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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp83-00586r000300190008-3: LETTER OF INSTRUCTION

f Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/08/21 :CIA-RDP83-00586R000300190008-3 _ S-E-C-R-E-T MEMORANDUM FOR: Bureau Chiefs FROM: Chief, IBIS SUBJECT: Letter of Instruction GENERAL 1. Developments on the African Project during April: /t 10 May 1960 a. Preparation of plans for the operations building and equip-ment neared completion. b. Evidence mounted that the IBIS proposal was in difficult straits in the Nigerian Government despite the best efforts of the U.S. Consul General in Lagos. Our suspicions were confirmed by a cable from Lagos stating that the Council of Mini…