In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

(236] IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES
a big African, though very young. (2) I am sending with this my
mother who is seventy-one years old so that she will be able to die in
Zambia. My sister and three children and my two children are with
my mother. Accompanying them are the wife of our Secretary General
with two children and the wife of our Commanding General with four
children.
The Political Bureau of Central Committee of UNIT A joins me to
thank you once more for everything. Whatever stand your government
takes on Angola, we will accept with resignation. It is paramount that
Zambia survives and the love and admiration we have shared with my
colleagues for your leadership and wisdom will be sufficient to comfort
us in the dark days of our country.
I would like to end this letter by asking Your Excellency to convey
my greetings to Mwalimu [Tanzanian president] Julius Nyerere. I
have read his interview concerning me. It is a pity that President
Nyerere did not believe and know me. I have always tried to the best
of my ability and courage to serve the interests of Angola and Africa.
I am not a traitor to Africa and the hard days that we expect ahead
will prove to the world that I stand for my principles. In Angola might
has made right but I will remain in the bush to cry for justice.
God bless your beloved country,
God bless you.
Savimbi Jonas.
In his last meeting with a CIA officer, on February 1, 1976, Savimbi
vowed never to leave the Angolan bush alive.
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Clearly, the administration, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had
been checked by a stubborn Congress. But how was the CIA doing
with the Church and Pike Committees and their devastating exposures?
There seemed no end to the sordid tales coming to light about
the agency.
In late November 1975 more dramatic details of CIA assassination
programs were leaked to the press by the Senate investigators. The
CIA had been directly involved with the killers of Rafael Trujillo of
the Dominican Republic, Ngo Diem of South Vietnam, and General
Schneider of Chile. It had plotted the deaths of Fidel Castro and
Patrice Lumumba.
In the Lumumba assassination plot the CIA was particularly diligent
in its planning. Sid Gottlieb, chief of Technical Services Division,
and courier of the poison, had no sooner reached Kinshasa than