REPORT FROM PORTUGAL'S 'VIETNAM'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000400020001-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 26, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Por.r< ,t'sn r tea' the Atlantic seaboard. And no'.v tfie Red putsch is perform
ing an expansion v;hich is -typically -the very essence of
Portugal is our NATO ally. Her Angola Governor Genera The great Cunene River, blessed with its marvelous
Camilio A. Robeche Vaz, highly respected by U. S. General Runcana Falls, forms part of the Angola-South Nest Africa
Andrew Goodpaster, is in Lisbon to report to President Imrder. Called the Cabora-Bassa project, a joint Portuguese-
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Americo R. Tomas on the renewed fnsurrec. Sonth African undeftaking is building a 500-fool dam an
lions in Portugal's Angola, I1lozanibique and tremendous hydroelectric complex there. in fact, President
Guinea. Tomas suited it Could attract perhaps a million foreign settlers
These insurrections are another Red-pro- and lift living standards immeasurably. I have confirmed this
moled clash and the Red strategy packs a
anion,; U. S. c: