REPORT: WORKING GROUP ON ANGOLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-102-6-13-7
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 5, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/12/02: LOC-HAK-102-6-13-7
REPORT: WORKING GROUP ON ANGOLA
1. The fighting in Angola has gone through several distinct
phases:
a: Fighting between Angolan liberation groups
Cuban troops on the Luanda front, and a large force in defense
of Lobito. Cuban units have also been reported-in.Cabinda,
where they could represent a significant change in the balance
b. Introduction of foreign military advisors-
and equipment has permitted the MPLA to deploy-several hundred
Soviet and East German with MPLA, South Atrlcan
with UNITA and Portuguese with FNLA.
.g. MPLA.vs FNLA).
c. Introduction of combat units from
African countries.
d. Introduction of combat troops from outside
Africa in the form of Cuban troops in support of
the MPLA..
2. The arrival of as many as 2,000 Cuban military personnel
phase might occur after 11 November 1975 with the MPLA declarinitself the government of a sovereign state and calling on other"'.
African or Communist states to enter into open military assistance
arrangements with Angola. Such agreements could cover the shipment
3 We should anticipate that an escalation to the next
of forces in favor of the MPLA.
!fo Copies ANGOLA WORKING
shift the military balance in
in air power and other African
commit air power in Angola.
This could significantly
avor o t e.MPLA as Zaire is weak
countries
would be reluctant to
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/12/02: LOC-HAK-102-6-13-7
 No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/12/02: LOC-HAK-102-6-13-7
EYES C ? ..
5. CIA is preparing ?a separate assessment of the current
situation in the face of prospects of serious escalation by the
UUSSR..
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/12/02 : LOC-HAK-102-6-13-7