CIA ATTACKS ON MOZAMBIQUE REVEALED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400160015-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 19, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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Africa News
A respected. British' journal ihat?has-.
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commissioned by Forum World Features,--: Propaganda against th`e Moiambican
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, published articles attacking the present r'=-.` ',a CIA-funded-news service:) ; k= government is also broadcast by the i
? ,Mozambique government has been iden
tified as linked to fhe CIA:
prestigious Economist.has'.been one of
,,'The. Foreign Intelligence Report last' ".Voice of. Free Africa," located ip,;.l
'Presidential Palace, and the evacuation of 1; radio operation might' be linked to the-.
the :whole 'government to Inhaca Island CIA through the "Organization -of Free
-during the short-lived mutiny of several Africa," which; is headquartered in.
:campaign that relies exclusively on false hundred soldiers in December 1475 ' Switzerland y,
statements or on gross distortions of the > C' "-These. stories are labelled by on-the-spot Mozambique's:- communique .reports
truth."- Sobservers as pure, invention a ~.'. a recent escalation the' smear
h_''The Report's4editor,.Robert Moss, is Yi;?Other rumors that Mozambique says-. ;campaign: It says the propaganda effort
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the author of
Chiles. Marxist. xperl-._t are part of the campaign were allegations . ,- 'may be laying the groundwork for. new;
merit, '?- which the Manchester Guardian" last year that the country: was suffering . r< moves to provoke a--wider,-conventional
.::revealed. last'month was;commnissioned ;?,'.;from:revolts in the Cabo Delgado and :war in the area, providing a justification'~?
. by aCIA-funded company. (The book was Nampula provinces, and that it had called'.; far attach on Mozambique
uZcu py tl,C ti_uucau ,junta in its, propa-?>r?;>x, ln? ovuv t-uoan? sotuiers Qisguisea as ;_ _? ., ttllocesian raids into Mozambican ter
ritory,* as' well as forays into. EtotswaV na
`.leave .brought both diplomatic responses,
and new military preparations on the part.
of the frontline states..
Mozambique predict. in the December
` - communique tbat_?the attacks will 'In--
-C-crease, crease, and it suggests that Rhodesia
:. might send black mercenaries disguised
as Mozambican soldiers to launch aa..
:;open attack on South Africa through:
.%; southern Mozambique.:
.Mozambique fears that a wider conflict
resulting from this and other incidents
y_.intervention. on the side. of the white';
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regimes.
..'-,.. A similar. scenario was proposed by
Sean McBride,. the UN Commissioner for
Namibia. McBride said.that Rhodesin"c -
- new air bases might : be used for
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