ANGOLA NSSM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R01142A001400020001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 5, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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5 January 1975
3. I come out somewhere in the middle, but I do feel that the
State draft does not sufficiently stress the essential unwillingness
of WE governments (with the qualified exception of France) to take any
active partisan role against the MPLA which might strain, their relations
with the OAU. State may have privileged reports we haven't seen (prob-
ably does), but even if US demarches have encountered sympathetic hear-
ings in various foreign offices on the continent, one must still keep in
mind the difference between agreement on desirable outcomes, objectives,
etc., and willingness to do anything concrete.
State Dept. review
completed
SUBJECT Angola NSSM
1. Comments on the draft from OCI/WE are attached.
2. In general, State/EUR has chosen to accentuate the positive,
whereas the earlier OCI/WE treatment stressed the skepticism with
which WE governments contemplate the idea of active intervention in
Angola. The case can be made either way --= depending on what strains
of European sentiment one wishes to highlight, and the almost, semantic
problem of how much weight to put on rhetorical expressions like "share
our concern."
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Attached are some comments on the
Angolan MSSM--which I hope will still do
some good. Why did not send over
to State what we had drafted before?
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