In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

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CIA v. Congress
It was back in September, while I was writing a cable requesting
more information about Senator Clark's tour of southern Africa, that
I first began to understand the agency's manipulative attitude towards
Congress. Clark, the chairman of the Subcommittee on African
Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was touring
southern Africa from Tanzania south and back up to Zaire, meeting
African chiefs of state and our ambassadors, seeking to understand
the issues in Angola.
Before his departure, on August 4, 1975, Senator Clark had been
briefed by Director Colby about the Angola program. Colby had
explained our objectives in terms of the original 40 Committee charter,
i.e., that we were sending arms to replenish Mobutu's arsenal as
he sent weapons into Angola. No American arms would be sent into
Angola. No Americans would be involved in the conflict. The objective
was to encourage Mobutu to prop up the FNLA and UNIT A
so they could resist the MPLA until elections could be held in
October. As Senator Clark traveled this IAFEATURE cover story was