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During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Johns was a key player in securing continued United States support for the UNITA rebels of [[Jonas Savimbi]]. On at least one occasion, Johns visited a UNITA training camp in the Angolan bush. The visit was revealed in an article by Johns about Angola, that was quoted by Representative Dan Burton (R-Indiana) in the House of Representatives in 1989. In it , Johns wrote: "Savimbi told conservative leader [[Howard Phillips]] and me last March during a visit to Savimbi's headquarters in the Angolan bush, 'there are a lot of loopholes in [the Angola/Namibia agreement]. The agreement is not good at all.'" [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r101:E26OC9-320:]

In October 1990, Representative Don Ritter (R-Pennsylvania) used an analysis by Michael Johns to support his opposition to HR 5422. This resolution sought to cut aid to UNITA. In his analysis, Johns wrote "In Angola, where a civil war has raged for 15 years between the country's Soviet-backed Marxist regime and an American-supported resistance movement, peace and freedom are now within sight." He concluded: "American assistance to UNITA continues to be the only hope for peace and freedom in Angola." [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r101:14:./temp/~r101emd8uh::] In the event, following Following its electoral failure in 1992 , UNITA resumed its armed insurgency, which was only brought to an end by the death of Savimbi in an ambush in February 2002 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA].