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Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of March 15, 2002

BUSH CONTINUES SUPPORT OF ANGOLA’S COMMUNIST KLEPTOCRAT KILLERS

"George Bush met Mr Dos Santos this week and urged him to end the war. But he stopped short of demanding that he should declare a unilateral ceasefire, and Mr dos Santos said that the onus was on UNITA to make the first concessions." Source: The Economist, 3/2/02, pp. 14-15

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of February 28, 2002

In the war against Soviet imperialism America had no more faithful and courageous ally.

CORRUPTION

Unfortunately, many Americans betrayed Savimbi’s heroic friendship - - - Chevron and other oil companies and their minions in the top ranks of both major political parties degraded themselves for filthy lucre, even consenting to have their employees in Angola guarded by Fidel Castro’s Cuban Communist troops.

BETRAYAL

At the State Department, Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Chester Crocker, consistently strove to undercut the Reagan Doctrine and to undermine Dr. Savimbi’s UNITA freedom fighters.

BRIBERY

Herman Cohen who, under George Bush the elder, succeeded Crocker as Assistant Secretary for Africa, was such a despicable traitor to the cause of freedom and to America’s national interests that he hired himself out as a foreign agent to the Leninist tyrants who still rule in Luanda, Angola.

THEFT

In 1992, Savimbi won a popular election, which victory was stolen from him even more blatantly than Mayor Daley stole Illinois for John F. Kennedy in 1960.

KENNEDY PAYOFF

On September 27, 1993, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order and sent a message to Congress which asserted "I have exercised my statutory authority to declare a national emergency with respect to the actions and policies of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (‘UNITA’)…. These actions are mandated in part by United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 864 of September 13, 1993."

COUNSELLORS FROM CHEVRON

Disgracefully, on September 24, 2001, George Bush the younger extended Clinton’s outrageous Executive Order, demonstrating that, while the names of the players change, nonetheless, under both Democratic and Republican governance, considerations of commercial profit override commitments to liberty, or, indeed, to the larger national interest.

DOUBLE STANDARD

G.W. Bush’s affirmation of the Crocker-Cohen-Clinton policy concerning Angola was a signal to the assassins who hold power in Luanda that, while pro-Communist terrorist Yasser Arafat enjoys the protection of the U.S. government, the anti-Communist hero Jonas Savimbi was fair game.

ACCESSORIES BEFORE THE FACT

No word of caution or indication of concern issued from either the White House or Foggy Bottom, despite repeated statements of the Jose Eduardo dos Santos government that the murder of Dr. Savimbi was its prime strategic objective, necessary to the consolidation of power by its corrupt Leninist tyranny.

AN INCONVENIENT PATRIOT

Thus, with no fear of rebuke from those who govern the New World Order of socially respectable international opinion, the Angolan Reds targeted Dr. Savimbi to be hunted down and murdered. His death is a tragic loss.

DISHONOR

If President Bush meets on Tuesday with Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the President of Angola, as is now planned, within days of the murder of Dr. Savimbi, it will be a grievous, unforgettable insult to all Americans who are grateful for the sacrifices Dr. Savimbi made throughout his life and for the extraordinary assistance he provided to freedom’s cause at a crucial time in America’s epochal struggle with international Communism.

1. During the Presidency of Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger pressured the then anti-Communist government of South Africa (RSA) (working through the traitor, Pik Botha) to halt its imminently successful drive on the Cuban troops which were helping to install a Communist regime to succeed the Portuguese in Luanda, Angola.

2. Ronald Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Chester Crocker, consistently undercut the Reagan Doctrine, pushing policies designed to facilitate Communist takeovers in RSA and Namibia, as well as in Angola.

3. Mitch Daniels, then Ronald Reagan’s White House Political Director, blocked efforts to sustain President Reagan’s veto of sanctions on the anti-Communist RSA government.

4. Gulf, Chevron, Texaco, and Conoco learned quickly how to entangle prominent Republicans in support of their alliance with Angola’s Communist tyranny. GOP cabinet Secretaries George Shultz and Carla Hills served on the Chevron board, and Condoleezza Rice, now GWB’s National Security Adviser, was not only awarded a seat on the Chevron board, an oil tanker was named after her, which carried oil from Angola to the United States.

5. Taking a bipartisan approach, the Angolan Reds awarded millions of dollars in oil concessions to the family of Senator Ted Kennedy and his nephews, Joseph and Michael Kennedy, each of whom received many hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries from an Angola-funded entity called the Citizens Energy Corporation.

