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...country's 15 provinces, and see that it had some competition in the pre-independence elections. The CIA decided to shore up two other guerrilla groups, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) under Holden Roberto and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) led by Jonas Savimbi. But before long, says Stockwell, the looking-glass warriors at Langley began to view Angola as "our war," and the goal became victory for the pro-Western groups. To that end, Stockwell says, the agency not only got directly involved in the spreading fighting, which soon...
...ambitions for IAFEATURE grew, so did its cost-to a total of $31.7 million. The money was used mostly for military supplies for UNITA and FNLA, which were channeled through Zaire. Stockwell had a staff of about 26, plus an additional 83 operatives "in the field." The CIA also recruited a number of mercenaries, called "foreign military advisers" in deference to African sensitivities, to fight with UNITA and FNLA units. But instead of stopping the MPLA, Stockwell maintains, these efforts only spurred the Soviet and Cuban assistance that enabled Neto...
...millions of dollars into a vain anti-MPLA fight. The fight was in vain from the start, because, of the two alternatives to the MPLA in Angola, one (the FNLA) was an extension of Zaire's greed to acquire as much of Angola as they could, and the other (UNITA) became South Africa's pet project in Angola. The United States was the only country in the world blind enough not to know that willing association with the South African regime completely discredited anyone claiming to be a black nationalist...
...culture that the Romans subsequently built on. I appreciated the irony of standing on top of the roots of Western civilization when one of the Italian kids on the team came running down the path to our site waving a copy of Italy's major communist newspaper, l'Unita, with a headline proclaiming what so many have labeled the ultimate signal of the decline of the West--Nixon's reluctant farewell...
...were interfering in "the internal struggle in Zaire." Even as the Western powers were afraid that the fighting would topple Mobutu, the Soviets were apparently worried that a strong Zaire counterattack might weaken the shaky government of President Agostin-ho Neto in Angola, which still faces resistance from the UNITA forces of Jonas Savimbi (TIME, Jan. 17). For that matter, Mobutu was also eager to describe the war in East-West terms. After neighboring Zambia complained that a mission hospital near the border had been hit by Zairian planes, Mobutu accused the Soviets of bombing the hospital to stir...