SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL TIME 11 JUNE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06769331
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2017-02018
• Publication Date: June 11, 1990

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,(Si/NF) SUBJ: SITUATION REPORT AS OF 1200 HOURS LOCAL
TIME 11 JUNE
Identifiers:
Messaging System: 90 0012242
Document Number:
Ingestion ID: 166660618
GUIDE: guide://1012/dygng
Dates:
Date Acquired: approximated undefined 11-Jun-1990
Date Published: 11-Jun-1990 14:21:00
Date Received: 11-Jun-1990 15:20:15
Coverage:
CIA Country Code: LBR
Region: AFRICA, LIBERIA
Publisher:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Warnings: NF) CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED
INTELLIGENCE
(U) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(U) INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE. REPORT CLASS S
DIST: 11 JUNE 1990
JO//NF) 1. DURING THE PERIOD 9-10 JUNE 1990, ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF LIEUTENANT
GENERAL HENRY S. ((DUBAR)) TOLD PRESIDENT SAMUEL ((DOE)) HE HAD TO STEP
DOWN TO BRING A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE COUNTRY'S INSURGENCY PROBLEM.
DUBAR SAID THE AFL COULD NOT DEFEAT NPFL FORCES. HE SAYS HE TOLD THE
PRESIDENT EVEN IF THE ARMY RECEIVED INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE, LIBERIANS NO
LONGER WANTED HIM AS PRESIDENT. HE SAID THERE HAS BEEN TOO MANY
ATROCITIES AND "WE HAVE ALREADY LOST OUR FRIENDS, THEY HAVE DESERTED US."
THE PRESIDENT TOLD DUBAR HE WOULD AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF THE PEACE TALKS
BETWEEN GOL AND NPFL REPRESENTATIVES IN FREETOWN ON 11 JUNE BEFORE HE
MADE A DECISION ON HIS NEXT STEPS.
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47/NF) 2. AT A LATER CONVERSATION WITH CLOSE ASSOCIATES, DUBAR SAID HE
WOULD RESIGN AND LEAVE LIBERIA SOON, PERHAPS AS EARLY AS 12 JUNE. HE
EXPLAINED HE COULD NO LONGER BE A PART OF A GOVERNMENT THAT ALLOWED ITS
SOLDIERS TO MASSACRE INNOCENT CIVILIANS. DUBAR WAS REFERRING TO AN
INCIDENT THE OCCURRED BETWEEN 9-10 JUNE AT THE VILLAGE OF CLAY- ASHLAND.
DUBAR SAID THAT IN RESPONSE TO A REPORTED REBEL SIGHTING, EXECUTIVE
MANSION GUARDS (EMG) WENT INTO THE VILLAGE AND MASSACRED THE PEOPLE.
COMMENT: LATEST REPORTS INDICATE FROM 8 TO 10 VILLAGERS WERE KILLED.)
DUBAR ALSO STATED THAT HE AND EMG COMMANDER CHARLES ((JULUE)) HAVE NO
CONTROL OVER EMG SOLDIERS. DUBAR SAID IF HE CAN OBTAIN ENOUGH FOREIGN
EXCHANGE HE, ALONG WITH JULUE AND DEPUTY COMMANDING GENERAL COLONEL
ALFRED ((MENYEAH)), WOULD LEAVE LIBERIA.
,4//NF) 3. AS OF 1200 HOURS 11 JUNE 1990, THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT MILITARY
ACTIVITY REPORTED OVER THE WEEKEND OF 9-10 JUNE. THE LULL IN FIGHTING MAY BE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE MEETING SCHEDULED TODAY IN FREETOWN BETWEEN
GOVERNMENT OF LIBERIA AND NPFL REPRESENTATIVES UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
LIBERIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. SPORADIC FIGHTING WAS REPORTED EVENING 10
JUNE IN HARBEL (06-16N, 10-20W), AT THE FIRESTONE PLANTATION (06-16N, 10-22W) IN
DIVISION 45 WHERE THE ADMINISTRATIVE FACILITIES AND MAIN PLANT ARE LOCATED,
AND AT ROBERTS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (RIA) (06-14N, 10-22W). IT REMAINS
UNCLEAR WHO IS ACTUALLY IN CONTROL OF THESE THREE-AREAS BUT IT APPEARS
THE REBELS ARE CONSOLIDATING THEIR HOLDINGS.
9g//NF) 4. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM FOUR DIFFERENT
INDIVIDUALS AN AIRCRAFT ALLEGEDLY BELONGING TO THE NPFL LANDED AT RIA ON 9
JUNE. THE NPFL IS REPORTED TO BE USING THE AIRCRAFT, WHICH IS PAINTED RED, TO
RESUPPLY ITS FORCES WITH ARMS AND AMMUNITION. UNFORTUNATELY, THE FOUR
OBSERVERS WERE UNABLE TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE AIRCRAFT TO IDENTIFY
ITS MAKE OR MODEL. LOCAL MILITARY OBSERVERS ASSESS THAT THE REBELS MAY
HAVE SUFFICIENT CONTROL OF RIA TO LAND A PLANE.
