Other sources claim that Kissinger's reason was that Cuba sent troops to support the new communist government of Angola in 1975 after the country gained independence from Portugal and was attacked by Apartheid South Africa and the UNITA rebels, which were supported by a bizarre alliance which included USA, Apartheid South Africa and North Korea.
Previously USA had supported yet another rebel group, FNLA, with Israel and communist China and Romania...
Angola endured 27 years of civil war until Angolan government - by then supported by also USA - killed UNITA's leader Jonas Savimbi in 2002. The same government which USA and Apartheid South Africa wanted to overthrow in 1975 still rules the country, after having changed communism to capitalistic cleptocracy, and is now backed by China thanks to the vast resources Angola has.
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