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Management Corporation, which was a US corporation. And they had signed a resources development contract in the Congo.

Mr. Dillon. It must have been a company that was just formed for that purpose or something, it sounds like.

Mr. Baron. Do you recall a visit from Ambassador Timberlake, who was at that time the US Ambassador to the Congo, to Washington shortly before your meeting at the Pentagon?

Mr. Dillon. No. But it think it would have been normal, with Lumumba, who was then Prime Minister, coming here, and our concern about the situation, for the Ambassador to come back prior to Lumumba's visit or simultaneous with it, to brief the Department on the latest developments there. That was sort of standard operating practice. When the head of a government comes usually the Ambassador comes with him to do that.

Mr. Baron. Would it fit with your memory that the CIA Chief of Station and the US Ambassador had come back to Washington shortly before Lumumba's visit in preparation for his visit to report upon events in the Congo?

Mr. Dillon. It is not my memory, because I don't remember that. But what I can say is that that would have been standard practice, and I would have been surprised if they hadn't.

Mr. Baron. What kind of reports would you have been

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