MPLA organization
also: MPLA government, Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola, MNT, MLNT
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Claims (26)
Agostinho Neto headed
MPLA book_quoted
“that he believed that labor had a bigger seat at the table than what the colonial powers were willing to embrace at the time. You know, that's their label of communism, is giving people decent wages. Netto, the undisputed leader of the MPLA…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 25:52
Agostinho Neto headed
MPLA book_quoted
“say they favor some form of a European-style socialism. And basically what they mean by that is just workers' rights, because these people have been enslaved. They just want to have some rights. So labeling that as communism is such bullshi…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 43:08
Soviet Union funded
MPLA book_quoted
“And most recently, since the spring of 1975, that the Soviets began truly providing any level of assistance. And the most Cuban advisors, quote unquote advisors, that went to Angola was a total of 3,000. The FNLA, which is the one Holden Ro…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 45:35
Victor Bout supplied_arms_to
MPLA host_asserted
“But Paul Helliwell's fine. Bout's not fine. And now that we've went over Angola, all of this is going to make sense to the audience here. Bout was involved with a Soviet military operation in Angola. And guess who Bout was arming? The MPLA,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bulgaria @ 13:12
MPLA overthrew
Costa Georgiou host_asserted
“The demise of the mercenaries came when a big patrol was captured by the Angolans. This group included Giorgio and three Americans. In the capital, the Angolan MPLA government tried the mercenaries. The self-styled colonel, American Daniel …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 49:18
Tom Killoran exposed
MPLA book_quoted
“L-L-O-R-A-N, its assessment that MPLA was the best qualified movement to govern Angola. Many of the leaders were educated at the university, and a few even traveled to Patrice Lumumba's university in Moscow, although many, which, you know, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 24:51
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“And most recently, since the spring of 1975, that the Soviets began truly providing any level of assistance. And the most Cuban advisors, quote unquote advisors, that went to Angola was a total of 3,000. The FNLA, which is the one Holden Ro…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 45:35
Mobutu Sese Seko carried_out_attack
MPLA book_quoted
“successfully used the opportunity to rearm his forces. And when Holden Roberto's troops failed to show any strike power at all, Mubato was willing to commit two of his paracommando battalions and a detachment of 10 hand-hard armored cars in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 33:17
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
MPLA host_asserted
“and Bengala Railroad, one of Angola's few major transport systems. Thus threatened, the MPLA turned to the Soviet and Cuban countries. Moscow increased the scale of its shipments, allowing the MPLA troops to introduce potent one to two mill…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 37:32
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA host_asserted
“And upon independence, the MPLA government asked Cuba for major assistance. By then, there were 2,600 Cubans in Angola, but an emergency airlift and sea lift apparently called Carlotta. Cuban regular units were introduced in large numbers. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 37:59
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“one of Angola's few major transport systems. The South African were good fighters. With them, United gained much of an entire province. Neto turned to his Soviet allies. Moscow increased its shipments, allowing MPLA troops to introduce pote…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:04:36
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:05:04
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“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. …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:06:56
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“called Operation Carlotta. Cuban volunteers came in large numbers. The remainder of the elite battalion almost immediately was destroyed. Between the end of October and November, according to the CIA, more than 20 Russian aircraft delivered…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 1:08:24
Cuba funded
MPLA host_asserted
“where the MPLA were the only ones that had the wherewithal to manage a country administratively. And so you find yourself again in this paradox where it's actually the Cubans that are supporting the only viable option in Angola, and the CIA…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 44:37
CIA supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“And Mager Sarge is over on Rumble and he looked that up. It's MPLA. Thank you, Mager Sarge, for looking that up. MPLA was the good guys in Angola that the CIA fought the war against in the War of Independence for Angola. Thank you very much…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror chapter 17 @ 59:46
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“Mubato, who funded a separatist movement in Cabinda, began stirring up trouble there as well. It's just the CIA on a different front. As early as October 1974, Mubato's planes started flying FNLA soldiers to the capital to attack it. At thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 19:52
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“But most of it came on two ships, not the dozen or two dozen that Kissinger talks about. Two ships. The MPLA had long had friendly relations with Castro. And not long after the Soviets sent help, Havana followed suit with a small contingent…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 23:04
