U.S. DISPUTED ON CASTRO STATEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100140037-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: June 12, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
12 JUNE 1978 7
Auoc asfa era. - - -
WASHINGTON _M'..--The Carter Add ?
ministration did not disclose a state -as el d h .L3. statement
tried to head oft the- recent. rebel at
tack in Zaire because it. did not be lieve that Castro- was, telling: th . :a'.closed meeting of the Senate For - partly because veto was d1 and was
truth, Senate sources said._ ,eignn Relatioes.Committee Friday staying in the Soviet Union.
The sources said'the Cuban. lead ;The sources quoted- Turner as say--
informed- , (n May 13, the rebel Katangans
the United States four days ;ins .that .thrcable had not been des- .'.'captured tIte .copper-mining "city of
after the Katangan: rebels invaded closed publistybecause. Carter Ad -=~ Kolwezi and killed hundreds of black
id Shaba province- that. he had ministration" officials. did not believes = -white civilians. The rebels even-
prior knowledge a&,the May 13 attack Castro was the truth. tually --were dislodged from Koiwezi
and tried to head rt off:... - telling
The sequence a,event4 appears. President Garter'charged on Mays and. driven back into Angola by a
that 25 that- CTttba "and: Angola shared, re--='rnombined . force.. of French, Belgian
support Presideirt. Carter's claim nsibil~`for, the-attack, sayingat -and' Zairean troops ..who received
Cuba was aware= at the invasion.-- S. logistical support plans, but it: casts. doubt oa Carter's a news conference
"We believe that Cuba had known ';Sen. Dick Clark (D., Iowa), chair
allegations= that the- Cubans did aotl~ of` tha Katangaa plan to invade and... man of the Senate Foreign .Relations
ing -to prevent-th& attack.. obviously dict;:~n+othing to restrain subcommittee on Africa, referred to
Deputy White-House Press-Se=e. - them from~crossing- the border" the cable" in, a telephone interview
tary Rex Granum? declined yesterday. .;??Castro claimed that after learning Saturday night.
to comme t.oa the.matter. Mary~Aaa r 1y WAprir- of the impending inva '-Me. thing that I find disturbing is
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Bader, a State.-Department spo
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to persuade. the Ango
s,; "sion,. he. tried:
man, said, "It is not. our. practice to tan- government of President Agostino - and let the Congress and public de-
comment on diplomatic exchanges ".veto .t4 stop- it; the. sources said.,But cide.- (on Castro's . truthfulness),"
Castro made hm eommems oa May Castro was -unsuccessful, they. said, Clark said...'
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to -Lyle F. Lane; the top U.S! dip"
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1 who relayed them
lomat, in Havana
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to the- State Departmeav.in- a secret.
cable, sources said Saturday. night.:
- The sources, .who asked-- not to- be
named, said that CIA.Director Stans
field Turner confirmed ` the: contents-
of the cable . after Sea-"George. S. Mc-
Govern (D, .S..D.r read. a copy of it to-
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