UNITA organization
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Claims (38)
CIA funded
UNITA book_quoted
“already had approved $300,000 in secret subsidies to go to the head of UNINA, and the president personally approved that action, according to the administration of President Ford. The source stated that both the president and Kissinger were…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 52:48
Committee of 40 funded
UNITA book_quoted
“already had approved $300,000 in secret subsidies to go to the head of UNINA, and the president personally approved that action, according to the administration of President Ford. The source stated that both the president and Kissinger were…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 52:48
Gerald Ford funded
UNITA book_quoted
“President Ford chose to intervene, supporting the FNLA and UNITA initially with $50 million, and then it just escalated from there. Given the current absence on the consensus of foreign policy, it is at least doubtful that he would have mad…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:09:14
Jonas Savimbi headed
UNITA book_quoted
“Holden Roberto was well known to the U.S. government, which enjoyed good access to Roberto and his chief lieutenants, facilitated by his father-in-law. Now, here it calls him his father-in-law. The other one called it his brother-in-law. Bu…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 22:50
George H.W. Bush funded
UNITA documented
“In 89, Angola had begun implementation of a multilateral agreement provided for South African and Cuban withdrawal and reconciliation among the warring factions. Bush continued CIA's funding to UNITA for at least two years. And in 1990, the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 38:36
South Africa funded
UNITA book_quoted
“United strength was in the southern part of Angola. United did not receive significant outside help during its nine years of struggle for independence until earlier the year this was written. And that was from the US and Britain and South A…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 48:30
BOSS supplied_arms_to
UNITA documented
“Cable traffic betraying rebel operators. More ominously, South Africa, both through its armed forces and its intelligence services, the Bureau of State Security, BOSS, intervened as well. Early on, South African troops occupied the hydroele…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:00:16
South Africa supplied_arms_to
UNITA documented
“couldn't alter the reality on the ground. Because once the minority white government of South Africa got engaged, it rippled throughout all of Africa. Langley coordinated war strategy with BOSS, permitted high-level talks with BOSS official…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:01:19
South Africa supplied_arms_to
UNITA documented
“was Frank Wisner Jr., son of the legendary Secret Warrior. Another cautious diplomat, Edward McCauley, state representative on the Colby Working Group, who quietly threatened to resign if Potts went ahead and worked with the South Africans.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:03:13
CIA funded
UNITA book_quoted
“ought to be covert or given openly, with Congress favoring the latter. In 86, Sabembe made a highly publicized visit to the U.S. The initial covert program provided 10 to 15 million, and United received 50 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. Th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 14:56
UNITA recruited
Black, Manafort, Stone and Thomas book_quoted
“Because Hand is shipping illicit weapons to South Africa to forward into Angola. Simbembe certainly wanted to get the Americans back on board. He hired a high power Washington firm. And you'll never guess which firm he hired. Black, Manafor…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 13:20
Ronald Reagan funded
UNITA book_quoted
“all of these people working alongside the South Africans whose internal divisions were even sharper than in the 70s. The Reaganites could not resist. President Reagan told the National Security Group meeting on November 12th, 1985, we want …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 14:25
CIA supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“i.e. the Congo. And then it was loaded onto CIA proprietary aircraft and taken in country. Weapons shipments began in March of 86. In May, the IAS Guarantee Company, managing flights by CIA proprietories, protested that Unina had fired and …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 15:27
Jonas Savimbi carried_out_attack
UNITA host_asserted
“UNINA shot down a UN aircraft and South Africans resumed their covert intervention. Angolan starved in the meantime. Only Zimbabwe's death in battle in 2002 seemed to finally bring conflict to those. Had the foreign administration not begun…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 49 (51) @ 41:13
CIA funded
UNITA book_quoted
“some of the Jamaican military over to fight against the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. That really pissed them off. So in 1977, two investigative reporters exposed a destabilization program against Manley's government, reportedly being ran by …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 53:15
Jonas Savimbi headed
UNITA book_quoted
“So basically, the Chinese and the U.S. was both funding the corrupt people. UNITA, which stood for National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, was formed in 1966, and its current leader, Zabimbi, its base was among the Abimbandu pe…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 48:02
