STAFF NOTES: MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001000200001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 23, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Middle East - Africa Division, Office of Current Intelligence,
with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
Angola: FNLA Establishing New Military Base. 2
Central African Republic: Military and
Government Officials Upset with Bokassa. . .3
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Angola
FNLA. Establishing New Military Base
The National Front for the Liberation of Angola,
one of the three liberation groups that participate
with the Portuguese in Angola's transitional govern-
ment, is establishing a major military base at Quiende
a town in a district in northwestern Angola.
the base: will replace the training and
support aci:Lity the Front has long maintained in
Zaire with the support of Zairian President Mobutu.
The Front already has more than 2,000 troops at
Quiende. It is not known whether the Front's Chinese
military advisers are also moving from Zaire to the
new base.
The National Front apparently has cleared the
district of most of the forces of its major rival,
the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola.
The Front now has unobstructed access to the district's
port city of Ambri_rete and the main highway to Luanda,
300 miles awry. The base is located in the center
of the area inhabited by the Bakongo tribe--the ethnic
group from which the Front draws its main support.
Since Angola's transitional government was
installed last January, the National Front has operated
under the handicap of not having a headquarters in
Angola. The political and military tensions that
exist between it and the Popular Movement oblige the
Front to have a better command post inside the ter-
ritory than its present office in Luanda. Luanda
is .a major center of support for the Popular Move-
ment. (CONFIDENT:LAL)
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Central African Republic
Military and Government Officials Upset with Bokassa
Military and government officials are becoming dis-
gruntled over moves by President Bokassa to increase his
personal security since the military coup in neighboring
Chad last month.
Bokassa has established
a special personal security unit composed of fellow M'Baka
tribesmen at the heavily guarded retreat outside Bangui
where he has secluded himself. The special unit receives
a higher salary than the regular military forces and is
being trained by Soviet advisers supplied with. small arms
and ammunition that the army received from the Soviets last
December. Bokassa has also arbitrarily sacked the army
commander, a non-M'Baka tribesman, who is said-to be critical
of the way Bokassa has been running the government.
These moves reportedly had an adverse effect on army
morale. Morale in the gendarmerie has been declining since
Bokassa's arrest last November of its commander, General
Lingoupou, for alleged coup-plotting.
Meanwhile, government ministers are said to be fed
up with Bokassa's maladministration, his extravagance during
his numerous extended trips abroad, and his persistent
suspicions regarding his personal security.- They are
rumored to be resisting the President's attempts to re-
shuffle the cabinet he installed only last January. If
Bokassa's obsession with his personal security,continues and
he remains insensitive to his country's chronic economic
problems, he may well be laying the foundation for an attempt
to oust him. (SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM)
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