03 'OPERATION ANGOCHE' - Table of Contents of the new book: NATO's GLADIO and AGINTER covert operation kills 24 portuguese

The Angoche Mystery

Table of contents

Dedication................................................. ......... 7

Acknowledgments................................................. 9

Acronyms and Abbreviations..................................................21

Why this Book................................................27

What to do with this Dossier?........................33

Floating in a Sea of deception..................35

Brief Chronology................................................. ...........37

Where is the Crew? Various scenarios and speculation................................. .......................... 41

Why?................................................ ....................................42

Loose ends get ‘trimmed’................................................44

What says PIDE-DGS the security police................................................. .............46

Tanzania identified as the place where Crew is retained................................................47

Casimiro Monteiro from PIDE-DGS presents the Angoche Report.................................. .....48

Comments................................................. .....................51

Night of April 23rd, 1971 and previous days.......................................59

All the Crew is missing - until today this is the fulcrum subject..................................................59

The Ship................................................ .....................................60

CNN - the owner company................................................62

The Crew................................................ ..........................63

The Mission: cargo and route................................................. .......75

Predicted route and stops................................................................ 83

A port call at Nacala and the guns question......................88

28 hours in Nacala. Who came aboard?

Who was on watch?................................................ .90

Nacala, the beginning of the mystery?..................................111

The 'Devil's hour'.................................................. .................113

Disappearance, search and mystery.......115

Unknowledge, surprise and an uncontrollable situation................................... .................116

Searches: the sequence.................................................. .........137

The Esso Port Dickson ship.................................................. ........138

Navy and PIDE-DGS in the search and the follow-up until Lourenço Marques................. ... 144

Navy telegrams list ..........................153

The PIDE-DGS in these days of unknownment.........156

The Angoche in Lourenço Marques..................162

The Navy also inspects.................................................179

By the Press................................................. ....................183

What Diplomatic representations say..188

Incoherencies in the German diplomatic mission.................................188

The American consulate is ‘attentive’.................................191

The Portuguese embassy in Pretoria gives another view from CNN the ship company..........193

The mystery of the ‘nest’. A crease in the hull. Cargo ship Chinde's officer notes............. ....194

Reinforced security................................................ .200

Where is the Crew?................................................202

Strange attitudes and phone calls..................217

Sharks are 'absolved'................................................ 220

Navy discards a new inquiry in 1974 ………...224

As soon as 1971 Prime Minister Caetano de facto closed the Angoche dossier .............227

The investigation of journalist Hélder Guerra in the magazine 'Vida Mundial'.......... ... 232

Weird attitudes and strange contradictions reading the news on ‘Vida Mundial’….....234

The continuation of contradictions...........235

'We don't believe it!'................................................ .............236

Lisbon: what did the Governments do?...........237

The Commissions of Inquiry.......................................238

Who's Who in the Navy.................................................259

Commanders, Frigates and Corvettes, and the ‘Angoche Dossier'...............................261

Rosa Coutinho the future ‘Red Admiral’........................................... ...........................261

Victor Crespo one of the ‘haunted’.........................262

Soares Parente as Captain of frigate NRP Álvares Cabral F336. ...................................263

Ramiro Correia, Doctor on board of Álvares Cabral......................................................264

Sérgio Ribeiro Zilhão at the command of corvette NRP João Coutinho F475...........................265

Eugénio de Aguiar commands the frigate NRO Hermenegildo Capelo F481.............................267

Opposing groups inside the Navy.................................268

A profusion of mysteries: The ‘suicided’ woman. The lost dossiers..........269

An alleged daughter of Olívia the ‘suicided’ appears nowadays....272

After april 25th 1974, silence perpetuates yet - the Lost Dossiers of PIDE-DGS..........273

Why is the CIA so quiet? What do Americans know?..................................282

A ‘Moscow Connection’ comes out of the hat...282

The truth rises from the depths.............285

Operation Angoche: an ‘Operation Condor’ Portuguese style..........................................287

A dirty operation by the ‘NF’ - ‘our forces’……………....287

Return to the ‘Miramortos’ building in Beira.................................................294

The 'Red Danger'................................................ ..........295

Rosa Coutinho................................................ .................298

‘Corpses don’t commit suicide’ says Journalist Gouveia Lemos.................301

Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa turned mute up about Angoche. Why?..................306

Journalist from ‘O País’ ordered to stop the investigation.................................................308

‘Tempo’ magazine thickens the mystery In 'Miramortos' .............................................. .............314

Fatidic eight-loop necklace..................................319

‘The great love of my life’.................................320

Curious numeric coincidence at ‘Miramortos’.............321

Commandant Zilhão, no connection at all to Miramortos and Angoche events.....................327

Jorge Jardim, the Navy and Malawi.................333

Zilhão once more, Angoche and the ‘ALCORA project’.................................................. .......339

AGINTER PRESS - the ‘other PIDE’..................357

Detailing the ‘Army of Shadows’.............364

Reviewing the death of Mondlane.................................................. 368

A mysterious Mr. Lester help us to find out more about AGINTER........................................ 375

Who finances this sophisticated ‘PIDE’?.............376

Who’s Who in this ‘agency’ AGINTER..................................377

Ephemeral clues among the remains of the dictatorship............................ ..........................379

The foundations of AGINTER................................................383

The ‘Soldiers of the Cold War’.................................384

The ‘Tension Strategy’ in Italy......................387

My name is Legion! Because we are many!....................................................390

