232 Cubanos Defendieron el 86% de Angola — Y la Operación Secreta Para Destruirlo

May 21, 1985. Malongo oil complex, Cabinda. Three South African Special Forces commandos emerge from the water in the darkness, carrying enough explosives to destroy six crude oil storage tanks. Their mission: to deprive the Cuban-backed Angolan government of a critical fraction of its oil revenues. The operation fails. Captain Wynand du Toit is captured alive. And the world discovers, in the most dramatic way possible, that Cabinda had been for a decade one of the most hotly contested—and least known—frontiers of the entire Cold War in Africa. Ten years earlier, 232 Cubans had defended that same territory against an invasion by three FLEC battalions and a Zairian battalion, commanded by 150 French and American mercenaries. John Stockwell, a CIA officer, would later admit that the agency had coordinated battles directly with the South African army. This is the complete story of Cabinda. The territory that generates 86% of Angola's revenue. The front that Cuba defended without reinforcements in 1975. And the sabotage operation that exposed, a decade later, the lengths to which the Cold War powers were willing to go for oil. ⏱️ TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:00 — Malongo, 1985. The commandos who emerged from the sea. 2:30 — Why Cabinda is an exclave and not an enclave 5:00 — The oil that generated 86% of Angola's revenue 7:30 — Cabinda's exclusion from the Alvor Agreement 10:00 — November 1975: The invasion of three battalions and 150 mercenaries 12:30 — 232 Cubans defend Cabinda without reinforcements from Carlota 3:00 — The FLEC insurgency that continued for decades 5:30 — John Stockwell's revelations about the CIA and South Africa 8:00 — Operation Argon: The 1985 sabotage mission 10:30 — The capture of Wynand du Toit and the international scandal 12:00 — Two years of captivity and the prisoner exchange 12:30 — Why Cabinda remains in conflict Today 📌 SOURCES AND REFERENCES — Cabinda War — Wikipedia, records of the complete separatist conflict. — Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda — Wikipedia, history of the factions. — Cuban intervention in Angola — Wikipedia, context of Operation Carlota. — Angel, [author]. "Cabinda and The Company: Chevron-Gulf." CLA Journal 6, 2018. — Stockwell, John. The Secret Wars of the CIA. 1987. — Du Toit, Wynand. Judas Goat. Self-published, South Africa, 2016. — British Modern Military History Society — The Angolan Civil War. 🔔 If you found this story as extraordinary as we did, please like and subscribe. It helps us more than you can imagine to continue producing this type of content. And if there's a battle, operation, or war story you'd like us to analyze—let us know in the comments. See you in the next video.