POSSIBLE LIFTING OF RESTRICTIONS ON AID TO ANGOLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000707300006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 1, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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4701 V~iLLARD AV7=NUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20015 656-4068
~~~ Braden & Buchanan
April 1, 1981 6:10 PM GTY PJashington, DC
susJECT Poss i b l e L i ft i ng of Restrictions on A i d to Ango l a
TOM BRADENr We are asking, as of right now, whet-her
you think Congress ought to lift the restriction on the CIA
brought about by the Clark Amendment, which prohibits the Central
Intelligence Agency trom extending any covert aid to Angola.
On the Live Line is Howard Wolpe of Michigan, a Demo-
crat, first term -- second term now, 1 guess. Anyhow, hs~s a
member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Foreign
Relations Committee.
What is -- you're a member of the commifitee. What's
your view on the sanction against the CIA?
REP. HOWARD 1r~OLPE: I thin k i t wou i d be a very serious
mistake to lift the Clark Amendment restricing assistance to'
groups within Angola at this time. Angola has been very helpful
to the United States in recent months and years, in fact, in a
number of different areas. Most recently, theyive been critical
to assisting the United States, along with our Western allies
and Canada, in resolving the conflict-in Namibia. it was the
Angolans that put pressure upon the SWAPO to agree to the United
Nations plan. And the Angolans, in addition, have been very
helpful in the efforts that. we .were making with respect to the
settlement in Zimbabwe. Theytve assisted in reducing fiensions
in Zaire. Theyfve been very supportive of American investments
inside Angola. -
BRADEN: Dtd you see that piece in the Wall Street
Journal on that t ast point of yours?
The Wall Street Journal had a lead sfiory, Pat -- 1
think it was last Friday -- pointing out many American firms who
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