POSSIBLE ASSASSINATION OF ANOTHER ANTI-COMMUNIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400060008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 4, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

C]:,EVIL ND TMES
Sanitized - Approved FF,,"a e i -RQP
01SE TSCHOMBE M !'DANGER FOIAb3b
Hitler army 'captain is ` ier Pierre
W
"
training a hand-picked group
was
shot down
211
of assassins its former French
hours
after forming'
a
new'
Congo, for a comxinando typei government to take a'tough
!raid on Wise'. Tschombe's
Bankside hon''e , across the
Congo river. He is employed
.by Algerian ,IVTarxist Presi-
:dent, Ben Bella as-ail "advi-
.
,
sor" and his, name, is,Silmane {and ~l:urrison, to form,', cn-
;H
ff
~
man:
o
` liin,vnmn' inlel
.atogoeret toeud i. Moise Tschornbe, pro-U.S. file , cWonun7ECp ' rehrlu` Tfs
Premier of the Congo, has T-scbomhc does ;escape assas
been warred by, U.S.. intelli s;natit?ti lie.! runs -the risk. of
fence authorities to expect Ocing undercut by'Ruskand
a~i assassination, attempt at
'
jany time.',
Hoffman
is; .training
600
rebels that
include Coinmu
_
x _
from Russia, Algeria and Ts"-]ion,he.,
Egypt. Alexander.. Sheplin,' Pres. .7ohii5cai, urged him 'til
former Soviet secret police drop I.J.S. support of, the Or-'
chief is credited, with organ ganization, of African Unity;'
?izing and.'financing the train-'.which 'is openly aiding,. 'the;
ink camp under the secret Red led rebel' group in the ,
remlin policy of , elizninat- Congo, Johnson , turned ' t
('K he
!'ing by assassination any Wes letter over to chief Whits
.tern' official in public office; House foreign policy advisor,;
er stan against Soviet'
Chinese Communist activities
in Berundi.
Tschombe has balked, tun
dpr pressure of our..State ? '
Dept
group :headed
by Rusk
riarrirnan~
whose policies, ]ed;
d. st? ~' afr
to t1e11 and death Scatty I Viet Na , I'res~c~etir
: ?r
,
Diem
nist ,'`assa:
,'who actively opposes Russian
policies.
A suppressed Central Intel-
e igence ency estimate
he ."Soviet Strategic, -Execu=~~ we'C- A` ction". reveals how the:
K'U (,Soviet .k5ecret PclliceJ,
are eing trained to is bse
of: Western leaders : 'ho: off,
..pose communist
According: ; to; British arid,
' U.S, intelligence the ' latest;
~!lctxn.wmat. Betur3rli' :'C1T~C.
s r
McGeorge Bundy. who seat if.':
to Secretary Rusk, . Where it.
has been ' shelved
If' Tschombe falls, th ! Con?'I
.go mess will be worse''than t
in 'South Viet, N Appar-
ently only direct . actiotx by
Pres. Johnson or. press t re
from friends of Tschornbe' in i{
Congress, cage `save' the Coat-!{
.goleaderfromn the (same ate
r`.
as the jate P{esld (it?'Dfem:bf
i~t -~aa ?f bw.l'~ t.m ii..r%a'{;;~.~F~{It r~lal