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51. Intelligence Assessment Prepared in the National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence Agency

by [ name not declassified ], Africa Division, Office of Political Analysis and coordinated with the Office of Economic Research, the Directorate of Operations, and the National Intelligence Officer for Africa. PA 79–10517 Washington , November 1979 Nigeria: Oil and Politics [ classification marking not declassified ] Key Judgments Following the overthrow of the Shah of Iran last winter, the Nigerian military government adopted an aggressive oil policy that for the first time involved the use of Nigerian oil as a political weapon. The Nigerians were able to take advantage of the tight world oi…

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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	1979-11-01
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XVII, Part 2, Sub-Saharan Africa
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v17p2/d51
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Record ID	`frus:frus1977-80v17p2/d51`

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51. Intelligence Assessment Prepared in the National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence Agency. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1979. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1977-80v17p2/d51.