The South African Minister of Intelligence, Siyabonga Cwele, has been asked to verify a controversial intelligence report which claims that President Lt Gen Ian Khama was trained by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and that his rise to the presidency was part of an American conspiracy. The report, which in part projects Khama as a pawn in the American chessboard, is being circulated in South Africa in a campaign to discredit suspended COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi. The suspended COSATU leader announced this week that his lawyers will ask the South African Minister of Intelligence “to check if this report is a product of any of the state organs. We will also write a letter to the Inspector General who is the intelligence ombudsman to ask him to investigate if state institutions have not been abused to divide workers organisations and smear individuals”. In a letter to COSATU, Vavi lawyer, Senior Counsel PJ De Bruyn, states that the report “has clearly been written by a double (triple?) agent”. The report states that Khama was trained as a commando at Sandhurst Academy in the United Kingdom and “was the only trainee at the academy who was given a private jet to fly in and out of Langley (CIA headquarters) to receive intelligence training”. He came back and 10 to 15 years down the line he is the president of BDP. This is not by virtue that his father was the first president of Botswana. It was because of National Endowment for Democracy (NED).” According to the report, “NED is a powerful multibillion dollar NGO, based in the States and controlled by the US State Department. Its mandate overtly is to fund NGOs to promote human rights, good governance and democracy projects and covertly it tracks down terrorist cells and fund NGOs to take governments head on and also political parties”. The report claims that Botswana’s economy is controlled by Americans and that most of the country’s ministers “were trained by NED on governance, democracy and advocacy, NED that shared offices with CIA. These ministers are Masisi, Mokaila, Tshekedi Khama, Dikgakgamatso Seretse among others”. The controversial report further states that President Khama’s “security sector is run by US special force and CIA trained operatives, all of whom having been in the BDF. sundaystandard.info
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:06:46 +0000
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