Ronald Reagan supplied_arms_to
UNITA host_asserted
“Like his brother-in-law. And he was in charge of a faction called UNITA, U-N-I-T-A. And so the U.S., both Carter and Reagan, supplied arms through France, Israel, South Africa into Angola. And that's important to understand that because alt…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 15:14
Le Cercle liaisoned_with
UNITA host_asserted
“Le Cercle was also preoccupied with the Angolan War. It liaisoned directly with UNITA, who at the time was the UNITA representative to the U.S., including using the CIA. As for Mozambique, Le Cercle supported RENAMO, R-E-N-A-M-O, which foug…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 38:54
El Lucia Airways supplied_arms_to
UNITA documented
“In 1985, an apparent St. Lucia modified C-130 was destroyed in Angola. The company denied any role in Angola. Well, of course they did. But its careful statement did not mention Zaire, which is where we know they were staging the operations…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 48:51
Robert Holtzlander trained
UNITA documented
“No American were to work inside Angola, but Hutzlander got a special forces training team to instruct UNITA recruits. This would be critical since at the onset of Project Feature, Savembe's forces numbered only a few hundred. CIA comms expe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 59:48
BOSS funded
UNITA host_asserted
“To the same forces the CIA's arming at this point, the FNLA. Even more ominous for South Africa, both through its armed forces and its intelligence services, the Bureau of State Security, called BOSS, B-O-S-S. After BOSS quietly provided mo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 33:47
South Africa carried_out_attack
UNITA host_asserted
“who quietly threatened to resign in protest if POTS went ahead with certain measures with the South Africans. On the grounds in Angola, the South Africans were good fighters. Their operation under code name Zulu provided strong backing for …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 36:30
Jonas Savimbi headed
UNITA host_asserted
“Captivating speaker and inspiring leader, Sevembi led a competent political organization that had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support, in contrast, resided in the refugee camps in the Congo slash Zaire. With the South Africans of the Zulu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 37:01
BOSS recruited
UNITA host_asserted
“who recruited 20 mercenaries for UNITA. Another 40 were sent to UNITA by BOSS. Instructions supposedly prohibiting Americans from working inside Angola were disregarded by an Army mobile training team at FNLA headquarters in Ambriz and by C…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 40:50
John McMahon opposed
UNITA book_quoted
“the covert operations should be used. And Stein repeatedly resisted escalations of certain operations, specifically including Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy director, it was supposedly said that he was opposed to the Libya plan as …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 41:22
CIA covered_up
UNITA book_quoted
“ask, who is the CIA basically hiding this information from? And it says that the CIA's intervention in Angola is not a secret to the combatants there, to the leaders of the African countries, or to the Soviets. The primary victims of secrec…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 1:06:47
CIA funded
UNITA host_asserted
“The only, those people were basically from the cities in Angola where UNITA, and I forget what the name of the other one was, were kind of the Bush people, the tribal people, but they were in areas that had the resources. And that's who the…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 44:10
Jamaica supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“some of the Jamaican military over to fight against the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. That really pissed them off. So in 1977, two investigative reporters exposed a destabilization program against Manley's government, reportedly being ran by …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 53:15
CIA supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“had Cubans running all over the place. The actual Cubans were the Cuban exiles trained as assassins working for the CIA against the good guys and with UNINA, who were the corrupt resource-stealing people up there next to and related to the …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 55:17
Sea Green Air Transport supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“According to a Washington Post article, St. Lucia flew arms to Angola and Iran. And remember, during the Reagan administration, we were actively involved with Cuban exiles from Miami and Angola trying to ensure that the rightful administrat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA&Bush Part 5 @ 1:04:25
China supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“Davis, according to his own account, had already advised Kissinger about a covert support in Angola. UNITA had been receiving some supplies from the Chinese since 1974 and also had ties to Mao Zedong. Davis warned the U.S. would have to rec…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 22:49
South Africa supplied_arms_to
UNITA host_asserted
