REPORT: WORKING GROUP ON ANGOLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-104-3-8-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: April 2, 1976
• Content Type: REPORT

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GROUP PAPER NO. I~.^
ANGOLA WORKING -i 1`E'
2 APR 1976
REPORT: WORKING GROUP ON ANGOLA
following topics were discussed:
At a meeting of the Working Group on 24 March 1976, the
1. Military
A MIG-2]. rocket attack destroyed an Air Zaire Fokker-27
at Gaga Coutinho,.Angola. The aircraft was offloading food-
stuffs for UNITA. The airport at Ninda was also attacked.
Savimbi is believed to be. currently in the area of Sessa.
The Zambian Government has released a previously
impounded UNITA Fokker-27 aircraft, but the Pearl Air Viscount
is still being held and the crew is under arrest.
The FNLA is conducting practically no military
activities in northern Angola. There are some FNLA troops
still in the vicinity of Fort Republica. The FNLA office in
Kinshasa has been closed. Its major.concern is the refugee
:problem.
Chipenda's force has been broken up: About 2,800
are now with UNITA.; about 700 are with the MPLA; and about
3,000 remaining loyal to Chipenda are under the protection
of the South African military in Namibia.
There are reports of pockets of guerrilla activity
throughout Angola. About 100 UNITA troops turned themselves
over to the MPLA at Luso.
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The Effect of kigolan Involvement on South Africa
The South African involvement in Angola cost South
Africa 31 dead and about 200 wounded. The South African
troops appear to have left. Angola with little respect for
the Cubans as fighters, and with the belief that they could
have won militarily had they used heavier ground arms and
air power.
Cuban Involvement and Soviet and Cuban Shipments
to Angola
The combined Cuban and Soviet material sent to Angola
in February 1976 is estimated to be $125 million (U.S.
equivalent costs), bringing the total Soviet and Cuban aid
to $400 million (including materiel, maintenance and trans-
portation). The total of February deliveries is higher than
January with less emphasis on ammunition and more on food.
The first photographic confirmation of MIG-21's to Angola
was made in mid-February 1976 - satellite photographs of MIG-21
crates on board a Soviet ship.
One thousand five hundred (1,500) Cuban troops arrived
in-February bringing their presence to 13,500. Flights from
Cuba continued every other day during the month of February.
Some Cuban families have arrived in Angola. Only one flight
from the USSR was reported during the same.period. Of sixteen
ship arrivals, twelve were Soviet and four Cuban.
Cuban Presence Elsewhere in-Africa.
An undetermined number of Cubans are serving in
Mozambique as military advisors; there is, however, no
evidence of Cuban combat troops. The Prime Minister of
Mozambique admitted the presence of Cubans to the British
Ambassador. Cuban technicians have been reported to be
assembling MIGs in Mozambique. Rhodesian air and group raids
against guerrilla camps in Mozambique might lead Mozambique
to request Cuban troops to aid in air defense, including
both anti-aircraft weapons and fighter aircraft.
There are different views concerning the number of
Cuban troops in Somalia from 30 to 2,000. The Christian Science
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