CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 8, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
3. Nigeria: Eastern governor resists authority of
new Supreme Commander Gowon. (Page 4)
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Nigeria: LEastern Military Governor Ojukwu con-
tinues to resist acknowledging the authority of new
Supreme Commander Gowon3
[0jukwu, a native easterner, is insisting on cer-
tain prerequisites before he will accept Gowon, the
army's top-ranking northerner, as deposed General
Ironsils successor and before he will agree to Eastern
participation in projected interregional negotiationsi
[Ojukwu's terms which he claims are necessary
to establish "confidence" and security, include "cate-
gorical" information about Ironsils fate and the where-
abouts of missing army personnel from the Eastern
Region. Ojukwu has expressed a desire for face-to-
face talks with Gowon, but only at some location where
the personal safety of all can be assured- -thereby an-
parently ruling out an early visit to Lagos on his parti
Cclearly concerned about the predominance of north-
erners in the army battalion based at Enugu, the East-
ern capital, Ojukwu is also demanding "neutralization"
of the army by the return of each tribal component to
its home region. He indicated on 4 August that once
such separate regional armies were established, some
loose federal arrangements might be continued. He
thus appeared to have pulled back somewhat from his
earlier insistence that partition is the only solution for
Nigeria.."
[current attitudes of important Ibo civilians, espe-
cially former Eastern premier Okpara, are not yet
known, however. Okpara, who had been detained by
Ironsi, has just been released from prison, along with
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almost all other confined politicians and may attract
more popular support than Ojukwu. Prior to last Janu-
ary's coup, which destroyed Nigeria's Northern-domi-
nated constitutional government, secessionist sentiment
had become strong within Okpara's Eastern regional
regime.
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THE PRESIDENT
The Vice President
Executive Offices of the White House
Special Assistants to the President
The Scientific Adviser to the President.
The Director of the Budget
The Department of State
The Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State
The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
The Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council
The Director of Intelligence and Research
The Treasury Department
The Secretary of the Treasury
The Under Secretary of the Treasury
The Department of Defense
The Secretary of Defense
The Deputy Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of the Army
The Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Air Force
The Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
The Chairman, The Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force
Chief of Staff, United States Army
Commandant, United States Marine Corps
U.S. Rep., Military Committee and Standing Group, NATO
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Commander in Chief, Pacific
Commander in Chief, Atlantic
The Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
The Director, The Joint Staff
The Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of Army
The Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
The Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Department of the Air Force
The Department of Justice
The Attorney General
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Director
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Administrator
The Atomic Energy Commission
The Chairman
The National Security Agency
The Director
The United States Information Agency
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