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Part Six: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards

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The FNLA, the MPLA and Unita Are Marxists.

The FNLA and Unita are generally described as being right wing groups. But this is one of those things where like grafting Western political terms on to the civil war in Angola does not work great. All of these groups, even the ostensibly Marxist MPLA are very tribal in origin. United's fighters were literally trained by North Korean soldiers. They had been receiving arms from the Reagan administration for years brokered via their paid representative Paulafort.

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