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====United States support==== [[File:Ronald Reagan and Jonas Savimbi.jpg|thumb|right|Savimbi with [[President of the United States|President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1986]] [[File:Bush Contact Sheet P16285 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Savimbi greeting [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1990]] In 1985, with the backing of the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] administration and through the lobbying efforts of [[Paul Manafort]] and his firm [[Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly]] which was paid $600,000 each year from Savimbi beginning in 1985,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Swan |first1=Betsy |last2=Mak |first2=Tim |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby |title=Top Trump Aide Led the 'Torturers' Lobby' Bloody Money: Paul Manafort and the partners at his firm made a fortune repping some of the most despicable dictators of the 20th century. |work=[[Daily Beast]] |date=April 13, 2016 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |quote=Updated on 6 November 2017. |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829030153/https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Thomas |first=Evan |author-link=Evan Thomas |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,960803-1,00.html |title=The Slickest Shop in Town |page =1 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=March 3, 1986 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-date=April 18, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418033553/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,960803-1,00.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Thomas |first=Evan |author-link=Evan Thomas |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,960803-2,00.html |title=The Slickest Shop in Town |page =2 |magazine=Time |date=March 3, 1986 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-date=February 26, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226060300/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,960803-2,00.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shear |first1=Michael D. |last2=Birnbaum |first2=Jeffrey H. |author1-link=Michael D. Shear |author2-link=Jeffrey Birnbaum |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052103006.html |title=McCain Adviser's Work As Lobbyist Criticized: Charles Black, John McCain's top political strategist, is now retired from a 30-year |page= 1 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309131432/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052103006.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shear |first1=Michael D. |last2=Birnbaum |first2=Jeffrey H. |author1-link=Michael D. Shear |author2-link=Jeffrey Birnbaum |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052103006_2.html |title=McCain Adviser's Work As Lobbyist Criticized: Charles Black, John McCain's top political strategist, is now retired from a 30-year |page =2|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-date=April 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416161838/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052103006_2.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnVC8yS4N_AC&pg=PA62 |title=Inside Washington's Propaganda Shops: Publicists of the Damned |work=[[Spy (magazine)|Spy]] (volume 6) |pages=52β60 |date=February 1992 |access-date=August 28, 2021}} See page 60. The full title of the article is "Believe it or not, there are Americans out there who have nice things to say about Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceaucescu, and the murderous governments of Zaire, Myanmar, and El Salvador β and they have better access to your congressman than you do. They're lobbyists, and they earn hundreds of thousands of dollars flacking for fascists and schmoozing on behalf of tyrants blithely waltzing through life as Publicists of the Dammed."</ref> [[Jack Abramoff]] and other U.S. conservatives organized the [[Democratic International]] in Savimbi's base in [[Jamba, Cuando Cubango|Jamba]], in [[Cuando Cubango Province]] in southeastern Angola.<ref name = Abramoff /> Savimbi was strongly supported by the influential, conservative [[The Heritage Foundation|Heritage Foundation]]. Heritage foreign policy analyst [[Michael Johns (policy analyst)|Michael Johns]] and other conservatives visited regularly with Savimbi in his clandestine camps in Jamba and provided the rebel leader with ongoing political and military guidance in his war against the Angolan government.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fyzsTGPTkOIC&dq=%22Michael+Johns%22+Savimbi&pg=PA53 ''The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism''], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221092306/https://books.google.com/books?id=fyzsTGPTkOIC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=%22Michael+Johns%22+Savimbi&source=bl&ots=KlSwhsbw-l&sig=O7689UUb32B2dHrlD48O5JfhPsI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP7vOvzYrOAhXLGR4KHT8gD7U4ChDoAQgbMAA |date=21 February 2018}} by Russ Bellant, South End Press, 1988 and 1991, pp. 53β54.</ref><ref>{{unfit|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160919224609/http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1990/07/with-freedom-near-in-angola-this-is-no-time-to-curtail-unita-assistance "With Freedom Near in Angola, This is No Time to Curtail UNITA Assistance,"]}} by Michael Johns, The Heritage Foundation, 31 July 1990.</ref> Savimbi's U.S.-based supporters ultimately proved successful in convincing the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] to channel covert weapons and recruit guerrillas for Savimbi's war against Angola's Marxist government. During a visit to [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1986, Reagan invited Savimbi to meet with him at the [[White House]]. Following the meeting, Reagan spoke of UNITA winning "a victory that electrifies the world."<ref name=Heritage>{{citation|url=http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/HL217.cfm |title=The Coming Winds of Democracy in Angola |publisher=Heritage |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101103015/http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/HL217.cfm |archive-date=1 January 2008 }}.</ref> Two years later, with the Angolan Civil War intensifying, Savimbi returned to Washington, where he praised the Heritage Foundation's work on UNITA's behalf.<ref name = Heritage />
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