FLYBOYS OF THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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,:ombe: w:l Lase opt from an airsVID :.; ;he . or
cse : _:. ican calory' of Angola. its mission is
tc des'roy concentrations of black gue. rlas in the
Angolan hash. it is not always easy for the plot to distin-
guish a guerrilla fighter from other black persons, but
? then this is a common problem in this type of war, and
even in cases of mistaken identity the bombing seems to
lave a use:.'. .~rrent effect. Before nightfall, the U.S.-
trained v/...:iy back to the airstrip, leaving his twin-
Approved For Release 2001/08/20 : CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010006-1
~- OcET1Mt TODAY, weather permitting, a U.S. .-26
macnine in t
here's a war on in Angola. Since March 1961, w ,en
on tract laborers earning 30 cents a day revolted against
ortuguese plantation owners, touching of'a planned anti.
olon ial rebellion, there's been a war on. in reprisal the
ortuguese launched a reign of terror. Africans were
xecuted enirasse, Entire villages moved into areas
nder white control; otherwise they v: .. bombed. The
rger towns became armed encampments. Portuguese
oops patrolled the streets with submachine . , shoot
g Africans with or without provocation. More than
00,0 0 refugees, most of them diseased, starving or
ou; ded after in onths of running and hiding in the forest
ros ed the border into the Congo.
W hen Moise Tshombe took power in the Congo, the
_ngolan rebel movement went into temporary eclipse
he pro-European Tshombe was reluctant to permit sane
uary for attacks on his covert allies, the Portuguese
espae him, guerrilla patrols continued to make forays
to their Portuguese occupied homeland. And today
ith the Congolese government of Joseph Mobotu allow
g them greater freedom of movement, the Angolan
evolutionaries expect to get their second wind.
Since the Angolan uprising, Africans have launched
iberation movements in other Portuguese colonies: Mo
ambique, Cabinda and Portuguese Guinea (where na
ionalists control half the territory, operating their ow
chools and civil administration). All of make the
ame absolute demand: Independence and Now.: But the
essons of Kenya and Algeria have been lost on the
Portuguese. Maintaining more than 80,000 troops in
frica--50,000 in Mozambique alone-in addition to civil
ilitia and police, they are determined to remain. Their
ilitary alliance with the United States and the other
ATO powers can only bolster their determination. Cc
zinly, NATO military aid has been a major factor in
ortugal's success in con raining the insurgents of Angola.
he large quantity of NATO weapons captured by the
%-,bels, the napalm bomb casinos marked "Property of the
Jnited States Army" found in the devastated mud-and
tick villages (and shown to western correspondents at the,
order) attest to that. And many of the Portuguese officer
eading the reprisals are graduates of counter-guerrilla
warfare schools operated by the U.S. Special Forces.
Which brings us back to the 3-26 bombers, and ho
hey got to Angola with their American-trained pilots an
echanics.t is a long story, about America's legenda
nti-colonialism, and about a bizarre smuggling trial hel
f a:: places, in Buffalo, New York. It is also about tha
id canard that if there's a plot a'oot, the Central Irncil
once Agency has got to be mixed up in it. Well, this tim
Tice last tin :e, it appears it was.
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