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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp83-00586r000300260018-4: LETTER OF INFORMATION

. _ . / Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy-Approved for Release 2013/08/21 : CIA-RDP83-00586R000300260018-4 Nier- Ns( s-E-c-n-i4 30 June 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR: Bureau Chiefs SUBJECT: Letter of Information GENERAL 1. African Bureau Difficulties: African Bureau operations were severely hampered by a prolonged communications outage and the wave of violence which swept Kaduna and other towns in Northern Nigeria in late May. The disorders, sparked by the opposition of Northern Nigerians to the unitary government and unification of the civil service proclaimed by the military government in Lagos, w…