Yugoslavia supplied_arms_to
MPLA documented
“This is not the MPLA of the Soviet Union. It's gone. The breakaway communist nation, Yugoslavia, with which Washington had fairly good relations, became the sole socialist country to help MPLA during this period. Moving into the post-Portug…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 21:30
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 18:21
Holden Roberto ordered_assassination_of
MPLA book_quoted
“President Ford quickly confirmed the decision, and with the additional aid, Roberto took a very hard line and in February ordered his FNLA troops to attack MPLA Padre that was in the capital. In one instance in early March, 50 unarmed MPLA …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 21:21
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“the Soviets took a hand in assuming aid for, or resuming aid for the MPLA, which they had previously terminated in 1973. The assistance included airlift of weapons. The MPLA had long maintained friendly relationships with the Soviets, and t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 21:50
Cuba supplied_arms_to
MPLA book_quoted
“the Soviets took a hand in assuming aid for, or resuming aid for the MPLA, which they had previously terminated in 1973. The assistance included airlift of weapons. The MPLA had long maintained friendly relationships with the Soviets, and t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 21:50
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
MPLA book_quoted
“better equipped to lead, blah, blah, blah, that he has, he sees his bias, but he doesn't see his own bias. And that's so important in all of the discussions that we have. So it says that convinced me of the urgent need to stop the MPLA from…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 29:10
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
MPLA host_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 28:56
Cuba trained
MPLA host_asserted
“Actually, they're supporting the good guys and doing what little they could, which was not a whole lot. But as we have seen in many of these scenarios, they did have some people to help them set up schools, medical facilities and that type …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 41:46
Mentions (84)
▶ 13:33
M.P.L.A. All right. So M.P.L.A. M.P.L.A. And I'll go through this guy's interview goes through why they would have been the logical choice. They were highly educated, most of them educated inside of Portugal. Very articulate, very savvy whe…
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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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N-E-T-O. And his first name is like Agostinho Neto. N-E-T-O. And he was the guy that was in charge of the MPLA. I came to share Tom Killoran. And Tom Killoran was also the U.S. Embassy Consul in the country. His last name is spelled K-I-…
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L-L-O-R-A-N, its assessment that MPLA was the best qualified movement to govern Angola. Many of the leaders were educated at the university, and a few even traveled to Patrice Lumumba's university in Moscow, although many, which, you know, …
▶ 26:19
and had many close Portuguese friends. His trusted doctor and unofficial advisor, Armento Ferreira, was Portuguese and lived in Lisbon. Other senior MPLA members were impressive, and he names several of them who have crazy names, and were s…
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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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social leaning background of many of the MPLA leaders. They were the most effective, better educated, better trained, better motivated. The rank and file were also better motivated, particularly the armed combatants who fought harder and wi…
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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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and Killoran's courage and accurate analysis was ignored. He sacrificed his career at the State Department when he refused to bend his reporting to Kissinger's mantra, and he actually resigned in protest. God bless him. In the interest of c…
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And this is very important, this part right here. So he thinks that this guy that's talking got all of his information before he hit the ground from the CIA station chief in the Congo, who we already know is corrupt. And he thinks because h…
▶ 29:10
better equipped to lead, blah, blah, blah, that he has, he sees his bias, but he doesn't see his own bias. And that's so important in all of the discussions that we have. So it says that convinced me of the urgent need to stop the MPLA from…
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fully agree with the U.S. policy objectives, and he's basically saying that he agreed with what he had said, and Killerman was trying to tell him there's a different perspective. And also, the U.S. policy objectives that had been articulate…
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say they favor some form of a European-style socialism. And basically what they mean by that is just workers' rights, because these people have been enslaved. They just want to have some rights. So labeling that as communism is such bullshi…
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is generally recognized as the strongest and the least radical of the three. MPLA was founded in the mid-1950s and began armed resistance to Portugal in 1961. It draws its primary support from the Kimbundu people.…
