AFGHAN AND ANGOLA REBELS GOT IRAN $$$

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302030006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 29, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302030006-1
NEW YORK POST
29 November 1986
AFGHAN AND ANGOLA REBELS GOT IRAN
Ousted aide used
By NILES LATHEM
slush fund to buy in Santa Barbara
arms from China :rand RACHEL FLICK
in Washington
PROFITS from the sale of arms
to Iran have been funneled to
guerrillas fighting pro-Commu-
nist regimes in Afghanistan and
Angola. The Post has learned.
Until now, the Reagan admin-
istration has acknowledged
only that the $10 million to $30
million in diverted funds from
the Iranian arms deal financed
the Nicaraguan contras.
But U.S. intelligence sources
revealed yesterday that pro-
Western forces battling Marxist
governments in Afghanistan
and Angola have received mil-
lions of dollars in secret aid
from the Iranian deal.
Sources said ousted Lt. Col.
Oliver North and retired Maj.
Gen. Richard Secord ? two
men at the heart of the
controversy over the secret
shipments to the .contras ? di-
rected the diversion of funds to
the Angolan and Afghan rebels
as well.
U.S. intelligence receivejevi-
dence about the Afghan and An-
golan operations from corn-
munication intercepts ? tele-
phone or cable conversations
picked up through listening de-
vices by the CIA and the Na-
tional Security Council.
The money sent to the Ango-
lan rebel movement was chan-
neled to the guerrilla group
UNITA. headed by the pro-U.&
guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi,
according to intelligence
sources.
The sources said profits from
the Iranian arms sale were used
to purchase military hardware
from China.
The equipment was then
shipped to the Portuguese terri-
tory of Macao. From there the
weapons were sent to Portugal
and finally to UNITA forces in
Angola.
Angola is a former colony of
Portugal.
American arms were also pur-
chased through the same back-
door pipeline and delivered to
Angola and Afghanistan, the
sources said.
The sources added that the
CIA appears to have been aware
that profits from the Iran arms
sale were going to the Afghan
and AngoTan rebels.
There were these other fast-
paced developments in the
scandal yesterday:
? An Oregon businessman
said government sources told
him early this year that the
Pentagon was ,planning to use
the Iranian profits to buy arms
for the contras.
Businessman Richard Bren-
neke said he informed_ a mili-
tary assistant to Vice President
George Bush of the plans and
was told, "We will look into it."
Brenneke's statements, if con-
firmed, would mean that more
officials in. Washington than
previously acknowledged were
aware of the Iran-contra con-
nection.
Bush's spokesman did not re-
turn repeated calls seeking
comment.
? Several key congressmen
questioned the White House's
contention that North, who was
ousted from his White House
post Tuesday, was acting inde-
pendently in organizing the
arms sale.
"Col. North did not act alone,"
declared Sen. Prick Leahy (D-
Vt.), vice chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee.
"I don't know who gave the or-
ders but Col. North did not act
on his own. He got orders from
higher authority."
? A House judiciary subcom-
mittee released a report sup-
porting the call for appointment
of an independent special prose-
cutor to investigate possible
violations of U.S. laws.
? Nicaraguan contra leaders
said they feared that a deepen-
ing White House scandal could
seriously damage or even de-
stroy their cause.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302030006-1