STATEMENT OF GRAY AND COMPANY PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100420012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 17, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 17, 1986
Contact: Frank Mankiewicz
[phone]
STATEMENT OF GRAY AND COMPANY PUBLIC
COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL
Washington, D.C. -- With our delivery today to the
Department of State of a policy message from Angola, we
believe we have reopened a communications window between the
United States and that government which -- unlike other
nations with which we are in conflict -- has no ambassador
here or other diplomatic relations. This completes our
activities for the Government of Angola.
Our limited role has been to aid the flow of information
and facts to assist both governments and those responsible
for the U.S. foreign policy-making process. We have been a
conduit for communications and have received assurances from
appropriate representatives of the U.S. government that our
assistance can benefit U.S. foreign policy objectives.
In meetings in Angola, representatives of our company
gave the top leadership of that government an analysis of
U.S. public, press and official determination to end Angola's
long civil war. They brought back to U.S. officials the
message of Angola's willingness to negotiate a withdrawal of
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