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351. Intelligence Note From the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research ( Denny ) to Secretary of State Rusk

ducing countries to this understanding. If it did, the US would then agree to attend another meeting of the cocoa consultative group. In early August the Ghanaian Government told our Embassy in Accra that it had obtained “unqualified” agreement from Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, and the concurrence of Cameroon and Togo. Brazil submitted a request for the “clarification of certain points.” At Geneva, however, the other producers denied that they had agreed to the terms worked out by the US and Ghana. Indeed, the delegate of Cameroon said he had never seen them. Like Ships Passing in the Night . …