“So they were sending aid to Israel. Israel was the weapons procurer, whether it was their own weapons or buying it back with our foreign aid from us, whatever. They were shipping the arms to South Africa and South Africa was taking the arms…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 34:46
Mobutu Sese Seko supplied_arms_to
UNITA book_quoted
“feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 32:48
South Africa supplied_arms_to
UNITA host_asserted
“Because they're not an actual NATO country. They could still do business with South Africa. Then they were going to run them across the border into Angola to fight against the only people capable of leading Angola. And because we didn't wan…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 1:17:51
United States supplied_arms_to
UNITA host_asserted
“But they wanted their actual independence, much like Lumumba. Then there were two other tribes, one of which was UNITA, U-N-I-T-A. And that tribe controlled the area next to the Congo, where all the Katanga resources were. And it was relate…”
▶ Operation Gladio & Recent Events w @ColonelTowner @ 1:16:25
CIA supplied_arms_to
UNITA host_asserted
“And if you go and you look at where Angola is on down the coast, they were shipping arms. They wanted to ship arms through Liberia into the Unita rebels of Angola. That's what all of this is leading up to. Two months later, following a myst…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 38:57
Maurice Tempelsman funded
UNITA host_asserted
“into further stealing their resources. Templesman also developed a plan for Angola, and we've already talked at nauseam about Angola, that would bring the right-wing party, UNITA, which are the criminals and the corrupt people, into the gov…”
▶ Operation Gladio- US Foreign Policy in Africa @ 12:12
Ronald Reagan funded
UNITA host_asserted
“up to their eyeballs and nefarious and using the Cuban exiles in Angola to try to exploit Angola's uranium and gold and minerals. They wanted the UNITA, which was as corrupt as any government could have ever been, potential government. And …”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 12 @ 59:11
Mentions (89)
▶ 1:36:05
And if you guys don't know, during the Reagan administration, we basically tried to secure all of the resources in Angola by supporting the corrupt UNITA element of the three organizations that were vying for power once Angola was kind of c…
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That's what they did in Angola. And we went through that when we talked about Angola. They were trying to get the corrupt UNITA, U-N-I-T-A guys that were literally related to the CIA dictator installed in the Congo because they border areas…
▶ 17:01
are going to want the stupidest guy that's the most corrupt because they can obviously pay him off and he doesn't give a crap about the people in the country. And then there is a third one called UNITA, U-N-I-T-A. And that was kind of like …
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They were also the most rural and uneducated. So by rank order of the population, you had UNINA with about a high 30% of the population. You had around 40%. You had the MPLA. They had the second highest majority.…
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Holden Roberto was well known to the U.S. government, which enjoyed good access to Roberto and his chief lieutenants, facilitated by his father-in-law. Now, here it calls him his father-in-law. The other one called it his brother-in-law. Bu…
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S-A-V-I-M-B-I, until Unina emerged as the third major power player. Also, you mentioned in your study, Siam B was not trusted because of his Chinese communist contacts and his flirtation with Mao. The Luande Consulate, again from the Congo,…
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of the three movements, meaning that they would be able to govern more fairly. Netto and most of the top cadre were Mbundu, but the MPLA welcomed many different tribes, unlike the FMLN, which consisted of only one tribe, and UNITA, which co…
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Unfortunately, the CIA's association with the FNLA and UNITA tainted its analysis, as is frequently the case when intelligence collections and analysis are wedded to covert action programs, objectivity and truth become victims of political …
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but to add our assistance to their opponent. It says it was only after three months that I realized what was really happening. I had little direct contact with UNITA. My knowledge of this movement was very basic and thus not worth your cons…
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either politically or militarily during the time I was there. I was deeply concerned, nevertheless, that United purported ties with South Africa and the resulting political liability that that would carry. I was unaware at the time, of cour…
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Most of the territory controlled by the FNLA is in the north, all along the Congo border. On November 11th, the FNLA and the third independent group, UNITA, formalized an alliance that basically, if you read other stories, was brokered by t…
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So basically, the Chinese and the U.S. was both funding the corrupt people. UNITA, which stood for National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, was formed in 1966, and its current leader, Zabimbi, its base was among the Abimbandu pe…
