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According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack
Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa's apartheid era
security services. The revelations from South Africa help to explain Abramoff's
connections to white supremacists who use Confederate heritage organizations
to mask their true agendas.
Abramoff's files from his days as a South African agent
emerge: Details of his ties to anti-black, racist groups like World Church of
the Creator (insignia on far right -- where have we seen that logo before?)
and South African propaganda operations -- Babushka and Longreach -- provided
exclusively to WMR. From left to right: Abramoff, Williamson, Leon, and Crystal.
In 1985, Abramoff launched the International Freedom Foundation (IFF) in Washington.
In fact, IFF was a front for South African military intelligence, code named
Pacman, and a major front for South Africa's international propaganda efforts.
The IFF was a joint project of Russel Crystal, currently a Democratic Alliance
official in South Africa, and a former apartheid South Africa top spy, Craig
Williamson. According to South African intelligence sources, Abramoff was first
recruited by Crystal and Williamson during 1979 and 1980. Crystal and Williamson
were both paid agents of the Apartheid Security Police (SAP (V)). Money paid
to Abramoff initially came from SAP(V) accounts. South African intelligence
files also show:
Abramoff’s take-over of the College Republicans National Committee
(CRNC) in Washington, DC was directed by both Crystal and Williamson and
similarly funded. In fact, Abramoff was mentored by them, being trained
as a political operator, apartheid style -- the emphasis was on carrying
out political dirty tricks with non-attribution through fronts, screens,
and dupes.
Before Crystal worked for SAP(V) as a right-wing student agitator at Wits
University in Johannesburg, he was suspected of being an employee of the
Bureau of State Security (BOSS), the apartheid spy agency responsible for
foreign operations, including hit squad work, disinformation, and bombings.
By the time of the establishment of National Students Federation (Crystal
was its leader at Wits, Williamson having been exposed as an SAP(V) spy
after arrests of anti-apartheid students in the National Union of South
African Students (NUSAS)). A question arises as apartheid monies paid to
Abramoff came from the specific account of the sections employing Crystal
-- this indicates that Abramoff received foreign intelligence service money
from BOSS. This was certainly the case when Abramoff's benefactors were
in SAP(V) and later, when they left to join Military Intelligence (MI),
which became the pre-eminent apartheid intelligence service after the rise
of former defence minister P.W. Botha to the Presidency. It is clear that
Abramoff received SAP(V) and MI monies for services rendered. Abramoff visited
South Africa in 1983 to forge links between Crystal's National Students
Federation (NSF) and Abramoff's CRNC.
Abramoff projects with IFF included provision of U.S. armaments to Southern
Africa, including Stinger missiles to UNITA in Angola and the apartheid
military; stopping the Congressional Comprehensive Anti Apartheid Act and
lobbying for Reagan’s veto (this was the only Reagan veto overturned
by Congress). As par of South African intelligence's Operation Babushka,
Abramoff helped monitor anti-apartheid lobby in USA: Randall Robinson of
TransAfrica was a major target as was Coretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson.
Abramoff also hooked IFF up with some representatives of the U.S.-based
World Church of the Creator – a white supremacist, neo-Nazi group,
which had a branch in South Africa.
The Democratic Alliance in South Africa is the official opposition to
the African National Congress. Its leader is Tony Leon, a colleague of Crystal
and Williamson at Wits University who bankrolled him in his student election
campaigns as they did Abramoff in CRNC. They then financed Leon's year-long
visit to the U.S. to teach law. Abramoff administered all of Leon’s
U.S. arrangements. Abramoff worked on behalf of the DA and Leon in Washington,
DC and New York City.
Abramoff, schooled in the SAP(V) front-tactics worked through an American
named Duncan Sellars, who was also connected with Crystal on the Ninth floor,
Noswell Hall, in Johannesburg, across the road from Wits University. Abramoff
visited Noswell Hall on a number of occasions. Sellars was chairman of the
IFF in 1993.
The Abramoff-Crystal anti-communist camp in Angola was an MI project designed
to frustrate Chester Crocker’s diplomatic initiative under Secretary
of State George Shultz to get the apartheid forces out of Namibia and the
Cubans out of Angola.
Williamson applied and received amnesty for a number of his apartheid-era
crimes (killings [including Ruth First, the wife of South African Communist
Party leader Joe Slovo], bombings, maimings – including children),
Crystal did not apply or appear before the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Crystal was more than “politically tied” to Williamson -- he
was also “operationally tied” as was Abramoff, though Sellars
and Crystal were often merely cut-outs. The letter bombing fatalities of
anti-apartheid activists in Angola and Mozambique are said to have been
made by another Crystal-Abramoff confidant, John Adams. Crystal-Abramoff-Williamson
are reportedly responsible for compiling the hit-lists
Abramoff introduced Williamson to Grover Norquist and they became friends.
This relationship assisted South African intelligence's Operations Longreach
and Babushka, essentially pro-apartheid influence operations in DC. One
propaganda operation was Abramoff's movie Red Scorpion, based on
UNITA guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, a movie for which South Africa provided
military equipment, vehicles, and extras.
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