INSIDE THE CIA: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON HERE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110033-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: February 1, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAQE ~ JACK ANDERSON'S WASHINGTON LETTER
February 1987
Is the CIA playing both ends against the middle in Angola?____M_yy
sources tell me the Senate Foreign Re ations Committee staffs
investigating the possibility that Southern Air Transport, the
not-so-covert CIA airline that carried arms to Iran and the
Nicaraguan contras, has been doing business with the Marx st
og vernment o Angola. Meanwh le, Congress and the Wh to House
are giving money and support to the Luanda regime's biggest
opponent, Jonas Savimbi.
This astonishing possibility may become the subject of
Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings. According to my
sources, the committee staff has demanded briefings on this
possible double-dealing initiative from the CIA. Committee
investigators are looking at Federal Aviation Administration
files, and the word I get is that these records show some very
interesting patterns of Southern Air Transport flights. I'm
told the airports that figure in the flights being investigated
include some in South Africa, Zaire and Cuba.
Another possibility is that Southern Air was using its
position to collect intelligence on the Angolan army and
passing it on to the CIA, which may have given it to the
Savimbi forces.
I haven't been able to pin down exactly why the Reagan
administration would be sucking up to the Marxist regime in
Angola while it is also funding Savimbi. It sounds crazy,
frankly. But then, it's probably no crazier than the
recently-revealed word that the administration has been
supplying weapons to Iran while it provides intelligence
information to Iraq.
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