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Telegram 93759 From the Department of State to the Embassy in Nigeria, June 10, 1969, 1525Z
Abstract
June 10, 1969, 1525Z
The Department expressed its concern that the Federal Military Government (FMG) statement transmitted in telegram 5164 (see Telegram 5164 From the Embassy in Nigeria to the Department of State, June 7, 1969, 2029Z) indicated its policy toward relief flights had changed after the ICRC plane was shot down. The Department was aware of the intermingling of arms and relief flights but believed interdiction of relief planes would do damage to the FMG in the long run.
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1967-69, POL 27-9 Biafra-Nigeria. Secret; Immediate. Repeated to Addis Ababa, Cotonou, Lisbon, London, and Geneva. Drafted by Smith (AF/W); cleared by Moore and Ferguson; and approved by Palmer.
The Department expressed its concern that the Federal Military Government (FMG) statement transmitted in telegram 5164 (see Telegram 5164 From the Embassy in Nigeria to the Department of State, June 7, 1969, 2029Z) indicated its policy toward relief flights had changed after the ICRC plane was shot down. The Department was aware of the intermingling of arms and relief flights but believed interdiction of relief planes would do damage to the FMG in the long run.
Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Files 1967-69, POL 27-9 Biafra-Nigeria. Secret; Immediate. Repeated to Addis Ababa, Cotonou, Lisbon, London, and Geneva. Drafted by Smith (AF/W); cleared by Moore and Ferguson; and approved by Palmer.
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