United States Foreign Policy Towards Southern Africa [electronic resource] : Andrew Young and Beyond

This book is dedicated to the freedom fighters of Southern Africa and African American political activists, many of whom have been imprisoned, exiled or have given their lives in the course of their struggles for political independence. Nothing should divide patriots when the nation is in danger. Real independence is hardly given to a people as a gift from their colonial rulers. It has to be fought for in a variety of ways. ## Contents Acknowledgements ix 1 The Andrew Young Affair Revisited 1 The black American and armed struggle in Southern Africa 5 II On social stratification and terminology 7 III Andrew Young: agent of the Civil Rights movement 8 IV Diminishing return and the source of a malign neglect: the period after the Civil Rights movement v Andrew Young the hero VI The Trilateral Commission: implications for foreign-policy-making in the Carter Administration VII Andrew Young the ambassador: implications for US foreign policy VIII Andrew Young the middleman IX Andrew Young and the PLO: the conflict between black and Jewish Americans X After the resignation 2 The CIA: Covert Operations in Southern Afriea, with Special Reference to Angola I Structure and decision-making procedures within the CIA II CIA links in Africa III The CIA intervention in Angola Front Matter....Pages i-ix The Andrew Young Affair Revisited....Pages 1-46 The CIA: Covert Operations in Southern Africa, with Special Reference to Angola....Pages 47-61 The Carter Administration’s Policy in Southern Africa, 1977–80....Pages 62-71 Nigeria, South Africa and the US Connection: Myth and the Western-Proclaimed ‘Giant of Africa’....Pages 72-88 Southern Africa and the Reagan Administration....Pages 89-102 Conclusion....Pages 103-106 Back Matter....Pages 107-164