FLYBOYS OF THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200120010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 1, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
ptitEflME TODAY, weather permitting, a U. S. B-26
orrbee will take oil from an airstrip in the Por-
ese roan colony of Angola. lzs mission is
destr y oncentrations of black guerrillas in the
Angolan It is not always easy for the to distin-
guish a guerrilla fighter from other black persons, but
? the.':is a common problem in this type of war, and
even i : cases of mistaken identity the bombing seems to
nave a .:Se: - anent ef:ect. Before n.ghtfail, the U.S.-
trz. y back :c the airstrip, le- vin g his twin-
e's a war on in Angola. Since March 195;, w;le ,
cent.-rot !--borers earning D0 cents a day revolter: abainst
Portuguese plantation owners, touching off a p;.. ,r.ed ani
cool rebellion, there's been a war on.n reprisal the
Portuguese launched a reign of terror. Africans we. -c
executed en masse. Entire villages were ;,loved into areas
under white control; otherwise t ombed. The
larger towns became armed enc.- Portuguese
troops patrolled the streets with suomac'.iine guns, shoot-
ing Africans with or without provocation. iv.ore than
500,000 refugees, most of them diseased, starving or
wounded after months of running and hiding in the forest,
crossed the border into the Congo.
When -Moise Tshombe took power in -.-,e Congo, the
Angolan rebel movement went into temporary eclipse.
The rc- uropean Tshombe was reluctant to permit sanc-
tuary for attacks on his covert allies, the Portuguese.
Despite him, guerrilla parr ols continued to 'ma',re forays
into their Portuguese occu~,'.zd homeland. And today,
with the Congolese government of Joseph Mobotu
allow-here greater freedom of movement, the Angolan
revolutionaries expect to get their second wind.
Since the Angolan t pr ising, Africans have launched
libera,it;r. movements in other Portuguese colonies: Mo
zambique, Cabinda and Portuguese Guinea (where na-
tionalists control half the territory, operating their own
schools d civil administration). All of them make the
same absolute demand: Independence and Now. But the
lessons of Kenya and Algeria have been lost on the
Portuguese. Maintaining more than 80,003 troops in
.' Africa-50,000 in Mozambique alone-in addition to civil
militia and police, they are determined to remain. Their
military alliance with the United States and the other
NATO powers can only bolster their determination. Cer-
tainly, NATO military aid has been a major factor in
ortugal's success in containing the insurgents of Angola.
The large quantity of NATO weapons captured by the
-ebcls, the napalm bomb casings marked "Property of the
sited States Army" found in the devastated mud-
and-,..cc villages (and shown to western correspondents at the'
Corder) attest to that. And many of the Portuguese officers
hiding ti-.,; reprisals are graduates of counter-guerrilla
warfare Schools operated by the U.S. Special Forces.
Which ;,rings us back to the 3-26 bombers, and how
they got t" Angola with their American-trained pilots and
mechanids.t is a long story, about America's legendary
pan ti-colonialism, and about a bizarre smuggling _::ial held,
of all places, in Buffalo, New It is also about that
cic canard _l`-at if there's a plot afoot, the Central
fence Agency has got to be mixed up it. Well, this tulle,
i_he last.i .e, :t appears it was.
Cons
Approved For Release 1999/09/07 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200120010-2