SCHOOLS OF VIOLENCE WHERE REDS AND REBELS LEARN SABOTEUR'S ART

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000302630004-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 3, 2014
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 30, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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/ MAR 3 0 1964
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Schools of Violence
Where Reds and ebeis Learn Saboteur's Art
0 John Baker White, who wrote this
account of how saboteurs are schooled
around the world, is a former British in-
telligence officer and member of Parlia-
ment who now writes on international
affairs. He is the author of Red Russia
Arms and The Red Network. His article
appears by special arrangement with
? Atlas magazine, and first was printed in
? the Kenya Weekly News of Nakuru,
-? Kenya.
THE man who goes by the name of
Ernst Moller?a very different one
from that given him at his christen-
' ing?is a new product of world politics.
A tank gunner in the Africa Korps, a
Foreign Legionnaire, a mercenary in the
. Congo, now he occupies a comfortable
' bungalow in Indonesia. Though getting
C, old for jungle fighting and 'unable to speak
Indonesian, his French is quite good.
? enough to make him a first-class In-
structor for Chinese partisans recruited
in Hanoi and Saigon.
? Ernst Moller has become a stateless
man, but of a type much in demand these
days. When the Congo opera-
tion came to an end he could Na
have stayed on to instruct the ),?
Angolans who had crossed the fj?Tklit
border to be trained and
armed to attack the Portu-
guese settlers in Angola. But
he knew that most of his fellow teach--
ers were Communists, and Ernst did not
like them. The same reason led him to
refuse a job in Cuba. He nearly went to
Ghana, but decided on Indonesia because
he likes the Chinese girls.
Everywhere governments are supply-
ing arms, and military and political in-
struction, to factions bent on overthrow-.
. ing other governments. The world has not
known such an extensive movement of in-
structors and materiel since World War IL
' The Egyptian army instructors Who
trained key Igationaltiberatio_n_ Front
. ',(FLN) fighters for the war in AlUeria
are now handling .agents for infiltratiol
. ? .. . ?
Into Middle Eastern countries, notably
Saudi Arabia. Some have been captured
by the Moroccan forces in the border fight-
ing with Algeria.
Perfecting New Demolition Methods
? In a house near the Auberge des Pyra-
mides, on the Cairo-Mena road, a team of
' experts, including Germans and two Al-
gerians formerly in the FLN "under-
ground" in Zurich, are perfecting new
? types of demolition charges and new
'methods of concealing them, for use by
agents.
There are at least five schools of parti-
san warfare in the Congo along the fron-
tier of Portuguese Angola, and it is diffi-
cult to quarrel with the Portuguese gov-
ernment's estimate that at least 6,000
men and women are under training.
The instructors in the schools near Mai
Munene, Manteka, and Kombo are of vari-
ous nationalities?Congolese, some Czechs,
former German members of the French
' Foreign Legion, two Swiss, and at least
four Russians?who, like the Czechs, are
probably regular officers of their own
armies.
The political instruetors, all Commu-
nists, are from Portugal, Ghana, and
Guinea. Arms and ammunition are Rus-
sian, Czech, and an assorted collection left
over from the Congo battles. The Portu-
guese charge that Russian and Polish
trawlers have landed arms in Angola by
night.
Near Katende there' is a school for
saboteurs Who cross the Congo frontier ?
into Northern Rhodesia. It is reported that
members of the Bakonde tribe are being
given military training in Tanganyika for
partisan warfare in the Portuguese state
? of Mozambique.
,
Cuba is probably training more parti-.
'sans and saboteurs than any other country...
They are destined for alincist every Latin
? American nation, and for African. states.'
as well. The Cuban organization,evol_u-
c tionary Commandos_joLL
'IMAIrliiiinder the command of Gem
? ? Alberto Bayo, ..:a veteran of ? the' Spanish;
Civil War, and has Chinese, Russian,
Czech, Spanish, and Guinean instructors.
? ? The trained partisans are allocated
the Vanguard of National Action (VAN),
the Popular Latin American Movement
(MPAL), and the Front of National Libera-:
tion (FALN). Their targets are the gov-
? ernments of Guatemala, Panama, Vene-1
zuela, Peru, and Paraguay.
Filtering Out From Africa J
Under training at the moment are'
? several thousand Africans, who arrived -
In Soviet ships. Coming from gio=7
the Congo, Angola, Ghana,
the Sudan, Guinea, Mali, Al-
geria, Senegal, and Kenya,
they are under the direction
? of the Haitian Communist
leader Rene Depreste. They
are being trained for a dual role, work in
Africa and infiltration into Haiti. Some of ;-
them are already with the Algerian forces:
in the Morocco border fighting.
Dotted round the Caribbean in the,,
countries most opposed to the Castro re-, '
gime?but no longer in secluded villas,
around Miami?are a number of training
centers for anti-Castro partisans. The U.S...
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), having
burned its fingers badly in the abortive
Bay of Pigs landing, would regard it as ?
pure coincidence that most of their arms'
are American and some of their instruc-,
tors U.S. citizens.
What is the value of the partisan in the
political and ideological struggle between
one state and another? The answer ,11es
in a lesson that was learned by the Ger-, ,
mans in the last war, by the French in
Algeria, and is now being learned by the
British in Borneo and the Portuguese in
-Angola.
It is that, operating in enclosed coun-
. try, a small, highly trained force, armed
.7 with automatic weapons, light mortars,
and light antitank guns, can hold down *
a lorce of regular troops 10 times its size.
Fighting partisans is about the Most waste-
,. ftil occupation In which a state can engage.,
? ... ' !-:-.TOHN BAXE11 WHITE
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