Kenya-Somalia territorial dispute of the 1960s in CIA documents

this article is devoted to how the US CIA covered the Somali-Kenyan territorial dispute of the 1960s in documents for official use. It is shown that the documentation clearly traces two periods – before and after the independence of Kenya. During the first period, the CIA paid much attention to the problems associated with the settlement of disputes between Great Britain and Somalia over the borders of the future Kenya. From August 1962 to December 1963, the CIA focused on this topic and throughout 1963 it paid almost no attention to other problems in the Somali direction. In the spring of 1963, according to the information available to the CIA, after a sharp aggravation of the situation around the border, Somalia and Great Britain broke off relations. The CIA, despite the fact that Great Britain hoped to resolve the dispute peacefully, predicted the beginning of fighting on the Kenyan-Somali border, and treated London's initiatives with skepticism. The second period began in December 1963, after Kenya gained independence. During this period, the CIA began to pay less attention to this problem, although it continued to inform the US leadership about the clashes taking place on the Kenyan-Somali border. In 1966, the CIA tried to find a Soviet trace in these clashes. It is worth noting that many of the CIA analysts' assumptions regarding the conflict around the Kenyan-Somali border came true. In particular, they assumed that Britain's peace initiatives around the border between Kenya and Somalia would not be successful, and that a guerrilla war would unfold on the border. The article analyzes publicly available CIA documents on the Kenyan-Somali border dispute and provides characteristics of the analysts' predictions regarding this conflict.

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