• Mercenaries in Angola (Portuguese: Mercenários em Angola) are foreigners who participated in the Angolan Civil War on the side of the MPLA or the rebels...
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    Butler "major" Angolan War mercenary Charlie Christodoulou, Angolan War mercenary Peter McAleese, Angolan War mercenary Angolan Civil War Lucas Ngonda Projet...
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    in November 1975 decided the war for the MLPA. Cuban accounts of the Angolan war speak of the efforts of the mercenaries in a tone of contempt as Cuban...
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  • War veteran Karl Bushby – adventurer and author Frank Carson – comedian and Operation Musketeer veteran Charlie Christodoulou, Angolan War mercenary †...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    The Angolan War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência de Angola; 1961–1974), known as the Armed Struggle of National Liberation (Portuguese:...
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  • embargo for the Apartheid. The Angolan and Mozambican wars of liberation saw the involvement of large groups of foreign mercenaries. The CIA and South African...
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  • Luanda Trial (category Angolan Civil War)
    Trial was a trial held in Luanda, Angola, in June 1976 during the Angolan Civil War. Thirteen Western mercenaries were sentenced to either long prison...
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  • Banks engaged in recruiting mercenaries for the war in Southern Rhodesia and Angolan Civil War. Some of the recruited mercenaries who fought for the National...
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    South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric...
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  • This is a list of mercenaries. It includes foreign volunteers, private military contractors, and other "soldiers of fortune". Andrade, Tonio. (2016) The...
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  • Costas Georgiou (category People of the Angolan Civil War)
    Cypriot-born British mercenary executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial for activities during the civil war phase of the Angolan War of Independence....
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  • let slip the dogs of war." Having escaped from Central America with his comrades Drew, Derek, Michel, Terry and Richard, mercenary Jamie Shannon gets an...
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  • Executive Outcomes (category Angolan Civil War)
    negotiated peace. In the case of Angola this led to a cease fire and the Lusaka Protocol, which ended the Angolan Civil War – albeit only for a few years...
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  • Skeleton Coast (film) (category Angolan Civil War in fiction)
    Skeleton Coast is a 1987 South African-made mercenary war film directed by John Cardos in the first of three films for producer Harry Alan Towers. It...
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    the Angolan Civil War. The careers of many famous mercenaries of the 20th century began in the Congo. Modern ideas and stereotypes about mercenaries have...
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  • George Bacon (CIA officer) (category People of the Angolan Civil War)
    during the Secret War in Laos through 1975. After supposedly leaving the CIA, he became an anti-communist mercenary in the Angolan Civil War, though he may...
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  • Security Advisory Services (category Angolan Civil War)
    to recruit mercenaries for military operations abroad. In 1976, the company massively hired paid soldiers to fight in the Angolan Civil War, which was...
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    de Angola – Partido do Trabalho), is an Angolan social democratic political party. The MPLA fought against the Portuguese Army in the Angolan War of Independence...
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  • Charlie Christodoulou (category People of the Angolan Civil War)
    soldier in the Parachute Regiment who later served as a foreign mercenary during the Angolan War of Independence of the 1970s. Known as 'Shotgun Charlie', he...
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  • Gary Acker (category People of the Angolan Civil War)
    reprinted in the Sacramento Bee regarding recruitment of mercenaries for the Angolan Civil War. He was recruited by David Bufkin, paying for his and Bufkin's...
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    Violence: New Mercenaries and the State. Campaign Against Arms Trade. Hoover, Mike J. (1977). "The Laws of War and the Angolan Trial of Mercenaries: Death to...
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    Peter McAleese (category People of the Angolan Civil War)
    where he was a mercenary soldier in the Angolan Civil War for several months in 1976, fighting for the National Liberation Front of Angola, assuming command...
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    troops. Angola chose to participate in the First Congo War because members of Mobutu's government were directly involved in supplying the Angolan rebel...
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    political candidates. The conflict ended following the intervention of the Angolan military, which reinstated former president Denis Sassou Nguesso to power...
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    People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) in the Angolan War for Independence (1961–1975) and...
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    S2CID 235689406. CIA & Angolan Revolution 1975 Part 1 on YouTube CIA & Angolan Revolution 1975 Part 2 on YouTube John Stockwell on the CIA, Angola and Jonas Savimbi...
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    Angola (UNITA). When the war ended in 1975, they fought in the Angolan Civil War against the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA). The FLNC was involved...
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  • Bob Denard (category French mercenaries)
    Gilbert Bourgeaud;: 133  7 April 1929 – 13 October 2007) was a French mercenary. He served as the de facto military leader of the Comoros twice with him...
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    The White Legion was a mercenary unit during the First Congo War (1996–97) employed on the side of Zaire President Mobutu Sese Seko. This group of several...
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