WASHINGTON POST STORY ON ANGOLA-ZAIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-559-25-6-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 15, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJ: v ASHINGTON POST STORY ON ANGOLA-ZAIRE
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SEE ME AS PRE?FIGURLO IN REFTFL ON AUGUST 15, HE TOLD ME
THAT THE STUnY HE WAS GOING TU FILE CtNCEREv ARUUr4U riZS
CONCLUSION THAT MO uTU HAD THROWN .HIMSELF CuMPLETtLY.bEhIN0
THE FNLA AND THAT SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF ARMS Wffit COMING
FROM ZArRt BUT AS FART (IF THAT' STU-:Y, UTTAwAY INTENDS TO
REPORT rjHAT HE FOUND IN ANGOLA TO f3L 7Ht MPLA, CON IENTION
THAT US ARMS wtSt -BEIN,G SENT IN FOR _ThE FNLA VIA MO UTU.
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1. WASHINGTON POST CORRESPONDENT DAVID OTTAwAY CAME TO
HE SAID TtIAT hE HAD NOT SEEN SUCH ricAFON5--mE WAS ONLY SHU4N
AN biri1 MCiRTAN SMELL 1'iITH ENGLISH WkITING Oty IT WHICH HE wAS
ME 1HIS BECAUSE HE WAS CF_kTAIN HIS, ARTICLE wOULO RISE OUt.S1IUN4
SAID, A*4O UT TA AY WILL REPOT T, 1 HAT ZAIRIAN C-130 S AND C-4715
ARE USED TO FLY THIS EQUIPMENT IN. UTTArAy :SAID Mt WAS TELLING
HAD SEEN AT CAHMONA M-Io'Sr US-MAUE 120MM AND 81hM MU'KTAKS
AND SOMt "SELF-P'ROPELLEO ROCKETS"". IN AUDITION,. Tr1ESE SUUkCES
MPLA AND OTHER PUREIGNC.ORRESP(JNUENT.S wtHE SAYING TriAT ThkY
NOT PREPARE!) TO SAY WAS US MADE--OUT WAS GOING TO REPORT THAT
WITH THt;.f)EPAkTMLNT'S Pttk.SS Se0ftbtMAN,
2, UTT iQA'r ALSO SAID THAT HE SAW tiUUE QUANTITIES OF
S VIET-' ARMS IN THE MPLAHANt)S AND THAT HE 'wULO UE
RE-FORT1144 TtiIS AS WELL. WHAT wA.S SIGNIFICANT, HE
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THOUGHT, WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH ThE.MPL A KNEW THAT THERE
WERE CriINEStr ARMS Ifs THE FNLA'S HANGSr THEIN P iUPAG.ANL)A
LINE WAS CENTLEZtD ONLY UN TtiE THEMF- I HAT. 'THE FNL A AND
MOBUTU WERE THE STOOGES OF YANKEE, IMPERIALISM.
3. HE ASKED ME SPECIFICALLY IF THE ZAIRIANS HAD M-1615
IN THEIR INVFhTUKY.. I RECOUNTED THE HISTORY, OF OUR
DECISION NOT TO SILL M-1'6'S IN AF.NXGA, THE.SU8StQUENT
CHANGE IN SEPT 1974 WHEN wE INFORMED MOBUTU AMONG OTHERS
THAT SUCH WEAPONS COULD 6E PURCHASED UNDER, r MS AND MY
UNDERSTANUIviG THAT ZAIRE HAG WECt1VEU StVERAL VISITS FROM
CULT ANU THAT IT LOUKEU AS IF ZAINE. MIGr+T USE SOME QF ITS
FMS CREDIT rU BUY M-1?6'S DIRECTLY FROM THE SUPPLItR.
I SAID THAT I DID NOT KNOW IF THIS ,TRANS~f T.IUN HAU bE.+N
COMPLETED BUT I UUUdTED IT,. l FURTHtR SAID, CDNCErthiNi;
THE MORTARS AND THE "SELF -PKUPELLED ROCKETS" THAT NUN. OF ThESE
WEAPONS WERE INCLUDED IN PREVIOU.S :OW ONGOING MAP/FMS DELIVERIES.
IT SEEMS EVIDENT
AS I HAVE SutGES1 Eta
-THAT USt3 PRkSS SPOKtSr1AN IN r+A.SMING1 ON
WILL SOON BE UUtHIE.) AS TO THE VERACI1 Y OF THE RUMORS TriAl
HAVE NUw BEGUN TO' CIRCULATE IN THIS NICK OF THE WUOUS.
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