In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

IN SEARCH or ENEMIES
Bubba Sanders returned to headquarters shortly after I did and
began to work on a "white paper" which the FNLA could present
to the United Nations General Assembly. A white paper is one in
which the source and therefore the potential bias is not concealed;
the FNLA would readily admit their sponsorship of the document.
The CIA's role would be concealed. Bubba collected information
from agency intelligence reports about Soviet arms shipments and
included photographs of Russian ships and weapons taken by journalists
who were on the CIA payroll and had visited Luanda on the
basis of their press credentials. One of Africa Division's translators
put the text of Bubba's message into African-sounding French, i.e.,
with idioms and expressions which would be used by a literate man
in Kinshasa but not in Paris.
Potts enjoyed this sort of thing. He supervised Bubba closely,
questioning him in detail during each staff meeting, stubbornly insisting
that no corners be cut, that the document meet rigorous standards.
The two of them argued about paper and type, as well as text
and layout. The end product was assembled in a small folder, printed
on rough paper identical to that used by one of the Kinshasa printing
offices and even printed with machines similar to those used in
Kinshasa. The cover bore the picture of a dead soldier on the Caxito
battlefield.
The white paper was barely off the press when FNLA representa·
tives arrived in New York in late September to lobby at the United
Nations General Assembly. They were broke. Bubba Sanders set up
a small task force in a Manhattan hotel room to direct our United
Nations propaganda operation. In daily meetings the New York
officers secretly funded the FNLA delegation and plotted strategy as
they made contacts at the United Nations and with the New York
newspapers. They distributed the white paper in the UN and to the
U.S. press. They also toured Africa with it, and distributed copies to
the Chinese.
The UNIT A representatives also arrived broke, and although we
did not have a paper for them to distribute, the New York officers
provided funds and guidance. Far more capable than the FNLA,
UNIT A representatives began to establish useful contacts. Both
delegations were supplied with up-to-date intelligence. News and
propaganda releases were cabled directly from the African stations
to the permanent CIA offices in the Pan Am building and two nearby