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57. Telegram From the Embassy in the Congo to the Department of State

he Department of State Source: Department of State, Central Files, 770G.00/4–661. Confidential; Priority. Received at 2:23 p.m. and repeated to Brussels, Elisabethville, and USUN . Léopoldville , April 6, 1961, 6 p.m. 2141. Abbas yesterday presented Nigerian Police compromise proposal on Matadi This U.N. proposal was to send approximately 100 Nigerian police to Matadi to maintain order in lieu of U.N. troops. The text was transmitted in telegram 2714 from USUN (repeated to Léopoldville as 275), April 3. (Ibid., 770G.00/4–361) Telegram 2058 to Léopoldville, April 4, instructed Timberlake to sup…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1961-04-06
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XX, Congo Crisis
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v20/d57
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v20/d57`

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57. Telegram From the Embassy in the Congo to the Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v20/d57.