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And that tribe alone made up 23% of the country, but they had multiple other tribes. They were the only entity, political entity, that had multi-tribal abilities to manage. The other ones are very one tribe specific. And of course, they go …
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Algeria, Mozambique, and Guinea-Basel all recognized MPLA's claim to legitimacy and all had furnished it with military support at some point in this effort. The MPLA started receiving modest amounts of support from outside entities in 1960s…
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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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Tanzania. Important African states now recognize the MPLA government and had changed their position from neutral once they too found out that the CIA was trying to bring about a corrupt government. And so you had two people that, two countr…
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And it eventually called a meeting of the Organization of African Unity, the OAU, and they basically all come out in favor of the MPLA as well, which again is the exact reason why they're not going to, the CIA is not going to let them in be…
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But Paul Helliwell's fine. Bout's not fine. And now that we've went over Angola, all of this is going to make sense to the audience here. Bout was involved with a Soviet military operation in Angola. And guess who Bout was arming? The MPLA,…
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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…
▶ 16:45
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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would help him. The only person that he could go to for help was Cuba. And so in so many of those, same thing with Lumumba, you know, the only Cubans there were the Cubans in Katanga trying to kill Lumumba. Same way in Angola. They kept say…
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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 …
▶ 59:46
And Mager Sarge is over on Rumble and he looked that up. It's MPLA. Thank you, Mager Sarge, for looking that up. MPLA was the good guys in Angola that the CIA fought the war against in the War of Independence for Angola. Thank you very much…
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and not be ever held account for it, but don't you try it. In early March 1977, during a pause in the Angola War, members of the Lunda, L-U-N-D-A, tribal group of Zaire, who had been in exile in Angola and fighting along with their Angolian…
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The MPLA was the good guys, by the way, not the ones they were not supported by the CIA. But the MPLA is the ones when we talked about Angola, they were the people that were they had been educated outside of Angola, most of the times in Eur…
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They knew how to administer governmental organizations, very articulate. And many of the non-NATO countries all aligned behind the MPLA because they knew that was the only way for Angola to be successful, is to have these people in the init…
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All right, so in March 1977, during a pause in the Angola War, members of the Lunda tribal group of Zaire, who had been in exile in Angola and was fighting along with the good guys in Angola, the MPLA, crossed the border back into Zaire to …
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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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I got that. So the group that was there, they end up back in Angola and the ensuing civil war that occurred in Angola. So he's going back in time. That just confused me for a minute. Sorry about that. And they're just saying that the Cubans…
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Why Belgium now opposed them was not made clear by events, except that the rebel sabotage combined with the power failure had halted the mine's water pumps, leading to widespread flooding. In a neighboring Angola, as we have seen, when the …
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It cooperated fully with business as usual with Gulf Oil Company. So what the author is clearly saying here is you could have allowed the MPLA its natural rise to power and have gotten the same result without all the dead bodies, but they r…
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in 1974 took over most of all the small businesses and the plantations without ever compensating the owners because that guy was bought and paid for, installed by the CIA, and had no vested interest because his money was coming from elsewhe…
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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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Mbundu, M-B-U-N-D-U tribe. And it was set up in 1956 as part of the whole African freedom movement, which, of course, included people like Lumumba during that time before they killed him. It had the best political organization and was an of…
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It was not communist. As a matter of fact, all of the leaders of the MPLA had been educated in the European schools. So if they produce communists, that's about as communist as they got, these guys got. And they were the only one of the thr…
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That one, because that one would do a good job and make their country a success. And what they don't want to have happen is they don't want any of these countries to be successful because what they want to do is continue this mantra of, and…
