Bribery ( Kenya) Co llaboration (South Afr ca) DIRTY WORK The CIA in Afruca Edited by ELLEN RAY, WILLIAM SCHAAP, KARL VAN METER, and LOUIS WOLF Preface by Sean MacBride Zed Press, 57 Caledonian Road, London Nl 9DN ) i ,4 Dirty llork 2: The CIA in Alricawas published in the United Kingdom in February 1980 by Zed press, 57 Caledonian Road, London Nl 9DN by arrangement with Lyle Stuart Inc. 120 Enterprise Ave., Secaucus, N.J. 07094, USA ISBN Pb o sos762 62 2 AII rights reserved Copyright O 1980 by C.L publications First reprinted, 1982 "The t This book is respectfully dedicated to the right peoples of Africa, especially the liberation forces sion struggling to overthrow the last but powerful "The vestiges of colonialism and white supremacy. sara, edw ..CIA D.C. tion "The Afr4 righl "Med Stoc "The cop) bvl ..PID quol Exp tion "Con Nou ter, Permissions and Credits "The CIA in Africa: How Central? How Intelligent?" by Ren6 Lemarchand, copy- right @ 1978 by University Press of America, Inc.; reprinted with their permis- sion and the permission of the author. "The CIA as an Equal Opportunity Employer," by Dan Schechter, Michael An- sara, and David Kolodney, copyright @ 1970 by Africa Research Group; reprint- ed with their permission. "CIA Recruitment for Africa: The Case of Howard University, Washington, i D.C.," from CovertAction Information Bulletin, copyright O 1979 by Covert Ac- tion Publications, Inc.; reprinted with their permission. "The CIA and the Media: An Overview," by Cyrille Fall, copyright @ 1978 by A.frique-Asie; reprinted with their permission; translation by Mark Richey, copy- right @ 1979by C. I. Publications, Inc. "Media Manipulation in Angola," by John Stockwell, copyright O 1978 by John Stockwell; reprinted with his permission. "The Assassination of Eduarilo Mondlane," by Frederic Laurent and Nina Sutton, copyright @ 1978 by Editions Stock; reprinted with their permission; translation by Karl Van Meter, copyright @ 19'19 by C. I. Publications, Inc. "PIDE and SDECE: Plotting in Guinea," by Ken Lawrence, includes extensive quotes from an article in Expresso, Lisbon. Article copyright O 1976 by Jornal Expresso, Lisbon, Portugal; quotations reprinted with their permission. Transla- tion by Mark Richey, copyright @ 1979 by C. I. Publications, Inc. "Confession of a 'Dog of War,"' by Ren6 Backmann, copyright @ 1978 by Le Nouvel Obsenateur; reprinted with their permission; translation by Karl Van Me- ter, copyright @ 1979 by C. I. Publications, Inc. "CIA Said to Have Aided Plotters Who Overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana," by Sey- mour Hersh, copyright O 1978 by The New York Times Company; reprinted with their permission. "Games People Play," by Jim Paul, copyright @ 1976 by Middle East Research and Information Project; reprinted with their permission. "The Confessions ofa Spy," from Afrique-Asie, copyright @ 1978 by Afrique-Asie; reprinted with their permission; translation by Mark Richey, copyright @ 1979 by C. I. Publications, Inc. "The CIA and U.S. Policy in Zaire and Angola," by Stephen Weissman, copyright O 1978 by University Press of America, Inc.; reprinted with their permission and the permission of the author. "A Tough Little Monkey," by Jack Bourderie, copyright O 1975 by Afrique-Asie; reprinted with their permission; translation by Karl Van Meter, copyright @ 1979 by C. I. Publications, Inc. "OTRAG," by Informationsdienst Siidliches Afrika, copyright O 1978 by Infor- mationsdienst Siidliches Afrika; translation by Heinrich Berenberg, copyright @ 1979 by C. I. Publications, Inc. "The Savimbi Letters," from Afrique-Asre, copyright @ 1914 by Afrique-Asie; re- printed with their permission; translation of introduction by Anselme Remy, translation of letters by Karl Van Meter, copyright @ 1979 by C. L Publications, Inc. '"Dress Rehearsal," by Miles Africanus, copyright O 1979 by Covert Action Publi- cations, Inc.; reprinted with their permission. "In Zimbabwe 1,000 Mercenaries Fight Against African Liberation," by Malik Reaves, copyright O 1978 by Southern Africa magazine; reprinted with their per- mission. "Arms for Apartheid," by Michael Klare, copyright @ 1979 by Michael Klare; re- printed with his permission. All other material in this book is copyright O 1979 by C. I. Publications, Inc. Contents Preface MacBride Sean ix Overview Introduction Agee Philip I The CIA in Africa: How Central? Intelligent? How s Ren6 Lemarchand The French Role in Africa Meter Karl Van 24 Brttish Intelligence in Africa