NIGERIANS DIVIDED OVER ANTI-U.S. FOREIGN POLICY LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00304R000100020048-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: January 23, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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rong economic links to of South 'frican military :' Broadcast Information Ser-j
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merica, which is Nigeria
s ., irvolvement in Angola, seized vice installation at ' Kaduna,
gge.st customer for oil. The such a chance. It announced which had attracted criticism
urtala Mohammed appears support for the Soviet-backed Pro=Western -; .Nigerians,
imps in turn. Liberation of Angola, winning : purchases finance Nigeria s
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The issue was Angola; which the approval of anti-American i multibillion-dollar ' Adevelop
ohammedmade the oc? ? e'ements within Nigeria'as ment program;"-'became'
;sion for his first public well as capitalizing on the concerned over how far the
and on an international unpopularity of racially `economic ties with the United
sue-important in a country segregated South Africa. States couldbe. stretched.
indications from thetate, failu'r'e, sayirtg.'tha't no'one Most of theequipriientused iendofthewarin1970hasbeen'- five .C?130 transport planes
Department 'stilt suggest, could begrudge either view" by the Nigerian government allowed to lapse. from the United States and a
however that the ties are. not of the Angolan issue: during the four-year civil war squadron of Soviet Migs. State'
So far, Nigeria's, biggest Department officials say that,
came from the Soviet Union
at the breaking