The World - News from Feb. 19, 1986
The United States is supplying covert aid to rebels fighting the Marxist government of Angola, a Reagan Administration official said--the first public statement that the CIA program has begun. Chester A. Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, refused to be explicit about the type of aid, but he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it is effective. The CIA has an initial $15 million for the operation, cleared after Congress last year repealed a law banning U.S. involvement in the guerrilla war.
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