HOW TO BECOME A KILLER IN TEN SIMPLE LESSONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102770001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 8, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
JUNE 8, 1964
e
e 7:IN 1
By Dontlis .Lee Boyle
Associated Press
onannesburg,
? South Africa,
"You want to survive?
then be prepared to kill.",
That is the maxim of one
of South Africa's strangest!
schools. It teaches a:dozen
variations in the art of?
killing.
?The Combat Survival
School, as it is called, ad-
vertises regularly in the?Eng-
lish-language press. For a fee
of $16.80 students receive a
ten-lesson course.
A rambling single-story
a few miles from down-
town Johannesburg. houses
the students and instructors.
Neighbors are getting used ,
to the echo of 'revolver shots1
? and ear-splitting battle' cries.1
QUALIFICATIONS ? !
The principal is a man well
- versed in the art of survival.
Australian-born Davo David- ,
son, 60, is a former Mau Mau .
fighter who says he -killed
? many terrorists during the
*Kenya -uprising. He quit
Kenya eight months ago
when Mau Mau leader Jomo'
. Kenyatta attained political'
power. Davidson says he
'served as a Federal agent in
.the United States in 1920-23.,
, "Everyone? men, women.
sand youths?should be able.
Tk.) protect themselves and.
' their families, whether thei
threat comes from whites or,
? blacks," he said. ?
. "If you possess a.- pistol,
:knife, stick or even umbrella,?i
learn to use it to its best_i
'advantage. ii you are caughtl
with nothing, learn to use,,
,t your hands which ean, kill as
efficiently as a pistol."
"
Among recent students. are
a mother and daughter. team
who can pump six bullets into
Hier
L.iffISSO
a 3-inch eii-ele representing-a-
man's heart on a man-sized.
target.
By Means of a simplified
Chinese form of judo called
tode, mother and daughter
can floor, a 140-pound roan
with ease, without ruffling
their hair.
Students at the school: in-
clude housewives, clerk s,
typists and government em-
ployees.
A condition of acceptance
is that students roust sign a
form confirming that he or
she is "a member of the
European c ommunit y
(white): not a member of any
anti-South African or pro"-
,Connounist group."
1,;,N KOLLMENT
The current first course,'
totals 25 students. More are
being enrolled. ?
Davidson's school differs
from the commoner weekly.
"pistol parties" held by tho
sands of South African m
; and women throughout tl
;country. At these, they oft
take coffee and sandwich
Continued.
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.4. P. Wirephoto
Davidson (right), who fought the Mau Mau in Kenya, approved of a mother-
and-daughter team's killer technique
between spells of shooting Many of South Africa's or-
practice.
Davidson's students are
trained to expect the unex-
pected from the inOment
? .2hooling begins. A walk to
? the toilet, bathroom, chang-
: log room or lounge is a test
? of alertness and quick firing.
Man-size targets may appear
!as students prepare to wash
their hands. The man well
trained in survival will fire
I three shots in a few seconds.
Lead bullets are replaced
by wax imitations but the
roar and :kick of the pistol
are real and the wax bullets
e it etr at ?he thick card-
. , board targets, allowing stu-
dents to study the accuracy
-, of- their marksmanship.
F
4. P. Tr irophoto
Teacher Dave Davidson gave two students' a lesson
in the fast draw
dinary schools have intro-
duced anti-sabotage training.
unarmed combat and pistol ,
shooting for students. Civil-
ian home guard units train in
most major cities.
ARMS ,
It iS .officially estimated
that about half of South
Africa's 3 million whites
possess guns. Tear gas shells.
are available to whites over
18 years of age. ?
Faced with a growing Afri-
can nationalist movement
near its borders and the pos-
sible infiltration of subver-
sive elements seeking to over-
throw this country's govern-
ment, many South 'African
whites are becoming increas-
ingly security-minded.
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