REBELS OF 4 NATIONS FROM ANTILEFTIST FRONT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201080047-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: June 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
6 June 1985
forces Were mv~ e
tend because the military situation
host in their country was "very serious,"
Jonas Savimbi, conference
and leader of the National Union forRebels according to Jack Wheeler, acon-
of 4 Nations the Total Independence of Angola, ference organizer. But former
said the alliance's first goal is "to prime minister Son Sann, leader of.
make the people of the United the Khmer People's National Lib-
Form Antileftist Front States understand the struggle" of eration Front, sent a message of
solidarity to the conference.
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[A Portuguese radio report last
. The alliance will have a "central.
Groups' Meeting in Angola clearinghouse" in Washington, said week had said that Cuban and Mo-
Lewis Lehrman, a New York Re- zambican resistance movements
Organized by I.S. Lobby publican who is chairman of the also would. be represented at the
Washington-based Citizens for conference. According to the report
by Radio Commercial, the organiz-
By Alfonso Chardy America, the conservative lobbying ers plan a follow-up conference to
Knight-Ridden group that organized the confer- be held in Washington in July.]
ence. He gave no further details. Although Savimbi was the sum-
JAMBA, gh Angola, nist June aosGuerrilla leaders from the But another Citizens for America mit's official host, the event was
world's , Afghanistan, Laos and Angola formed ; the official said his organization may organized by Lehrman, who
rebelrebels-during edcontrolled lobby Congress for a package of brought Reagan's message. Lehr-
American-organized notrganized ganized of conference in a anticommunist
part of the pres
part of Angola last weekend. U.S. aid for the insurgent forces in is
In a communique issued Sunday, representatives of that formed the alliance and others an ident a and was an unsuccessful can-
the four groups pledged to "cooperate" in halting "So- that may join later. He also said that didate for governor of New York in
viet colonialism," but stressed that their alliance will rebel delegates at= the conference 2. ohe heads, Cit-
The
not involve exchanges of troops, arms or funds. had vowed that at least one of their 198 198
. America, organization
is currently heads, lob-
News of the meeting was delayed because the char- movements will achieve victory be- izens for tered aircraft that journalists were using broke down fore the end of Reagan's presiden- bying Congress to restore U.S. aid
and they could not leave Angola until today. till term in 1988. to the Nicaraguan rebels, cut, off
President Reagan sent a message of support to the The communique, called the Dec- since spring of 1984. Lehrman ac-
conference, saying that the rebels' goals "are our. laration of the Democratic Interna- since knowledged that the alliance with
goals." tional, issued at the end of the two- the Afghan rebels, whose cause is
"Around the world we see people joining together to day conference, said that the rebel highly popular in Congress, could
.. free their nations from outside domination and an groups had decided to unite because help his organization advance the
alien ideology," Reagan's letter said. . ' their goal is the same: "indepen Nicaraguan guerrillas' cause among
Reagan's letter did not mention any U.S. assistance Bence from Soviet colonialism, a U.S. lawmakers.
colonialism brutally enforced by Savimbi indicated that the new
to the insurgents, although the is known to have
provided more than $250 million to the Afghan rebels troops and the troops of her alliance may lead the White House
d $80
fi hting Soviet occupation forces an million to surrogates." to seek the repeal of the Clark
icaraguan re e s fig tmg t e arxist- a an mists Besides Calero and Savimbi, the Amendment, a 1975 congressional
government. two-page declaration was signed by ban on U.S. military or humanitar-
e first conference of Armed Movements Fighting Pa Kao Her of the Ethnics Liber- ian aid to the Angolan guerrillas
Against Soviet Expansionism was held in Jamba, the
Angolan rebels' "provisional capital" in southeastern ation Organization of Laos and Ghu-
lam Wardak of the Islamic Unity of battling their country's Marxist
Angola, about 50 miles north of the border with the Afghanistan Mujaheddin. government.
South African-controlled territory of Namibia. Wardak anist is a former rebel who Savimbi said he wants the Clark
Rebel, delegates held out the possibility that ex- now arms political work in the Amendment repealed not so much
changesof people and arms might take place in the fu- to receive U.S. aid but to issue a
cure. United States. Conference organiz- clear warning to the Angolan goyim
.- - ti - ers said the Afghan rebels' military clear warning
to send home the 25,006
"As time goes by, we will ll defi- chiefs wanted to attend the Jamba
nitely -implement many ways to co- meetings but were prevented from Cuban troops now defending the.
opetatee-'atth each other, which will coming by Pakistan, the country government.
be made known at the appropriate a support base. The or- Rebel delegates and the two doz-
time' said Adolfo Calero, head of they use as they tics said Pakistani authorities en journalists who covered the con-
about' 12,000 men in the Ni- for their refusal. ference were flown into rebel-oc-
caraguan Democratic Force. gave no reason Cambodian rebels fighting cupied Angola aboard a dilapidated
against Vietnamese occupation DC3 transport plane owned by
South African charter company.
They took off from a small suburban
airfield outside Johannesburg.
Western diplomats in the region
say South Africa's white-minority
government is the principal source
of aid for Savimbi's rebels.
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