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34. Briefing Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Schaufele ) to Secretary of State Kissinger

la; —Take no steps to relax existing restrictions on our relations with South Africa in order to avoid giving the ex post facto impression that we had indeed collaborated with South Africa in the Angolan matter; —Remind selected African states, e.g. Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, that one of the expressed reasons for their support of the MPLA was to help keep the latter from falling under Soviet domination and inform them that we will follow with great interest their efforts to that end. Any public statement on Angola should include the following: —A fundamental and continuing element of US policy …

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1976-01-10
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–6, Documents on Africa, 1973–1976
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve06/d34
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve06/d34`

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34. Briefing Memorandum From the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs ( Schaufele ) to Secretary of State Kissinger. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1976. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve06/d34.