CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06541041
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2016
• Case Number: F-2014-02699
• Publication Date: August 24, 1960

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alternative to his control would be a pro-Castro regime, he is
believed capable of attempting to align his regime with Castro
or even with the Soviet bloc. Moscow is likely to be very cau-
tious in responding to such overtures, especially in view of the
unanimity of Latin American opinion against the Dominican
Republic as expressed in the OAS.
LATE ITEMS
*Republic of the Congo: Katangan President Tshombe
has seized upon Lumumba's retreat from his attacks on the
UN to express "confidence" in the UN and to reiterate the
independence of Katanga. Tshombe probably regards the
Security Council consensus as strengthening his hand with
respect to Lumumba; his statement that he has "consulted"
with anti-Lumumba Congolese concerning a Congolese con-
federation suggests that he still favors confederation as the
most acceptable resolution of the Katanga crisis.
According to press reports from Elisabethville, the
566-man Mali UN contingent in northern Katanga have become
involved in fighting apparently stemming from activities by pro-
Lumumba, anti-Tshombe tribesmen. Should tribal violence
spread, the position of the TshombO government would be
badly undermined.
Meanwhile, Czechoslovakia reportedly will take favorable
action on an anticipated Congolese request for several hundred
secondary schoolteachers..
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- The Situation in the Congo
Katanga President Tshombe has taken advantage of Lu-
mumbais retreat from his attacks on the UN to express "con-
fidence" in the UN and to reiterate the independence of Ka-
tanga. Tshombe probably regards the Security Council con-
census in favor of Hammarskjold as strengthening his hand
with respect to Lumumba; his statement that he has "consulted"
with anti-Lumumba Congolese concerning a Congo confedera-
tion suggests that he still favors this means of resolving the
�Katanga crisis.
Albert Deconinck,
the-Belgian Communist party leader responsible for Congo
affairs, now is planning to arrive in Leopoldville on 29 or 30
August. He will be accompanied by Jean Terfve, the princi-
pal Belgian Communist adviser to the Congolese. Both men
have had extensive contacts with the principal Congolese lead-
ers, especially Lumumba. They may hope to play a leading
role in advising the Congolese, as well as to establish a party
apparatus in the Congo.j
[The Belgian party has systematically followed up its ini-
tial contacts with Congolese leaders. After making numerous
contacts among Congolese delegates to the round-table con-
ference in Brussels last January, and at the economic confer-
ence last April, the party concentrated on infiltrating Congo-
lese political parties and encouraging close Congolese coopera-
tion with the Soviet bloc. Trips to Moscow and Prague were
granted numerous Congolese for "study purposes:1
In Leopoldville,. Lumumba continues concerned over pos-
sible unrest. Congolese officials reportedly suspect collusion
between Tshombe and elements in the former French Congo.
New rumors of support for Tshombe from President Youlou
in Brazzaville appear to have been stimulated by the forced
landing in Luluabourg of a Belgian airliner en route from
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Brazzaville to Elisabethville with a group of anti- Lumumba
Congolese.
Elsewhere there are press reports that General von Horn,
who commands UN forces in the Congo, may be replaced by
Finnish General A. E. Martola. Von Horn has been under se-
vere criticism by Premier Lumumba and by some Western ob-
servers; his removal, following the replacement of UN repre-
sentative Bunche, would indicate that Hammarskjold plans a
major reorganization of the 'UN group in the Congo. General
1Viartola was active in organizing the UN Emergency Force
during the Suez crisis.
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