African Activist Archive

The newsletter reports on an interview of the wife of an American mercenary hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fight in Angola. The newsletter says the CIA is recruiting mercenaries in U.S. cities to fight in support of regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa that are known the world over for their racism and brutal suppression of the Black majority. The newsletter lists names of some U.S. corporate giants in southern Africa. The newsletter reports that recently over 100 people were killed and over 1,000 injured in race riots in Johannesburg and that the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the South African government for massive violence against the Black population. The newsletter reports in San Antonio a committee has been organized to protest the CIA's recent attempts to recruit mercenaries for Rhodesia in San Antonio. The newsletter discusses a ma going under the name Mike Gonzales who claims he represents American Aid for Rhodesia. The newsletter says the Texas Committee Against Mercenary Recruitment and U.S. Intervention In Foreign Countries is mounting a campaign to call the public's attention to the recruitment of mercenaries and is circulating a petition.

African Activist Archive

The Facts on South Africa

WANTED: MURDERS (Salary depending on experience)

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