CIA ACTIVITIES IN AFRICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100330009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 5, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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24 ju!5- 1966, stated that e"e of the defendalits Itt a,
X Mustafa Amin who had" given,secret.information to,, the US), and
ourt trial in Brazzaville, Congo, revealed that Barry BELLOW, attache
f the US Embassy in Brazzaville, had been engaged in the collection
f intelligence information of a political, economic, and military
ature and had maintained contacts with agents who spread anti-
overnment literature. According to the article, US intelligence
ctivities in that part of Africa consisted mainly in conducting
ubversive'slander campaigns for the purpose of stirring up internal
isturbances. The article referred to the attempted government coup,,"
n August 1964, which had reportedly been prepared with the help of
he-US Central Intelligence Agency.
Several military coups which occurred in Africa during the past
ew months were reportedly engineered by the CIA. In the Congo
Kinshasa), paid agents of the CIA were said to have taken part in
ilitary operations against partisans. CIA operations were re-
ortedly discovered in the UAR (the article referred to the arrest .,.
yr~ W ? nirM MU avunzrieai .,
An article "CIA Has No Inhibitions," authored by B. PILYATSKIY