EXPOSE US SPONSORED S. AFRICAN INVASION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605830004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 20, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AMSTERDAM NEWS (NY)
20 NOVEMBER 1982
Expose US sponsored
S. African invasion
Cuban exiles trained by America's enjoyed close liaison with Boss BOSS." the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are Bureau of State Security. And with
now purportedly planning to ass st South back-up from Stephen Talbot's "The CIA;
African government forces in action in and BOSS: Thick as Thieves." Schaapi
Namibia and Angola. went on; -
testimony last week before the UN
General Assembly's Special Political
Committee by William H. Schaap, a New
York and Washington lawyer who is staff
counsel for the Center for Constitutional
Rights in Manhattan.
Schaap, who has devoted years to
investigating and writing about CIA
operations in southern Africa, further
contended "that the.apartheid regime in
South Africa - including its unlawful
occupation in Namibia - has been
encouraged and supported by the United
States intgelligence complex for decades.
"Regardless of the momentary state of
forma', relations between the two
governments." Schaap asserted. "their
intelligence services have never ceased
.the closest cooperation."
Schaap told the General Assembly panel
that the CIA has also assisted in
commando raids into Zimbabwe and
Mozambique, occurrences which
reputedly led to the expulsion of several
CIA officers from Mozambique last year.
Schaap, buttressing his testimony with
reference to the research findings of other
investigators, alleged that the CIA has
been seeking for 20 years to destroy the
African National Congress (A.NC) or
render it ineffective. He said the effort has
gained special importance because the
CIA feels "the ANC is now the most
popular Black movement among South
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Schaap said his sources had disclosed Besides working with South Africa
the CIA as warning that the growing ; Space Research Corporation. CIA agents
influence of the ANC has "increasingly "on occasion deliver the arms directly to
serious implications for U.S. interests -in . the South African forces," as admitted by
the.regionand internati6nally." South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha
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Black majority, but with the rights of its
multinational corporations," and urged
the mobilization of world wide opinion to
force a change in American policy.
Schaa
intelligence officials meet regularly, and
as one journalist has noted. there is
between them 'shared racism and political
assumptions."'
The CIA has planted "more than three
dozen deep cover operatives in South
Africa," according to reports by South
African publications. And many CIA
agents work out of the U.S. Embassy in
Pretoria.
"In fact," Schaap whent on. "for more
than five years my colleagues and I
exposed many of these operations in the
pages of the Dirty Work books and the
Cover Action Information Bulletin. until.
only this year. a federal statute here in the
United States purported to make such
revelations a crime..
As a cover up. American and South
African operatives now and then stage
public disagreements as in the case of the
1979 "spy plane" incident. That plane had
been "photographing intelligence targets
in Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique,
Zambia and Botswana and turning those
photographs over the the South African
intelligence service."
The most serious "sustained CIA
operation to assist South African
apartheid regime has been the ongoing
program to circumvent the U.S. and U.N.
arms embargoes against South Africa,"
Schaap stated. In March this year. the
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activities consequent upon the Reagan
Administration policy of embracing South
Africa in so-called "constructive
engagement." This has been marked by
exchange of high-level military and
in furthering his allegations, p
quoted from former CIA Africa specialist intelligence visits; joint military
John Stockwell's book. "In Search of operations; "and even the barba`r'k
Enemies": "the CIA has traditionally , transactions as the recent sale by a U.S.;
sympathized with South Africa and company to South Africa of 2.500 electric
shock batons," he said.
Schaap also noted that U.S. labor has
provided the CIA with a cover since the
late 1940's. Their methods were detailed
by former CIA officer Philip Agee in his
1975 book, "Inside the Company." Z
This connection led to the unpleasant
reception by an AFL-CIO delegation to
South Africa this September. Plans for a c
program to be run by J.he African
American Labor Center were coolly
received by the Blacks because "the
person suggested to lead the program has
also been accused of being a CIA agent by
former associates and by former CIA and i
BOSS agents:" besides accustations that
the AALC had been used by theClA.
The CIA has aided South Africa to
maintain its hold on Namibia: and while
the U.S. professes to support Namibian
independence and to hate apartheid. its
actions prove the contrary.
It founded and funded Holden Robeto's
FNLA and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA in
their so-called civil war with the MPLA.
And despite the Clark Amandement
barring clandestine operations in Angola,,
CIA still aids UNITA. -
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