MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00865A001400280001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 29, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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South Asia
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Rhodesia: Nationalist Preparations for
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Rhodesia
Nationalist Preparations for Insurgency
Rival leaders of Rhodesia's African National
Council recently threatened to resume full-scale
guerrilla warfare if Prime Minister Ian Smith does
not agree by October to a constitutional conference
held outside Rhodesia.
In Rhodesia's southeastern Victoria province,
which borders on Mozambique, four local Council officials
have been arrested for recruiting African students as
guerrillas. Last week Rhodesian authorities imposed
a curfew along Rhodesia's eastern border with
Mozambique in an attempt to halt the increasing flow
of recruits across the border.
The intensified recruiting efforts also reflect
factional competition for control of the Council's
liberation army, a force that is unified in name
only. In Zambia, for example, the Zimbabwe African
National Union and the Zimbabwe African People's Union
maintain separate military bases, despite President
Kaunda's efforts since March to suppress factionalism
in the Council.
The militant National Union faction, responsible
for most of the guerrilla units active in northeast
Rhodesia since late 1972, commands the largest and
most effective insurgent force. The comparatively
moderate People's Union, which has fielded few
guerrillas since 1970, is building up its forces
to challenge the military predominance of its rival.
The arrival of recruits in Botswana from Rhodesia's
northwestern provinces--where the People's Union draws
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most of its strength--indicates that the People's
Union is pushing hard to catch up with its rival.
The recruiting activity in Victoria Province,
on the other hand, seems likely to reinforce the
National Union, most of whose recruits go directly
to Mozambique through infiltration routes controlled
by the National Union.
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