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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp79r00904a000800010011-3: LIKELY CONSEQUENCES OF VARIOUS US COURSES OF ACTION ON THE VOLTA DAM

Approved For Release 2006/10/14: R00904A000800010011-3 16 November 1961 MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR SUBJECT: Likely Consequences of Various US Courses of Action on the Volta Dam 1. Most African and. Asian leaders believe that the US, after more than four years of negotiation and many surveys and studies, is now morally committed to follow through on the Volta am and smelter project in Ghana. They regard the final signature of the agreement as a mere formality. Although interest in the Volta project is naturally much less acute elsewhere than it is in Ghana itself, recent indications of US unce…