Thomas Frank's The Wrecking Crew: How the Conservative Rule has an important section about Jonas Savimbi. It is an extremely important story with lessons about the history of U.S. foreign policy (in Democratic and Republican administration). A war criminal by any measure, and a tool of apartheid South Africa, was selected by the U.S. government as a lynchpin of the American Cold War policies. Africa still suffers from the crimes of Savimbi and those who sponsored him.