▶ 48:30
United strength was in the southern part of Angola. United did not receive significant outside help during its nine years of struggle for independence until earlier the year this was written. And that was from the US and Britain and South A…
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that with the disorienting events in Portugal, that that was going to be the best window of freedom for Angola. And the CIA wanted to be in the middle of it. Thus, with Roberto already safely inside the American camp because of his relation…
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already had approved $300,000 in secret subsidies to go to the head of UNINA, and the president personally approved that action, according to the administration of President Ford. The source stated that both the president and Kissinger were…
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The Soviets and the Cubans are intervening and we absolutely have to do something. And on the second track, the U.S. government itself intervenes by sending funds in arms to UNITA and FNLA. In addition to this covert assistance, the adminis…
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moving deeper into angola and keep in mind the unina people were on the south part of so they're basically the south african units are going to be falling in on the cia supported unina people the fnla is up in the northeast and the mpla are…
▶ 1:02:17
South African military bases all along the south part of Angola and that there were regular C-130 aircraft flying deep into Angola to resupply the UNINA troops. It also says that basically we had entered at that point into an alliance with …
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Africa at the time. And again, this is back in the 1970s. Uganda's President Idi Amin, who had severely criticized the Soviet intervention in Angola, warned the FNLA and UNINA that the African states may have to review their positions on th…
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President Ford chose to intervene, supporting the FNLA and UNITA initially with $50 million, and then it just escalated from there. Given the current absence on the consensus of foreign policy, it is at least doubtful that he would have mad…
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had the better chance of winning and governing, if you recall the session on Angola, but wasn't corrupt. And so the CIA funded the corrupt UNITA because that was the son-in-law of the guy that they installed in the Congo after they couped L…
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had been exporting all kinds of different weapons to basically all over. And they cite in that report that he was arming the MPLA while the CIA was arming UNITA in the Angolan conflict. In the report, it also mentions the Zaire, which is ac…
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that the U.S. government wanted to install in power. Now, this is very much like what they did in Angola by teaming up with the Unida tribe and tried to install people that was not politically popular, but they were corrupt and it could be …
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And if you go and you look at where Angola is on down the coast, they were shipping arms. They wanted to ship arms through Liberia into the Unita rebels of Angola. That's what all of this is leading up to. Two months later, following a myst…
▶ 55:17
had Cubans running all over the place. The actual Cubans were the Cuban exiles trained as assassins working for the CIA against the good guys and with UNINA, who were the corrupt resource-stealing people up there next to and related to the …
▶ 15:14
Like his brother-in-law. And he was in charge of a faction called UNITA, U-N-I-T-A. And so the U.S., both Carter and Reagan, supplied arms through France, Israel, South Africa into Angola. And that's important to understand that because alt…
▶ 42:29
In the years previous, Hassan had cooperated extensively with the U.S. policies in Africa. In both 1977 and 78, he sent Moroccan troops to Zaire to support the American actions there, which was basically the installation of a fascist dictat…
▶ 1:16:25
But they wanted their actual independence, much like Lumumba. Then there were two other tribes, one of which was UNITA, U-N-I-T-A. And that tribe controlled the area next to the Congo, where all the Katanga resources were. And it was relate…
▶ 12:12
into further stealing their resources. Templesman also developed a plan for Angola, and we've already talked at nauseam about Angola, that would bring the right-wing party, UNITA, which are the criminals and the corrupt people, into the gov…
▶ 12:39
Now, remember, we talked about Angola, and in the northeast corner of Angola was where the Unida tribe was set up, and that is adjacent to the Katanga portion of the Congo. And so the Unida guy was related to, like brother-in-law, to the st…
▶ 21:36
Space is out there on Angola if you need to know more information about that. We've already covered it. And, of course, Mubato was involved on the side that the CIA was supporting, which, by the way, he was actually related to the guy that …
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The MPLA had gotten into the leadership in Angola and defeated the UNITA. So they decided to carry that success on into Zaire and resume the old civil war because they were the good guys in Zaire that had basically been kicked out when Lumu…
