282. Memorandum From Director of Central Intelligence Turner to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski)1
SUBJECT
- Intelligence Relationships with Republic of South Africa [classification not declassified]
1. [classification not declassified] Reference is your memorandum of 20 May 19772 to the heads of executive departments and agencies requesting a listing of agreements, contracts, and formal or informal contacts between the United States and the Republic of South Africa governments.
2. [classification not declassified] I have surveyed all elements of the Intelligence Community and have been advised there are no intelligence agreements or contracts and no formal arrangements with the South African government, but that there are a number of continuing informal contacts, [2 lines not declassified].
a. [classification not declassified; 1 paragraph (7 lines) not declassified]
b. [classification not declassified] Defense Intelligence Agency: The U.S. Defense Attache Office in South Africa maintains contacts with officials within the South African Government, and the Defense Attaches have continuing contacts with a number of South African military attaches posted in Europe and Africa. The DIA Foreign Liaison Division has official and social contact with the South African Defense Attache in Washington, as also do the Foreign Liaison Divisions of the military departments.
c. [classification not declassified] Bureau of Intelligence Research, Department of State: Casual and occasional contacts are made between personnel of INR/State and officials of the South African Embassy.
d. [classification not declassified; 1 paragraph (15 lines) not declassified]
e. [classification not declassified] Department of the Army: Brief visits to U.S. military installations and contractors are arranged for officials from South Africa, as indicated by the following list of such visits made during the past year:
[Page 861]| South African | Installation Visited |
| Deputy Director, Veterinary Research Institute | Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. |
| Head, Engineering Geology Section, Soil Engineer Group | USA Engineer Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Ms. |
| 3 staffers, South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research | USA District Engineer, Los Angeles, and USA Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Ms. |
| Head, Safety Testing, National Institute of Virology, Department of Health | USA Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Ft. Detrick, Md. |
| Consultant, Euro Consultancy Services | Food Engineering Laboratory, Natick, Ma. |
| Head, Lipid and Applied Chemistry, University of Capetown | USA Natick Research Laboratory, Natick, Ma. |
| Representative, National Building Research Institute | USA Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Ms., and Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Ill. |
f. [classification not declassified] The South African Defense Attache actively promotes and participates in liaison contacts with senior intelligence personnel of DIA and the military departments. During the last week of April 1977, he visited Fort Knox, Ky., Fort Sill, Ok., Fort Bliss and Fort Sam Houston, Tx., and Carswell Air Force Base, Tx.
- Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Brzezinski Material, Country File, Box 72, South Africa: US Agency Ties with South Africa [IV], 8/77. Secret.↩
- See Document 277.↩