AL-QADHDHAFI INTERVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400380011-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 26, 1977
• Content Type: CABLE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/23: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400380011-2
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((TEXT)) PRE IDENT
CIVIL PEACE AND
INCLUDING CHAD? SUDAN AND, ESPECIALLY, MAGHREB CDUNTRIESA
''THE DISPUTE ABOUT WEST SAHARA IS FRAUGHT WITH DANGERS," HE
STATED. ''IF THE PARTIES CONCERNED WERE TO REMAIN INTRANSIGENT,
A LARGEmSCALE WAR WOULD INEVITABLY FOLCOW THE PRESENT SKIRMrSHESI
BELIEVE THAT THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT THIS IS TO SETTLE THE,PROBLEM
WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A MAGHREB CONFEDERATION.=THE DISPUTED
TERRITORY OF SAHARA WOULD HAVE ITS OWN PLACE WITHIN IT TN THE FORM
OF A POLITICAL ENTITY WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE DEFINED,
"I HAVE SUBMITTED MY PLAN TQ THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES CONCERNED'
TELLING THEM THAT MY AIM WAS TO INDUCE THEM TO MAKE A MINIMUM OF
CONCESSIONS LIKELY TO LEAD TO AN AGREEMENT. I BELIEVE TWAT THE MAIN
THING IS TO START A DIALOG DURING THE DISCUSSIONS ON THE CREATION
OF A CONFEDERATION WHICH ARE ALREADY TAKING PLACE. NOT ONLY MOROCCO;
MAURITANIA AND TUNISIA, WHICH WOULD BELONG WITH ALGERIA TO SUCH A
CONFEDERATION, BUT ALSO SPAIN, WHICH HAS MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES
TOWARD SAHARA, HAVE IMMEDIATELY ASKED ME TO VISIT THEM. I
WILL GD ON SUCH A TOUR WITHIN THE NEXT 3 OR 4 MONTHS,.
"I HAVE ADDITIONAL REASONS FOR FEELING CONFIDENT THAT MY.UNDERm
TAKING WILL PROVE SUCCESSFUL'. PRESIDENTS BOURGUIBA,e BOUMEDI'ENE
AND OULD DADDAH TOLD ME AS FAR BACK AS THE FALL OF 1973 THAT THEY WERE
WILLING TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF SUCH A CONFEbERATI.ON;';r."
((QUESTION)) IS.KING HASSAN II PREPARED to ACCEPT A SPECIAL
POLITICAL STATUS FOR SAHARA? DO YOU BELIEVE THAT PRESIDENT BOUMEDIENE
WOULD AGREE TO THAT TERRITORY REMAINING UNDER MOROCCAN GQNTROL?
((ANSWER)) THE i'ING OF MOROCCO 'HAS OXPRESSED NO OPINI'ON,.ON THE
SUBJECT BUTm-AND THIS IS AN ENCOURAGING FACT--INFORMED HE THAT
EVERYTHING POSSIBLE WOULD BE DONE TO INSURE ?HE SUCCESS OF MY COMING
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QADHDHAFI STATED THAT HE IS IN FAVOR OF
NAL RECONCILIATIUN IN ACL AFRICANCQUNTRIES,
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VISIT. AS FOR THE ALGERIAN PRESIDENT, HE IS NOT DIRECTLY CONCERNED
BY THE PROBLEM SINCE IT FALLS WITHIN POLISARIQIS PROVINCE.
((QUESTION)) WITH REFERENCE TO THIS, WHY HAVE YOU NOT RECOGNIZED
THE GOVERNMENT FORKED BY POLISARID?
PRESIDENT AL QADHDHAFI 'REPLIED WITH A SMILE; !'PERHAPS WISDOM
AND THE NEED, FOR A COMPROMISE REQUIRE A CER'T'AIN CAUTION ON MY PART..;,"
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/23: CIA-RDP05-01559ROO0400380011-2