NOKONOMO DELPHINE KAVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303130002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 24, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UPI
24 March 1982
Two black South Africans told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday the
anti-Pretoria African National Congra}s is ccnimunist-controlled and dir-ctr_d
from, the Soviet Union and East Germany through Angola.
Nokonomo Delphine Kave, 21, and Ephraim Nfalapitsa, 28, told the Senate
security and terrorism subcommittee they are former ANC me37bers wo defected
fro: that organization.
Subcommittee chairman Sen. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., said the two had agreed
testify under oath even though ''they are not only outcasts but also marked for
assassination."
They were guarded by two security agents sitting nearby in the hearing room
and those attending the hearing had to go through airport-style metal detectors
before they could enter the room.
Both presented lengthy and at times fractured written accounts filled with
names and places ranging from South Africa to Moscow and Berlin. Most of the
names were African names and in some cases only the last names were given.
But the gist of their testimonies, as presented to the committees, is that
both -- after lengthy travels and contacts which took Miss Kave from South
Africa to Angola and Tanzania and eventually to Moscow, and Mfalapit sa from
South Africa to Angola and eventually East Germany - became disenchantd with
ANC and left the South Africa -based organization.
Miss Kave arrived in the United States last November via Canada and said that
at one point in her travels she was told by a man she said was the Angolan
ambassador to Botswana that the Palestine Liberation Organization was allegedly
planning to assassinate President Reagan while attending the Ottawa summit
last summer.
She gave no further details about that beyond saying that she reported that
plan to Canadian authorities when she arrived in Canada.
She said that after leaving South Africa she went to Tanzania from where
she was sent to Moscow to study at the Lumumba University. But instead, she
said, she was questioned and allegedly threatened by KGB agents who said they
were told by ANC that she was a CIA agent.
Hfalapitsa said he was sent from Angola to a camp in East Germany where he
was trained in the use of weapons and military tactics by East German army
personnel and then sent back to Angola.
He said he eventually made his way back to South Africa and from there to
Botswana, where he surrendered to authorities last September.
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