GHANA DENIED $100,000,000 IN AID AFTER ANTI-U.S. BLASTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600010010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 23, 1985
• Content Type: NSPR

Gjt?Ci71.tt .m'~'l~ cn'7 led y 1 ,OrOV,OOO
, dr, Au! At ter ti- r.S. B assts;
ganization for African Unity,
tine sources today reported thatjcan conlincnt? menns hoard-urged that. private' of subversion or prejudine. in-~
the United States has flatly re- In his volume, "Nee-Colonial- cempanics use Volta power and, denesia, Tanzania, and the Philip
jected Ghana's request for $100,? ism; The Last State of imperial- indulge in "the unique adranl, pines, and even pre-West coun-
000,000 in Food-for-Peace aid over1ism," the Ghanian President in. ages and guarantees of investment, fries like Turkey and Iran, have .
"
the next seven years. dieted the Peace Corns, the agen? in Ghana," co)t'kmplrumainahed ; of
id its anetctivities.mention In his
The turn-down came Saturday, c for
Infevelm'opmatimenton , Among the enticement's offered;
y t wero' a ten-year lax holiday, a ' hook that since 1951 his country
hvo~days after the State Depart= the i United terna Stationaltes development,
Service and the World Bank even ,early and expanding market and.,' has used the services of hundreds
doe, dent 'Miguel called A A. in It Ghihana'ciro, s to demon- rcmon- though his country accepted their enormous natural wealth. of Peace Corps volunteers in its
assistance. ironically, this was one kind ofI,s?.er'ondarY school system. Ghan-
slrate against attacks on the] business approach toward Africa' Aran officials have frankly told
United States in the latest book' Nkrumah also criticized the late ihat. Nkrumah attacked in his! American reporters ;'at the edu-
written by and Kwanle nesident Kennedy (specifically) book as a danger to the economicIc'alion program would have been
Nkrumah. d President Johnson (by in futtrr.e and, hence, the political in ?j: hobbled without the volunteers.
Officials here said the operati sod directing African tegrity, of newly independent , At latest count., there were 122
ju operaons against n na states. I; t'r'ace Corps members in' Ghana-
sition of these actions, which lions. !' I geologists and the rest malhe?
rrialirs
siFg
ca, was coincidental. In the considered opinion of Before naminn the United St.afe and science teachers. Ne-
ButIh ntiaions are cnnlinuing about a
American authorities, such accu-: as the "foremost." exponent of thN cnnl t A
Uey Agencies did not deny thandictedt rota- g .nt to replace them when.
sations by the head of a supposed-:practice of nominating countt'icsr{heir lours expire.
ns o{? t
[ions between the United Stales ly friendly Government against:l;tt,hriat. epr have
enc ne,ni y the Nkru trappings k'?untiah's oblique attack on
this country were almost unpree-, ? - .
and Ghana have reached a new non- colonialism is the worst term;
_
low as a result of Nkrumah's QdItnw~s assumed that G. Mennenlnf imperialism." f 1,Pthe resident course of Johnson caassage m ien ilr whirl;
charges that the United States is Williams, Assistant Secretary of. "her those who pt act.ice it, it. he described the United States In-:
"foremost" among the "nee-cote-State for African Affairs, so in- moans power without, responsibility fnr.malion Agency as "perhaps
nialist" powers seeking to exploit formed Amhassarlor flihoirn dill-'l for these who suffer from it; the chief executor of United
. ;,t means cx,loil.ation without re- States
ing an outspoi;en half?hoan' session l d; res " be st it rd - sychological warfare" aunt
at the State Depart.ment trill ifaving on down these dictums, a Lop intelligence arm of the
Thursday. tie Ghanaian President then ex- ,In States imperialists."
Two days later, Oliver L. 1'rnx?: nlained at length the various bust- in Name Of U.S. President"
el, charge d'affaires at. the Ameri-, mess combinations exploiting This agency," he went on, "is
can Embassy in Accra, notified] Africa [the Volta project was not directed by a central body which
the Ghanaian Foreign Office Ihal,mrnlionedt before he came to a trperates in the name hf the Unit-t
the United States was not pre-i concluding chapter lambasting the old States President., planning and!
pared to further discuss a request; trolled Si.ates. coordinating its activities in closet
of :b100,000,000 in food-for-peace in his ctiaprr.; 1x'krumahiinuch with the Pentagon, CIA and
aid As part of Nkrumah's new opener] tip on the. Place Corps'by;other cold war agencies, including
"seven-year plan,". describing it as a new instrumentievcn armed forces intelligence;
Whether other changes are to in "the ideological arena" devised: centers."
he -made in United Slates pro- j)y the late President. Kennedy'I Almost since Ghana became in-
grams affecting Ghana will de- after he influence of moral rear,'idependent in 1957, the USIA has;
pond in some measure on the Al- manent, started to fail. I mainlained a 5,000-volume library,
tlure actions ,. of Nkrumah's Noting that Mr. I