USA: BIAFRAN REPRESENTATIVE ACCUSES BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET UNION OF MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR

Record ID: 1080295

  • Title: USA: BIAFRAN REPRESENTATIVE ACCUSES BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET UNION OF MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR
  • Date: 14th January 1970
  • Summary: 1. CU BIAFRAN GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE OTUOKERE NJAKA SPEAKS SOF 1.12 MR. NJAKA SPEAKING (SOF). TRANSCRIPT: SEQ. 1: NJAKA: "THE DOCUMENT I REVIEWED TODAY INTERESTS AND PARTICIPATION ON THE PART OF GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA." VOICE: "IN WHAT WAY?" NJAKA: "MILITARY." VOICE: "AID?" NJAKA: "NOT ONLY AID, THEY HAVE BEEN GIVING AID FOR THE PAST 13 MONTHS, BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT COMPLETE MILITARY INVOLVEMENT WHEREBY BRITISH AIR FORCE HAVE BEEN ACCUSED AND OTHER INFORMATION HAS REVEALED ALSO THAT THE RECENT BOMBING THAT TOOK PLACE AT ULI AIRPORT FOR THE PAST FOUR DAYS WAS CONDUCTED, REALLY, BY THE ROYAL BRITISH AIR FORCE. AND THE COMMANDERS IN THE FIELD ALSO WERE LED TO BE BRITISH, I MEAN BRITISH OFFICIALS." VOICE: "MEN WHO ARE STILL IN THE BRITISH ARMY?" NJAKA: "MEN WHO WERE SENT BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO PUT AN END TO THIS WAR BEFORE - WILSON (BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MR. HAROLD WILSON) COMES TO SEE NIXON (US PRESIDENT) IN WASHINGTON, WHICH YOU ALL KNOW THAT HE IS GOING TO COME ON A TRIP SHORTLY, SO THAT BOTH OF THEM CAN PLAN ON REHABILITATION OF, YOU KNOW, THE WAR-TORN AREA." VOICE: "AND WHAT AS THE RUSSIAN INVOLVEMENT?" NJAKA: "THE RUSSIANS HAD BEEN INVOLVEMENT ALSO BY THEIR CONTINUOUS SENDING OF MILITARY AID AS WELL AS SENDING MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WERE NOT INVOLVED AS WE WERE TOLD IN THE WAR FIELD, BUT THEY WERE INVOLVED IN PLANNING WITH THE NIGERIANS." Initials JB/N-TELE/PN/PS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th January 1970 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, USA
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  • Country: USA
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