01 THE TRUE PURPOSES OF 'OPERATION ANGOCHE'. NATO affiliates GLADIO and AGINTER in a false flag attack killed 24 portuguese
Mozambique, Portuguese Africa, April 23rd, 1971, Friday night
The Portuguese cargo-ship Angoche is attacked and set on fire. By whom?
The occupants, 23 crew members and one passenger, all disappeared. The Angoche is empty no one on board.
Two days later, at dusk on Sunday, April 25th, 1971, a Portuguese woman from an night bar was 'suicided', thrown from the 5th floor of the building 'Miramortos' in the city of Beira. Is there a mystery linking the two cases as many say?
None of Angoche's men, alive, dead, or any remains, ever appeared.
An authentic portuguese 'X-Files'.
Now we know who is responsible for this act against the Angoche!
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THE ANGOCHE MISTERY is the chronicle of an investigation. We unveil the terror attack against the portuguese ‘ghost ship’ after half a century of mystery
Who in Portugal planned, executed, and concealed the responsibility for the terrorist attack on cargo-ship Angoche off the coast of Mozambique in 1971?
This book aims to unravel the enigma and exposes all those involved.
More...
Other mysteries abound in contemporary Portugal alongside the ‘Angoche dossier’:
» AGINTER-PRESS - is the ‘other PIDE’ (the former state security police) - an elite spy and mercenary agency, the Portuguese branch of Operation GLADIO, ‘daughter’ of NATO and CIA
» The enigmatic Mr. HERBERT LESTER - Salazar's secret agent and advisor
» JORGE JARDIM’s network – he is the portuguese ‘Lawrence of Africa’
» ‘Count of Pavullo’ - the patriarch ZOIO plus a Portuguese web of ‘merchants of death’
THE TRUE PURPOSES OF OPERATION ANGOCHE
2.
THE REGIONAL CARD: ATTEMPTING TO COUNTER THE BRITISH BLOCKADE OF RHODESIA AT
THE PORT OF BEIRA
3.
THE LOGISTICS CARD: TO RE-EQUIP THE PORTUGUESE AND SOUTH AFRICAN NAVIES FORCE
4. DEMONIZE THE NATURAL ENEMIES: CHINA, URSS, TANZANIA AND FRELIMO
THE THE STRATEGIC CARD TOWARDS THE WEST: A) THE 'DEFENSE OF THE CAPE ROUTE' AND THE AFRICAN 'SUB-CONTINENT' AND B) REEQUIPMENT OF PORTUGUESE FORCES
Bear
in mind the weight that this represents for South African, European and North
American strategic interests, too. It even plays on the ‘feeling of guilt’ that
will fall on Americans if they stand idly by.
This
is exactly what the lobby in Washington is going to shoot. Piracy and
sabotage cannot be tolerated on this increasingly strategic route. And
also, to create sympathies for the defense of the Portuguese position so
poorly treated in international forums and with difficulty in purchasing
weapons.
What
can we do to raise awareness and encourage lobbies sympathetic to the defense
of this 'white Africa' in danger of extinction? But where is the piracy and
sabotage? If it doesn't exist, it must be created. Demonizing the enemies of
the moment to the maximum: China, Russia, Tanzania and the Frelimo guerrillas.
The
attack on cargo-ship Angoche served this purpose perfectly. Bring together
sympathies for an increasingly isolated Portugal. But, mainly, to convince sectors that are
still hesitant in the West to commit themselves logistically to the defense of
the Cape Route and the countries of the ALCORA alliance - Portugal, South
Africa and Rhodesia - and facilitate their respective military re-equipment.
2. THE REGIONAL CARD: ATTEMPTING TO COUNTER THE BRITISH BLOCKADE OF
RHODESIA AT THE PORT OF BEIRA
Not
conflicting with what was said above and giving substance to a (mis)informative
narrative that filled these days in such a wisely orchestrated campaign, let us
note once again what is at stake: as a strategic objective the 'defense of
the Mozambique Channel', equally that of the ' Cape Route', but, also, at a
regional level, a move against the blockade and sanctions on Rhodesia –
a topic so dear to… Jorge Jardim, precisely, and to his defense of Salisbury's
interests.
What
is said on so many pages of a press collection collected by PIDE and without
much concern for properly identifying the sources (just 'an Angolan announcer',
although the omission may come from the British broadcaster), in Vol. 2, page
112 of the Process PIDE SC C1 (2) 17296 – ANTT (Torre do Tombo), in a text that
is a transcription of a BBC article, is exactly that, an apology for lifting
the blockade on Rhodesia and strengthening the instance in favor of the
advantage of better patrol services by the UK and US naval powers in the area:
'It has already been mentioned by an Angolan announcer that if the British
destroyers in the Mozambique Channel had not been absorbed by the task of
stopping all ships carrying oil for Rhodesia off the coast of Mozambique,
perhaps they would have been able to prevent the attack on Angoche'.
In
short, engage the Western powers too in the strategic objective, the defense
of the ALCORA countries, South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal.
