L–R: US President Johnson received a memo from Bundy describing Nkrumah as “less of a monkey”
President John Dramani Mahama, at the country’s 68th Independence Day celebration, disclosed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States was responsible for the removal of Ghana’s first president, the late Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Speaking at the 68th Independence Day parade at Jubilee House on March 6, 2025, the president said declassified US intelligence documents showed that the CIA was behind the coup that removed Nkrumah while he was out of the country.
But in a new document cited by GhanaWeb, it confirms how closely that the US had its eyes on Dr Kwame Nkrumah while he was president of Ghana.
The document, which was a national security briefing from the US National Security Adviser at the time, McGeorge “Mac” Bundy, to then-President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The document portrayed how McGeorge Bundy was frustrated with Kwame Nkrumah.
He told President Johnson that something was “mush,” but it was helping them deal with a situation.
He added that Kwame Nkrumah was becoming less of a trouble.
“Mr President:
This is mush, but it helps — and Nkrumah has been less of a monkey lately,” the document, which was dated May 21, 1964, read.
Details of the other circumstances that surrounded this message are not readily available.
Declassified US documents show the CIA orchestrated Kwame Nkrumah’s removal – Mahama
See the document below:
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