*4 Yet, even if this were one of
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- Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II pp. 257-259 · open book
*4 Yet, even if this were one of Kissinger’s rare truthful remarks about the Angola situation, and even if this could be a valid justification for serious intervention in a civil war in a third country, his statement challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension; for in June 1975, a month before the United States shipped its first major arms package to the FNLA, Mobutu had accused the US of plotting his overthrow and assassination, where- upon he expelled the American ambassador (see Zaire chapter).