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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000100150060-2: STRANGE TALES FROM INSIDE LAND OF BENIN

STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/29: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100150060-2 ARTICLE APPEAR D ON PAGE '7 / Z Strange Tales From Inside Land of Benin Strange tales are filtering out of the steamy jungles of the Benin Re- public, a self-identified Marxist-Le- ninist state that might be described as the Albania of West Africa. Benin, a former French colony, is a Pennsylvania-size sliver of land on the underside of the, African hump between Nigeria on the east and Togo and Upper Volta on the west. Since 1972 it has been ruled with er- ratic oppression by a former army…