Notes
1 See Jamie Miller, ‘“We Were Ruthlessly Left in the Lurch”: Pretoria, Washington, and South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975–76’, forthcoming Journal of Cold War Studies.
2 ‘[Vorster] assured me “it came from the very top”’, R.F. Botha, interview by Sue Onslow, July 2008. This would mean Kissinger, since President Ford was regarded as a relative political non-entity. See also Sue Onslow, ‘Dr Kissinger, I presume? The US, Britain, South Africa and the Rhodesia issue in 1976’, Diplomatic History, forthcoming.