Pravda –Personal Ads – Moscow Saturday 26th July 1975

For Sale - Effects of the family of Commissar Neto, late of the People’s Co-operative Land Bank.  The recently bereaved family is not expected to need Black Sea kit in Siberia.

SIS - Military Intelligence, Section 6, AgntRep 59200/5: Restricted 02.34 GMT 23-07-75 via Universal Export, Miami

“Our Man in Havana reports that the senior echelon of the leadership of FAPLA has been retired following the insufficiently revolutionary "thrust" north in July.

Greater enthusiasm for the great cause is expected in August following the appointment of Samuel R B o "Navigador" to direct command.”

London Times – Thursday July 24th 1975

It has been reported that Agostinho Neto, a senior member within the Soviet sponsored terrorist army in Angola, MPLA, has been executed due to differences over military strategy in the recent turmoil in Angola.  He was an advocate of defending regional centers to restrict the mobility of UNITA. 

The action may have been taken due to the recent successes by the Cuban backed FAPLA on the western coast of Angola, who have used a single very strong military force to engage with the western  sponsored FNLA and now are believed to control all major towns between Luanda and the Zaire border.

Some commentators have however attributed the FAPLA success more to the bad military leadership within the FNLA.

Pravda – Moscow Saturday 5th July 1975

The people’s co-operative land bank is proud to applaud the selfless communards who have given their summer vacations to assist with the development of peanut farms in eastern Angola.  Your intrepid man in the field Comrade Pavel Tarasov can confirm that the farm machinery supplied by the workers of the motherland is being prepared to reap a great harvest in the heart of Africa.

STOP

La Provence vendredi 4th juillet 1975

 An increased number of Russian agricultural advisers with packing cases of agricultural parts have been observed travelling on the newly built, with Chinese assistance, TAZARA railway from Dar es Salaam, via Zambia and heading for Portugalia reports Colin Pierre from Kananga.

 “It was vague what crops they were intending to assist on developing when I attempted to interview the Russians.  I made a joke about perhaps gun cotton and the atmosphere went very cold.”

FIN 

Moçâmedes Meteor 75-07-03

Bishop Alexandre Fidelius O’Martin of Moçâmedes, in the Archdiocese of Lubango has demanded that the Portuguese authorities clarify why there have been so many Portuguese military aircraft flying over Moçâmedes from the Portuguese base at Cuito Cuanavale.  He suggests that the colonial government was “bullying” his congregation with their actions.  No reply has been received as we go to print, to numerous calls by the Meteor to the Portuguese Air Force 2ª Região Aérea HQ outside Luanda

Havana Herald Wednesday 2nd July 1975

Early this morning gunfire was heard in Ambriz as the colonial oppressors were challenged by brave comrades reports Samuél Castillo “Our man from Havana”.