MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A000200370001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 31, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Middle East
Africa
South Asia
Confidential
No. 0421/75
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Contents
Angola: Transitional Government Installed 1
Kenya: Pragmatic Foreign Policy 3
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Angola
Transitional Government InstaZZed
The black-dominated transitional government that
will prepare Angola for independence next November
was formally installed in Luanda on January 31.
The government is based on an uneasy truce among
Angola's three rival nationalist groups that is sure
to be subjected to severe strains in the coming months.
The new Angolan regime is headed by a Portuguese
high commissioner and a presidential council composed
o:f one member from each of the groups with the chair-
manship rotated monthly. The high commissioner
represents Portugal's interests, but has no vote on
domestic issues. A cabinet of 12 ministers, with
portfolios equally divided among the Portuguese and
the liberation groups, was also installed.
TYie leaders of the three groups have appointed
dE~puties to the presidential council in order to
remain free to engage in political activities. They
did note appear in Luanda for the installation
px-ocedure .
Signs of strain have already emerged between
two of the groups. On January 25, an official of
the National Front for the Liberation of Angola
destroyed some equipment at the government-run radio
station in protest against censorship of Front com-
muniques by staff members sympathetic to the Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola. The next day,
Front members kidnapped the station's deputy director
and beat him badly before releasing him. Both the
Front and the Popular Movement subsequently issued
communiques accusing the other of planning civil war.
After a decade of intense rivalry, sometimes
marked :by armed clashes, cooperation among the groups
will not come easily, if at all. Indeed, antipathy
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between the National wont and the Popular Movement,
based on the personal ambitions and conflicting
ideologies of their respective leaders, is so
strong that open warfare between them is a distinct
possibility. '.rhe National Union for the Total
Independence of Angc{l.a, the smallest of the three
groups, has emerged thus far as an effective inter-
mediary between the t:wo organizations, but its
ability to continue in that role is likely to be
weakened by its own political reoccu ations durin
the transitional eriod.
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K nya
Pragmatic Foreign PoZier~
Nairobi's prompt approval of Washington's pro-
posal that the USS Enterprise visit Mombasa early
next month demonstrates the.Kenyatta government?s
continued adherence to a pragmatic approach to
foreign affairs despite its growing sensitivity to
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The Kenyans know that the visit of the Enterprise
is :Likely to draw extensive criticism from Tanzania
and some other African states, as have earlier
appearances of US Navy ships in Mombasa. .Tanzania
has berated Kenya on ideological grounds, blasting
it for a:Lleged close association with the US and the
UK.
Over, the last few months, Kenya has attempted
t.o assoc~.ate itself more closely with other African
countries on broad issues. For example, Kenya has
gone on x-ecor_d in favor of making the Indian Ocean
a ?'zone of peace" and opposing a great power military
presence there--themes embraced ardently by Dar es
Salaam. Since taking office last, October, Foreign
Minister Munyua Waiyaki has stepped up contacts with
African ambassadors in Nairobi, and made a trip to
several southern African countries. He also arranged
for Kenya to host the meeting of_ Angolan nationalists
held in Nairobi in early January; Kenya's previous
involvement in southern African matters had been
minimal.
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Until recently Kenya accorded its military estab-
lishment relatively low priority in allocating _govern-
ment resources. Asp a result, its 9,000-man.. armed
force is much smaller and less well equipped than its
counterpart in Som.a.lia or Uganda--Kenya's potential
adversaries. President Kenyatta's new-found concern
over defense has been spurred by the deterioration
of Kenya's relations with Ethiopia and .the consequent
weakening of its military alliance with Addis Ababa.
The Kenyans have regarded the alliance as an important
constraint on possible adventurism b Somalia which
covets part of Kenya's territory.
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