REPORT FROM PORTUGAL'S 'VIETNAM'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300260001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 26, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Wq_ GOVERNOR GF..NERAI, Vaz's Angola is scattered across
an area nearly half the size of Western Europe and he re-
ported to President Tomas that lie and the Republic of South
Africa have set up a joint frontier patrol.
The epicenter of the Red attack is along the Itenuela
vitally linking the central African copper regions and
C) Railway
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1.`a'~f . the Atlantic seaboard. And now the Red putsch is perform-
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I all that is inhumane,
Portugal is our NATO ally. Her Angola Governor Genera The great Cunene River, blessed with its marvelous
Camillo A. Robeclie Viz, highly respected by U. S. General Runeana Falls, forms part of the Angola South ~VeaL Africa
Andrew Goodpast r, is in Lisbon to report to President bord,:r. Called the Cabora-Basa project, a joint Portuguese-
own in far-off Vietnam. Portugal's troops, in 1.110 human betterment that the Cabora?Bassa project rep-
otal, have been successfully drawn off from resents? Oh, to hell with that.
Americo R. as on the renCwCO I115UI1 CC' Sothth African undei taking is building a 500-toot danl and it
lions in Portugal's Angola, Mozambique and tremendous hydroelectric complex there. In fact, President
ulaca. 'Comas stated it could attract perhaps a million foreign settlers
These insurrections are another Red-pro- and lift livin; standards immeasurably. I have confirmed this
t ot.ed clash and the Red strategy packs a lunong U. S. experts.
ouhle punch. The Reds' Leipzig headquarters is now making the C:abora-
It continues to weaken this NATO ally Besst project its prime target. U. S. intelligence in Lisbon
y forcing Portugal to commit 80,000 troops quotes the Leipzig brain trust as saying "we shall either
o far-off Africa, just as we were pinned destroy the dam or make it completely uneconomical."
AT TllE SAME TIME the Red strategy drains away
funds that otherwise could improve Portuguese and native liv-
ing conditions. Prc
of our natioon's c
Black soldier:
about 40 per con'
force totals 26,000
of weapons to bl
defense against at
ntire budget now goes for military costs."
, loyal to Portugal, already account . for
of the Portuguese Army in Guinea. The
men. Lisbon is also distributing thousands
ck civilians there to ensure their adequate
tacks by the Communist-backed PAIGC at-
Behind the sages, the Red putsch is being directed from
Leipzig, East Germany.
ported to Portug~ I's FIDE, counterintelligence, that Red Chi-
nese instructors. cts well as Russian, are in the field with the
attacking guerrill
The tools the
guerrilla cadres
Prague, Czechosl
reports that the
Zambia, son
Angola, and the
equivalent of La
s. The Porhiguese, in turn, have captured
Russian instructors use are African natives.
5,000 are constantly undergoing trainillg as
vakia and in Castro's Cuba. In fact, the CIA
ovict has now opened an additional training
times called the cockpit of Africa, borders
Zed strategy uses Zambia as the sanctuary-
s.
Zambia is slightly larger than Texas, and the Soviet has now
expanded the fog{nler Royal Air Force airdrome at Lusaka,
the capital. Russian Ilyushin airliners are off-loading military
equipment from the U.S.S.R and satellite countries, chiefly
Czechoslovakia.
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