CIA • 1960

PART I - OF IMMEDIATE INTEREST - REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Approved for Release: 2016/07/05 C00395104 CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY 4 August 1960 PART I OF' IMMEDIATE INTEREST REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Belgium, in agreeing to withdraw its forces in Katanga Province to one base there, ap- pears to be moving slowly to- ward a total military evacuation of the Congo. Brussels' criti- cism of UN Secretary General Hammarskjold's announcement that UN troops will enter Katanga on 6 August and its characteriza- tion of the Katanga question as an "internal" natter subject to discussion among the Congolese appear designed to support Katan- ga Premier Tshombe without com- mitting Belgium to his defense. Tshombe, in his conversa- tions with UN Under Secretary Dr...