US policy calculations treated Osman as acceptable despite his nationalism

Evidence

Diplomatic rhetoric aside and given the well-known fact that America regularly intervened in the internal affairs of countries whose policies it found disagreeable, American policy makers recognized Osman’s aversion to communism but also his well-established and deep nationalist character, and therefore, the diplomat’s reply to Egal’s query might not be diplomatic nicety only. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 911