LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 12, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

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Central Intelligence Agency
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Thank you very much for your letter and the "communique" of the
"Red Guerrilla Resistance." The rise in terrorism around the world
is very disturbing, and when it occurs in our own backyard like this
event, it is particularly worrying.
I intend to forward the copy of the communique that you sent me
to the FBI just to make sure that they have received it and suggest
that you might want to get in touch with them directly with regard to
your rationale indicating that the SWAPO office in New York City was
the originator.
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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October 1, 1984
Honorable William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
I am forwarding with this letter a "communique" of September 26
of the "Red Guerrilla Resistance" for your information and appropriate
action.
You will note that this organization takes credit for the
bombing of the South African Consulate in New York City on September 25.
In addition and of importance, the communique calls for an escalation of
such activity in the United States. This threat is obviously a clear
and present danger to those supporting the Reagan Administration's
foreign policy under First Amendment rights, which this firm does as
U. S. counsel for the Government of SWA/Namibia.
STAT
It is our belief, after a very careful reading of the communique,
that it originates with the SWAPO office in New York City. We have come
to this conclusion after noting that three organizations are represented
in the message conveyed. They are: The ANC, PAC and SWAPO. Since the
note extends "our full support" to the ANC and the PAC in paragraph 2,
it would follow that SWAPO eliminates itself and is, therefore, the
originator of this message.
It is a sad commentary that this organization is able to
operate in the United States, under the protection of our Constitution
and laws, and with financial assistance of the U. N., including
U. S. tax dollars.
I hope that this will be of assistance to you in identifyirig,,--
those involved in the bombing and the transmittal of this communique.
MHS/mc
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RESISTANCE,
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COMMUNIQUE September 26, 19814
We bombed the South African consulate in New York City to expose and
stop part of the workings of the fascist South African government in this
-country.
We act in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of African people
fighting in Sebokeng, Sharpeville, Soweto, and Evaton for education, decent
housing, trade, union rights, and an end to the degradation of apartheid laws.
They:`go into the streets to fight white-settler colonialism knowing that
thousands have been murdered by the police over the past twenty years, but
drawing courage rather than fear from the memory of Steven Biko and the
martyrs of Sharpeville and Soweto. The cries of IZWE LETHU and AMANDLA
make it clear that the destiny of Azania/South Africa lies in national
liberation and national independence.
We extend our full support to the African National Congress (ANC)
and the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), the organizations leading
the struggle for national liberation. For years they have labored under
the most repressive conditions to organize the masses, initiate the armed
struggle, and internationally isolate the South African regime.
Now Botha and Reagan are coordinating efforts to strengthen the South
African government by furthering its military control of Southern Africa,
heightening internal repression, and breaking through its international
isolation to bring it directly into the inner circle of imperialist allies.
That is the purpose of "constructive engagement."
The first stage was the military, economic and political destabiliza-
tion of Angola, Mozambique, and Lesotho,: Mosambtque and.Angola.were
"convinced to sign reaction ary=?`aoo'ords* t it: undermine ` ai~pporb?dlo =tl a true
representatives of the African people in the region: the ANC, the PAC, and
the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia.. With these
in hand, Botha took off for a tour of the most reactionary leaders of Europe:
Thatcher, Kohl, and the Pope. The real situation is that South Africa never
totally withdrew from Angola, over 100,000 troops remain in Namibia, and
South Africa just staged the most massive war games ever held by their
military.
Stage 2 of the imperialist strategy is the new constitution and
parliament. It was never a serious effort at reform or cooptatation of the
Indian and so-called "colored" masses-the Afrikaners themselves knew it
would be overwhelmingly rejected. It was only a very small fig leaf designed
for international, not internal, consumption; it will likely be used to
justify a high-level trip by Botha or his representative to the U.S. after
the U.S. elections. To insure that the masses knew that nothing had changed,
Botha arrested mass leaders, murdered at least 50 African people in the
streets in the space of three weeks and banned.all meetings. critical of
the government. 3.
