NKOMO SEES CIA ROLE IN ANGOLA WAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600080039-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 19, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON STAR
Nkomo Sees
CIA Role in
Angola War
Rhodesia Guerrilla Leader
Denies Cuban Combat Aid
United Press International
Joshua Nkomo, a guerrilla leader
fighting the Rhodesian government,
says the CIA has continued to inter-
fere in the affairs of Marxist Angola.
Nkomo, citing "those who know,"
said on CBS' "Face the Nation" pro-
ram yesterday that they "believe
anti- overnment) Angolan forces
do get some aid from the United
States" that is funneled through
South Africa.
(Cuban President Fidel Castro, in
weekend interviews, also charged the
CIA has established new contacts
with Angolan insurgents.)
Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe
African People's Union, is believed to
have 8,500 men located in Zambia,
which also shares a border with
Angola.
NKOMO PREDICTED "victory"
for his guerrilla forces against the
Rhodesian government in the next
six to 10 months.
"We have reached the hump," he
said, adding that his group would
establish a socialist state in Rhode-
sia.
"Socialism is an ideology very
close to our own way of thinking as
opposed to capitalism," he said.
He called attempts by the United
States and Britain to reach a negoti-
ated settlement in Rhodesia "out of
date."
Nkomo denied a recent report at-
tributed to him that Cuban military
advisers were operating with hid
troops.
"Cuba is one of the countries that
has positively answered our need for
assistance," he said, saying the help
has ranged from sugar to training of
young black guerrillas.
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But he denied Cuban military Russia and help from East Germany
advisers were working with his men. that has ranged "from a pin to huge
equipment to light our school" that
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other Western nations have refused ever, through the United Nations,
because Nkomo's- troops are fightin
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send $500,000 for the building of the
school..
He called President Carter's state-
noises' nth that have not "nice
put into
action.
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profits" to corporations with mter-
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