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The CIA declassifies a document that reveals Morocco's true motives in the 1963 Sand War

 The CIA recently declassified a document dated August 23, 1957, which details Algeria's oil-producing zones and outlines French plans for post-independence Algeria.


This document contains the following points:

  • France wanted to keep the Algerian Sahara at all costs, which it planned to divide into 2 departments.
  • France had no plans to build gas or oil pipelines to northern Algeria, to avoid depending on an independent Algeria, so it was discussing with Spain the possibility of evacuating Algerian oil and gas to the Western Sahara, which was controlled by Spain. The Spanish were very enthusiastic and even gave guarantees to the French, reaffirming Spain's intention not to leave the Western Sahara.
  • The document also mentions border problems with Libya, which had territorial claims on the Zarzaitine, Edjeleh and Tiguentourine fields. France is said to have bribed the then Libyan Prime Minister Ben Halim, in order to settle the border issue once and for all.

  


What's interesting in this CIA document are the oil-producing areas of south-west Algeria, which coincide strangely with Hassan II's territorial claims, which were the cause of the outbreak of the October 1963 Sand War. Knowing the proximity of American intelligence services to Morocco, we can legitimately wonder about a leak of information to Morocco.


Even if the megalomaniac dream of Greater Morocco was born in 1955, well before the discovery of oil in Algeria. We can reasonably think that the fact that the area coveted by Morocco was oil-rich was one more argument for Morocco to justify a rapid return on investment from a blitzkrieg against Algeria, to seize a rich area. in hydrocarbons and iron ores.

Finally, we're left wanting more, as the CIA document has not been completely declassified, with 2 out of 6 pages still secret and still concealing state secrets that prove the geostrategic and geopolitical interest of our country.




Source: https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-01006a000100040001-2/page/n3/mode/2up


 


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