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194. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Rostow ) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Bundy )

rooted in three objectives. First, where positions of potential political stability and strength exist, we should work with all the wisdom and resources we can muster to create islands of responsibility. For example, this seems possible in Tunisia, Nigeria, and possibly the Ivory Coast. Second, we must work together to fend off Communist efforts to trap areas in Africa where the great revolutionary forces at work have given the Communists opportunity to expand their influence. Mali appears such a case of potential danger, and the Horn of Africa area. Third, we must work together to minimize da…

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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	1961-05-13
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume XXI, Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v21/d194
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Record ID	`frus:frus1961-63v21/d194`

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194. Memorandum From the President’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Rostow ) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Bundy ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1961-63v21/d194.