombe allows foreign bankers-to order the economy of'.the
country and thereby reap fabulous-profits.
Pacifying and calming talk now comes from Brussels and Washington, saying that the.
paratroopers have departed and everything is all right.
"But in the first place, a crime remains a crime,. and what the Belgian paratroopers did:
in the Congo is a crime from any point of view. In addition, although the paratroopers
have departed, the intervention in the Congo is still eontinuing,...The British news
agency REUTERS reports: The U.S. Air. Forces which were hurriedly.christenea
Wh ~.te Merooxxa:y ~Foroas continuue tco. operate even after the depa : Wura, o the papa
troopers. The e Wafi;;i.ngton, POSIy repo:>s that the U.S. airorae'~ are piloted by..uban
.
emigrants trained in the regular U.S, armed. forces. "Thu While Mer easy Army" led
by Major Hoare continues its operations in the Congo. And he is eloquently nicknamed
"Mad Mike." U.S. and Belgian military personnel also remain in the Congo. As Vs
reported, it is the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency`that?direots the operations of
the interventionists. But all this proves insufficient to break the liberation struggle
of the Congolese people."
Tshombe is.now touring West Europe to get.further aid, to "pacify" the Congo.'.But.can
there ever be peace and order in a country whose regime,is propped up by foreign..
j 'bnly-complete withdrawal of all foreiaYh troops, including.the mercenaries, only complete.
cessation of foreign intervention in Congolese affairs, can normalize the'situation in
that country. The USSR and'all true friends of the'Congolese people are striving for
"
such a solution.
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