ADVENTURER DEVOTES ENERGY TO ANTI-COMMUNIST CAUSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100390026-0
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: August 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
1 August 1985
Adventurer Devotes finer
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to Anti-Communist Causes
By PAUL DEAN. Ttfnu StatJ writer
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mail goes to a Malibu box number while his
gardener goes to a residence "somewhere in
West Los Mgeles." No sign on that home
identifies it as headquarters of Wheeler's
neophyte Freedom Research Foundation.
Similar security (albeit more anti-crackpot
than a barrier to the serious assassin) has
been imposed on the date and destination of
his next overseas trip.
That's because recent Wheeler dealings
and wanderings have been to Afghanistan
with the Moujahedeen freedom fighters .. .
to Angola with Jonas Savimbi's UNITA
guerrillas ... to Cambodia and Nicaragua
and Mocambique and any other place where,
he says. native and armed insurgents are
opposing Soviet imperialism.
All of ~-hich, Wheeler agreed, justifies
that editarW evaluation by izvestia.
It also has proved the viability of a point,
Wheeler added, and maybe the existence of
a pattern.
For the Third World, Wheeler believes, is
rejecting Soviet imperialism in these '80s zs
it rejected American imperialism in the 'SOs.
Mandsm and totalitarianism, he has testified
to government groups, are being moved
aside by revolutions (within nations pope.
laced by 120 million people) pushing for
democracy and Western values. He sees the
empire of Soviet Russia crumbling, maybe
teetering to follow the fall of the British and
French empires.
lreiaed M Alliaaee
Md in June, in the rebel stronghold of
Jambs, Angola, Wheeler stood among the
hunted (who also happen to be the hunters)
of Laotian jungles and Afghan hills and saw
one of his unusual ideas pr~~duce a bizarre
solidarity-a contra conclave of anticom-
munist guerrilla leaders from Nicaragua,
Afghanistan, Laos and Angola. It produced
an alliance known as Democratic Interna-
tional.
"Now there's something starting up in
South Yemen," Wheeler continued.
"There's a clandestine radio operating
there. Surinam may have ~~mething. But
these are embryonic and nothing tike the
anti-Manaat movement in argola with its
50.000 guerrillas ... (or) the situation in
Mocambique, twice as hig as California,
where guemllas have free run of the
countryside, the government is collapsing
and there are no elections, no fond.
"I've been to these countries. Three times
in Nicaragua. Three times in Afghanistan.
Twice in Angola. Once each in Mozambique
and Cambodia. I've lived with the insur-
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