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Memorandum From Roger Morris of the National Security Council Staff to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Washington, August 30, 1969
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Washington, August 30, 1969
Morris informed Kissinger that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had offered the Federal Military Government (FMG) the right to call down random flights for inspection on Nigerian territory. They had requested a response to be given by September 1. If the response were anything less than an unequivocal yes, the ICRC would end its operation. That would leave the Joint Church Aid U.S.A., Inc. (JCA) agencies and their “illegal" flights as the only relief operation and force the United States to choose either to support their airlift or bow out of the relief business altogether.
Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 741, Country Files, Africa, Nigeria, Vol. I. Secret. Sent for information. This copy of the memorandum is not initialed.
Morris informed Kissinger that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had offered the Federal Military Government (FMG) the right to call down random flights for inspection on Nigerian territory. They had requested a response to be given by September 1. If the response were anything less than an unequivocal yes, the ICRC would end its operation. That would leave the Joint Church Aid U.S.A., Inc. (JCA) agencies and their “illegal" flights as the only relief operation and force the United States to choose either to support their airlift or bow out of the relief business altogether.
Source: National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 741, Country Files, Africa, Nigeria, Vol. I. Secret. Sent for information. This copy of the memorandum is not initialed.
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