ANGOLA REBEL CHIEF LOBBIES D.C.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605420001-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 30, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605420001-7
ARTICLE APPEARED
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
30 January 1986
Angola
rebel c i^e lobbies
D.C.
g_BARARA REHM to Congress for an estima ended guerrilla wars gains
News Washington Bureau on to $15 million in Soviet and Cuban-hacked
WASHINGTON-Angolan covert assistance to Savimbi rb1s.
bi said yesterday he hopes to r aummistratlon to pursue an
suman o p_ . _Pnats~ open aid package that would
persuade the United States to e ? t
end a decade of non-involve. """ ` og um on intelli- provide $27 million in mili-
ment in his country's civil an rs counterbart in tary aide and $27 million in
come up With the House Re P. Lee H - humanitarian assistance. One
war and
to -covert
some financial backing for ton ave opj)osed congressional resolution
his fight athe Marxist r y assistance to the calls on the Angolan govern.
governmen fight against
t. non-Communist t forces, ment to engage in good faith
After a t largely cause o unease on negotiations with Savimbi or
with Secretary a 70-minute of et meeting ng Caprtol Hill over the exnan- face U.S. aid to the rebels.
ding role of tie CIA in open- and economic sanctions.
Shultz, Savimbi said simply:
"I am satisfied and I hope
that there will be progress."
Amid tight security aro-
vided b the Rea an adminis-
tration avim faced
around town in a onG black
limousine for meetings wi
senior U.S. officials- includ.
in Secreo Defense Cas-
Par ein rger and A i.
rector 3 He is
scheduled to 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
he Reagan
tion has submitted!
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. .
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605420001-7