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Colby, for his part, is equally blunt about Stockwell's treatment of his former employer: "If he says that suddenly it didn't turn out to be the Boy Scouts, I think he was asking a little much." Colby concedes that the U.S. shipped arms for Angola. But he denies that Americans were actively involved in the fighting—although "our people" sometimes went into Angola "to check up on what was going on."
While the CIA has filed a civil suit against Snepp, charging that he broke his CIA oath of secrecy in publishing his Viet Nam book, the agency has not yet decided what to do about Stockwell. As for Colby, he will go public with his views of Angola and other matters in a memoir —duly cleared by the agency—that is to be published this week.