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President Ford quickly confirmed the decision, and with the additional aid, Roberto took a very hard line and in February ordered his FNLA troops to attack MPLA Padre that was in the capital. In one instance in early March, 50 unarmed MPLA …
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the Soviets took a hand in assuming aid for, or resuming aid for the MPLA, which they had previously terminated in 1973. The assistance included airlift of weapons. The MPLA had long maintained friendly relationships with the Soviets, and t…
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rang up Castro. The Soviet bloc aid seemed to make Angola a Cold War battlefield in the eyes of Washington, which is exactly what they want. They push these people into position for this exact same thing to happen repeatedly. The Soviet blo…
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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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which in July had succeeded in driving both the other factions out of the capital. On August 20th, while Stockdale was observing the FNLA and UNITA, President Ford authorized an additional $10 million for the project. Now notice that they d…
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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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spearheaded in a UNINA offensive that was the most successful military action taken against the MPLA. Now, what this book, if I recall correctly, because it's been a while since I read this chapter, does not tell you, and almost no book tel…
▶ 37:32
and Bengala Railroad, one of Angola's few major transport systems. Thus threatened, the MPLA turned to the Soviet and Cuban countries. Moscow increased the scale of its shipments, allowing the MPLA troops to introduce potent one to two mill…
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And upon independence, the MPLA government asked Cuba for major assistance. By then, there were 2,600 Cubans in Angola, but an emergency airlift and sea lift apparently called Carlotta. Cuban regular units were introduced in large numbers. …
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These developments had been anticipated in the original June Interagency Intervention Study and had now come to pass. Again, another proxy war. In the northern Angola area, the FNLA failed to capture the isolated enclave of Cabinda. That wa…
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Other mercenaries were killed on patrol against the Cubans and MPLA. Among the latter was a real paramilitary expert who had been well regarded by officers at Langley, a guy by the name of George Bacon III, a Green Beret who had served in t…
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The demise of the mercenaries came when a big patrol was captured by the Angolans. This group included Giorgio and three Americans. In the capital, the Angolan MPLA government tried the mercenaries. The self-styled colonel, American Daniel …
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june of 1966 the cuban unit broke up a military coup against the brazzaville government about six months later the unit returned to cuba aboard a russian vessel a smaller cuban training mission remained behind still working with the angola …
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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…
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where the MPLA were the only ones that had the wherewithal to manage a country administratively. And so you find yourself again in this paradox where it's actually the Cubans that are supporting the only viable option in Angola, and the CIA…
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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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had the strongest political organization appealing to the Mubundu tribe, which was founded in 1956 as an offshoot of the Angola Communist Party. It is also the only group that had actually occupied cities and was educated primarily in the W…
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Kissinger credits Zambian leader Kenneth Karunda in the April 1975 visit with convincing him and Ford that the MPLA could not be permitted to win the Angola election, of course, because they're communist.…
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that African leaders agreed with his stand proved completely misleading. Karunda, in fact, had supported the MPLA, but a faction that lost out, giving him motive to then be against it. So in other words, sour grapes. But the Secretary of St…
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scarcely made a wave in Angola. But the fact that the CIA supported it and created a relationship that Roberto could flaunt, and that became a key factor. He was emboldened by that support and in February 1975, ordered his troops to attack …
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50 unarmed MPLA activists were killed, gunned down in the street. These attacks, emboldened by CIA support, ended any possibility of a coalition government. Thus, both the initial CIA subsidy and the outbreak of fighting predated any appeal…
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Mubato, who funded a separatist movement in Cabinda, began stirring up trouble there as well. It's just the CIA on a different front. As early as October 1974, Mubato's planes started flying FNLA soldiers to the capital to attack it. At thi…
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While Portugal was in charge, years before, the Soviets had been supplying weapons to resistant forces against Portugal, but they had stopped that for several years. Now it's back on. Moscow had favored the same MPLA faction as Kenneth Kaun…
