International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

108. Memorandum

urage Mobutu to use his existing stocks which could be replaced less conspicuously by sea shipment. 5. Exposure of American arms aid to the FNLA through Mobutu would tend to spoil political efforts to get African leaders such as Kaunda , Nyerere and Gowon behind efforts to stop the fighting. And to stop the fighting remains very much to the advantage of Neto ’s opponents. 6. The attached budget figures are very tentative and based on a force of 10,000 fighting men each for UNITA and FNLA . These strengths are probably high for military combat action alone, but are based on the needs expressed …