6. George Bush the elder’s Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Herman Cohen collaborated with the Kennedy-controlled U.S.-Angolan Chamber of Commerce to legitimate the theft of Jonas Savimbi’s election victory in 1992, and to prevent the holding of a Constitutionally required run-off election. Cohen was rewarded after he left the State Department with a $500,000 annual retainer as a registered foreign agent for the Angolan Leninists.

7. Maurice Tempelsman, a diamond broker who served as an agent of influence for the Angolan Communist regime, secured the companionship of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who, for a number of years served as his mistress. Tempelsman was able to use this relationship, in combination with the Angolan oil payoffs to the Kennedy family to secure a completely pro-Communist Angolan policy by the new administration of Bill Clinton, which arranged for U.N. sanctions and follow-up U.S. sanctions on the anti-Communist UNITA freedom fighters led by Jonas Savimbi.

8. As soon as he had the opportunity, President George W. Bush embraced the Kissinger-Crocker-Cohen-Kennedy-Clinton policy on Angola. As with Enron, corruption and betrayal of the innocent is bipartisan. By the way, I neglected to mention that Dick Cheney’s Halliburton reportedly had a $200 million contract with the Angolan Reds. - Howard Phillips

PRESS CONFERENCE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
National Press Club, Zenger Room, 4:00 PM, Monday, February 25, 2002

STATEMENT OF HOWARD PHILLIPS, CHAIRMAN, The Conservative Caucus

PRESIDENT BUSH SHOULD NOT MEET TOMORROW WITH SAVIMBI’S ASSASSIN

Dr. Jonas Savimbi was a great Angolan patriot, truly a man who served as a loving, self-sacrificing father to those of his countrymen who shared his love of freedom and who were willing to die to escape the bonds of Portuguese colonialism and Communist tyranny.

Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of January 31, 1998

DO ANGOLAN COMMUNIST PAYOFFS TO THE KENNEDY FAMILY DICTATE CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN TO EXTERMINATE UNITA?

One of the great "failures" of America's media monopolists is their unreadiness to expose the financial corruption and bribery which undergirds U.S. foreign policy towards southern Africa.

Insider financial considerations have taken precedence over strategic concerns since the Reagan administration, when Rockefeller-protégé Chester Crocker was Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. All too consistently, the U.S. national interest has been defined as that which benefits major energy, banking, and mineral enterprises which profit from close ties to African Communist despots.

THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF MUCH EVIL

President Clinton has continued this bipartisan tradition, and has indeed intensified the Big Oil-Big Business-Big Bank campaign against the anti-Communist freedom fighters in Angola, in a manner consistent with the fact that Clinton's close political ally, Ted Kennedy, is the leader of a family which has received many millions of dollars in benefits from the Leninist tyrants who rule Angola.

KENNEDYS' "CITIZENS ENERGY CORPORATION" IS FUELED BY RED OIL

Aided by Maurice Tempelsman, to whom Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis served as mistress during the final years of her life, and who himself has grown wealthy on diamond concessions in Angola and elsewhere in southern Africa, the Kennedy family, operating through "next generation" representatives Joseph Kennedy and Michael Kennedy, was granted its own oil concession from the Marxist-Leninist government of Angola to something called the Citizens Energy Corporation.

ANGOLAN OIL IS A MAJOR SOURCE OF INCOME FOR THE KENNEDYS

As reported in the American Spectator (December, 1997, p. 43), "Citizens Energy is a key player in an unfolding foreign policy debacle in which the Clinton administration has sold out long-term friends of the United States to unlikely coalitions of old Marxists and corporate hustlers. But the Kennedys' operation is so carefully shielded behind good works that its dimensions might not have come to view at all if not for a family split partly stemming from the still-unsolved murder, twenty-two years ago, of a teenage girl in a fashionable New York suburb...."

A FINANCIAL CONSPIRACY WITH NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS

"Its for-profit subsidiaries include Citizens Gas Supply Corp., Citizens Power and Light Corp., Citizens Energy International, and Citizens Lehman Power LP, a partnership with the well-known Lehman Brothers investment-banking firm. The directory is actually out of date, since many of these dependencies have recently been spun off or sold in multi-million dollar deals, with six-figure bonuses for Citizens Energy executives...."

ROGER TAMRAZ IS A KENNEDY BENEFACTOR

"Citizens Energy very soon crossed the path of Roger Tamraz, the international financier who recently stunned the Thompson Committee hearings when he bluntly admitted making large campaign donations to buy access....

"Earlier this year, Tamraz emerged as not only a major fundraiser for [Congressman Joseph Patrick Kennedy III]'s uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, but as a client of Teddy's wife. For the 1994 Senate campaign, Teddy's stiffest challenge in years, Tamraz personally contributed $5,000 and raised another $25,000. He also approached Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a lawyer who married Teddy in 1992, for legal help in claiming assets seized by a foreign government...."

