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...committee's investigations revealed that the FBI and CIA were hiring "racketeers and gangsters to carry out covert activities" and found that the FBI had assigned agents to civil rights leader Martin L. King Jr., Miller says...
...said that he wanted "to be very helpful" but did not commit himself to a specific offer of aid. For his part, Shultz noted the difficulty of devising a formula for Angola that would be "effective." Nonetheless, word leaked out last week that the Administration was prepared to send covert aid to Savimbi. Various Congressmen have also proposed several UNITA aid bills, including one calling for $27 million in overt military assistance and another for $41 million...
Nevertheless, the White House did welcome Savimbi to Washington with more than words. The Administration has already informed the Senate and House Select Committees on Intelligence that it intends to offer UNITA about $10 million in covert aid from a special discretionary fund that is not subject to congressional approval. Although ranking Republican and Democratic Senators have told the Administration they consider covert aid a bad idea, it appears that Africa's controversial freedom fighter will not go home empty-handed...
...Security Council, which approved a directive calling for increased aid and involvement not only in Nicaragua but also in Afghanistan and, more controversially, Angola. The document declares that the U.S. intends to play an even more active role than in the past to apply pressure on the Sandinistas, send covert military aid to the rebels opposing Angola's Marxist government, and help the Afghans harass the Soviet occupying forces...
...Covert American aid to the anti-Communist rebels in Afghanistan, which amounts to a reported $470 million this year, has little opposition in Congress. But there is much resistance to getting the U.S. involved in Angola, where a Marxist government is being opposed by the UNITA troops of Jonas Savimbi. He is expected to get a warm reception at a visit to the White House this week. The State Department, as well as many Congressmen, remains opposed to any open U.S. aid to the rebels. The drawbacks: it could link the U.S. to the government of South Africa, which...