‘To: His Excellency Mr, Thabo Mbeki
President of the Republic of
South africa
Chairperson of the African Union
RE: ARTICLE 3(Q) OF CONSTITUTIVE ACT OF AFRICAN UNION AND UNITED STATES
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
Your excllenc,
Enclosed is a copy of Exhibit 10 ofS. Supreme Court Case No. 00-9567 entited
"NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEMORANDUM 46." This document, dated March 27,
1978, addressed the subject of "Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement” and
recommends U.S. Government policy options which are in direct conflict with Article 3() of
the Constitutive Act of the African Union. For example, the section entitled
"RECOMMENDATIONS" reads as follows:
1.Speaific steps should be taken with the help of appropriate government agencies to inhibit
coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States.
2.Special clandestine operations should be launched by the CIA to generate mistrust and
hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the two forces, and to cause
division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders.
4:The FBI should mount surveillance operations against Black African representatives and
collect sensitive information on those, especially at the U.N. who oppose U.S. policy toward
South Africa, The information should include facts on their links with the leaders of the Black
movement in the United States, thus making possible at least partial neutralization of the
adverse effects of their activity.
In light of the open declaration by the African Union to indude the African Diaspora,
strongly urge the African Union to ask the United States Government whether or not the
Policy recommendations in the NSC Memorandum 46 are presently still in effect, and if
not, when were they terminated and what is the U.S. Government's current policy on the
subject "Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement’.
Ce: H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson
Executive Council of the African Union; H.E. Mr. Amara Essy, Interim
Chairperson Commission of the African Union; 0.1. Orjiako, Head of Press and Inform ation
at the Affican Union