Holden Roberto person
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Claims (13)
CIA funded
Holden Roberto documented
“They sold the Portuguese B-26 bombers and permitted them to recruit Cuban exile pilots to fly them. They were paying Holden Roberto as an intelligence source. When the Portuguese coup took place, Langley created a special task force for Por…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 16:16
Holden Roberto member_of
Mobutu Sese Seko host_asserted
“Holden Roberto is the brother-in-law of the CIA-installed president of the Congo, which had temporarily changed its name to Zaire, President Mobutu. And you remember me talking about him because he's a freaking criminal when we talked about…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 15:05
Holden Roberto headed
FNLA host_asserted
“Angola, blah, blah, blah. So they were hands down the best ones. So, you know, we're not going to pick them. The next group was called or were called FNLA. FNLA is the group ran by Holden Roberto.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 14:31
CIA funded
Holden Roberto host_asserted
“But the special group finally deferred action to John McCone and approved it because, again, they do whatever the CIA wants. So the CIA wanted them funded, so they're going to eventually get money. Yet the CIA and African specialists ultima…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 28 (29) @ 50:34
China supplied_arms_to
Holden Roberto book_quoted
“They want to manipulate the outcome. When the Portuguese coup occurred, the CIA formed a special task force, but its purpose was to influence the events in Portugal, not Angola. Both, actually. The connection with Roberto had been maintaine…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 16:43
Mobutu Sese Seko funded
Holden Roberto book_quoted
“which was arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of over 100 military advisors in camp, that Joseph Mobatu had permitted Roberto to establish. All right, so let's take this for just a second. So the, hold on just a …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 17:09
Committee of 40 funded
Holden Roberto book_quoted
“I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase the subsidies to Holden Roberto by $300,0…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 20:49
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
Holden Roberto headed
FNLA 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
Holden Roberto paid
John Banks host_asserted
“Holden Roberto tried to raise a mercenary force to stiffen his army. Roberto offered a million dollars for a parachute regiment. Soldiers of Fortune John Banks was given an advance on this money to recruit in England. In the U.S., the recru…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 39:22
CIA funded
Holden Roberto book_quoted
“but were not allied. Except for the Cold War, Angola would have reached independence without anyone taking much notice. During the period of the revolution, the CIA had played both sides, as they always do. They had funded Holden Roberto as…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 15:43
Holden Roberto headed
FNLA host_asserted
“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
Holden Roberto member_of
Mobutu Sese Seko book_quoted
“solely among the Bakongo people who make up 13% of the population, again, with these minority tribes. Roberto is closely aligned, and this is the one that calls him the brother-in-law of President Mobutu of Zaire, which of course is the Con…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 46:07
Mentions (41)
▶ 14:31
Angola, blah, blah, blah. So they were hands down the best ones. So, you know, we're not going to pick them. The next group was called or were called FNLA. FNLA is the group ran by Holden Roberto.…
▶ 22:16
did in fact come from Kenosha, which again is the Congo, which is a CIA-installed stooge government that is going to be reporting information in Angola in support of the president's brother-in-law whose territory in Angola borders Katanga t…
▶ 22:50
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…
▶ 45:35
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…
▶ 46:07
solely among the Bakongo people who make up 13% of the population, again, with these minority tribes. Roberto is closely aligned, and this is the one that calls him the brother-in-law of President Mobutu of Zaire, which of course is the Con…
▶ 50:51
other countries in South Africa, like Rhodesia and South Africa. According to the State Department, the CIA did not totally drop Roberto. They basically ignored Nixon and later the Senate's hold on aid to Angola. And when it became clear th…
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And as a result of that, here he is again, and he's going to go up against the CIA and Henry Kissinger yet again in their globalist garbage. The Secretary of State's African Bureau in June recommended almost unanimously that the U.S. stay o…
▶ 14:37
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…
▶ 15:43
