ULIMO EFFORTS TO RECRUIT KRAHN TRIBALS INTO NEW GOVERNMENT POSITIONS: IGNU CONCERN OVER ISSUE OF KRAHNS TAKING RETRIBUTION AGAINST INFORMANTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06769267
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2020
• Case Number: F-2017-02018
• Publication Date: September 9, 1993

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(S1NF) SUBJ: ULIMO EFFORTS TO RECRUIT KRAHN TRIBALS
INTO NEW GOVERNMENT POSITIONS: IGNU CONCERN OVER
ISSUE OF KRAHNS TAKING RETRIBUTION AGAINST
INFORMANTS
Identifiers:
Messaging System: 93 3795571
Document Number:
Ingestion ID: 34902914
GUIDE: guide://1012/1p2s83
Dates:
Date Acquired: approximated undefined Sep-1993
Date Published: 09-Sep-1993 12:12:00
Date Received: 09-Sep-1993 13:12:05
Coverage:
CIA Country Code: LBR
Region: AFRICA, LIBERIA
Publisher:
Agency Acronym: CIA
Office Name: NCS
Warnings: /NF) CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED
INTELLIGENCE
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AgalF) 1. ACCORDING TO AN OFFICIAL OF THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT OF NATIONAL
UNITY (IGNU) OF LIBERIA SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED LIBERATION MOVEMENT
FOR DEMOCRACY IN LIBERIA (ULIMO) ARE RECRUITING KRAHN TRIBALS FOR POSITIONS
IN THE NEW LIBERIAN NATIONAL TRANSITION GOVERNMENT (LNTG). THE PRIME MOVER
IN SOLICITING KRAHN APPLICANTS FOR LNTG POSITIONS IS THOMAS Q. ((ZIAH)), ONE
OF TWO ULIMO REPRESENTATIVES TO THE FIVE-MAN LNTG COUNCIL. ZIAH HAS
CONTACTED FELLOW KRAHNS WHO LOST THEIR GOVERNMENT JOBS IN 1990 BECAUSE
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OF INVOLVEMENT IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. THE MAJORITY OF
KRAHN TRIBALS DISMISSED WERE ACCUSED OF TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST THEIR
FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, MURDER AND PARTICIPATION IN DEATH SQUADS. ZIAH
HIMSELF IS ALLEGED TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE 1990 MASSACRE AT THE
LUTHERAN CHURCH IN MONROVIA)
//NF) 2. ZIAH HAS INTERVIEWED KRAHN CANDIDATES FOR LNTG POSTS AT THE HOTEL
AFRICA WHERE ULIMO IS CURRENTLY HOUSED AND WHERE IT MAINTAINS OFFICES FOR
ITS STAFF AND THE TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS. ZIAH HAS ALSO PROMISED PREVIOUSLY
DISMISSED KRAHN TRIBALS THAT THEIR POSITIONS WILL BE RESTORED OR THAT THEY
WILL BE GIVEN MORE PROMINENT POSTIONS THAN THOSE THEY LOST.
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