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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-551-5-54-5
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2009
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: December 30, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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CHIEF RICHARD WELCH ARRIVED FROM GREECE AT AN0REws AIR FORCE
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BARRY sCHwgIO REPORTS THAT AMERICAN OFFICIALS EXPECT THE 450.,
NATION AFRICAN $uMmIT NEXT MONTH TO CONDEMN SOUTH AFRICA'S
mILiTAXY INTERVENTION IN ANGOLA BUT TO STOP SHORT or GRANTING
RECOGIN;T/ON TO THE SOVIETIA$WPPORTIO FACTION THAT CONTROLS
LUANDA' IN FACT, THESE,OFFCIA0 SAY CHANCES ARE GOOD THAT
THE OAU WIUP. URGE THE POPULAR MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBERATION OF
ANGOLA TO FORM A COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH TWO U0S.*SAOKEO
FACTIONS ONCE THERE IS A CgASEHFIRE,
CROSBy NOYg$ WRITIG THAT IT 600ms AS IF CIA DIRECTOR COLBY
WASN'T KIDDING ABOUT THE DANGER TO OUR INTELLIGENCE AGENTS
OVERSEAS, THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE MURDER OF RICHARD S.
WELCH A FW DAYS AGO IN ATHENS AND THE CONDEMNATION AND 013s
CLOSURE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY
AND ABROAD IS TOO OSVIOOS TO BELABOR. IN THE /NTERNATIoNAL
COMMUNITY, THE GREEN LIGMT;TO TERRORISM BURNS BRIGHT' WHAT.
EVER ELSE YASR ARAFAT MAY REPRESENT, ME REPRESENTS THE KILL-,
INO OF INNOCENT PEOPLE IN A POLITICAL CAUSE, THE IMPLICATIONS
OF THAT RECOGNITION MAY FINALLY HAVE DAWNED ON THE LEADERS OF
THE ARAB WORLD, IT MAY FINALLY HAVE DAWNED AS WELL ON THOSE
WHO CONDONE THE MILLINO Olv AMERICAN PUBLICsgRvANTs ABROAD AS
THE PRICE OF DEMOCRACY At HOME' CONTRACTS FOR MURDER ARE NO
PART OU THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, IT IS HIGH
TIME THAT TM! LAW TOOK THAT FACT INTO ACCOUNT,
OARRY WILLS WRITES THAT AMID THE DEADLY SERIOUS PARTS OF THE
SENATE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON POLITICAL ASSASsINA.,
TUNS, READERS MAY $g GRATEFUL[FOR COMIC RELIEF PROVIDED OT
THE CIA'S TECHNICAL sgevIcee DIVISION, THIS CREW OF ZANIES
IS THE ONE THAT MOPED TO MAKE Film CASTRO SAME ON THE RADIO
GT BPWING HIS STUDIO WITH A CHEMICAL RESEMBLING LSD IN ITS
EFFECT, TMg POINT 010'44. THIS x$ TAAT THE CIA INHERITS A LONG
TRADITION OF WHAT IT THINKS IS, GUERRILLA 2NOINUlTY, OUT IS
RgAloia A sCH004Boy /ANT Folk TURNING wHOOPII CUSHIONS INTO
WEAPONS, THAT IS ONE Of THE REASONS REFORM OF THE CIA MAY
BE V410004106E, BOYS WILip BE, SOTS, THEY SAY/ AND THIS ORGAN,.
I/ATION MO HAD A RATHER VICIOUS INFANTIOSm BRED INTO IT
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