Rhodesia
is evidently another of Jorge Jardim's ‘passions’. Member of ALCORA, that
‘white alliance’. It has also been a pariah state since the UDI or DUI, the ‘unilateral
declaration of independence’, without an accord with the colonizing power, the
United Kingdom, on November 11, 1965.
As
a consequence, it faces boycotts and sanctions that Portugal should also comply
with in their application, especially in the area of weapons and petroleum
products. In
theory, as a member state of the United Nations, Portugal should be obliged to
such application. In practice, what we see is very different.
If
the fortune of Manoel Boullosa (Sonap, Sonarep, Bertrand, etc., etc.) also grew
partly thanks to the lifting of sanctions against Israel, with the Galician
businessman managing to supply oil in large quantities to the Jewish state, in
Mozambique it would be Jorge Jardim who came to in aid of Ian Smith of
Rhodesia. Jorge Jardim would publish at the time the book ‘Rhodesia, the
sanctions scandal’ in this regard. He was willing to bridge the gap in the
supply of fuel and other raw materials, and weapons, and his contacts are also
not to be overlooked. South Africa and its ports also help, of course, but
Rhodesia's ‘natural’ port was Beira, a few hundred kilometers from the border.
But then the British fleet hovers nearby, establishing a blockade and sometimes
even threatening a confrontation with the Portuguese forces.
THE LOGISTICS CARD: TO RE-EQUIP THE PORTUGUESE AND SOUTH AFRICAN NAVIES
FORCE
Favoring Portugal in this effort to advance the construction of such facilities.
When
the 'Angoche' occurs, Pieter Botha from South Africa stands up: 'I warned you
before!' And then adds Pieter W. Botha, at the time not yet South African Prime
Minister, but Minister of Defense under John Vorster:
‘(…)
Such is the type of threat to the Cape Route that I had already warned about.
It is to protect it against this type of attacks that we want modern equipment
for our Navy to ensure that the Cape Route is fully protected’. (...) 'South
Africa does not have an insatiable appetite for weapons, it merely intends to
defend its own freedom and be in a position to maintain its place on the most
important maritime route in the World'. ‘Botha - explains the Durban newspaper
‘Mercury’, from which the statements are taken – already last year he had
predicted that terrorism would not be confined to operations on land’.
The
Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, preferred the ships to be bought from
Portugal, as it would support a politically and economically weak Portugal
financially. Portugal
and South Africa shared mutual interest in the sub-continent within the Cold
War paradigm and as Angola and Mozambique were still Portuguese colonies, South
Africa saw Portugal as an ally in Africa.
From
the SA Navy’s point of view the number of vessels were important and they emphasized
that at least six patrol vessels must be acquired. If six vessels were
available, at best two out of three vessels could be patrolling the East and
West Coasts of South Africa at anyone time’.
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/smsajms/article/download/81114/71336
In
the following weeks, the ‘Angoche’ will also be brandished in Portugal as a
determining factor in the re-equipment of the Navy. It happened in a parliamentary session, in
the voice of Admiral Reboredo e Silva:
The
serious incident that occurred with the Angoche demonstrates to all
conscientious men in this maritime country par excellence the imperative need
to have a Navy that corresponds to at least national responsibilities, and
these are enormous in themselves at the present stage, but they are to an even
greater extent, because we also have international responsibilities, from which
we should not escape.
We
hope that the available means will allow the measures that will have to be
taken, to be implemented averagely, as terrorism at sea appears to have begun,
and the Minister of Defense of the Republic of South Africa has already
publicly referred to this. And as for merchant ships, at present, it will not be easy to
differentiate between terrorism and piracy.
At
this moment I consider it opportune to declare my satisfaction, and from here
congratulate the Government for the promulgation of Decree-Law No. 204/71, of
May 14th, granting the credit deemed necessary for the construction of four
João Coutinho type corvettes, with and more up-to-date and powerful equipment.
I
know that the Treasury is burdened with heavy military burdens, but, in my
opinion, this decision is just a step towards solving the problem. Furthermore,
I always hoped that this new series would be made up of six and not four ships,
as, in fact, I had the opportunity to declare here. These are very economical
oceanic units with sufficient military value to satisfy our tasks and missions,
particularly overseas.
DEMONIZE THE NATURAL ENEMIES: CHINA, URSS, TANZANIA AND FRELIMO
In
terms of psychological warfare the operation 1) congregates fears and feelings
against the traditional enemies of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 2) tries
to bring the Western powers in support of these territories, 3) internally, reinforce
attitudes and feelings to neutralize movements and any sympathies against those
enemies – China the Yellow danger, USSR – the Reds, and Tanzania (and Zambia)
for harboring the Frelimo ‘terrorists’ – the African movement fighting the
Portuguese government in Mozambique.
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Next we will expose the regional and global connections between various actors involved - NATO at upper level, Gladio and other European components of the 'stay behind' army, including the Portuguese branch AGINTER-PRESS
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