CARTER: UNAWARE OF ANGOLA AID BID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100140001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 27, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
ARTICLE APPEARED 27 June 1978
ON PAGE A-7
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By Robert G. Kaiser='
9-1. At?first he said there was- never constraints of the Clark amendment washia~son Pousuu wrtpa , , s': ? ' any plan put forward, to. send: back-'. by seeking his , approval. for the
President,. Carter-said. yesterday door Weapons to ~, they jAugolan] '? plan ? . : - ? '-` ? ?-'<
he had no prior. knowledge. of a rebels because that would have
been in violation-of- they Americsn According to. Turner in later tes-
visit his director of central-. intelli: law," a reference to a: legislative timony, a . committee of the Na-
Bence, Adm. Stansfieid Turner, paid -rider authored by. Clark" forbidding tional Security Council- authorized
this. spring to Sen. Dick Clark (D? aid. to 'any Angolan, faction__- ;- his visit to Clark. The idea of e,,c
Iowa) to discuss posaible..coverL-ald:. : ':I don't believe' anym responsible' ploring aid to Angolan -rebels' to
to rebels is Angola. ,person in my admiatisiration_wouidr ..'try to tie' down. Cuban troops now
The Turner-Clark meeting- con-?' have violated'the so-called Clark supporting the Angolan regime
vinced the-senator, who .chairman amendment," the pr"esfdetit?said. was encouraged by Zbigniew Brie.
of-the subcommittee-- -African Pressedfurther by llartni Schram zinski,: Carter's- national security
affairs, that the Carter adman of Newsday,-who noted` that Turner adviser, according to, administration
tion'was -seriously"'to g nsideringe, co- presented a--.written . plan to Clarkofficials _-
? vent .aid through' );nce_ to rebels outlining a. programofcovert' arms Responding to another question
, _
fighting- against" rdAngola's.tifarASt, aid to Angolan rebels. -Carter said yesterday, Carter .again defended
government_._Carter, said-yesterday;: he:' "didn't have, any, Idea that the Brzezinski? asserting that Brzerin
however, that he' had .never.: in-' CIA director;-had?..?even--talked -to?r? ski's critics sometimes pick on him,
tended to- send' weapons'. to- Angola,' Sen: Clark. about "insinuating I am. either ineffective-.
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It was reported in May that Clark
about the incident. In effect;: Carter
felt the administration was looking
washed his hands of it..Y :, _v
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