LETTER TO VARIOUS SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES RE: US AID TO ANGOLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000400100007-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 28, 1975
• Content Type: LETTER

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Executive Regiet.
C' 7G, D VY,
IDecember 28, 1975
To: Senators Dick Clark, Clifford P. Case, James L. Buckley, Jacob Javits
Representatives Otis G. Pike, Bella Abzug
Re: U. S. Angola Aid
Dear Honorable Congressmen and Congresswoman:
I have been out of touch recently on current events due to the termina-
tion of classes and final examinations, but I believe that the proposal sub-
mitted by Senator Dick Clark ends assistance supplied by the CIA to two anti-
Communist factions in Angola -- unless Congress specifically authorizes that
assistance. I believe this proposal has merit, but I hasten to add that inasmuch
as we take a negative approach, i.e., NO funds for Angola, et al., without
Congressional approval, a positive approach should also be considered, i.e.,
"X" will be done to reduce the Soviet Union's expansionism. I assume, of course,
that Congress is of the following opinion:
1. The Russians intend to Communize the world.
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2. The Russians aim to communize requires the suppression of individual rights.
3. The Russians aim to communize also requires coercion since the economic
policy is based primarily on the myth of equal distribution of wealth
and services.
It appears that our dilemma with regard to Russian expansionism is as
follows: while we desire universal freedom and idealistically respect the rights
of individual nation-states to freely choose their forms of government (and it is
hoped a government of the people, by the people, and for the people), we invariably
become involved with secondary governments which impose and insist upon these
nations a Communistic form of government. I sincerely believe that the U.S.
policy of intervention has resulted only when these secondary governments, i.e.,
Russian, have refused to recognize each states right to a free choice of govern-
ment, and, instead, exploited various groups for the express purpose of Russian
expansionism. I believe it is at this point that the United States has intervened;
I also believe that it is at this point when we draw the thin line -- the one
which determines when and if we should prevent expansionism. I f expansionism
is not checked, then that part of the world is "communized", and we are left
with "XI' -- "What" is to be done about Russian expansionism?
I can offer only microscopic suggestions for a positive approach to reduce
Russian expansionism. (1) Insist on strict compliance with the treaty executed
at Helsinki which (I believe) guarantees minimal individual rights, e.g.,, right
to travel; (2) Mobilize support among free nations to encourage individual rights
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in nations which presently suppress same; such mobilization can be conducted
in world organizations; (3) Assist countries in need - with no "strings"
attached, e.g., Portugal, until they are able to decide freely their form
of government; if suppression of individual rights becomes a policy of that
government, U.S. policy should be to remove all aid, since the myth of equal
distribution of wealth and services should suffice for that government;
(4) require that any and all economic dealings of U.S. with Russians be
extremely costly in order to prevent resale of goods and services to countries
and promotion of Communism; (5) prepare for World War III to preserve individual
rights and liberties; (6) cease all communication and trade with extreme viola-
tors of democratic rights; and, finally, (7) eliminate corruption within the
United States and set a world example of human liberties which can pretiat 1 in
a Democratic form of government.
Needless to say, I wish that all iron walls, and curtains, literally and
figuratively, be removed, and it is in the best interests of all people, free
and those we hope to free, that such removal be active, and only as a last resort,
violent.
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cc: Mr. William E. Colby
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Mr. William E. Colby
Director of the C. I. A.
Washington, D.C.
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