[9 Pics] The Secret history of southern Africa: The Russians and Communists in South Africa

[This is one of the old but important stories from the original AfricanCrisis website that I am converting on to the new site, in the new format.

Communist trash like Bram Fischer are now lauded in South Africa and have various things named after them. Jan]

The Russians & Communists in South Africa

NB: This is a very important page. It is a quick, but highly informative photo essay of some of theamazing Russian/KGB/Communist activity in South Africa and southern Africa. Please spread this around. It is bound to amaze people. Take a good look at the two men above. Would you believe they are one and the same? This is Bram Fischerbefore (left) and after (right) undergoing some surgery. Bram Fischer was a notorious South African communist. He was on the run from the authorities when the KGBhelped him. Fischer was in hiding inside South Africa when he decided to change his identity. He underwent surgery to change his features. Fischer had undergone a complete physical change. He had lostmuch weight and, with an electric needle, the hair roots on his forehead had been burnedout. His eyebrows had also been greatly altered by the same process. He looked a differentman, complete with new glass frames, dyed hair, goatee beard and plastic surgery. He hadengineered this metamorphosis while hiding at Rustenburg. During his Rustenburg experience he had been in contact with someone acting as a courierfor the KGB in South Africa. This courier had secured photographs of the new Mr.Fischer after surgery and sent them to Moscow to the KGB's Fourth Division of the FirstDirectorate. In their 135 Lubyanka Street headquarters, they prepared for him fake andforged documents of various types so that he could travel and open bank accounts under an assumedname. Above is the bilingual driver's licence the KGB forged for him! And here is the bilingual identity card the KGB forged for him! Fischer was a master of disguise. Here is a small portion of his disguise equipment which included: female clothes, wigs, hats, suntan lotion, glasses, female gloves, dresses, false beards, fake number plates and various false documents This man is Yuriy Loginov, a KGB agent who was in Johannesburg in 1967. This is his KGB-forged identity document showing him to be a Canadian citizen!! These are the hollowed-out Pakistani Rupees Loginov used to transport microfilm in! Both Loginove and his wife turned out to be KGB spies. His wife had in fact been sent by the KGB toCuba to perform some intelligence missions against Cuba! Below is Captain Alexei Myagkov, a former Yugoslavian counter-intelligence officer:- Frequently various KGB officers brave the storm and take the extreme risk of defectingto the freedom of the West. One such defector visited the Republic as theguest of the Freedom Foundation of South Africa. He was Captain Alexei Myagkov, aformer KGB counter-intelligence officer. His factual revelations regarding Africa, and especially SouthAfrica, were astounding. Myagkov said there might be "as many as 400 KGB agents operating in South Africa".His statement that "all the Soviet Union is doing in Angola and Mozambique is gearedtowards getting to South Africa" came as a revelation to the uninformed South African public.Further, his statement that "the Russians would like to have the whole of Southern Africa,and South Africa is the key to that ambition" has been an established fact among securityofficials. However, one of the biggest problems faced by the Soviets was "not having anembassy in South Africa". Without this, they are greatly hindered in their attempts tosubvert and overthrow the Government. As an alternative, "they work through embassiesin neighbouring states". He further explained how certain young people are persuaded to leave South Africaand are then sent to a special school in Samarkand, USSR, for seven to twelve years ofspecial training. They are then sent back into South Africa as servants of the KGB, wherethey get to work organizing conspiracies and manipulating other people He said "thesepeople have caused trouble here in South Africa". One point he stressed is that these KGBtrainees have been drilled and taught to "commit suicide should the going get too hard andthey feel they might give away too much under interrogation". Possibly this would explainthe "deaths" of some of South Africa's detainees over the years. In the whole of Southern Africa, he estimated that there is a total of between 3 000 and5 000 active agents. An American publication revealed that "39 000 Soviet-bloc advisersare now being based in Southern Africa". There are hundreds of espionage agents amongthis number. This is Major Aleksie Koslov, a KGB agent who was arrested in South Africa in 1980 due to a tip-off fromWest German Intelligence. He was later repatriated as part of a prisoner exchange. The Security Policebuilt up 3 bulky dossiers on him, his links to the ANC and SACP (South African communist party) aswell as Kremlin activities in Western Europe. As you can appreciate, South Africa only caught a handful of KGB spies. Most remained undetected.Later in the 1980's it was discovered that one of the highest ranking officers in the South African Navy,the Commodore in charge of Simon's Town, South Africa's largest naval base, had been a KGB spy for mostof his life. His wife was also discovered to be a KGB agent. Their discovery was a total accident. Iremember hearing news reports in the 1980's that there were was another KGB agent discovered in the South African army, but nothing further was heard about this.

Posted By: Jan
AfricanCrisis Webmaster
Author of: Government by Deception

      

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