Despite the official backing of the FNLA, many within the US establishment did not agree with the decision to support the FNLA.  Two important US officials in Luanda, Robert W.  Hultslander, the CIA station chief, and Tom Killoran, the American Consul General, agreed that the MPLA were the most qualified of the groups to govern and sought peaceful relations with Washington.  Hultslander further stated that its leaders "were more effective, better educated, better trained, and better motivated"; by contrast the FNLA "was led by corrupt, unprincipled men who represented the very worst of radical black African racism."