THE LATE MICHAEL KENNEDY WAS PAID $622,000 PER YEAR FOR HIS GOOD WORKS

"[A]fter 1986...he made his long-expected move into politics to take over former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's congressional seat. Joe turned over the chairmanship of the non-profit business to his younger brother Michael LeMoyne Kennedy....According to a Boston Globe analysis...Michael Kennedy's paycheck...hit $622,000....By the 1995 report...net assets showed a striking growth to more than $26 million.

"These figures mask wild fluctuations in the value of the money-making parts of the empire, grouped under a holding company called Citizens Corporation....

Financial statements for the eight or so outfits reporting to Citizens Corporation simply don't come into public view...."

U.S.-ANGOLA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS A FRONT FOR KENNEDYS AND COMMUNISTS

"Perhaps the most interesting of these hidden subsidiaries is Citizens Energy International Inc. Formed in 1991, CEII plunged right into the classic vortex of oil and international intrigue, seeking exploration and production concessions...Michael Kennedy took a strong personal interest in war-torn Angola, the resource-rich former Portuguese colony on the southwest coast of Africa. The Kennedy support for the faction once backed by the Soviet Union and a Cuban expeditionary force has helped create a Frankenstein monster now rampaging through central Africa. Within recent months, Kennedy's allies have overthrown American friends in two neighboring countries and introduced a dangerous new streak of instability....

"[Michael] Kennedy was instrumental in founding the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce, described by critics as a front for the MPLA [Angolan Communist Party]. The Luanda regime was fighting a bigger civil war with its main rival Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...."

COMMUNISTS PAID BUSH APPOINTEE TO BE THEIR FOREIGN AGENT

"The MPLA's Cuban allies guarded American oil facilities in the Cabinda enclave against attacks by the U.S.-supported UNITA forces. Major oil companies like Gulf, Chevron, and Texaco managed to wean the Bush administration from UNITA after intense attacks against Savimbi orchestrated by the pubic relations firm Hill & Knowlton. Although in 1992 U.S. policy seemed to achieve its long-standing goal of ‘free and fair’ elections in Angola, the MPLA tilt produced a disaster...."

"PEACE PROCESS" MARRED BY FRAUD AND ASSASSINATION

"Two days later, almost as if on cue, the MPLA launched a savage attack on the UNITA negotiators, killing among others UNITA vice president Jeremias Chitunda...By the end of this ‘Night of Long Knives,’ say UNITA partisans, the MPLA had slaughtered some 50,000 of Savimbi's supporters....

"The Kennedy interests stepped up their support of the MPLA....In 1996, Michael led a Citizens Energy delegation to Luanda to announce a $1.5 million commitment to build the Catholic University of Angola. His group assisted in assembling a University Board of Directors that read more like an oil industry convention...."

TEMPELSMAN TOOK HILLARY AND BILL FOR A RIDE WITH JACKIE O.

"CEII has a three-percent stake in the highly promising offshore oil exploration run by Continental Oil Co. Its other interests in the region are hidden behind the philanthropy curtain, but it may be no coincidence that an old family friend, the international diamond broker Maurice Tempelsman, has reemerged as a player on the scene....Tempelsman is chief executive of Lazare Kaplan Inc., headquartered on New York's Fifth Avenue, which supplied diamonds to Tiffany and Cartier. Another family business, Leon Tempelsman & Son, has global mining interests, with heavy emphasis on west Africa. For more than three decades Tempelsman gave money and advice to the political elite of black Africa's governments and liberation movements. He was the constant companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in her last years, and in 1993 he and Jackie entertained President and Mrs. Clinton at Martha's Vineyard on his 70-foot yacht, the Relemar. Like Roger Tamraz, Tempelsman gave lavishly to Democratic Party organs, by one count $145,000 for the 1996 cycle."

WITH SUPPORT FROM CLINTON AND KENNEDY, ANGOLA HAS BECOME AN IMPERIAL POWER

Recently, the Angolan Communists, who have received U.S. government foreign aid payoffs since the days of President Bush, have been imposing their Marxist imperialism in surrounding states, including the former Zaire (DROC), Congo-Brazzaville, Namibia, and Zambia (where their pressure resulted in the removal of the country's Christian, anti-Communist Vice President).

ALBRIGHT SHOWERS PRAISE ON CONGO'S COMMUNIST THUG FRONTMAN

The latest public example of Clinton's pro-Communist policy for southern Africa was Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's groveling visit to Kinshasa, the capital of the country formerly known as Zaire, now labeled "Congo" (or DROC---Democratic Republic of the Congo). (Editor's Note: Secretary Albright is reportedly Maurice Tempelsman's latest influential girlfriend.)

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