TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT VIEWS ON MURDER OF EDUARDO MONDLANE

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06780737
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01467
• Publication Date: February 4, 1969

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1. AT A MEETING BETWEEN MINISTER OF STATE IN THE TANZANIAN
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, FRANCIS MPONJI, PRINCIPAL
SECRETARY IN THE SAME OFFICE, BERNARD MULOKOZI, POLICE
INSPECTOR GENERAL SHAIDI AND DIRECTOR OY INTELLIGENCE MALES
r,ZENA) rHE FOLLOWING CONCLUSIONS WERE REACHED ABOUT THE 3
rEBRUARY 1969 MURDER OF MOZAMBIQUE LIBERATION FRONT (FRELIMO,
LEADER EDUARDO MONDLANE. THE ASSASSIN WAS SOMEONE WHO VAS
VERY FAMILIAR WITH mopulass MOVEMENTS, PROBABLY SOMEONE
WITHIN FRELIMO. MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDIYG THE TANZANIAN GOVERISMr,
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2. THE TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT HAD WARNED MONDLANE SEVERAL TIME
NOT TO ASSOCIATE WITH BETTY KING, THE AMERICAN IN WHOSE HOT.SE HE
WAS KILLED.
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"ESCAPE" FROM TANZANIA: THIS SOUNDS PECULIAR,
MONDLANE RETURNED FROM A TRIP OUTSIDE TANZANIA AS RECENTLY
29 JANUARY.)
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