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AFRICAN NEWSPAPER ATTACKS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
Collection: 
General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP80-01601R000400230001-5
Release Decision: 
RIPPUB
Original Classification: 
K
Document Page Count: 
1
Document Creation Date: 
November 17, 2016
Document Release Date: 
July 25, 2000
Sequence Number: 
1
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
May 19, 1970
Content Type: 
NSPR
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Approved For Release 2000/08/16 : CIA- STATINTL Dj TL.j ~.OrY,i7 19MA~1970 African newspaper attacks Jehovah's Witnesses YAOUNDE, Cameroun Republic - The Yaounde newspaper;' "Press du Cameroun," strongly supported the recent governrr,ent ban on the activities of a U.S. religious sect, "Jehovah's Witnesses,". and charged "at least some members of this sect are American CIA agents." The paper notes that the U.S. sect, as far as possible, ignores the existence of Cameroun as an independent state, preaches extremely. backward ideas to people who are trying to modernize, and has at its, Approved For Release 2000/08/16 : CIA-RDP80-01601 R000400230001-5
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