[Something really awesome has happened. President Mbeki has had to quickly DESTROY the head of National Intelligence because he was busy uncovering something BIG!!

Is President Mbeki an MI6 mole? And keep in mind, MI6 and the CIA work closely together. I think (and correct me if I’m wrong), but President Mbeki studied in England. In Straight Talk (see www.StraightTalk.co.za) I did write about the CIA being involved in “moderating” the ANC – because of Zuma’s ideology.

I think the CIA has unleashed a war inside the ANC. There is a serious power struggle. I was chatting to my good friend, Dr Chris Jordaan last night. He was saying that there are some analysts who think this could even lead to black-on-black violence.

Currently, it is a very hush hush power struggle… behind closed doors… but the stress levels are HIGH… VERY HIGH… You can see it.

Take this incident… some serious heads are rolling. We’ve seen Jacob Zuma, the Vice President, summarily kicked out on his ass. Now we see the head of National Intelligence being blasted. Mbeki is fighting for his life, and for the life of his “faction”.

But, returning to the really important story below, it is now clear why President Mbeki fired the head of the NIA. It appears the head of National Intelligence was going about his routine business, spying on the political stability of the country in general, when he began realising that there might be a conspiracy against Jacob Zuma. So, using his powers, he began spy on crucial people inside the ANC. And he was busy gathering proper data on this conspiracy.

Mbeki has fired him. Why? It appears to me, the head of National Intelligence was well on his way to finding concrete proof of a conspiracy against Zuma. In Straight Talk, I said that this would lead to the CIA (but that could also include MI6 of course). Now Mbeki and his “faction” strongly deny ANY CONSPIRACY… well… Mbeki had to fire the head of the NIA, and now they claim the NIA faked the emails…

But reading between the lines, I think the head of NIA was hot on the heels of uncovering this conspiracy. Maybe, in the fullness of time, it would have led back to Mbeki… and the CIA… and hence, the whole thing had to be squashed in double-quick-time. So this was some seriously fast damage control done by Mbeki. Jan]

The National Intelligence Agency, with authorisation from its axed director-general Billy Masetlha, paid a consultant to fabricate emails in order to sow divisions and contribute to the succession battle in the ANC.

The emails, which were declared fake, were included in a report Masetlha submitted to President Thabo Mbeki, but the president rejected it.

This was revealed by the Inspector General of Intelligence, Zolile Ngcakani, in his report which was released on Thursday.

‘Started as a legitimate espionage assignment’
Ngcakani said that Masetlha, who was also acting executive director of the National Communications Centre, intercepted the telephone conversations of 13 people, including senior members of the ANC, the opposition, businessmen and civil servants.

Intelligence sources told Independent Newspapers two weeks ago that he used this as a basis to fabricate the emails.

Ngcakani said what started as a legitimate espionage assignment, codenamed Project Avani, aimed at monitoring political stability in the country, was hijacked by Masetlha to wage a political battle in the ANC’s succession contest between Mbeki and former deputy president Jacob Zuma.

The clandestine methods used included placing ANC executive and businessman Saki Macozoma, a journalist and a politician under surveillance.

The project’s brief was to evaluate potential threats posed by:

The presidential succession battle in the ANC and foreign interest in the matter;

Zuma’s impending corruption trial;

The impact of poor service delivery and;

The dynamics of security and stability of the country.

Although Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils was not informed about it, he however defended what appeared to be a partisan project, saying “we have a mandate to monitor the political terrain”. He terminated the project after the Macozoma surveillance scandal.

Ngcakani emphasised that the project did not include targeting individuals.

“The exclusion of (Kasrils) in its conceptualisation, planning and execution resulted in a void in the requisite executive supervision and oversight of an extremely sensitive project,” Ngcakani said.

Things went wrong when Masetlha started targeting individuals and introducing emails to build his political conspiracy case that there was a calculated plot to deal with Zuma.

“It was apparent that the Project Avani team, in particular its most senior members, had not readily and gullibly accepted the authenticity of the resultant ‘intercepted’ emails which remained in the executive domain and custody (with minor exception) of Masetlha and another person,” Ngcakani said. Another person is believed to be NIA cyber manager Funi Madlala who is on a special leave while the outsourced consultant could be businessman Muzi Kunene.

Joel Netshitenzhe, government spokesperson, said police and other security agencies would deal with those involved and implement Ngcakani’s recommendations. But he said this would not be disclosed publicly due to the defamatory nature of the information and sensitive operational issues.

This article was originally published on page 1 of The Star on March 24, 2006

Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click…/p>