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File scanned from the National Security Adviser's Memoranda of Conversation Collection at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
President Ford
Amb. Willard A. DePree, Ambassador to Mozambique
Brent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, February 24, 1976
2:45 - 2:53 p.m.
PLACE:
The Oval Office
President: It is good to see you. I was telling Brent that you come from
my part of Michigan.
DePree: I used to see you come down the street in Zeeland with my dad.
More talk about Michigan. ]
President: You have a fascinating experience ahead.
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DePree: I have been studying Portuguese. I hope they will talk to me.
They are quite hostile.
President: How long did it belong to Portugal?
DePree: Five centuries. It is largely unexplored, for raw materials.
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MEMO, 11/24/98, STATE DEPT. GUIDELINES
NARA, DATE 6/10/04
President: Did many Portuguese stay?
DePree: Not many left, and many of those would like to leave if they
DECLASSIFIED
could get out. As you know, there are three missionaries in jail. I will
do what I can for them.
President: What is the charge?
DePree: None. They are just being held.
BY.
CLASSIFIED BY BRENT SCOWCROFT
SEGRET/NODIS/XGDS
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON Imp. to det.
SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
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President: What are the economic conditions?
DePree: They are having trouble. Most of their economic relations are
with South Africa.
President: What are the Embassy facilities?
DePree: There was a consulate, so it won't be too bad. I am taking
most of my family.
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NARA DATE 6/10/014
GERALD P. FORD