South African Defence Chief Visits the Pentagon

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Creator

American Committee On Africa

Contributor

Richard Leonard, Jennifer Davis

Place Created

New York, New York, United States

Date

May 9, 1974

Type of Item

Press Release

Length/duration

5 pages

Description

The press release reports on the "private" visit to the U.S. by Admiral H.H. Bierman, Chief of the General Staff of the South African Defence Force, which included a meeting with Acting Secretary of the Navy Mittendorf. Bierman is one of the architects of South Africa's current strategy that seeks to involve NATO countries in a regional alliance against what South African Minister of Defense Botha recently described as the forces of "international communism and its cohorts -leftist activists, exaggerated humanism, permissiveism, materialism, and related ideologies." South Africa is at the core of the "unholy alliance" of racist white minority apartheid and colonial states in Southern Africa....

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Organization

American Committee on Africa

Coverage Africa

South Africa
Southern Africa

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

This item was digitized for Aluka, which made it available to the African Activist Archive. See: http://www.aluka.org/

Rights Management

Used by permission of Africa Action (successor to the American Committee on Africa).

Collection

Africa Action Archive