GHANA'S FREEDOM FIGHTERS' CAMP AND THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS

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• Publication Date: March 4, 1966
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4 March 1966
OCI No. 1154.:'66
DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE
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INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
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OCI No. 1154/66
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Current Intelligence
~'! March l~?66
Ghana's Freedom Fighters' Camp
and the Chinese Communists
1, One of the earliest pronouncements of the new
regime in Ghana was a promise to end Ghanaian meddling
in the internal affairs of other African states. This
statement was broadcast shortly after the discovery of
a secret training camp for subversives run by the Chi-
nese Communists in the interior of Ghana.
2. The Nkrumah regime had been in the business of
providing support, in the form of izospitality, money,
and training in guerrilla techniques, to African "free-
dom fighters" virtually since Ghana became independent
in March 1957. Chinese Communist assistance in this ef-
fort, however, apparently dates only from late 1964 or
early 1965.
3. Ghanaian aid and comfort were extended at first
only to African nationalists from still-dependent ter-
ritories--which in 1957 included all of Black Africa ex-
cept Liberia, Ethiopia, and Ghana itself. After 1960,
Ghana "adopted" and similarly aided dissidents from neigh-
boring independent African states--particularly French
African --considered by Nkrumah to have "neocolonialist"
regimes.
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5. Since late 1964
he major and per aps the on y
freed+~.rn fighter'. carrap in -Ghana is the one now being
publicized in the press. 'The decision for its estab-
lishment was apparently made in August 1964. It was
set up some 140 miles northwest of Accra and not far
from the upcountry city of Kumasi? The actual site
is an abandoned gold mine near the small town of
Obenemasi, rilla train-
ers arrived in Ghana
g, during 1965
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the number o inese may have fluctuated somewhat,
but apparently never exceeded the size of the origi-
nal group.
7. A wide variety of .Africans deemed by Nkrumah
to qualify as "freedom fighters" have received train-
ing at Obenemasi. Apparently included were dissi-
dent elements from independent Niger, Cameroon, Congo
(Leopoldville, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and South Africa.
The largest individual contingents, however, evidently
came from Rhodesia and Portugal?s three African ter-
ritories, especially Angola and Mozambique. At the
time of the coup, arrangements were already under way
to process additional recruits through this program.
8. All told, perhaps several hundred trainees
have passed through the Obenemasi cam since the Chi-
nese became involved in the program.
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Remarks
Thank you very much. I have given the
original of this memorandum to the Director
for use with our Congressional Committees.
Would you please put this memorandum
in appropriate form and distrit~ute it thraugh-
out the intelligence community as well as to
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Att. - "Ghana's Freedom Fighters' Camp and
the Communist Chinese"
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