Press and Standard Office Business Records

About this book

Box 6 holds papers related to a 1963 tour of several African countries by William Wrightman Smoak. According to a lunch menu enclosed in the packet for Angola packet, Smoak's group included members of the National Editorial Association. This group traveled to countries that included Angola, South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya and Egypt. This carton includes official informational materials provided by the governments of the countries visited, and in some cases, such as in Angola, the files include alternative publications provided by opposition groups. [This trip and its lavish meals and entertainments were later seen in the United States as an effort to influence a favorable slant to future reporting and prompted Senate hearings in May 1963.]