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329. Letter From the Country Officer for Afghanistan ( Ramsay ) to the Political Counselor of the Embassy in Afghanistan ( Naas )

rovide only limited advice because there are few hard and fast guidelines. What would we do, for example, if the RGA falls back on its national dignity and refuses to give us any information on the transaction and payment terms. This was the case in Nigeria where the GON ’s acquisition of jet aircraft was public knowledge but the payment terms were not. We had obtained a fairly good idea of the terms through our Intelligence channels and made a deduction from our assistance on the basis of the Intelligence Community’s “best estimate: of the amount the Nigerians spent. Incidentally, we have pen…

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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	1969-08-29
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–7, Documents on South Asia, 1969–1972
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve07/d329
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve07/d329`

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329. Letter From the Country Officer for Afghanistan ( Ramsay ) to the Political Counselor of the Embassy in Afghanistan ( Naas ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve07/d329.