THE CIA IN AFRICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400080016-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
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Ithe last few months millions of
words have been written about CIA
activities in the U.S.A., but not a line
about CIA activities in Africa. Yet it
is in Africa that CIA actions have been
most devastating.
The CIA as an arm of American
foreign policy working in conjunction
with British Intelligence has made
shambles of African independence.
Today there is not a single African
leader with any sense of security left
except those who have completely
bowed to their former colonial masters
and have sold out their freedom and
their people lock, stock and barrel.
Independent-minded African lead-
ers know that every minute outside
forces are at work within their country
working for their downfall or to under-
mine their standing with their people
-and they know full well that the con-
test is an unequal one and any day
they may fall.
Power Structure
To understand all this you must un-
derstand how the Western "power
structu,,. works. American top level
governmental officials-the President,
the Vice President, Secretary of State,
Head of African Section of the State
Department, all make wonderful
speeches about freedom, democracy,
justice, equality, helping the under-
privileged, God and all that junk in
Africa. While under their direction'
and with their knowledge, forces are
at work in Africa completely destroy-
ing democracy, preventing justice and
equality to the Africans, making the
underprivileged more underprivileged,
the poor poorer and caring less about
God thar the wind it takes to mention
his name.
American officials, businessmen,
and church people are the greatest
speech makers, phrase makers and
cliche inventors on the face of the
earth, while at the same time control-
ling, directing and manipulating a
devilish mechanism that denies and
,
takes away from the Africans with the can press, the American businessman
other hand every right, that the offi- and the American church forces. They
cials, businessmen d chur~ people all scrraim to the hig that-
proffer with t,,l~ai'~I$tzed - Approv~Vrs)'~,@ rp
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Look at Africa today-independence
and freedom in Africa is in shambles
and the American CIA is its principal
,!vehicle of devastation. Ten military
coups in Africa in the last few years.
Everything honest and sincere that
African leaders have built to better
themselves and their fellowmen has
been destroyed.
The Organization of African Unity
(OAU) is dead. Dedicated African
leaders, nearly all of them, have been
destroyed and the few who have sur-
vived are only hanging on by the skin
of their teeth and others are still fal-
ling now one at a time and the CIA is
the principal architect of their down-
fall.
If you have any idea that these mili-
tary coups are not the handiwork of
a "central masterminded group" you
are simply uninformed on the "facts of
life" in Africa. No African leader has
a scintilla of doubt about it. Those that
have survived have mostly simply
"bowed to the inevitable."
Why ~ was Dean Rusk, American
Secretary of State, after the fall of
Nkrumah, able to predict so accurately
that other African governments would
fall? I'll tell you why, because he con-
trols the greatest weapon for the de-
struction of African governments ever
invented, the American CIA, which
works hand in hand with British In-
telligence. And after the overthrows
Rusk calmly remarks "the climate for
our investments is better there now."
Central Goal
And what is the central goal of all
this? It is the continued ownership
and control of the fantastic mineral,
agricultural and natural resources
wealth of that unhappy continent and
the maintenance of an African popu-
lation not manufacturing their own
goods but compelled to buy them
from American and British manufact-
urers.
Joining in this ""rape of Africa" is
the American government
the Ameri-
every member of the government, the
American press, every American busi-
nessman and every American church-
man is not a participant in this dia-
bolical scheme, but it is true of the
"'controlling forces" in all these agen-
cies.
Some Joke I
Excellent examples of American
character in action in Asia and Africa
are demonstrated by Bob Hope and
Cardinal Spellman. Bob Hope, an
English-born American movie idol,
goes to Vietnam and says the napalm
bombing, military devastation of in-
nocent Vietnamese men, women and
children is the "greatest slum clear-
ance of the century" and Americans
applaud, scream and shout their ap-
proval.
Cardinal Spellman, who some New
Yorkers say is the most powerful poli-
tical figure in New York, goes every
year to Vietnam, and of all times at
Christmas, and demands more killing
of the Vietnamese people and an
American military victory. These two
are staunch supporters of CIA policies
and Americans applaud them both.
The voice of the dissenters is simply '
ineffective. Look at South Africa,
South West Africa, Angola, Mozam-
bique and Southern Rhodesia I
The church forces are the leaders
in supporting what is going. on in all
these areas. The businessmen are fur-
nishing millions of dollars to maintain
what goes on there.
The U.S. Government pronounces
out of one side of its mouth sweet
speeches and cliches, while at the same
time pours in millions of dollars in
financial aid, and millions of dollars in
military aid, making these areas the
strongest economic and military forces
in all of Africa, while pauperising the
rest of Africa.
The Africans in South Africa and all
the areas it touches are slaughtered at
will and nobody does anything about
it. If an African leader attempts to do
anything about it, he soon finds him-
self dead or a refugee from his home