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There was, and we talked about this when we did, there were Cubans in Angola. And that was another reason the CIA had lined up, they say, supporting the UNITA element. The real reason they were supporting it was because it was the corrupt e…
▶ 59:11
up to their eyeballs and nefarious and using the Cuban exiles in Angola to try to exploit Angola's uranium and gold and minerals. They wanted the UNITA, which was as corrupt as any government could have ever been, potential government. And …
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some of the Jamaican military over to fight against the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. That really pissed them off. So in 1977, two investigative reporters exposed a destabilization program against Manley's government, reportedly being ran by …
▶ 1:04:25
According to a Washington Post article, St. Lucia flew arms to Angola and Iran. And remember, during the Reagan administration, we were actively involved with Cuban exiles from Miami and Angola trying to ensure that the rightful administrat…
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told him that cocaine was being imported to the U.S. by both sides in the war to raise funds. Private funding for the Afghan rebels and Christian money through UNITA, which is in Angola, by the way, and Jonas Sadambi fighting also became ad…
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the covert operations should be used. And Stein repeatedly resisted escalations of certain operations, specifically including Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy director, it was supposedly said that he was opposed to the Libya plan as …
▶ 51:13
He also talked about in this chapter Angola with United and MLNA and all of those. And again, we've talked about all of those. So I'm not going to go into, I think we could kind of rehearse those or basically talk about those in our sleep a…
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That had been beating up on the majority tribe and dad just left. And when dad left, the majority is going to win. It's just a matter of how many dead bodies are going to be laying around when that happens. The Popular Movement for the Libe…
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All right, the FNLA was made up of the Bakongo tribe. Of about 700,000, more than half of them had fled to Zaire early in the anti-Portuguese war because they had already fought their war. Holden Roberto, an educated Christian of peasant st…
▶ 18:21
And PRC ends up having a favorite side. And the MPLA began receiving supplies from the Soviet Union because, again, the U.S. in the end, I mean, I'll just tell you the bottom line up front. At the end, the U.S. ends up siding with UNITA. An…
▶ 22:49
Davis, according to his own account, had already advised Kissinger about a covert support in Angola. UNITA had been receiving some supplies from the Chinese since 1974 and also had ties to Mao Zedong. Davis warned the U.S. would have to rec…
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We've been given a job to do. Let's not sit around wringing our hands. John Stockwell was then dispatched on a two-week fact-finding mission to Zaire, or Congo, in Angola. He visited both Roberto and Savimbi. It emerged that Savimbi was by …
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was going to be attacked. By the time Stockwell reappeared at Langley, Operation Feature was already in motion. Mobato was critical of the operation since CIA arms shipments were technically supposed to replace Zaire's arsenal, while Mobato…
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It's just it's crazy the amount of weapons trafficking that goes on. OK. Relations with FNLA and Mubato were handled by the chief of station. The chief of station in Angola dealt with UNITA. So they're going to have two chief of stations wo…
▶ 31:57
they're going to operate with one faction of this civil war. And the station chief that's actually in Angola is going to work with UNITA. The Americans acquired two swift boats for FNLA and solved a quandary of how to get an air force by th…
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feature deliveries to Zaire also included a dozen M113 armored personnel carriers and 17,000 rifles. Zaire shipments to UNITA and FNLA, however, included no APCs, armored personnel carriers, only 7,000 automatic rifles, and more than 12,000…
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To the same forces the CIA's arming at this point, the FNLA. Even more ominous for South Africa, both through its armed forces and its intelligence services, the Bureau of State Security, called BOSS, B-O-S-S. After BOSS quietly provided mo…
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The diplomats were proved right in the fall when journalists in Africa confirmed the presence of South African troops in UNITA because we're sending weapons in with them. There was an instant wave of public revulsion towards the Western sup…
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who quietly threatened to resign in protest if POTS went ahead with certain measures with the South Africans. On the grounds in Angola, the South Africans were good fighters. Their operation under code name Zulu provided strong backing for …
▶ 37:01
