In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

Propaganda and Politics
World interest in the story put UNITA under uncomfortable pressure
and the CIA Lusaka station abashedly let the story die a quiet
death.
Another Lusaka fabrication accused Cuban soldiers of committing
atrocities in Angola. It mentioned rape and pillage. Then its stories
became more specific, "reporting" a (totally fictitious) incident in
which Cuban soldiers had raped some Ovimbundu girls. Subsequently
it wrote that some of those same soldiers had been captured
and tried before a tribunal of Ovimbundu women. Lusaka kept this
story going endlessly throughout the program.
Later, Caryle Murphy, a Washington Post stringer who had covered
Luanda, told me the Cuban soldiers had universally fallen in
love with Angola and were singularly well behaved.* The only atrocity
we were able to document had Cubans as victims rather than
criminals. Sixteen Cuban soldiers captured in October were executed
by UNIT A soldiers at the end of the war.
Young Cuban soldier, captured and later executed by UNIT A.
*Ms. Murphy had no relationship whatsoever with the CIA. Our conversation
occurred in late 1976, after I had decided to leave the CIA.