REDS GOING ALL-OUT IN AFRICA: CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600160005-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 11, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
11 April 1978
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WASHINGTON (UPI] - The Soviet
Union and Cuba are lauching the greatest
campaign to expand foreign influence
south of the Sahara since European
powers carved up Africa in the the 19th
Century, deputy CIA director Frank
Carlucci said Monday. .
Carlucci, flanked by agency experts,
appeared before the Senate Armed Serv-
ices Subcommittee on Intelligence to
testify-on Soviet and Cuban activity and
intentions in the whole of Africa.
IN A BRIEF STATEMENT and in an-
swer to a general questions before the
meeting was closed to the public, Car-
lucci said:
4 "The degree of Soviet and Cuban
military activity in ' sub-Saharan Africa
is unprecedented. We are witnessing the
most determined campaign to expand
foreign influence in this troubled region
since it was carved up by the European
powers in the late 19th Century."
43 Soviet military equipment has been
flowing into Ethiopia and Angola "'faster
than the local forces can absorb it."
.Tank deliveries to Ethiopia exceed 400;
more than 50 MIG fighters have gone to
Addis Ababa, as have "huge quantities
of armored cars, personnel carriers, and
artillery."
? Soviet and Cuban general officers
"plan and coordinate combat. operations
involving more than 16,000 Cuban
troops." -Soviet military aid co .-mitted
to Ethiopia "now ranges close to $1 bil-
lion."
? In Angola, "tons of Soviet military
hardware litter the docks at Luanda,
and Soviet or Cuban advisers are found
at every level of the government .
there are more Cuban soldiers in Angola
than in Ethiopia, thousands of them en-
gaged. in active combat against UNITA
[an anti-Communist force] in the south-
ern part of the country."
In Africa south of the Sahara, Carluc-
ci said, Soviet equipment is being deliv-
ered to liberation movements and self-
s t y l e d revolutionary r eg'mzes wnOSe
forces are being trained by Cubans and;
Soviets. `
,,It is my view that Moscow and Ha-!
vana intend to take advantage of every t
such opportunity to demonstrate that,
those who accept ther political philoso-
phy can also count on receiving their
assistance when it is needed," Carlucci.
said. -
IN ANSWER TO questions from sub-
committee chairman Harry F. Byrd Jr.;
[I., Va.], Carlucci said the CIA does not,
yet have sufficient information on Soma-,
li reports that the Soviets were behind
reported recent coup attempts in Soma-.
lia. .
Shooting apparently broke out in two"!
places, he said, but information was.
spotty. on who originated the fighting.:]
The wording of Somali reports on the,
coup attempts would indicate. Soviet'-!
complicity, he said.
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