Southwood Jonathan Bloch and Russell 36 The Lagorce Repon: The DeJinition of a New EEC Strategt for South Africa Pierson-Mathy Paulette 43 The Range of Covert Intervention Introduction Agee Philip 47 The CIA as an Equal Opportunity Employer Dan Schechter, Michael Ansara, and David Kolodney 50 The CIA and Afican Trade Unions Barry Cohen 70 Academics: An Ovemiew Ken Lawrence 80 CIA Recruitment for Africa: The Case of Howard University CovertAction Information Bulletin 86 The CIA and the Media: An Ovemiew Cyrille Fall 95 Media Manipulation in Angola John Stockwell The Assassination of Eduardo Mondlane lil Frederic Laurent and Nina Sutton PIDE and SDECE: Plotting in Guinea tt4 Ken Lawrence Confession of a "Dog of llar" Ren6 Backmann 120 CIA Said to Have Aided Plotters Who Overthrew Nkrumah in Ghana Seymour Hersh 133 Games People PIay Jim Paul t37 How the lVest Established Idi Amin and Kept Him There Pat Hutton and Jonathan Bloch t45 The Confessions of a Spy Afrique-Asie t54 Zaire, OTRAG, and Angola The CIA and U.S. Policy in Zaire and Angola Weissman Stephen 157 \ \ \ \-...-.-__.', A Tough Little Monkey Jack Bourderie 182 OTRAG: Missiles Against Liberation in Africa Informationsdienst Siidliches Afnka 189 The Savimbi Letters A"frique-Asie t94 Dress Reheanal Miles Africanus What Britain Did in Angola Pat Hutton and Jonathan Bloch 210 Cabinda: A Joint Operation Karl Yan Meter 218 Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa In Zimbabwe 1,000 Mercenaries Fight Against African Liberation Malik Reaves 223 i SIGINT for Namibia Walker Chris 229 Arms for Apartheid: New Evidence of Illegal U.S. Arms Sales to South Africa Michael Klare 232 The CIA and BOSS: Thick as Thieves Talbot Stephen 240 South Africa Gets.Nuclear Weapons to the West -Thanlcs Rogers Barbara 25O Bibliography Acknowledgments The editors wish to acknowledge the in- valuable assistance of several friends in locating, gathering, and working up the materials for this book, in particular Ken Lawrence in Jackson, Mississippi, and Andy Weir in London. We also wish to thank Mark Richey, Yvonne Williams and Tony Smart for their help in the production of this book. And of course, we thank Lyle Stuart for his un- stinting support of our efforts to contin- ue this series of expos6s and of our hopes for diminishing the crimes of the Western intelligence complex. Our day-to-day work is accomplished through the CovertAction Information Bulletin. In this bimonthly magazine we publish the research both of our group and of other friends around the world, aimed at exposing international med- dling by the intelligence complex-par- ticularly, but by no means exclusively, the CIA. We urge interested readers to contact us at P.O. Box 5O272, Washing- ton, D.C. 20004. '_- -.- Preface by Sean MacBride, ,S. C. Before accepting the invitation to write the preface to this book' I had some hesitations. Many different considerations were involved. Having weighed these carefully, I decided that it was my duty to write this preface. The sense of duty that impelled me to write this preface can be suMi- vided under hve different headings. First, my deep afTection for, and tremendous admiration of' the United States and its people. I came to the conclusion that all the values that made me admire the American people were being eroded by the covert oper- ations of the CIA and kindred secret bodies. In the course of their history, the American people have usually responded generously'and spontaneous- ly to the calls of those who, throughout history, have been driven from their own country by persecution, famine, or poverty. Millions of my own countrymen, driven from their own shores by famine and persecution, sought and found a new life and freedom in the United States. The words engraved on the Statue of Liberty at the entrance to New York harbor have a very real and dramatic meaning to many segments of the population of the United States; Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! The world looked to the United States as the golden gate where the lamp of liberty was shining. [Sean MacBride is the recipient ofthe Nobel (1974) and Lenin (1977) Peace awards, and ofthe American Medal ofJustice (197E). Hc was an active participant in the lrish Revolution since his early youth, and served both as Foreign Minister of Ireland and as Representativ€ of Ire- land to the United Nations. He subsequently served as U.N. Commis- sioner for Namibia, and is President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva.]