WANT HELP? CRITICIZE US

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400660007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 11, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CAIRO, UNI 1.N.0 ARAB RE-
r,PUBLIC ? The other evening I
?iningled with former Mau 1VL?iu
leaders, machine - gun wielders,
?jungle fighters and bomb-throw-
J'ing revolutionists. Some were in
t.',I.ogas and other naition: dress.
1,....ome in conservative business
r,suits. Now they are world lead-
!.ers, heads of African ? states.
r.7:1They had come to Cairo for the
1:meeting of the Organization. of
Atir:can Unity (OAU) in the
?t UN-type auditorium of the heav-
ily-guarded Arab League. head-
quarters building.
Of all the former rev8lution-
i .sts, ex-Mau Mau supreme corn-
:::wander, bewhiskered, skull-
vapped Jomo Kenyatta, Pr I in
II:nister of Kenya, got the loud-
:est reccpticn. He' bowed regal-
ly, for he is .so eminently re-
spectable /low that the Kenya
, Public Service Commission has,
; hired a beauty contest winner,
I Miss Freedom (Uhuru) of 1933;
as. his social secretary. She is
to run cocktail parties at ? his
country and town residences..'
..That's a icng way from the jun-
gle days.
' Other legendary men around ?
the conference table were equal-
, ly.' dignified, though they had
'- stopped shooting less than a
year ago. They had put down -
, their guns, but not .their prop-
aganda. They .were still blasting .
away at "neo-imperialism"
meaning the U.S. and our al-
lies,
:,. But leaders c:f the very same.
' nations which were voting for
; resolutions attacking our nation
? and our allies are the same who
, are asking for hundreds of- mil-
'..lions of &liars from the U.S.
? pwernm en t.
One of the first men to walk
into the Arab'. League confer-
ence ball and sit .near the big
round table Ivas , Tanganyika-
Zanzibar's first vice president,
ex -. sailor Abeid Kortune. His
: most recent 25 speeches have
. praised Communist nations and
Inside Labor
? Want Help?
Criticize US
By VICTOR RIESEL
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Mr. Riesel
wawa's speech he said, "I share
the views expressed by Comrade
Mao Tse-tung when we called
on him that the imperialists
(the U.S.) are like dirt which.'!:
will not move until it is swept,..
out . ." He then praised: the
Chicoms for their guerrilla war
against us.
Yet the Tarwanika - Zan-
zibar government seeks our
help and private irTesimeills
from U.S. businessmen.
Around the handsome, confer-
ence table there also ?vas- Gen-
eral Ibrahim Abboud, military
dictator of the- Sudan. 'Ile too
has just returned frail Peking.
where he attacked us and called
one of our allies a "cancer."
Yet his country has received
$89.34 million ? from the U.S.
since March 31, 1958. And he is
asking for more in the next fis-
cal year.
A few chairs away was
Ghana's President Kwame
Nkrumah, lie had brought' a
large delegation which had
helped fill some of the luxury
hotels alcng . the Nile. They
drove around Cairo in Cadillaes.
They rolled up to the
Nile I-Ill-
ton and the Otnar Khayam ho-
,tels laden with big bundles of.
expensive purchases. .And they
were not spending their own
funds because Ghanaian money
is the only national currency un-
acceptable anywhere on th:S
continent outside Ghana's bor-
ders. Yet they had plenty of
foreign exchange to spend dur-
'Mg the hours they were not
concentrating on attacking the
U.S. and its allies.
Yet the U.S. is pouring more
than $a) million into massive
Ghanaian projects.
Sitting close by Mr. Nkrumah
was President Sekou Toure of
Guinea. He' was pro-Communisti
Then he broke with them for
;many reasons which range all
'the way from a Soviet-laspired
general strike attempt in hiS
country to the U.S.S.R.'s? dis7
patch of snow plows as aid to
have attacked the U.S. his small bush country. Now he
Tangyanika's second Vice'pres;..' has some kind word.s for .capi?k! .
ident Ras'aidi Kawawa has just talism. Last February he asked
i' rearmed Seem iPeking. There on.. the U.S. -lcir $30 million in
? tl
June 1G Kawawa .gave a ban- lion to the $15 million already: ,f
quet in honor of Peking China's ? granted. Yet he, too, joined
, Premier Chou En-lid and other the general attack on. the U.S, ;
C.Incomr..nd? ' ? c?
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