WHERE REDS AND REBELS LEARN SABOTEUR'S ART

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
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• Publication Date: March 30, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000401700001-5
NATIONAL OBSERVER
MAR 3 0 1964
Schools of Violence
Where Reds and ebels Learn Saboteur's Art
4:0 John Baker White, who wrote this
account of how saboteurs are schooled
around the world, is a former British in-
telligence officer and member of Parlia-
ment who now writes on international
affairs. He is the author of Red Russia
Arms and The Red Network. His article
appears by speci al arrangement with
Atlas magazine, and firbt, was printed in
the Kenya Weekly News of Nakuru,
Kenya.
THE man who goes by the name of
Ernst Moller?a very different one
from that given him at his christen-
ing?is a new product of world politics.
A tank gunner in the Africa Korps, a
Foreign Legionnaire, a mercenary in the
Congo, now he occupies a comfortable
bungalow in Indonesia. Though getting
old for jungle fighting and-unable to speak
Indonesian, his French is quite good
enough to make him a first-class in-.
structor for Chinese partisans recruited
in Hanoi and Saigon.
Ernst Moller has become a statelesS
man, but of a type much in demand these
days. When the Congo opera-
tion came to an end he could
have stayed on to instruct the)
Angolans who had crossed the
border to be trained and
armed to attack the Portu-
guese settlers in Angola. But
he knew that most of nis fellow teach-P
ers were Communists, and Ernst did not
like them. The same reason led him to
refuse a job in Cuba. He nearly went to
Ghana, but decided on Indonesia because
he likes the Chinese girls.
Everywhere governments are supply-
ing arms, and military and political in-
struction, to factions bent on overthrow-
ing other governments. The world has not
known such an extensive movement of In-
structors and materiel since World War IL ?
The Egyptian army instructors Who
trained keyt lational?Liberation Front
(FLN) fighters for the War lnAlIerla
are now handling agents for infiltration
Into Middle Eastern countries, notably
Saudi Arabia. Some have been captured
by the Moroccan forces in the border fight-
ing with Algeria.
Perfecting New Demolition Methods ?
In a house near the Auberge des Pyra-.
mides, on the Cairo-Mena road, a team of
experts, including Germans and two Al-
gerians formerly in the FLN "under-
ground" in Zurich, are perfecting new
types of demolition charges and new
methods of concealing them, for use by
agents. ?
There are at least five schools of parti-
san warfare in the Congo along the fron-
tier of Portuguese Angola, and it is diffi-
cult to quarrel with the Portuguese gov-
ernment's estimate that at least 6,000
training.
men and women are under
The instructors in the schools near Mat
Munene, Manteka, and Kombo are of vari-
ous nationalities?Congolese, some Czechs,
former German members of the French
Foreign Legion, two Swiss, and at least
four Russians?who, like the Czechs, are
probably regular officers of their own
armies.
The political instruetors, all Commu-
nists, are from Portugal, Ghana, and
Guinea. Arms and ammunition are Rus-
sian, Czech, and an assorted collection left
over from the Congo battles. The Portu-
guese charge that Russian and Polish
trawlers have landed arms in Angola by
night.
Civil War, and has Chinese, Russian,
Czech, Spanish, and Guinean instructors.
The trained partisans are allocated to
the Vanguard of National Action (VAN),
the Popular Latin American Movement
(MPAL), and the Front of National Libera-
tion (FALN). Their targets are the gov-
? ernments of Guatemala, Panama, Vene-.
zuela, Peru, and Paraguay. ?
Filtering Out From Africa
Under training at the moment are
' several thousand Africans, who arrived
? in Soviet ships. Coming from
the Congo, Angola, Ghana,
Al-
geria, Senegal, and Kenya, 14:7 747,7%,
the Sudan, Guinea, Mall, Al-
they are under the direction ?,,..eZ),
? of the Haitian Communist
leader Rene Depreste. They
are being trained for a dual role, work in
Africa and infiltration into Haiti. Some of
them are already with the Algerian forces
In the Morocco border fighting.
Near Katende there is a school for
saboteurs who cross the Congo frontier
Into Northern Rhodesia. It is reported that
members of the Bakonde tribe are being
given military training in Tanganyika for
partisan warfare in the Portuguese state
of Mozambique.
? Cuba is probably training more parti-
? sans and saboteurs than any other country.
They are destined for almost every Latin
American nation, and for African states'
Th
as well. e Cuban organization, Revolu-
, tionary Commandos_for_LatinA
(MAL) is under the command of Gen.
Alberto Bayo, a veteran of the Spanish
Dotted round the Caribbean in the
countries most opposed to the Castro re-
gime?but no longer in secluded villas
around Miami?are a number of training
centers for anti-Castro partisans. The U.S. ?
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), having
burned its fingers badly in the abortive
Bay of Pigs landing, would regard it as ?
, pure coincidence that most of their arms
are American and some of their Instruc-
tors U.S. citizens.
What is the value of the partisan in the
political and ideological struggle between
one state and another? The answer lies
in a lesson that was learned by the Ger-
mans in the last war, by the French in
Algeria, and is now being learned by the
British in Borneo and the Portuguese -in
"Angola. ?
It is that, operating in enclosed coun-
try, a small, highly trained force, armed
With automatic weapons, light mortars,
and light antitank guns, can hold down
? a force of regular troops 10 times its size., '
Fighting partisans is about the Most waste-
? ful occupation in which 'a state can engage.?.
' --JOHN BAKER \
'41?MON*0
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