Idi Amin Part 5: Husband, Father, Movie Star
Real Dictators
The Last King of Scotland
Dr. Mark Leopold: Amin's chief advisor, someone who's been with him through thick and thin, is a rather wily old Englishman named Bob Astalls. In the mid 1960s, during the Congo smuggling operations, Astalls notched up all sorts of capers alongside Amin in his role as his personal pilot. He was an informant for British intelligence; they weren't convinced that he always told the truth,. But he did offer a constant stream of evidence about what was happening to the Brits.
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