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6. THE DOCUMENTS, WHICH ARE ALL IN FRENCH, EXCEPT FOR A COPY OF

A KISSINGER SPEECH MADE IN LUSAKA IN EARLY 1976, APPEAR TO HAVE

ORIGINATED FROM THE CONGOLESE EMBASSY IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE AND THE CONGOLESE MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS. THERE IS A REPORT

FROM MONDJO TO HIS GOVERNMENT DESCRIBING HIS IMPRESSIONS OF A

TRIP HE MADE IN JUNE 1976 TO SOUTHERN AFRICA AS A MEMBER OF A

HIGH-LEVEL MISSION OF THE U.N. COMMITTEE FOR DE-COLONISATION. THE MISSION, LED BY THE TANZANIAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE WHO WAS ALSO CHAIRMAN OF THE DE-COLONISATION COMMITTEE, MET

PRESIDENT NYERERE AND ALSO THE VICE PRESIDENT OF BOTSWANA. THE

REPORT DEALS WITH SOUTHERN AFRICAN PROBLEMS AND INCLUDES SOME

UNFAVOURABLE COMMENT ON PAST BRITISH POLICY.

7. A NAUGHTY BUT HARMLESS ANECDOTE ABOUT KISSINGER'S NEGOTIATING

SKILL HAD BEEN INCLUDED BY MONDJO AS AN AMUSING TAILPIECE TO HIS

DESPATCH. THE UNAUTHORISED LEAKING OF THIS TO A CORRESPONDENT HAS

LED THE ''STANDARD' INTO FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATIVE FANCY.

8. THE DOCUMENTS ARE IN SPECIAL BRANCH'S CARE AS INVESTIGATIONS || CONTINUE. THE OTHER ITEMS, LESS THE GUNS AND AMMUNITION, ARE

BEING RETAINED BY HACTL. A FULLER REPORT WILL FOLLOW BY BAG.

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