THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY struggled to deliver
impartial and dispassionate analysis on the Nigerian Civil War. Two US
presidents and the American public had strong, often emotional,
responses to the 30-month con!ict, which pitted the Federal Government
against the secessionist Republic of Biafra. President Johnson saw the war
as an unwelcome distraction, ordering aides to get those ‘babies o" [his]
TV set’.
continue to read from the document attached below.
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