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Henry in Angola

By
Piero Gleijeses

Kissinger’s covert-ops misadventure with apartheid South Africa.

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For Ronald Reagan and a great many Americans, the arrival of Cuban troops in Angola in 1975 epitomized the poisoned fruit of détente. The way they saw it, the Soviets had dared for the first time to engage in a massive military intervention in Africa; they had pushed their Cuban proxies forward; and they had […]

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