CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Publication Date: January 18, 1961

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Moscow, Peiping, and Hanoi
have now all accepted a proposal
made by Prince Sihanouk for a
14-nation conference on La.
The meeting would presumably be
held in Cambodia and would in-
clude representatives from Burma,
Thailand, and South Vietnam,
along with the 1954 Geneva par-
ticipants and member countries
of the ICC for Laos. This maneu-
ver, Which capitalizes on grow-
ing Asian concern over the
Course of events in Laos, seems
intended to retain the bloc's
initiative on the diplomatic
front and provide a means to
obstruct any 'suggested solutions
to the Laotian crisis on West-
ern terms.
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In Katanga Province, the
initiative remains with Gizenga
forces and their tribal allies.
Stamleyville troops and dissi-
dent Baluba tribesmen apparent-
ly control the UN-policed
"neutral zone" in the northern
part of the province, with
the UN unable to take any
countermeasures.
In Elisabetirville, Katan-
ga's capital, President Tshombe's
distrust of his African troops
apparently is growing, and the
native civilians in many of the
province's important mining
cities reportedly are increas-
ingly restive. Tshombe's re-
gime
be recruiting a
t.lropean foreign legion to
serve RS a reserve security
force.
In the Leopoldville area,
a brief anti-MobutU mutiny in
the army appears to have been
The bloc may also feel that
endorsement of the proposal will
encourage what it claims is in-
creasing evidence of disagree-
ment among the Western allies
concerning a policy toward �
Laos,
put down, but the questionable
reliability of the troops has
further Jeopardized Mobutu's
ability to meet the military
challenge from Stanleyville.
Lumumba's transfer from
the Leopoldville army camp to
Elisabethville probably was
designed to increase the se-
curity control over the ex-
premier, It may also be
connected with the forthcoming
round-table conference of Congo-
lese leaders, now scheduled for
February in Elisabethville.
Relations between the UN
and the Kasavubn government
continue to worsen. On 14 Jan-
uary Kasavubu demanded that
Bajeshwar Dayal, Hammarskjold's
personal representative 1
the Congo.
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however, Hammarskjold
publicly reiterated
his confidence in Dayal
and refused to recall
him.
Before be re-
ceived Kasavubu's de-
mand, Hammarskjold
had told American of-
ficials that he was
"very determined" to
keep Dayal in the Con-
go, despite a campaign
of "Russian-type" in-
nuendo which he im-
plied was coming from
Western sources. Sub-
sequently he added
that public pressure
would prevent his
yielding to Kaeavuhu's
request. He informed
Kasavubu that the
problem would be turned
over to the Security
Council,
CUBAN AND HAITIAN DEVELOPMENTS
Havana is making a ACV ef-
fort to eliminate the potential
threat posed by anti-Castro
guerrillas In the mountains of
central Cuba. There are some
indications that Fidel Castro
himself is directing the anti-
guerrilla operations. The
new drive is evidently moti-
vated by recognition that as
long as there remains a rallying
point inside Cuba, the resist-
ance could snowball into a major
effort, as Castro's own experi-
ence proved.
� There was a smaller turn-
out than usual at the 14 January
rally in Havana, called to obtain
the "peoples' ratification" Of
government preparations to resist
the "imperialist invasion" the
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government had been describing
as imminent for more than two
weeks. Fidel Castro and Presi-
dent Mortices explained, in the
former's words, that "any crimi-
nal surprised in the act of com-
mitting a crime can be stopped
before he commits it," thus im-
plying that Cuba's preparedness
had stopped the invasion,
Tt was announced at the ,
rally that ihe "national mobili-
zation" would be continued
through 20 January, and the hope
was expressed that the new ad-
ministration in the United States
would "make rectifications" to-
ward Cuba. However, Castro
went on, "the headache is not
ours.... If there is no recti-
fication, that is also very good.
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