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Current Intelligence Weekly Summary

Central Intelligence Agency · 1962-11-09 · 34 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the Central Intelligence Agency Office of Current Intelligence's Current Intelligence Weekly Summary for 9 November 1962, a secret periodical of intelligence appraisals. Much of it covers the Cuban missile crisis: Soviet missile equipment being loaded onto ships in Cuban ports, IL-28 bombers still in Cuba, and Khrushchev's moves to hold together Soviet bloc support. Other sections cover the Sino-Indian border conflict, Laos, Yemen, the Congo, European elections and Ne Win's Burma. It contains no UFO material.

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY
of Jadotville, Kolwezi, and
Kipushi without being challenged
by the Katangan gendarmerie.
Such a move would curtail Tshom—
bé's mining revenue, but, de-
spite Bunche's estimate, it is
very doubtful that these three
mercenary strongholds could be
seized without a serious fight
and without US airlift support.
Katanga is still detaining
more than $2 million worth of
UN supplies at Sakania on the
Northern Rhodesian border and
at Dilolo on the Angola border
in spite of Tshombéksassurance
that the nonmilitary goods
would be released. The local
UN representative has said that
the UN preferred to let the mat-
ter lie for two or three weeks
more and implied that continued
Katangan failure to release the
UN goods would provide a basis
"for other UN action, not in-
volving the use of force." A
swift occupation of the two
towns would enable the UN to
control all Tshombé's copper
ore exports while bypassing the
main Katangan defenses.
Adoula and other Leopold-
ville officials, fearing that
the US and other Western powers
are backing away from the UN
plan, are planning to exert
more military pressure on
Tshombé. A UN officer reported
on 7 November that ANC forces
had advanced to within one and
a quarter miles of Kongolo.
Foreign Minister Bomboko
is in the US seeking transport
planes.
The Congolese Parliament
opened in Leopoldville on
5 November in what proved
to be an anticlimatic ses-
sion, as the senate failed
to obtain a quorum. The op-
position hopes when Parliament
finally gets down to business
to be able to topple Adaula
on the question of the con-
stitution or his failure to
integrate Katanga, but it
now appears unlikely that
they will have sufficient votes
to do so. \
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 34 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.