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The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, [1] is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Publishing Office.
Former CIA agent and US diplomat Donald Rickard has claimed that the CIA helped arrest Nelson Mandela by informing South African police of his location in 1962, leading to the Rivona Trial and imprisonment until 1990. This is due to his associated with South African communists.
Alongside the United States and Apartheid South Africa, Congolese forces were one of the key outside powers to intervene on behalf of the FNLA and UNITA. A CIA memorandum from November 1978 illustrates Mobutu's value in the conflict, especially through his support for the CIA-cultivated Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA forces. The document states ...
South Africa – A sovereign country located at the southern tip of Africa. [1] It’s coast stretches 2,798 kilometres [ 2 ] and borders both the Atlantic and Indian oceans . [ 3 ] To the north of South Africa lie Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , Mozambique and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), while the Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent ...
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...
The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was the previous name of an intelligence agency of the South African government. Currently it is known as the Domestic Branch of the State Security Agency. It is responsible for domestic and counter-intelligence within the Republic of South Africa. The branch is run by a Director, who reports to the ...
The CIA funded UNITA with $32 million in cash and $16 million of weapons. Support was channeled through President Mobutu of the Congo. After MPLA and its Cuban and Russian allies took the capital, the CIA planned on funding an insurgency against the provisional Angolan government but was unable to secure funding in Congress. [3]