What about the Portuguese colonial wars, with Holden Roberto and the CIA backed FNLA and UPA?
That's pretty well-explained by the anti-communist rule of thumb.
Wikipedia:
...The Estado Novo), ("New State"), or the Second Republic, was the corporatist authoritarian regime installed in Portugal in 1933. It was established following the army-led coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the democratic but unstable First Republic. The Estado Novo, greatly inspired by conservative and authoritarian ideologies, was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, ruler of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, when he fell ill. Opposed to communism, socialism, liberalism, and anti-colonialism, the pro-Roman Catholic Estado Novo regime
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