Mike Hoare person
also: Hoare, Shambi, Shay, Shea, Shea Calvera, Shea Cavera, Colonel Mike Hoare
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“Perhaps the most senior black became Shea's second and led the unit to Africa. They infiltrated from Tanzania. From April to November of 1965, a Cuban column worked in a nearby province. Their first battle occurred in late June. The CIA lea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 35:22
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“A few hundred of them made up a small battalion called 5 Commando under the South African Colonel Mike Hoare, H-O-A-R-E. It remains unclear what role the CIA had in financing the 5 Commando because available documents, principally in the In…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 30:15
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▶ 32:25
There was a brief intervention by Belgian paratroopers flown in by the Air Force in 64 when Europeans in the area were held hostage for over three months. The use of American special forces was considered but rejected on this occasion, and …
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A few hundred of them made up a small battalion called 5 Commando under the South African Colonel Mike Hoare, H-O-A-R-E. It remains unclear what role the CIA had in financing the 5 Commando because available documents, principally in the In…
▶ 30:44
The main parts of it excised, removed. But there's indication that there was lots of political payoffs and that they were larger than ever. And at that stage, the Belgian mining company still reigned. Five commando and the CIA Air Force spe…
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Roldstein happily talked to Hoare and went on the mission. Varela CIA aircraft was crucial in breaking up ambushes and supporting the commandos. With the first B-29 combat mission on August 21st, as Hoare neared Stanleyville, it seemed he w…
▶ 32:12
had been deathly afraid for the people in Stanleyville and needed to replace the staff. Richard Holm just returned from Laos where he had watched Ho Chi Minh Trail, transferred to the African division and was preparing for assignment to Nor…
▶ 35:22
Perhaps the most senior black became Shea's second and led the unit to Africa. They infiltrated from Tanzania. From April to November of 1965, a Cuban column worked in a nearby province. Their first battle occurred in late June. The CIA lea…
▶ 35:51
Special forces now send advisors and teams. At one point, station chief Benjamin Cushing volunteered CIA funding for Mubato's entire mercenary effort. It was reported that he rejected the offer, but there's also a lot of reports that they j…
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Thought became stronger for a time. Mubato's forces began an offensive at the end of September. Meanwhile, the Cuban base in Algeria disappeared with the overthrow of the Ben Bella government. And in October, the Organization of African Uni…
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that the Congolese themselves had made a decision to end the fighting. The Cubans withdrew to Tanzania. In 1965, Mobato launched a new coup and installed himself as the national leader. He renamed Leopoldville Kinshawas. The Congo, he renam…
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More mercenary units were added. Shambi went into exile again. Lured from Madrid in 1967 to meet ostensible backers on a Mediterranean island, his airplane was hijacked to Algiers and he was put in jail. He died there two years later. Lots …
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hogwash if you read other accounts of it. Somebody wrote, Bob Comer wrote a memo that said the coup in Ghana is another example of a fortuitous windfall. Yeah, right. It's just coincidental, according to Walt Rostow, that the CIA knew and h…