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    "ocrText": "July 5, 1960\nMEMORANDUM FOR\nGeneral Persons\nThe following information, supplied by State, adds little to what you\nheard this morning:\nThe political opposition to MERCURY in Zanzibar is by an Arab\nnationalist group which is a minority group. They have been\nstirred up by Communist propaganda linking the U-2 with these\ntracking stations (this propaganda has done a good job of confus-\ning the issue of what the stations would be used for). State\nthinks there will be a demonstration against MURCURY on\nJuly 10th, and that it will be fairly serious. It may lead the\nBritish to ask us not to establish the station there because the\ndemonstration and general opposition may require the British\na Library\nto use force to allow us to establish the station.\nState has sent out instructions to the post to try to convince the\nlocal government as well as the British that the station is\ncivilian and purely scientific in character.\nWe would not want the British to use force to establish the track-\ning station. We hope that by persuasion we could convince the\npopulation and also local political leaders, as well as the British\ngovernment, that this represents no danger and that we are not\nusing it for intelligence purposes (in the sense that the U-2 was\nused over Russia).\nIt has already been decided not to put the COURIER project in\nZanzibar (for communications satellites).\nCIA plans to send a memorandum, with the approval of Allen Dulles,\nlater this week on the subject of the disposition of the U-2. As an\ninterim measure, they are sending me this afternoon a memorandum\ngiving the CIA position informally.\nDECLASSIFIED\nAuthority RAC reinew\nJohn S. D. Eisenhower\nAllo\n12/28/2000\nBy\nNLE Date"
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