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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700030026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2006/10/10: CIA-RDP75-00
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X wV YORK, -- Colored'ricr .is i7. n i r.Pcss ble Sit" a? I
+:,:e:'1CanS employed by ;the t1.Gn. In sonic.. .COnntrics. ? .no~spie's, "pD uron oil har wrote cinil
Government in Africa, re- Jrican %o^.'ernme t O ficiai can "A~
.':Jrdlcss of their assignments, have a real_ 'y e.(os1 rel 't'ionsi'i)+' Lends to ed Se of ~ iea's
"almost always beclouded" 1 she educated eiitc oL outa'
viol you. LIC risks being. can^+cities. Rural Africans go out af`.
the suspicion that they are cured by his own gove.7:ment if their way s;1:ce, an American oui'n:slistlhL
today 11e 01li)' ' +4 .4 to befriend black'
i~ 0ivCeL witlbIAmericans and to Rr/o,.CC/Jl1C'
rc;.orted ' O1:.
them 'Lack home."'
'In country after
cr+,;,ury, Persons have told me
those who are employed.
the U.S. Information Serv-
c?e, AID. in embassies or even
is the i'?:~ice Corns" are' sus.
Cocci 01. ;`rounds that the U.S.
''is 11sin?; :ts black citizens to
n, tram '-kick Africa for pur?
pc~es oL' espionage."
yo u1_~ American physician
w:,h the Peace Corps, denied
uat a exists between the
Americans and their hosts, but;
added:
"Thou;"', no one ever made!`
nme feel they thought I was a
T n ;..,.;,rent in many con-c
'"ticisation.5 I've had, that is
mentioned. Here in Africa, the
CIA is thought of as we used to!
think of the Gestapo or 'yI I
i:;LL SU'itl~ LAND' a citi-!
r.e from New Jersey now em-I
;.!eyed in the Tanzanian ,,,in.
-try of Information and Tour-+
is;-a, isaid: i
"I feel. a colored American
:wlio works for the U.S. in Af.1
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