SAVIMBI PRESS INTERVIEW IN DAKAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-102-5-29-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2010
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 31, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/05/11 LOC-HAK-102-5-29-1
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REPORT: WORKING GROUP ON ANGOLA
SUBJECT: Savimbi Press Interview in Dakar
WORKING GROUP
APER NO. 83
S1 OCT 1975
1. UNITA President Jonas Savimbi gave a press interview
to the Dakar daily "Le Soleil" on 27 October in which he
denounced Soviet and Cuban aid to the MPLA and categorically
denied that South African troops were aiding UNITA. Savimbi
said that about one week before the interview, three ships
from the Soviet Union, East Germany and Yugoslavia had
unloaded more than 10,000 tons of arms at Luanda. He
indicated this was in addition to the Aeroflot deliveries.
to Brazzaville, Lobito and?Benguela(sic).
2. Savimbi concluded the interview by urging political
compromise among the three Angolan liberation groups. He
said that if the OAU could not achieve such a compromise,
.he could foresee the United Nations entering the picture,
even though UNITA does not want UN' intervention.
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/05/11: LOC-HAK-102-5-29-1