but were not allied. Except for the Cold War, Angola would have reached independence without anyone taking much notice. During the period of the revolution, the CIA had played both sides, as they always do. They had funded Holden Roberto as…
▶ 16:43
They want to manipulate the outcome. When the Portuguese coup occurred, the CIA formed a special task force, but its purpose was to influence the events in Portugal, not Angola. Both, actually. The connection with Roberto had been maintaine…
▶ 20:49
I just want to kind of put it in perspective. Within days of the Angolan agreement on a coalition government, the 40 committee, remember that's the NSC coup machine, had a recommendation to increase the subsidies to Holden Roberto by $300,0…
▶ 29:02
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 …
▶ 29:58
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…
▶ 32:48
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…
▶ 33:17
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…
▶ 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…
▶ 39:22
Holden Roberto tried to raise a mercenary force to stiffen his army. Roberto offered a million dollars for a parachute regiment. Soldiers of Fortune John Banks was given an advance on this money to recruit in England. In the U.S., the recru…
▶ 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…
▶ 49:40
And interestingly enough, you guys see the correlation as they decolonialize in an overt fashion in Africa. They are recolonializing in a covert fashion using the intelligence agencies. There were also fights within the agency. For example,…
▶ 50:34
But the special group finally deferred action to John McCone and approved it because, again, they do whatever the CIA wants. So the CIA wanted them funded, so they're going to eventually get money. Yet the CIA and African specialists ultima…
▶ 13:11
came from the Congo. It had about 700,000 people, many of which had fled to Zaire during the Portuguese resistance war. Holden Roberto was an educated Christian and founded the FNLA in 1954. The CIA had known him since 1953, and he had been…
▶ 16:16
They sold the Portuguese B-26 bombers and permitted them to recruit Cuban exile pilots to fly them. They were paying Holden Roberto as an intelligence source. When the Portuguese coup took place, Langley created a special task force for Por…
▶ 16:45
But in 1974, the CIA had increased its support. At the time, the FNLA main backing had come from China, arming Roberto's troops and training them in Zaire. With a unit of more than 100 military advisors in camps, that dictator Joseph Mubatu…
▶ 17:14
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…
▶ 17:43
President Ford quickly approved this money. The project amounted to a political action, enabling the FNLA to get a leg up in the elections. The CIA funded a printing press to create a newspaper. They gave them equipment to set up a radio st…
▶ 18:16
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 …
▶ 26:33
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…
▶ 33:27
James Schlesinger then cautions that if we do something, we must have some confidence that we can win or we should just stay neutral. Schlesinger saw Holden Roberto as not a strong horse. Those were his exact words. The consensus bypassed t…
▶ 35:59
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…
▶ 46:42
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…
▶ 48:49
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 …
▶ 49:22
in Zaire and resided there as well. He's not even in the country. In fact, Roberto showed no inclination to leave his villa to be on the front, something the U.S. was well aware of. Roberto had not been in Angola for years. Jim Schlesinger …
▶ 56:15
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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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 …
▶ 1:06:56
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. …
▶ 1:09:29
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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A couple of attempts to secure their release, but no media attention, nothing. Gorillo, an actor, were finally freed in an Angola South African prisoner exchange in 1982. Mo Bato simply pocketed final payments given him for Roberto and Zebe…
▶ 15:44
Colby maintained that the CIA had not conducted Angola the way it had Laos. Kissinger dismissed the inquiry as a smear job. Project feature, a product of the White House determination, had been a dismal failure. Again, those who attributed …
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Those who argue the CIA would have won in Angola if only Congress had not cut off their money, could not get around the weaknesses of cooperating with Zaire and the deadliness of the alliance with the South African government. In addition, …
▶ 18:43
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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But at least it was a coalition and had the opportunity to fight it out at the ballot box. You know, that thing called democracy. Given Roberto, the advantage of CIA political action helped spark a civil war. And wading into the conflict no…