/NF) 5. WHILE THERE IS ADEQUATE FOOD AND WATER AT BONG MINE (06-16N, 10-
21W), MORALE AMONG THE EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY IS LOW AS OF MID-DAY 11 JUNE.
ALTHOUGH THE GERMANS HAVE APPROVAL FROM NPFL LEADER CHARLES ((TAYLOR))
TO EVACUATE THE EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY, REBELS AT THE MINE HAVE NOT BEEN
INFORMED OF THIS DECISION. THE REBELS HAVE NOT RECEIVED TAYLOR'S
AUTHORIZATION GRANTING THE GERMANS PERMISSION TO EVACUATE BECAUSE
THERE ARE NO COMMUNICATION LINKS BETWEEN THE TWO GROUPS. THE
EXPATRIATES ARE ANXIOUS TO LEAVE AND THE DELAY HAS PLACED THEM IN A
GLOOMY MOOD. THE MINE OFFICIALS, HOWEVER, BELIEVE THE REBELS WILL BE
CONTACTED BY TAYLOR TODAY AND HOPE TO BRING IN A GERMAN C-160 TO
EVACUATE THEIR PEOPLE AFTER RECEIVING THE OK.
,4//NF) 6. FIRESTONE OFFICIALS WERE IN CONTACT WITH REBEL OFFICIALS
YESTERDAY. ATTEMPTS TO MOVE MEMBERS OF THE FIRESTONE PLANTATION
EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY TO BONG MINE FAILED. IT PROVED IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE
FIRESTONE EXPATRIATES TO OBTAIN A GUARANTEE OF SAFETY FROM THE REBELS.
THE FIRESTONE OFFICIALS ALSO REPORTED THAT REBELS WERE WEARING AFL
UNIFORMS.
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NF) 7. CAREYSBURG WAS REPORTED QUIET EARLY MORNING 10-11 JUNE. THE AFL
S CLAIMING THAT REBELS ARE MOVING INTO THE AREA. THERE WAS SOME SHOOTING
AND UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF KILLINGS BY SOLDIERS. GIO AND MANO REFUGEES
CONTINUE TO SEEK SAFETY ON THE GROUND OF VOICE OF AMERICA NIGHTLY. n
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"/NF) 8. OVER THE WEEKEND THE RESIDENCE OF JOINT SECURITY EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY EDWARD MASSAQUOI WAS ATTACKED BY SEVERAL SOLDIERS.
MASSAQUOUI WAS NOT AT HOME AT THE TIME BUT FAMILY MEMBERS WERE ROUGHED
UP, HIS DRIVER KILLED AND THE INTERIOR OF THE HOUSE DEMOLISHED. SEVERAL
MEMBERS OF THE PRESIDENT'S KRAHN INNER CIRCLE HAD EARLIER COMMENTED
THAT MASSAQUOI HAD BEEN PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE REBELS. MASSAQUOUI
HIMSELF HAD SUSPECTED A POSSIBLE ACT AGAINST HIM AND HAD TAKEN THE
PRECAUTION CATION EACH NIGHT.
Collection: CC
Creator:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Description: (U) ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF GENERAL DUBAR MET WITH PRESIDENT SAMUEL
((DOE)) 9-10 JUNE 1990 AND TOLD HIM THE ONLY WAY TO REACH A POLITICAL SOLUTION
AND END THE INSURGENCY PROBLEM WAS FOR HIM TO RESIGN. TO ANOTHER PARTY
DUBAR COMMENTED THAT HE WOULD RESIGN HIS POSITION SOON AND DEPART THE
COUNTRY. HE ALSO INDICATED THAT MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION GUARD
KILLED SEVERAL CIVILIANS AT CLAYASHLAND (06-25N, 10-44W). THE CURRENT LULL IN
FIGHTING BETWEEN ARMED FORCES OF LIBERIA (AFL) SOLDIERS AND FORCES FROM
THE NATIONAL PATRIOTIC FRONT OF LIBERIA (NPFL) MAY BE CAUSED BY THE 11 JUNE
1990 SPONSORED LIBERIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES MEETING IN FREETOWN. MORALE
AMONG EXPATRIATES AT BONG MINE IS LOW AS THEY WAITING ANXIOUSLY TO
EVACUATE. FIRESTONE OFFICIALS REMAIN IN CONTACT WITH REBELS BUT HAVE NOT
MOVED THE EXPATRIATE COMMUNITY TO BONG MINE SO THEY MIGHT BE EVACUATED.
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