SpyTHINK 065: "The Wild Geese" 4 REAL--Sir Roger Moore's 007 Takes an African Mercenary Holiday
Yet another example of life & art getting intertwined...with deadly, tragic results.
https://tubitv.com/movies/492997/the-wild-geese?start=true
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Roger Moore, behind the scenes on "The Wild Geese". We
interviewed Roger just before his death and this film (which was directed by a
friend of mine) remains as one of his best.
A
planeload of U.N. do-gooders incinerated--including a lady--by CIA THUGS.
QUANTUM OF HAMMARSKJOLD: U.N. SECRETARY SHOT-DOWN BY CIA
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gGGoShqZy7SK/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yU1TqW0KoG3g/
http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v2/v2n3/congo.html
Katanga
stood forth as an island of relative calm in the eventful spring and summer of
1960. As Belgian troops withdrew from northern and eastern Congo, they quietly
reconcentrated in the south, around the Union Miničre mines at Kolwezi, at
the Kamina air base, and along the rail lines that linked the mines with
transshipment points in Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. Union Miničre
supplied much of the world's copper, almost all of its cobalt, and large
quantities of uranium (Katanga was the source of the uranium for the atomic bombs
that ended the Second World War). It considered itself vital to Western
interests, and it enjoyed an incestuously close relationship with the Belgian
government and military. Using company money, Belgian officers recruited,
trained, and equipped a large private army for the Union, the Katangan
gendarmerie, and used it to enforce order (and uninterrupted production) in
south Katanga.
As the
weakness of the legal government and the vociferously anti-foreign policies of
the premier became clear, Union Miničre decided that it could not rely
on Léopoldville to protect its interests. Accordingly, the company set out to detach
the mineral-rich parts of the Congo—Katanga and diamond-rich Kasai—from the
rest of the nation. With the help of the Belgian army and intelligence
services, it organized superficially independent separatist movements from an
assortment of ambitious tribal leaders, local politicians, and die-hard
European settlers. Moise Tshombe, leader of the CONAKAT party, declared
Katanga an independent nation on 11 July 1960 and made himself head of
government. Albert Kalonji, the Baluba leader, followed suit by declaring
south Kasai's independence in August. Since these two provinces supplied
almost all the revenue collected by the central government, they doubtless
expected little effective opposition.
In
Katanga, Belgian troops immediately disarmed Congolese government units under
cover of "peacekeeping" and officially "withdrew"
from the country. Unofficially, they were simply seconded to Tshombe's
gendarmerie. Lavish supplies of Belgian arms, laundered and transshipped via
the copper-ore terminus at Texeira di Sousa in Angola, were smuggled in over
the mining company's railroad and flown into its airfield at Kolwezi. Belgium
gave the Katangans a ready-made air force by simply "abandoning"
its armed T-6G trainers. To give the self-styled Force Aérienne Katangaise a
more intimidating, more modern character than these effective but elderly
aircraft could provide, Union Miničre also purchased three armed Fouga
Magister jet trainers direct from the factory in France. These were delivered
by air from Toulouse aboard the Seven Seas line’s YC-97 freighter (N9045C)
in February 1961.
[EDITOR: C-97 military/spy use: https://www.bitchute.com/video/4s7ZOPP6v8Wo/
]
The Magisters
received the serial numbers 91, 92, and 93 and joined two South
African-supplied DH Vampire jet fighter-bombers, Alouette helicopters,
Do 28a Skyservants, and C-47 transports at airstrips in Kisengi,
Kabongo, Jadotville, and Kolwezi. To provide cover for the Belgian troops and
additional technical specialists for the Katangans, Union Miničre hired
hundreds of highly visible French, German, and South African mercenaries.
Les affreux (the "frightfuls"), as the unruly
mercenaries were called, were for the most part combat veterans fresh from the
French Foreign Legion's abortive putsch in Algeria. Many had earlier served in
the Wehrmach and SS.
