The south africans and the covert operation, my main source are these two reports, then some interviews. But are these two report based on south african documents? Well, it has been enough to send weapons. And so we have to escalate both sides, escalade. The american press about the situation in angal about the civil war, in the late summer, early fall of 75, are extremely superficial. If you look at a more serious press, the portuguese press, which new angola? I am thinking of lemond, the best french newspaper. Ah, they aa guy, been tangala several timessad. Five years later there is till a
Part one of Dan's two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba's military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line, including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony.
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