received aid from the People Republic of China The FNLA, led by Halden Roberto, was receiving aid from Zaire, North Korea, and the Peaple Republic of Chioa. The FNLA was also receiving assistance from the United States. It had managed to take a large territory in the northeast and set up a capital at Carmana South African troops had entered the southern part of Aogola in August 1975 and were giving assistance to UNITA and the FNLA. They supplied weapons and assisted in the organization of a military force headed by Daniel Chipenda, a former member of the MPLA who had defected to the FNLA.
Cuban Comandante Flavio Bravo and Agostinho Neto met in Brazzaville in May 1975 and worked out plans for substantial Cuban military assistance to the MPLA The MPLA needed help from the Cubans in order to be able to capture power after the departure of the Portuguese. second meeting is said to have taken place in August of 1976 between Comandante Raul Diaz Arguelles and Neto in Luanda. The struggle for power between the different guerrilla organizations had put the MPLA on the run The MPLA requested Cuban military assistance as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the Soviets were waiting until the departure of the Portuguese before they intervened directly to provide assistance to their friends in the MPLA According to a press report, United States and Cuban officials held high level talks in 1974 and 1975 in Washington and New York about the situation in Angola?
Assistant Secretary of State William Rogers made it clear to Cuban officials at a meeting that took place in November of 1975 that the United States firmly opposed Cuban military involvement in Angola. The meeting did not have any noticeable effect The Cuban Government was already in the process of sending military advisers and training personnel. The Cubans set up four training bases for MPLA troops at Benguela, Saurimo, Cabinda, and Delatando. The Cubans were supporting