ANGOLA REBEL CHIEF LOBBIES D.C.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201660078-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: January 30, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Angola rebel chief lobbies D.C.
By BARBARA E HM
News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON-Angolan
guerrilla leader Jonas Savim-
bi said yesterday he hopes to
persuade the United States to
end a decade of non-involve-
ment in his country's civil
war and to come up with
some financial backing for
his fight against the Marxist
government.
After a 70-minute meeting
with Secretary of State
Shultz, Savimbi said simply:
"I am satisfied and I hope
that there will be progress."
. officials, includ-
r
mL Casey, a is
A c
h di o
sc e e meet with Presi-
dent Reagan today as part of
an intensive 11-day lobbying
campaign for U.S. support.
Covert assistance
An Alexandria, Va., firm
is, being paid a reported
$650,000 to lobby on behalf
of Savimbi's National Union
for Total Independence of
Angola, which has received
most of its support to date
from the government of
South Africa. The Angolan
government has received $2
billion in aid from the Soviet
Union, Cuba and other Soviet
bloc nations. An estimated-
30,000 Cuban troops are
fighting alongside Angolan
government troops against
Savimbi.
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30 January 1986
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Congress has urged the
administration to pursue an
open aid package that would
provide $27 million in mili-
tary aide and $27 million in
humanitarian assistance. One
calls on the Angolan govern-
ment to engage in good faith
face U.S. aid to the rebels
and . economic sanctions.
Angolan oil exports to the
U.S., the government's
largest trading partner,
reached $1.1 billion in 1984.
The decision on aid to
Savimbi has far reaching im-
plications. It comes at a time
when the U.S. is trying to
negotiate a comprehensive
peace agreement in which
the Cuban troops leave Ango-
la in exchange for South
Africa's departure from
South-West Africa, known as
Namibia.
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