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298. Memorandum From the Department of State Executive Secretary ( Read ) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Bundy )

ign Minister Spaak of Belgium made similar approaches. The reactions of the countries concerned were uniformly negative, although they were sympathetic to Belgian-U.S. aims in the Congo. The Department of State also instructed its representatives in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, Liberia and the Malagasy Republic to make representations to those governments encouraging affirmative responses to the Congolese request for troops. Their responses were not completely unfavorable, but all preferred that such assistance be made within the framework of multilateral African action in the Congo. The provis…

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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	1964-10-23
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXIII, Congo, 1960–1968
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v23/d298
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Record ID	`frus:frus1964-68v23/d298`

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298. Memorandum From the Department of State Executive Secretary ( Read ) to the President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Bundy ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1964-68v23/d298.