In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

15
Disengagement
On February 12, Jonas Savimbi withdrew his forces from Silva
Porto and fled two hundred miles south to Villa Serpa Pinto, where
he planned to set up a temporary headquarters and prepare his forces
for protracted guerrilla warfare. At Serpa Pinto he hoped to receive
a final resupply of CIA arms and funds. The CIA intended that the
French Hoods, who still had three months remaining on their contracts,
would provide leadership and technical assistance to the guerrilla
army. The Hoods were joined by a young European couplea
husband wife photographic team-who would keep the CIA apprised
of UNIT A's adventures.* But neither Savimbi nor the CIA
had yet grasped the speed with which the Cuban juggernaut would
crash through UNIT A's puny defenses. In three days the Cubans
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•CIA headquarters had foreseen that it would soon be too dangerous to risk one
of its own officers in Savimbi's company in the Angolan hinterlands. Hence, the
European couple was enticed away from their plantation in another region and sent
to Savimbi's headquarters.