Faced
with this naked reassertion of the old, colonial order in his crucial,
revenue-generating southern provinces, Lumumba appealed to the United Nations
for assistance in reintegrating Katanga. That august body replied that
it could not intervene in an ostensibly "internal" matter,
however blatant external, foreign involvement might be. The secretary general,
Dag Hammarskjöld, explained that the U.N. could at most
supervise the withdrawal of Belgian forces and replace them with U.N. troops, who
would serve purely in a peacekeeping and policing role. As Lumumba had feared,
Belgium complied with U.N. directives by
withdrawing its forces from all provinces except south Katanga. It abandoned
Kamina, after the remaining T-6s had been transferred to the Union Miničre field
at Kolwezi.
In desperation,
Lumumba appealed to the Soviet Union. He asked for advisers, weapons,
trucks, and transport aircraft for a Congolese National Army (ANC). Lumumba
hoped that a rapid invasion of Kasai would stifle the insurrection quickly and
at minimal cost. From Kasai, the ANC could move against Katanga by seizing the
newly vacated airfield at Kamina. The USSR responded much more favorably than
the U.N. had done. A
force of 10-15 Ilyushin Il-14 transports, hastily painted in Congolese
markings, was immediately despatched. These joined 5 requisitioned Air Congo
(SABENA) DC-3s in ferrying 1000 ANC troops into Luluabourg, the capital of
Kasai. Here they massacred hundreds of pro-Kalonji Balubas. Soviet trucks
then arrived to take the Congolese troops and their new Czech officers
south to Kalonji's capital, Bakwanga, which they soon captured. All seemed to
be going well until, with Lumumba's forces only 20 miles from Katanga, Tshombe
became alarmed. He rushed troops to the border and stopped the government
offensive in its trucks. Baluba
tribesmen harried their flanks. And suddenly, there was no target airfield
for the planned airlift into Katanga itself. [You can't parachute jump this is what you get: airfield
runway dependancy!] Belatedly the U.N. had decided to
intervene and had occupied Kamina.
The U.N.'s demands
centered on the removal of foreign forces and foreign-supplied heavy armaments
from the Congo. U.N. officials hoped
that Tshombe would be more tractable once his white advisers and bully boys had
been removed. With this in mind, the popular Secretary General of the U.N., Dag
Hammerskjöld, despatched his Irish deputy, Conor Cruise O'Brien, with orders
to enforce the U.N.'s orders as he
saw fit. Interpreting his instructions as broadly as possible and under
considerable pressure from harassed UN military commanders in the field,
O'Brien's staff put together a plan for neutralizing the white leadership of
the Katangan military, code-named Rum Punch. The operation
achieved near complete surprise. In the pre-dawn hours of 28 August, Ghurkas
attached to the Indian U.N. contingent
seized the radio station and telephone exchange in Elizabethville and the
gendarmerie headquarters. Detachments of Indian, Swedish, and Irish Soldiers captured
military posts throughout the remainder of the province. U.N. forces began to disarm
Katangan gendarmes and oversee the repatriation of foreign mercenaries and
political advisers. There was little chance for resistance, and Tshombe had
little choice but to agree to the expulsions.
Tshombe
was, however, successful in negotiating a brief stay, effective until 9
September. A hardcore of Algeria veterans among the mercenaries now took
advantage of the delay. They gradually took control of the Katangan gendarmerie
and organized it for resistance to the U.N.
O'Brien and his deputies had, in the meantime, decided to put a stop to the
nonsense with another coup de main, codenamed Morthor, Hindu for
"smash". U.N. Soldiers
were to seize the same objectives as before, but would also surround Tshombe's
house and capture his ministers and associates in a series of raids. This time,
Tshombe was ready. Katangan paratroops resisted the attackers. Though
they were soon overwhelmed, they created enough confusion for Tshombe and most
of his officials to escape to Kolwezi. O'Brien nonetheless declared Katanga
once more part of the Congo.
Appalled
by the loss of life and alarmed by O'Brien's seemingly cavalier attitude
towards the U.N.'s limited
mandate, Secretary Hammerskjöld refused to authorize reinforcements for the
embattled U.N. forces in the Congo. Determined to negotiate a ceasefire, he flew
secretly to Ndola, in Northern Rhodesia, to meet with Tshombe. He did not make
it. His DC-4 [DC-6B
Shot-down by Deulin in the Magister] came down 10 miles short of
the runway on the night of 17 September. All aboard were killed.
