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192. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Tarnoff ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski )

ese advisors helped protect Macias from rebel troops almost up to the very end. For this reason we believe any specific criticism of the Soviet Union and Cuba for helping Macias would also implicate the Chinese. A number of African states, including Nigeria and Cameroon, also maintained friendly relations with Macias and may well be offended by a US campaign on Soviet support for Equatorial Guinea. An unknown hand underlined the last sentence of this paragraph. Soviet support for Uganda is clearcut (although there was virtually no Cuban involvement). An unknown hand underlined this sentence. A…

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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	1979-09-17
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume II, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1977-80v02/d192
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Record ID	`frus:frus1977-80v02/d192`

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192. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Tarnoff ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Brzezinski ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1979. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1977-80v02/d192.