PIDE, Portugal's secret police, released documents revealing that, prior to Angola's independence in 1975, Savimbi signed a collaboration pact with the agency to fight the MPLA
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, also known as UNITA. UNITA was one of several groups which waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974. Once independence was achieved, it then became an anti-communist group, which confr…
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politics · Angolan politician and rebel leader (1934–2002) · politician · partisan · also Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, Jonas Savimbi, Savimbi
Born 3 August 1934 · Died 22 February 2002 · Q273051
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2002· 1 entry
Died 2002-02-22.
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1991· 1 entry
After Savimbi suspected that Chingunji had been in secret, unapproved negotiations with the Angolan government during Chingunji's various diplomatic assignments in Europe and the United States
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1989· 1 entry
And 1990, Savimbi was beginning to launch attacks on government and military targets in and around the country's capital, Luanda
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1986· 1 entry
Reagan invited Savimbi to meet with him at the White House
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1985· 1 entry
With the backing of the Reagan administration and aided by lobbying efforts from Paul Manafort and his firm, Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which was paid $600,000 annually from Savimbi beginning in 1985, Jack Abramof
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1977· 1 entry
The MPLA declared itself Marxist-Leninist
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1975· 1 entry
Savimbi began gradually drawing the attention of Chinese and, ultimately, American policymakers and intellectuals
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1974· 1 entry
The MPLA was supported by the Soviet Union
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1966· 1 entry
Launched UNITA and began his career as an anti-Portuguese guerrilla fighter
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1962· 1 entry
In which Savimbi served as foreign minister
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-08-03.
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