In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

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Savimbi "It is hard to be exact," he said. "We are not organized that way." Together he and I extrapolated four thousand UNIT A troops more or less ready for combat, plus six thousand trainees. These were the figures I reported to headquarters. Here was the most significant finding of my trip: We had understood that UNIT A was the weakest militarily of the three liberation movements; in fact, Savimbi's army was several times larger than the FNLA's, better led, and supported by a political organization of some depth. This would be heartening news at headquarters, an unexpected asset in our war against the MPLA. On the other hand, the UNIT A forces, like the FNLA, had no logistical system, the poorest of internal communications, and no organization or leadership below the level of major. Savimbi deposited me at the airport, shook my hand gravely, and left. There were no parting speeches, his mind was already on the preparations for the battle of Lobito. We were back in Kinshasa by late afternoon. I went directly to the embassy, read the cable traffic, and then went into St. Martin's office. He greeted me indifferently, and then, as though in afterthought, handed me a cable, assuming a defiant stance, ready for a fight. "Here, you better read this," he said. "Oh, that?" I didn't take it from his hand. "Yeah, I already saw that on your reading board outside.'' It was his comment on my FNLA report, bearing the Eyes Only Plotka (Potts's pseudonym) slug, for Potts's exclusive attention. Without disputing the facts it cast a shadow on some points in my report. It was an effort to demonstrate his seniority, as basic as a dog sniffing another's urine and covering it with his own. I had so far avoided an argument with St. Martin and meant to keep it that way. "You are entitled to your own comment," I said about his cable. "Listen, Colonel Castro is over at the Intercontinental ... " Castro had telephoned the embassy, requesting a meeting and in St. Martin's own city I was obliged to tell him of any agent meetings or covert activity. The next morning I cleared through the station with little delay, only taking time to send out a brief message giving my estimated time of arrival in Washington.
IN SEARCH Of.' ENEMIES Late that night I stood nursing a drink in a Madrid discotheque, watching young Europeans dance to the throbbing music. I had moved too quickly from Silva Porto to Madrid; from the chanting faithful of UNIT A, who stamped and sang their worship of Sa vim bi, united in a life-and-death common cause; from the somber, scared soldiers of Luso; from the faceless, dying boy in Chicala; to the emptiness of a European night club. Tomorrow I would land in D.C. and face headquarters, where reality was a committee meeting, corridor politics, and the turn of a phrase on a cable.
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Contents Author's Note 9 Acknowledg
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Saigon to Washington l37] a program
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The Angola Program "Well, disgrace
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The Angola Program (45] I kept expe
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The Angola Program [47] and country
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The Angola Program [55] cially, the
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3 Footsoldiers of Foreign Policy Th
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CIA People Policies [81] But there
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CIA People Policies (83] but now he
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Our Little·Known Allies FNLA insid
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Our Little·Known Allies On Friday,
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Our Little-Known Allies (95) was a
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Kinshasa (IOI] ity. * Probably most
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Kinshasa ing my French. Some time l
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Business and Money [207] The s31.7
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Disaster [215] over half that of th
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Disaster (217) was depleted, and no
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Disengagement blasted UNIT A out of
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Postscript I knew I should resign.
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Index Africa Division, see CIA Agee
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Index Ottaway, David, 168, 194 Ovim
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