Two operations yet on the eve of April 25th 1974…………………………………...391

Milan leads to the Portuguese trail of the Italian terror web.................................................. ........392

Agent ‘Castor’ orbits Jorge Jardim and Guérin-Sérac................................392

Agents codes.................................................. ....394

Summary about these ‘boy scouts’ from AGINTER........................................ ...........................395

Information structures and agents in the Portuguese colonial war.......................................397

DGS (former-PIDE; former-PVDE)

The formal structure.................................................. ......397

The DGS and the CIA. Contacts and trainees by the ‘Agency’........................ .............................400

Beyond the formal structures there is a swarm of ‘irregular’ services...........402

A bloody operation in Tanzania........409

Jorge Jardim, the ‘Éminence Grise’.............417

Jorge Jardim. Operations in various world locations and the ‘blue-bag’................................... ....420

Dominique de Roux – spy from the French SDECE with Jardim and Kaúlza ..........425

More excerpts from the De Roux’s book ‘The Fifth Empire’ emphasize Jardim and Kaúlza..........439

Jorge Jardim, Sanctions and Weapons.................446

New times and latitudes. Jorge Jardim in Europe before and after the April 25th coup................449

The Maria da Fonte revolt and how Jardim humilates the Bishop of Braga................................. 452‘

AGINTER operationals ‘Castor’ and ‘Morgan’ conspire in Spain.................................................. .455

JAPRESS – the Jorge Jardim press office...457

Jardim - and so, the Angoche?..................................466

The enigmatic Herbert Lester and the Count Zoio.............................................. .......469

Reports and Missions.................................................. .....473

Where does the English man come from?........................474

‘Difficult to separate the shot from Zoio!’ The ‘Norte Importadora, Lda’ and the Zoio clan…… 476

Zoio and a Gyrocopter at the Marine School.............482

Zoio and his Dispatching Office at Cais do Sodré.................................485

How does the NIL – Norte Importadora Lda - started?...........486

The Norte’s twilight and the new masonic House of the Bell....................... ..........................491

Important milestones in ‘Norte’ operations ...............................498

Weapons ‘to Angola and in strength!’ and also for Mozambique in the colonial wars............498

Norte Importadora provides air means to Rhodesia and South Africa.....................................504

The Norte Importadora and the armed attempts in Congo-Zaire. Tschombé again..................506

Operation in Nicaragua................................................513

The Norte Importadora and the Dossier of arming Iran...............................................516

The ‘Great Bazar’. Objective: equipment for the Operation Mar-Verde in Guinea......................518

Farinha Simões, from Dossier Camarate, ‘forgets’ about the   Norte Importadora ................523

Zoio the Father and the Father of one the Angoche's Officers.......534

The Cape Route and the African ‘sub-continent’.......................................... ..............................537

Strategy and recent History – the Operations Mecca, Sunflower and Simba........................... ...538

Mecca Operation – trying the secession of Zanzibar.......................540

The South African power insists on the ‘Strategic Route’ card........................550

Alert, ‘Attack’ and Solution – new patrol ships for South Africa.............................. ............551

Admiral Reboredo and Silva at the Parliament: Urgent the Navy’s re-equipment!……..553

Portuguese Republic Assembly. X legislature. Session (extraordinary) no. 101 June 15th 1971.......553

The Testimony – the Wings of Death............563

The true ‘Operation Angoche’...........565

Who Murdered the entire Crew and Passenger?.................................................. .....................565

The Flight of Death.................................................. .............566

The report concerning Mrs. Elsie's husband, the part involving the ship Angoche: ...............569

Some Crew photos appear on a Chinese newspaper.................................................. ..........577

The practice of ‘Death Flights’................................580

The Jorge Jardim constellation In the Angoche affair................................................. ............588

Cristina and a persecution in the bush that never happened.. ……….590

Murupa, the ‘ex-future President’ help to shuffle clues.................................... .............592

A web of Disinformation.................................................600

Jorge Jardim: 10 years later, Santa Maria ship ‘revisited’.............................................612

Álvaro Récio, Jardim’s one more ‘right arm’.............................. ......................................616

Jorge Jardim - the Genesis ............................................. .621

Casimiro Monteiro, Alpoim Calvão and a bomb achievement for the Esperanza II ship…......624

Esperanza II – the Americans follow the situation.................................................627

2019 and 2020 – Last Auditions and Interviews in this Investigation...........631

What one Director of SEII (Jardim former Secret Service) says now…………. 631

Meeting with the journalist and writer Ricardo de Saavedra..........................633

Proceed the disassembly of the disinformation web………….........634

 ‘Broncas of the Broncas’ (roughs of Roughs).................................................. .635

Álvaro Récio still ‘agnostic and amnesic’……………………...636

We discovered the journalist Vera Lúcia who delicately says nothing.................636

Commandant Zilhão explains himself............................................... .............637

More testimonials................................................. ..........638

Color photos of the Angoche after the Sabotage.........640

Raul Fernandes about the pilot José da Conceição Costa Ferreira...........644

Novelizing – two more books About Angoche ............................................... ............646

Beyond Angoche, beyond Camarate……………………….....647

Sailing on ................................................ .............................649

Ending.................................................. ..........................651

Photos of the destruction operated in the ship Angoche…………....653

Bibliography and consulted documentation ...................659

Websites................................................. ........................................664

Endorsement of conclusions….............................667