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2:30."If you know nothing about a place you are free to paint it with your own fantasies" 1:50 "We used the Christian religion" Fascinating documentary about making communist mercenary Joseph Savimbi into America's Christian crusader against communism.
"t was a climactic moment for both the 51-year-old Savimbi and his counselors at ...Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, which orchestrated -- under a $600,000-a-year contract signed last summer -- a high-profile, high-impact visit to Washington." theatlantic.com/assets/media/i…
"President Reagan approved an initial $13 million two-stage covert program on Nov. 12 (1985), with nonlethal aid to be followed in a few months by weaponry for Savimbi." washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
"During the general’s 1986 trip to New York and Washington, Manafort and his associates created what one magazine called “Savimbi Chic.” Dressed in a Nehru suit, Savimbi was driven around in a stretch limousine...projecting an image of refinement." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"the Saudi Arabians, who are believed to have sent Mr. Savimbi considerable amounts of aid, have been urging him for several years to hire a Washington lobbying concern." nytimes.com/1986/02/07/us/…
Savimbi at the National Press Club after going to Mississippi to meet with his "brothers" and launch his "four point plan for peace". c-span.org/video/?c444689…
July 7, 1987: Oliver North hints at illegal #fuckery in Angola but Congress is obsessed with the Contras and Nicaragua. So much so that America authorizes the intake of 200K refugees from "oppression". c-span.org/video/?9534-1/…
In testimony Oliver North brags of fighting in two wars..."Vietnam and Angola" Angola was the first subversion of the will of the American people to fund a secret war using false premises. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
"One, tap a network of wealthy individual Americans for contributions. Two, urge backing for the rebels from friendly foreign governments eager to curry favor and obtain U.S. arms. Three, set up or employ a self-financing service company that would generate funds for the rebels."
This is the provenance and intent of what Erik Prince appears to be constantly trying to inject into the Trump White House. theweek.com/speedreads/741… 
"Trouble is between 1985 and 1992, Black, Manafort's cash cow may have indirectly been the U.S. Treasury. Up until 1992, Savimbi, whose UNITA guerrilla forces long battled the Soviet-allied Angolan government, received up to $60 million a year in U.S. aid".questia.com/magazine/1G1-1…
"The bill for Savimbi's week-long trip to (DC&NY) in October 1991 came to almost $473,000, according to foreign lobbying records Black, Manafort filed with the U.S. Justice Department. Washington's Park Hyatt totaled $98,022. Limousine costs were $26,709 DC and $5,293 in NY."
The MPLA won with the help of South African mercenaries who once fought the MPLA to support Savimbi. Savimbi, turned out to be a greedy opportunistic thug, unable to find peace until eliminated in 2002 by a proxy hit squad. Mercenaries kill mercenaries. news24.com/xArchive/Archi…