Captivating speaker and inspiring leader, Sevembi led a competent political organization that had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support, in contrast, resided in the refugee camps in the Congo slash Zaire. With the South Africans of the Zulu…
▶ 40:50
who recruited 20 mercenaries for UNITA. Another 40 were sent to UNITA by BOSS. Instructions supposedly prohibiting Americans from working inside Angola were disregarded by an Army mobile training team at FNLA headquarters in Ambriz and by C…
▶ 50:15
and South Africa. Surviving mercenaries voiced plenty of complaints about their CIA severance pay. Mubato simply pocketed final CIA payments given to him for Roberto and Savembe. The South Africans continued to play with UNITA to destabiliz…
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The only, those people were basically from the cities in Angola where UNITA, and I forget what the name of the other one was, were kind of the Bush people, the tribal people, but they were in areas that had the resources. And that's who the…
▶ 12:07
had ethnic overtones. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, MPLA, by its Portuguese initials. The National Front for Liberation of Angola, FNLA, and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, UNITA, all espoused v…
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Jonas Savimbi, Roberta's chief lieutenant, broke away at that time to form UNITA among the Ovimbundo tribe, which was Angola's largest tribe. The groups waged parallel wars against Portuguese and each other. Gee, that sounds familiar. Excep…
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This became the first time when the U.S. and communist China was actually working together on a covert operation. Imagine that. I thought we didn't like them. Within days of the Albor agreement, the 40 committee approved the provision to Ro…
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meaning increasing involvement, is recorded here. Quote, active support of the FNLA and UNITA could enable us to check the momentum of quote unquote leftist forces and to facilitate assertion of control by pro-Western moderates. The guys th…
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The diplomat warned against leaks, raised questions regarding the legality of weapons delivery. They would be given to Mobato, who would then hand them over to the UNITA and other group. He also questioned a premise in the CIA paper that ar…
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No one should be surprised by that. DeMarc Marincas, not so fortunate, had to send one of his SDECE officers on a trek of more than a thousand miles just to put key questions to the UNITA leader. And again, SDECE was the entity in France th…
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Zavimbi had the strongest movement. He was a leader. His political organization was competent and had grassroots. Much of Roberto's support resided in Zaire. On August 20th, while Stockwell observed the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford author…
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The secret warriors also tried to substitute propaganda for boots on the ground. Fully a third of the feature task force was PSYOP's specialist. Their effort codename was CADMUS, Project AI CADMUS. In Kinshasa, they planted stories in the t…
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The propaganda law was still in effect, which is why I say every time somebody says about the Smith-Munn Act needs to be reactivated, it didn't matter. When journalists, more than 50 of them, tried to follow up on stories, they found no evi…
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the propaganda war that the CIA and State Department was waging on Americans was falling apart. The station chief in Lusaka, Robert Holtzlander, dealt with United. Despite liking Savimbe, Holtzlander eventually came to agree with the U.S. c…
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No American were to work inside Angola, but Hutzlander got a special forces training team to instruct UNITA recruits. This would be critical since at the onset of Project Feature, Savembe's forces numbered only a few hundred. CIA comms expe…
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Cable traffic betraying rebel operators. More ominously, South Africa, both through its armed forces and its intelligence services, the Bureau of State Security, BOSS, intervened as well. Early on, South African troops occupied the hydroele…
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couldn't alter the reality on the ground. Because once the minority white government of South Africa got engaged, it rippled throughout all of Africa. Langley coordinated war strategy with BOSS, permitted high-level talks with BOSS official…
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the South African military armored cars to help Savimbi. Plans in the process to procure a C-130 transport and helicopters that were going to be given to the South African military to supply UNITA. In October, the South Africans asked for h…
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The covert funds from Nugent Hand was moving weapons through South Africa at an alarming rate. Journalists confirmed the presence of South African troops with UNITA. Instant black African revulsion towards the Western supported factions fol…
