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246. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon

contingent from Uganda. In fact, a transit stop in Uganda reportedly was not in the original charter but was necessitated when the projected stop (Bujumbura airport) ran out of fuel. Amin reportedly has cabled Kinshasa, Bujumbura, Nairobi, President Gowon of Nigeria in his capacity as President of OAU , and OAU headquarters in Addis Ababa to obtain confirmation that the Volunteers were indeed on their way to Zaire where they had been invited to serve by the Government. He probably will wait until he receives responses to these cables before releasing the Volunteers. State is making strong repr…

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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	1973-07-08
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/d246
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve06/d246`

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246. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger ) to President Nixon. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1973. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve06/d246.