Safari Club

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The Safari Club was a covert alliance of intelligence services formed in 1976 that ran clandestine operations around Africa after the United States Congress limited the power of the CIA in the mid-1970s. The Club formed in the late 1970s after the bloodless left-wing Carnation Revolution on 25th April 1974, after which Portugal's last colonies in Africa gained independence. The revolution effectively ended the Portuguese Colonial War. The Safari Club formal members were pre-revolutionary Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and France. The group maintained informal connections with the United States, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Israel. The group executed a successful military intervention in Zaire in response to an invasion from Angola. It also provided arms to Somalia, which precipitated an internal divide over American abstention from the Ogaden War. It organized secret diplomacy relating to anti-communism in Africa, and has been credited with initiating the process resulting in the 1979...

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