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Savannah became the most successful military action mounted against the MPLA. Rommel advanced rapidly, while another SADF, the military from South Africa, task force joined Savimbi at his headquarters. Within two weeks, Zulu captured a majo…
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The Cuban military mission became active in late August, planning to operate four training detachments. The Cuban advisors of one of these participated in combat towards the end of October. A few dozen men compared to the Zulu force of well…
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praised the fighting forces of FNLA and UNITA when they weren't fighting either one of them. They were fighting Mubato and South African troops. The Zulu force represented one prong of a pincer attack on the capital. Roberto's FNLA was the …
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the city. Henry Kissinger cites a CIA report to the 40 committee on November 5th as showing that FNLA and UNITA were on the cusp of victory. But what he quotes showed a static picture, a list of ports and capitals controlled. The report its…
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The CIA contracted longtime soldier of fortune, Robert Denard. And by the way, the Portugal people that participated, a lot of them were from Agenda Press, which is Portugal's Gladio people. Robert Denard recruited 20 mercenaries for UNITA.…
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John Stein resisted escalation in Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy after 82, opposed the kind of effort in Afghanistan, certain Libya plans, and renewed support for UNINA in Angola. For the most part, Bill Casey did all of it and mor…
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In 1985, an apparent St. Lucia modified C-130 was destroyed in Angola. The company denied any role in Angola. Well, of course they did. But its careful statement did not mention Zaire, which is where we know they were staging the operations…
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Between January and April of 86 alone, there were four flights from an American base to an airfield in Zaire, identified as a CIA supply point for the United Rebels. There reportedly used a type of plane that exists solely in U.S. Air Force…
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of anything that they could dub Soviet-inspired. Angola remained frozen in the image of the CIA as a quote-unquote Soviet satellite. Jonas Savimbi and United had gone on fighting the MPLA with the help of South Africa, and not just South Af…
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ought to be covert or given openly, with Congress favoring the latter. In 86, Sabembe made a highly publicized visit to the U.S. The initial covert program provided 10 to 15 million, and United received 50 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. Th…
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i.e. the Congo. And then it was loaded onto CIA proprietary aircraft and taken in country. Weapons shipments began in March of 86. In May, the IAS Guarantee Company, managing flights by CIA proprietories, protested that Unina had fired and …
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in the USA. The UNITA forces, spurred on by renewed CIA aid, fought on. As early as 84, Chester Crocker, a State Department Assistant Secretary for Africa, talking to the interested parties, had begun a move towards a negotiated settlement,…
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In 89, Angola had begun implementation of a multilateral agreement provided for South African and Cuban withdrawal and reconciliation among the warring factions. Bush continued CIA's funding to UNITA for at least two years. And in 1990, the…
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before anybody died. They wanted a coalition government. They are the only ones that are educated in the city centers in Angola that had the ability to administer a country, not the tribe guys up near the Congo that had all the uranium and …
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UNINA shot down a UN aircraft and South Africans resumed their covert intervention. Angolan starved in the meantime. Only Zimbabwe's death in battle in 2002 seemed to finally bring conflict to those. Had the foreign administration not begun…
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A lot. I talk about it all the time. And if you guys remember, that's where they had like literally through the kitchen sink at an African country that had been a colony of Europe for a very long time. And they wanted a group within the Ang…
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Le Cercle was also preoccupied with the Angolan War. It liaisoned directly with UNITA, who at the time was the UNITA representative to the U.S., including using the CIA. As for Mozambique, Le Cercle supported RENAMO, R-E-N-A-M-O, which foug…
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involving representatives from the guerrilla movements of Laos and Afghanistan. Now, remember, Angola is where we're fighting absolutely against the guys in the city that's educated and can run the country. And we're supporting the corrupt …
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The purpose for these groups to sign an international agreement with Jonas Savimbi, S-A-V-I-M-B-I, the leader of UNITA. The meeting initiated by Louis Learman, L-E-H-R-M-A-N, to consolidate an international anti-Soviet alliance failed to pr…