Angolan Civil War event
also: Angola, the war, war, battle, rebel offensive, civil war, the war in Angola, Angola war, Civil War in Angola
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“And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 46:44
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given Operation Gladio. And I mean, if the Iran-Contra or the Sandinista-Contra conflict went on for, you know, 10, 12 years, you know how many weapons, how many missiles, how many aircraft, everything. Angola, the war. This was all black m…
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Reagan and who? Oh, that's right. Vice President Bush, the guy who staged this entire bullshit thing. So he stages this A-team, B-team thing, then uses this as a way to create the basically the privatization of the intelligence infrastructu…
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No, I don't have that part. What I have is he was just a Vermont state treasurer, Alan Werner. I didn't have the stuff that you just brought up. Yeah, he was a member of the American Colonialization Society. That thing, that was a shock to …
▶ 46:44
And that's the crux of the covert operation. And that's the reason why in all of the ones that we've looked at, the National Security Council, which is where the Iran-Contra was ran from, the war in Angola that Reagan got involved in, all o…
▶ 43:08
The National Security Advisor observes that he and Ford ought to have put someone in the White House in charge. CIA management would have been okay for espionage or political action, but it made no sense with respect to military operations …
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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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Meanwhile, China continued to train the FNLA almost until Independence Day. When Roberto's troops failed to show much striking power in northern Angola, Mubato sent two of his paracommando battalions. After 1,200 troops Mubato sent to Angol…
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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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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 reporter believes that Castro moved when he heard that South Africa had intervened. The Cuban unit went into the lines defending Luanda from the FNLA. The MPLA and the Cubans blunted Roberto's attack. The South African advance stalled. …
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He returned determined to do something. South Africa intervention and the collapse of the rebel offensive only sharpened Clark's resolve. At just this time, the executive came to Congress for Angola money. Meanwhile, public exposure delayed…
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like with the Angola war that the CIA was engaged in, where they trafficked arms through Israel into South Africa. And executive outcomes, as it turns out, was mentioned in several of those stories. In recent months, the article reported so…
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The first use of the term private military company in the press occurred barely a month after the meeting. In an article from a French news agency reporting on the Civil War in Angola and referring to executive outcomes. Later, after Mann a…
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and then dissolve his body in acid. He then moves on to Angola. We've spent a lot of time on Angola. It was a former Portuguese colony that the CIA got in the middle of, backing the wrong corrupt people again, and lost that civil war. And a…
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basically, whether it's Katanga and Congo, which they set up as a separate country, and then immediately recognized so that they could get out of this paradigm of fighting a civil war, which is what they were doing in Korea, because that's …
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And they had a corrupt leadership and they had one that was at least less corrupt. I'm not going to say they weren't any corruption, but they were all very well educated and capable of running a country where the corrupt guys were not. And …