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T H E G U A R D I A N Thursday July 24 1986

Britain in spy hook-up witJt B_!itislr and American intelligence have been exchang!ng· informatlo~ - - with Pretoria.- Michael- White reports from Washingto.; -- - - SOuth Africa-~

own controversial attacks on British and United States iin· notation "-d asignated numbers The White House spokes­ targets inside the front line telligence have been exchang: lfor computer transmission. -man, Mr Larry Speakes, was states. States targeted for intel­ ing information with their As White House and quick to call the report " not ligence, according to the · Downing Street struggle to true,'' while the State Depart­ Times; included Mozambique, South African counterparts resist what they portray as ment r()IJtinely refused 1o dis­ Angola, Tanzania, Botswana, about the activities of the " the emotioual clamour" for cuss " intelligence operations and · Zimbabwe, the centre of banned and · exiled African tough sanctbns, the political or alleged intelligence wera­ some already documented tions." But the c'harges, .well double-dealing by Western in­ National Congress throughout fallout of tl .e revelations are documented by !Mr Seymour· telligence agencies during the the mounting crisis .in the potentially inmense .. In the US Hersh, the. experieJIIced in'Vesti· years when it was still the apartheid regime, past and they assert that the Reagan gative repor.ter of the Times, rebel colony of Rhodesia. present US officials have Administrati· •n allowed the causes. no great surprise among For Britain, the critical National ~ ecurity Agency, finally admitted. some Washingtonians versed in claim focuses oh the Chelten· GCHQ's equi valent, to reverse intelligence matters. ham meeting in " the mid- The exchanges have been a Ca-rter A"lministration ban Even more persuasi;vely, tbe 1980'S," though a far more systematic and regular, and ori on intelligence pooling !With alleged intelligence links square precise date is known to Mr at least one occasion involved the South A :rican Directorate Tum to 'baek page, eol. 5 Hersh, who has not published !1the presence of three South of ;Military it telli-genee. !It had, Continued from page one it to protect his sources. African military intelligence in any case, been evaded by ,.According to his account, " elements in US intelligence with President · Reagan's con­ officers swapping detailed tinuing obsession-so evident from several US officials past _shoppin~ lists with senior US agencies," although no data on in Tuesday's politically disas­ and. present, senior US and and British agents during a the ANG o1ad ever ·been trous speech - with South Af­ British officials were engaged high-level meeting held at forwarded •beJ ore 1981. in what is called " tasking," Though t'l·, e finger points rica's strategic importance to Britain's major listening poSt the West. He tied it to Mos­ the 'process of reviewing recent GCHQ Cheltenham " in the similarly at t ne Thatcher Gov­ cow's ambitions iri the region and, future targets. When they mid-1980s." ernment, the New York Times and a veiled charge that many had dealt with the Soviet aocount suggE sts that •ministers Uilipn and Middle East, the They traded information in the Wilson-Callag:ban gov­ key members of the ANC have gleaned from signals intelli· links with the Communist meeting, chaired by a British ernment's of 1974-9 may !have Party. · . official with two senior NSA gence organised from GSHQ some reminiscing to do, too. ·men from HQ - the top in Cheltenham about political After the fall of the Portuguese " It all comes down to what activities, ANC bombing tar­ you believe about the ANC," sec~et " puzzle palace " at Fort empire in 1975, and the start one former senior Reagan offi­ Meade, near Washington - gets, and -the movements of of the' Anf.olan civil war in among the Americans present, leaders like Oliver Tambo~ in which a C A covert role 'was cial told the Times. Like cur­ return for South African aata rent offiCials also quoted, he turned to Africa. · sanctioned, " vast quantities " regards the ANC as "the bad " At this point . • • three on Soviet and Cuban military of listening equipment was South African military intelli and poUtieal involVements shipped from ·Britain and Ger­ guys, Soviet pawns " which throughout southern- Africa, ac­ made cooperation with 'Pretoria gence ofticers 1Vere ushered many, much of it US-made, ito vital. into the room. The bou.tb Afri­ cording to yesterday's New bolster South African listening cans and the British exchanged York Times. capa'bilities. All three govern­ Mr Hersh's sources, from tasking requirements - sophis­ A whole array of political, ments supposedly looked the bOth Carter and Reagan .years, ticated documents outlining · economic and military informa­ other way. the usually cautious were unable to say what use previous communications intel­ tion about black sub-Saharan newspaper reported in a front the btJuth Africans had made ligence targets, such as a states, notably the frontline of . the information they Third World embassy, and the page report from which men­ receJVed either to prevent states adjoining South Africa. tion of the CIA is fr~quencies on which they was also targeted and commu­ conspicuously a-bsent. ANC attacks or to launcl! their relayed intelligence and other nicated so routinely as to ac­ communications. · quire · what is known in American tradecraft as " case SOUTH AFRICA: The Realities

"1:)6. tl-, R ~ ~ I~ :1" u "t 5"­ \1.\ Re.f~ I~ -;r Ul"l( go~ Delegates Debate Bill ,n;, M BJ 7 I 553 Johannesburg SAPA in English 1552 GMT I Comments on 180-Day Detention 17Jun86 - MB/6/645 JohannesburgSAPA in English 16/8 GMT /6 Jun 86

[Text] House of Assembly, June 16. SAPA- The wording of the Internal Security Amendment Bill implied that a person could be re-arrested after completing a 180-day terms of deten­ tion under the measure. Mrs Helen Suzman (PFP [Progressive Federal Party] Houghton) said today. Moving that the House go into committee on the bill. she said that under a previous 90-day detention clause people had been held for up to two years. There was no point in limiting detention to 180 days if the object was not to ensure that no one was held longer than that without being brought to trial. • ,.. .,. * *' Dct~l~ 'R'(fc~ ~""lure 8\.o No 'Stream' of Blacks l The bill, ~rs Suzman said, would be a permanent feature of.l MB240445 Joha1111esburg SAPA in English 2255 GMT ISt~lul tbeh Afnchan law. "~n the state oj emergencv is lifted-it will At 23 Jun86 U on t e statute k.u- _

[Text] House of Assembly, June 23, SAPA- The Restoration of South African Citizenship bill applied to people who were already livin& in the country and would not cause a stream of people see kin& citizenship as the Conservative Party (CP] feared, va.; 1'1 ~eror-+ r :r(l.~ g~ the minister of home affairs, Mr Stoffel Botha, said toni&ht. Boy Sentented to 2 Years for ANC Slogan Disp~ay · Replyin& to the second readin& debate on the bill, he said the MB0/0501 Johannesburg SAPA in Enghs.~ 2205 GMT black people it applied to had been livin& in the country when the 30 Jun 86 CP were still members of the National Party. 'f -If- -J • [Text] Cape Town, June 30, SAPA - A 15-year-old boy -.¥as "* sentenced in the re&ional C{)Urt today to two years imprisonment suspended for five years, for displayin& slo~ans C{)nr.ected to the African National Con&ress (AN C) on his school rucksack. The youth, of Gu&uletu, had pleaded not &uilty to a charie of contra venin& the Internal Security Act on Decc:mber 11 last year by displayin& placards, pamphlets, poems and "freedom son&s" re&ardin& the ANC in his room and havin& slo&ans such as "ANC freedom fi&hters", "resistance fi&hters" and "revolution"' 'D.;d'1 f