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This is not the MPLA of the Soviet Union. It's gone. The breakaway communist nation, Yugoslavia, with which Washington had fairly good relations, became the sole socialist country to help MPLA during this period. Moving into the post-Portug…
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As for the timing, definite records indicate that Moscow began this aid definitely after the CIA began its political action. Weapons began arriving around May. The assistance included a couple of aircraft loads to Luanda.…
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But most of it came on two ships, not the dozen or two dozen that Kissinger talks about. Two ships. The MPLA had long had friendly relations with Castro. And not long after the Soviets sent help, Havana followed suit with a small contingent…
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The June 13th report of the Davis Group framed a stark choice for President Ford. By then, another outbreak of fighting had occurred, sparked this time by Netto increasing power in PLA. Events that had begun to move against U.S. ally Robert…
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You just can't say that. The NSC meeting itself opened with Director Colby describing the situation in Angola. Colby warned that the MPLA-FNLA standoff in Luanda. New fighting could break out at any time, he said. It was a 10-box where MPLA…
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in five days. Kissinger and Colby agreed that in Africa wars those who controlled a nation's capital usually won. The CIA chief added that the educated classes in Angola were concentrated in the capital meaning the MPLA and tended to suppor…
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the CIA program. In early July, just as Langley completed options for Project Feature, another round of fighting erupted in the Capitol. The MPLA drove its adversaries out for good. That presence in the Capitol, the condition for success th…
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office to review plans for the Colby Working Group. When Costello suggested that the moment had come to determine how far the CIA should go, the deputy director of operations, Nelson, spoke up. Gentlemen, we've been given a job to do. Let's…
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had taken on momentum of its own. In all, Langley had put 100 secret warriors into the battle. Mubato would be critical. When the MPLA in control of Angola's main seaports and railroads, the CIA supplies had to enter through Zaire or South …
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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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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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one of Angola's few major transport systems. The South African were good fighters. With them, United gained much of an entire province. Neto turned to his Soviet allies. Moscow increased its shipments, allowing MPLA troops to introduce pote…
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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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called Operation Carlotta. Cuban volunteers came in large numbers. The remainder of the elite battalion almost immediately was destroyed. Between the end of October and November, according to the CIA, more than 20 Russian aircraft delivered…
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In northern Angola, the FNLA failed to capture the isolated enclave of Cabinda, seat of the oil production. Cubans and MPLA forces began to push back the FNLA. Holden Roberto tried to raise more mercenaries to stiffen his army. Roberto offe…
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or not. The mercenaries' demise came when the MPLA decided to advance and Garu tried to ambush them. Many were captured, including the leader being wounded and three Americans. In Luanda, the Angola government put them on trial. The self-st…
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Ford and Kissinger heard lots of advice to steer clear, yet chose to go straight for disaster. As for America and democracy, the Ford administration acted against it. There is no doubt that Roberto's FNLA and Zebembe's United and Netto's MP…
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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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on and damaged one of the C-130 aircraft. A couple of months later, a delegation of Senate Intelligence Committee staff people went on a visit, conferring with the CIA station chief in Zaire and South Africa. In December of 86, the MPLA ann…
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The CIA project to help him extended past the Reagan administration. Budget rose to $50 million. Robert Gates claims that the Secretary of State, George Shultz, supported the Angolan covert operation as a means of keeping the pressure on th…
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over a dispute on findings. The second time around, he kicked up a ruckus with the Oversight Committee to obtain peak appropriations of $80 million. Beyond that, not much else was happening in that area. Elections for a government was final…
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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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And they wanted them to run the government so they could basically steal all their shit. So all of those years, all of those dead bodies, we ended up with what the MPLA wanted at the beginning. Not unlike Nicaragua. Okay, not all was quiet …