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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000201460011-0: SOUTH AFRICA'S SURVIVAL ESSENTIAL TO U.S. AS SOURCE OF KEY MATERIALS

,S1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/20: CIA-RDP9O-00965ROO0201460011-0 ONY~'G~ . 1_'~ 1 August 1985 V11 MUD_ South Africa's survival essential'- to U.S. as source of key materials Leaders of the U.S. network against South Africa concentrate on creating a public sense of moral repugnance surrounding apartheid and the injustices of the South Afri- can system. So far, so good. At least on the surface. Censorship by omission, however, is wheeled into play when it comes to the U.S. national interest in main- taining a steady supply of strategic minerals. In the Fr…