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(NEWZIMBABWE) CIO admits MDC spy operations

CIO admits MDC spy operations
by Lebo Nkatazo
18/04/2011 00:00:00

THE Central intelligence Organization (CIO) on Sunday said its top priority for the past decade had been to prop-up President Robert Mugabe in his political duel against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

The revelation comes days after Mugabe himself let the cat out of the bag, when he told mourners gathered for the burial of CIO deputy director general Menard Muzariri that he had used the country’s intelligence services to spy on his political opponents.

An opinion article published in the Sunday Mail, attributed to State Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, CIO Director-General, Happiton Bonyongwe, as well as officers and employees of the Department, said Muzariri’s assessment of the capabilities and vulnerabilities of adversaries was always spot-on.

“This is what the very best intelligence does. Over the last 10 years, our focus was on deflecting multi-faceted regime change efforts aimed at the nation,” the CIO said in the op-ed.

“It was a task that Cde Muzariri excelled in, given that his brain was wired for detecting, processing and countering such threats. Intelligence is often compared to putting together a jigsaw puzzle without a picture to go by, and a lot of pieces missing. Cde Muzariri did not just give us a piece or two — he gave us the picture itself.”

Last Thursday, Mugabe said the intelligence provided information on members of his Zanu PF party who were selling out.

The president’s remarks came a month after two Zanu PF Members of Parliament voted against their preferred party’s candidate, Simon Khaya Moyo, for the Speaker of Parliament’s post, handing victory to the MDC-T’s Lovemore Moyo.

“Are all the members who are in Zanu PF really party members?” Mugabe asked. “What do you do in the dark? Some run to our enemies and divulge our secrets. Muzariri and company would tell us who was selling out. The party’s intelligence does not come from books but intelligence officers who talk to people and drink with them.”

And former State Security Minister Nicholas Goche also revealed how the CIO engineered an operation to thwart MDC street protests against President Robert Mugabe’s government dubbed the “Final Push”.

Said Goche: "I worked with Cde Muzariri under difficult conditions when I was still Minister of State Security, especially after the year 2000 when there were machinations from the British and their stooges to reverse the gains of our independence.

"People will remember when the enemies of the country organised the 'Final Push' to State House that was meant to topple the government. He worked tirelessly to ensure that there were tactics to counter this development.”

Labels: CIO, MDC, NEOCOLONIALISM, SABOTAGE

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