LIKELY CONSEQUENCES OF VARIOUS US COURSES OF ACTION ON THE VOLTA DAM (DRAFT FOR BOARD CONSIDERATION)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00875R002000190038-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: November 16, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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16 Novoi~lbor 1961
ST;,.',-.,F 11L;'OR?i'IDUII NO.770-61 (Intl:r.-.ai ONE Workinf., Paper CIA Distribution Only)
SUBJECT: Likely Consequences of Various US Courses of Action
on the Volta Dam (Draft for Board Consideration)
1. [lost ,:fr. ican a n: Asian loaders believe that the US, after
more than four years of ne;.?otiation and innumerable surveys and
studies, has comiuitted itself raorally and politically to follow
through on the Volta clam and smcl.tor project in Ghana. They re-
gard the final signature on thc: aLr..oment as a more formality.
Although interest in the Volta project is naturally much less
acute elsewhere than it is in Ghana itself, recent indications
of US uncertainty about whether to follow through with the project,
coupl,,. with other indications of US displeasure with