Jonas Savimbi person
also: Savimbi, Savin, Siam B, Zabimbi, Jonas Zimbimbi, Savembe, Zavimbi, Zimbimbi, Zebembe, Simbembe, Sabembe, Zimbabwe, Jonas Sadambi, Jonas Sevembi, Sevembi, Jonas Savimbi, S-A-V-I-M-B-I
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Claims (7)
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
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
South Africa funded
Jonas Savimbi host_asserted
“had actually said this. This is a quote. We cannot understand why bandits like Jonas Savimbi, who was Angolian warlord backed by the CIA. And remember, we've already talked about Angola. Killers like Peter Botha, who was the South African l…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 46:03
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
John Stockwell spied_on
Jonas Savimbi documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 46:42
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
France funded
Jonas Savimbi host_asserted
“had actually said this. This is a quote. We cannot understand why bandits like Jonas Savimbi, who was Angolian warlord backed by the CIA. And remember, we've already talked about Angola. Killers like Peter Botha, who was the South African l…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 46:03
Mentions (37)
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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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that he was sympathetic to Maoism. The embassy in the Congo also reported that he was pro-Chinese and a racist. The CIA took issue with these reports and argued that he was just a nationalist. He was getting equipment and resources from the…
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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…
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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…
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had actually said this. This is a quote. We cannot understand why bandits like Jonas Savimbi, who was Angolian warlord backed by the CIA. And remember, we've already talked about Angola. Killers like Peter Botha, who was the South African l…
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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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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…
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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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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 …
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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…
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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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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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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…
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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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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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visited both Holden Roberto and Jonas Zimbimbi. The latter, Zimbimbi, seemed by far more credible as an opponent for the MPLA. French Intelligence Chief Alexander de Marcenas agreed. So did the British. Apparently, a British corporate aircr…
▶ 47:42
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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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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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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Task Force Zulu, its commander codename Rommel, and Afrikaner Colonel Koos van Heerden, was more powerful than Savembe's entire army at the time. Zulu became Savembe's spearhead. Typically, the South African Operation Savannah has passed of…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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They hired them as lobbyists. Savembe, the CIA stooge that is killing people in Angola, hired a PR firm to encourage the Reagan White House to get back involved in Angola. Despite...…
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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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He smuggled himself out of the country in a coffin and then basically tried to re-engage the coalition government. The Angolan War would go on with him being basically a terrorist in his own country for another 10 years. The UN finally brok…
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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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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…