UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD ANGOLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R01142A001400020010-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 13, 1975
• Content Type: MEMO

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~NATJONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
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full
NSC review completed -may be declassified in
December 13, 1975
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJEC'1'; United States Policy Toward Angola
The President has directed a review of United States interests and objectives
in and policy toward Angola.
The study should describe United States political, economic and strategic
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interests in Angola and assess:
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--- The prabability (a.nd extent) of OAU and/or UN intervention, or
efforts to influence the conflict,
The consequences to the United States of Angola's being governed
by those whale interests are inimical to the UxSited States. In this
context, the study should assess whether denial of a military victory
by the MPLA is essential to the achievement of United States objectives.
The impact of various outcomes in Angola on United States interests `
in Africa as a whole, and in particular in the neighboring states,
such as Zaire and Zambia, and southern Africa.
Similar interests of other powers -- Soviet, PR C, or other. --
The immediate and longer-range prospects far.Angala with emphasis
on the likelihood of continued armed conflict, the chances that either
the' MPLA or FNLA/UNITA will gain a dominant: political role, and
the policies anal goals likely to be followed in each instance.
-- The impact on United States interests in Africa and elsewhere of
continuing Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angola,
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-- The impact an United States-Soviet relations of continued Soviet
and Cuban intervention in Angolan
The interest/concern of other powers -NATO, Germany, France,
- UK -with United States and Soviet intervention in Angola.
__ Whether United States interese the autcomepna.l3ngal.aautE aluate
government efforts to influenc
probability and consequence of United States direct ar indirect policy
change toward South Africa.
Based upon the foregoing assessments, the study should evaluate alternative
United States policies toward AS and can sfar eachpt1The optian.s~ sho u d take
States objectives to include pro
into account the time available for action.
The study should be prepared by an ad hoc group composed. of representatives
of the addressees and the National Security Council staff and chaired by
Knowledge of the study an_d .,
the xepresentative of the Secretary of State.
participation in its preparation should be kept on a strict need-to-Ic;suw
basis. Any additional participat~.on should be specifically approved by the
Ghairman of the Group.. Differing agency judgments should be clearly set
forth.
The study should be submitted to the Assistant to the President for Natian:al
Security Affairs na later than January 2, 1976. `
v._ -
Brent Scowcroft
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