It was this entire system and the strategy of constructive engagement
that was rejected: by the African masses. The uprising over the ,,past. past. month
should _ send a clear, message to -progressive, countries :-' and ` people around :the
world: nothing has changed and the need to isolate and attack the white
settler regime has only grown.
-Our attack tonight is in response to this call for heightened
solidarity. But a much more massive, militant, and more consistent response
must come from our movement. Historically, this has only come from the Black
community-from the Garvey movement of the 20s, to Malcolm X's trips to
Africa in the 1960's, to the massive African Liberation Day demonstrations
of the late 60's and 70's, to the Black Liberation Army's attack on the
sponsors of the South African rugby tour in 1981. There has been no commen-
surate response from the progressive white community. This failure is
rooted, at least in part, in the racism and white supremacy of this country
which shapes the consciousness with which white people respond to the
struggles of African people everywhere.
One form this racism takes is to regard South Africa as unique--a throw-
back to slavery. It's not, it is the modern crystallization of hundreds of
years of capitalist exploitation and white (European) world supremacy.
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 The thbi ti poL LaaQRiro ie wio /ai rican people may naveOaeon2completed over
a hundred years ago, but the people's lives and country's resources are
.distorted to the very modern purpose of capitalist profit and white privilege.
And the profit does not just remain in South Africa-it fills the coffers in
London and Now York as well. The "homelands" and African townships contain
millions and millions of Africans who are not allowed to work so that wages
remain low in the mines and factories, while at the same time all the fertile
land remains in the hands of white-owned, large scale commercial agriculture.
Poverty and starvation are planned into the South African economy and only
the victory of African liberation will be able to transform its enormous
natural wealth and productive capacity into docent living conditions for
the masses of people. A free Azania/South Africa can be integrated into a
Pan-African strategy for development that will break the stranglehold the
imperialist system has had on the continent for a hundred years. The U.S.
ruling class opposes such a future: the current situation is in its economic,
military, and political interest. Different administrations may have
different tactics, but there is always one goals keep South Africa and all
of Africa as an integral and profitable part-of the imperialist system.
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Aro.hor reason that our movement has not responded as it should to the
struggle in Azania/South Africa is that it forces us to look closely at
our own society-also the modern product of white settler colonialism and
capitalist development. It has a somewhat different development than South
Africa, but it too contains both oppressed nations and an oppressor nation.
The land was taken from Native Americans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans and
much of the industrial and agricultural wealth is based on the labor of
Black people brought here as slaves from Africa. While this country is
different from South Africa in that there are white working class people
here who are exploited by capital, both societies have a system of white
supremacy that affects everyone. The U.S. Ailing class tries to guarantee
itself enormous wealth, power, and privilege by giving the masses of white
people here a little of each. In return, they expect class collaboration
rather than class struggle, white supremacy and national chauvinisk rather
than proletarian internationalism, support for war and repression rather
than struggle for peace and justice* Too often it has worked, and the
ruling class successfully forges a mass base of support for repression of
the"..-struggles for human rights and self-determination of oppressed peoples
here-and abroad. That consensus needs to be smashed if white people here
are to share fully with working people around the world in the struggle to
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We support the Many people and orgarizations wh
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. solidarity with the people of Azania/South Africa over the years. It is
ime to escalate the struggle for divestiture by the universities,
minioipalities, unions, and corporations.: it is time to increase material
lid to the national liberation movements. It is time for all of us to
follow the lead of the comrades of the United Freedom Front, who have made
_t clear aver-the past 2 years that it won't be "business as usual" for
he corporations and banks that profit from the white settler regime in
south Africa. It is time that we all take on building a revolutionary
?esistance movement that can strike real blows against a common enemy and
'ecome an internal front in the world struggle to defeat imperialism and
chite supremacy.
VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE OF AZANIA/SOUTH AFRICAS VICTORY TO SWAPOI
VICTORY TO AFRICAN LIBERATION WORLDWIDES
DOWN WITH WHITE SETTLER COLONIALISM&
DEFEAT U.S. IMPERIALI3ME
REE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PRISONERS OF WAR - ROBBER ISLAND TO MARION&
RU1TT.n A REVOLUTIONAJ
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