10. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to President Carter 1
SUBJECT
- Cubans in Angola
USIA has begun to move on publicizing the growing disillusionment with Cubans in Angola. John Reinhardt has informed me that VOA has made a careful check of materials available in the public domain indicating awareness of and dissatisfaction with Soviet and Cuban interference in African affairs. Attached is a copy of a recent VOA news analysis dealing with Socialist imperialism in Africa.2 This analysis will be used in English, French, Portuguese, and Swahili broadcasts to Africa.
VOA will continue to pursue this matter.3
- Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Brzezinski Material, Country File, Box 4, Angola: 1/77–12/78. Secret. Brzezinski wrote in the upper right-hand corner: “DA please act on this in SCC-working group. ZB.” Dodson wrote below this: “(C[op]y sent to Henze 7/14)”↩
- Not found attached. The July 11 VOA news analysis entitled “Africa and the ‘New Socialist Imperialism’” is in the National Security Council, Carter Administration Intelligence Files, Subject Files A–E, Box 25, Angola 11 July 1977–18 April 1978.↩
- Carter wrote below this paragraph: “OK—Let’s push actual effort—not just analysis—Also radio broadcasts to Cuba—Keep me informed. J.”↩