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NY 105-8999 At Ibadan, Nigeria; a Pee Fe es Ds available on may Cig 4704 e newspap r" dicot" datelined Ibadan, Nigeria, dated May 8, 1964, contained an article of an interview with MALCOLM X. According to this article MALCOLM X stated "United States Peace Corps are spies. They are missionartes of neo-colonialism and although white American Peace Corps were dangerous, enough to invoke protest from any country they were operating, Negro American Feace Corps were more dangerous and objectional."” This article also stated that MALCOLM X remarx2d that the "Negroes in Peace Corps were bezng used by the American Government to place a wedge between American Negroes and Africans with views. towarding concept of Africianization of Negroes”, MALCOLM X added "Peace Corps has been instructed to present such a repugnant image of American Negroes to the extent that Africans would be compelled | to be unsympathetic to Negro causes in America." MALCOLM X arrived in Ibadan, Nigeria on May 8, 1964. He visited the university of Ibadan where he spoke before an audience of from KOO to 500 persons sponsored by the National Union of Nigerian Students. Excerpts from MALCOLM's speech are as follows: "Our little chat will be informal. fT speak for those Necro Amerinranas who have been oppressed for 400 years and are still oppressed today in 1964. The American propagandists have tried to tell you that American Negroes are not interested in Africa and Africans are not interested in American Negroes. ! f “fl= SERET.