Africa Region


2. Telegram From the Department of State to Secretary of State Vance

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, P840072–1488. Confidential; Nodis; Cherokee—For the Secretary only. Drafted by Bunge; cleared in IO and S/S; approved by Christopher. Vance was traveling in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan to review the Middle East peace process.


3. Memorandum From Samuel Huntington of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski)

Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Staff Material, North/South, Box 118, Zaire: 3/77–12/78. Secret.


5. Memorandum From Henry Richardson of the National Security Council Staff to Robert Hormats of the National Security Council Staff

Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Staff Material, North/South, Box 105, 8/12–31/77. Confidential.


6. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State and the White House

Source: Department of State, Files of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 1977–1980, Lot 84D241, Box 8, Southern Africa 1978. Secret; Immediate; Nodis.


7. Memorandum From the Director of the Policy Planning Staff (Lake) to the Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on Soviet Affairs (Shulman)

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Records of Anthony Lake, 1977–1981, Box 3, 4.1–4.15.78. Secret. Drafted by DePorte and Spiegel and cleared by Kreisberg.


8. Memorandum of Notification

Source: National Security Council, Carter Administration Intelligence Files, Subject Files: A–E, Box 29, USSR-Cuban Intervention in Africa, 9 Jan 1978–7 July1978. Secret; [handling restriction not declassified].


9. Memorandum From Paul Henze of the National Security Council Staff to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski)

Source: National Security Council, Carter Administration Intelligence Files, Subject Files: A–E, Box 29, USSR-Cuban Intervention in Africa, 9 Jan 1978–7 July 1978. Secret; Sensitive. Outside the System. Sent for action.


10. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to Director of Central Intelligence Turner

Source: National Security Council, Carter Administration Intelligence Files, Subject Files: A–E, Box 29, USSR-Cuban Intervention in Africa, 9 Jan 1978–7 July 1978. Secret; Sensitive. Copies were sent to Vance and Brown.


11. Presidential Review Memorandum/NSC–36

Source: Carter Library, NSC Institutional Files, Box 2, PRM/NSC 25–47 [1] 5. Secret; Sensitive.


12. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State and the White House

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, D780220–0088. Confidential; Immediate; Exdis. Sent for information to Dar es Salaam, Gaborone, Lagos, Lusaka, Maputo, Pretoria, the Consulate in Cape Town, and the Interests Section in Havana.


13. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State

Source: National Archives, RG 59, Central Foreign Policy File, P840163–2657. Secret; Immediate; Nodis.


14. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Brzezinski) to President Carter

Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Staff Material, Office, Box 124, Africa 2–6/78. Secret.


15. Memorandum of Notification

[Source: National Security Council, Carter Administration Intelligence Files, Subject Files: A–E, Box 29, USSR-Cuban Intervention in Africa, 9 Jan 1978–7 July 1978. Secret. 3 pages not declassified.]


16. Paper Prepared in the Department of State

Source: National Security Council, Carter Administration Intelligence Files, Subject Files: A–E, Box 29, USSR-Cuban Intervention in Africa, 10 August 1978–19 August 1980. Secret; Sensitive. Prepared by the NSC’s Policy Review Committee under the chairmanship of the Department of State. For the text of PRM/NSC–36, see Document 11.


18. Memorandum From Director of Central Intelligence Turner to President Carter

Source: Carter Library, National Security Affairs, Brzezinski Material, Agency File, Box 3, Central Intelligence Agency, 5–12/80. Secret. Carter wrote “C” in the upper-right corner.


19. Memorandum From the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (Press) to Vice President Mondale

Source: Carter Library, Donated Material, Mondale Papers, Box 63, Foreign Countries—Nigeria [1980]. Confidential.