THE CIA IN AFRICA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700330013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 1, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

May, 196
FCalAB3B ;... CRG~I Howard reports .
Africa and the World
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from New York
TN the as sew months millions of Look at Africa today-independence
1 words have been written about CIA and freedom in Africa is in shambles
activities in the U.S.A., but not a line and the American CIA is its principal
about CIA activities in Africa. Yet it 'vehicle of devastation. Ten military
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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
-and they know full well that the con-
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
test is an unequal one and any day
they may fall.
proffer with the other. it isn't so. Well it Its so. Of course The U.S.A. is spending 2? billion
takes away from the Africans with the can press, thegAmeri an businessman an t If African i ng about t, he on finds s him-
other to do
hand every right, that the offi- and the American church forces. They self dead or aurefugee from his home-
cials, businessmen and church people all will scream to the high heavens that land
cliche inventors on the face of the from American na British manuLhe fact- re The AfAlrica.
ricans in South Africa and all
earth, while at the same time control- urers. the areas it touches are slaughtered at
ling, directing and manipulating a Joining in this "rape of Africa" is will and nobody does anything about'
devilish mechanism that denies and the American ow t th
can popu- s rongest economic and military forces
and church people are the greatest lation not manufacturing their own in all of Africa, while pauperising the
speech makers, phrase makers and goods but com 11 d t b
ppy n men an tart' aid, making these areas the
American officials, businessmen, the maintenance of an A'fri t
r
a resources financial aid, and millions of dollars in
his name. wealth of that unha co t' J. d 'Z'
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o ro o t e fantastic mmera , time pours in millions of dollars in
God than. the wind it takes to mention agricultural and natu
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6- o a out 01 one side 01 Its mouth sweet
underprivileged more underprivileged, this? It is the continued ownership speeches and cliches, while at the same
the poor poorer and caring less about and
t 1 f h
g , s ar Wishing millions of dollars to maintain
at work in Africa completely destroy- what goes on there.
ing democracy, preventing justice and central Coal The U.S. Government pronounces
equality to the Africans, making the And what is the central 1 f 11
ca
A e un er t err direction our investments is better there now." these areas. The businessmen are fur-
and with their knowled a force
e igence. And after the overthrows a church forces are the leaders
he church forces are the leaders
privileged, God and all that junk in Rusk calmly remarks "the climate for in supporting what is going. on in all
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Department, all make wonderful Wean governments ever c iv e. ook at South Africa,
invented, the American CIA, which South West Africa, Angola, Mozam-
speeches about freedom, democracy, works hand in hand with British In- bique and Southern Rhodesia l
justice, equality, helping the under- t Il'
w_, ..... , trots me greatest weapon for the de- 1 he voice of the dissenters is sim 1
Head of African Section of the State struction
f A;.4 ineffe t' L y
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me ary of State after the fall of o e Vietnamese people and an how t ructure" works. American to"power
level hk+umiah, able-to predict so accurately American military victory. These two.
L
y ~ was can Rusk, American mas, and demands more killing
Dean Rusk, American Lmas, and demands more killing
To understand all this you must un- S t f
Everything honest and sincere that
African leaders have built to better
themselves and their fellowmen has
been r1..+,_ d
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.
J, Some Joke l
The Organization of African Unity
(OAU) is dead. Dedicated African Excellent examples of American
leaders, nearly all of them, have been character in action in Asia and Africa
destroyed and the few who have sur- are demonstrated by Bob Hope and
vived are only hanging on by the skin Cardinal Spellman
Bob Ho
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an /~
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p
,
of their teeth and others are still fal- English-born American movie idol,
ling now one at a time and the CIA is goes to Vietnam and says the napalm
the principal architect of their down- bombing, military devastation of in-
fall. nocent Vietnamese men, women and ?
If you have any idea that these mili- children is the "greatest slum clear-
tary coups are not the handiwork of ance of the century" and Americans
a-"central masterminded group" you applaud, scream and shout their ap-
life" in Africa. No African leader has Cardinal Spellman, who some New
a scintilla of doubt about it. Those that Yorkers say is the most powerful poli-.
have survived have mostly simply
tical figure in New York
goes eve
.
,
ry
Power Structure "bowed to the inevitable." year to Vietnam, and of all times at
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