Luanda place
also: Luande, the Capitol, the capital
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which is in the Congo and from Lisbon. Responding to the worsening crisis following the Portuguese revolution, the agency decided to send a few officers to Luanda and on temporary duty in March of 1975. The guy being interviewed said, I qui…
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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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but to add our assistance to their opponent. It says it was only after three months that I realized what was really happening. I had little direct contact with UNITA. My knowledge of this movement was very basic and thus not worth your cons…
▶ 31:35
only served to reinforce my opinion. I was disgusted by the briefings and my meetings with FNLA leaders and contacts. As an aside, which underlines my assessment, FNLA contact in Luanda tried unsuccessfully to use our sensitive facilities t…
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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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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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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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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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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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The CIA, like the State Department, worried of exposure while estimating a $100 million price tag, an amount not available in the contingency fund. While Langley refined details, the press reported FNLA forces completely driven from the Cap…
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The secret warriors also tried to substitute propaganda for boots on the ground. Fully a third of the feature task force was PSYOP's specialist. Their effort codename was CADMUS, Project AI CADMUS. In Kinshasa, they planted stories in the t…
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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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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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established that Fidel Castro decided to commit combat troops to Angola on November 4th, the same day Havana had sent hundreds of heavy weapon experts to Angola. Kissinger both greatly exaggerated the pace and timing of the Cuban commitment…
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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. …