The
second, less public phase of the Congo's troubles now commenced. By the middle
of 1964, Christopher Gbenye's Lumumbists had, in the interim, seized complete
control of Kivu and Orientale provinces. Well-armed and equipped ANC units fled
in panic before spear-waving bands of rebel Simbas, who were said to believe
themselves immune to bullets. On 4 August, Stanleyville fell without a fight.
The leftist rebels again declared their independence, this time as the
"People's Republic of Congo." They also began a reign of terror
against "counter-revolutionaries" and members of the intelligentsia
and civil service. Thousands were massacred at the feet of Lumumba's many
statues.
As the rebellion spread east, the now desperate Joseph Kasavubu asked none other than Moise Tshombe to accept the post of prime minister and form a new government! Tshombe returned from exile in Spain and rehired his mercenaries for service against the Simbas. Three major units came into being. A South African, Colonel Mike Hoare, organized an English-speaking company called 5 Commando, while Bob Denard, a shady former French para and intelligence agent, formed a Franco-Belgian 6 Commando. A renegade Belgian planter, Jean "Black Jack" Schramme, formed a third unit, 10 Commando.
Faced
with this blatant neocolonialist aggression against a friendly, proto-socialist
third-world country, the Soviet Union and its African allies mounted a
large-scale arms airlift into the still sizable, Simba-held portion of eastern
Congo. Soviet aircraft carried the weapons to military airfields in Algeria,
Ghana, and the United Arab Republic. Then Algerian Antonov An-12 and Ghanaian
Il-18 transports flew the arms into Orientale province, using Brazzaville (in
the former French Congo) as a staging point. Egyptian An-12s mounted a similar
effort to Orientale and Kivu from forward bases in the Sudan. Needless to say,
Simbas with machineguns proved rather harder for mercenaries to deal with than
Simbas with spears.
The success of initial air operations and the magnitude of the Eastern-bloc response caused the CIA to greatly expand its Congo air force. The CIA replaced Tshombe's T-6s with new T-28Ds, and recruited additional pilots and ground crew to operate them.
The new air campaign required a far larger investment in personnel and equipment than had hitherto been the case. More than twenty Cuban pilots were now flying in the Congo, supported by Cuban ground crews. But the rapidly expanding operation required more personnel than this "sanitized" and "deniable" recruitment source could provide. So the CIA formed a shell company with the unlikely sounding name of Anstalt Wigmo, incorporated in Liechtenstein in 1964. This would pose as a private contractor doing maintenance work for the Congolese air force.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/p3emrV0l2OTz/
It had
the range and firepower to undertake missions that the T-28s could not.
Washington set about finding them some aircraft. Unfortunately, this was the
period when an epidemic of wing-spar failures was forcing virtually all of the
world's B-26 users to ground their fleets. The newly remanufactured OnMark
B-26K Counter-Invader was not yet available and was, in any case,
urgently needed in Southeast Asia. Accordingly, four worn-out B-26Bs were taken
from the CIA's bone yard at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines and sent
for minimal refurbishing on Okinawa. These aircraft had seen long, hard service
with the CIA, having flown for the French in Indochina and with contract
personnel in Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Some may have been veterans of the
Bay of Pigs invasion itself. All had been condemned and junked after inspection
by USAF mechanics. In fact, one airplane had to be scrapped on Okinawa. But the
other three were patched up and ferried out to the Congo. Two arrived in August
1964, one having crashed in transit. Unfortunately, neither proved of any use
as a combat airplane. Their dubious structural integrity and generally poor
mechanical condition made pilots reluctant to fly them. One airplane was used
for occasional reconnaissance flights with the tongue-in-cheek designation
"U-3." Later, it was converted into a primitive personnel transport,
so that unit ground crews could escape in the event of a debacle. Neither
airplane was flown much.
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Division (IRD) of MI6-SIS who he worked for as a Master Spy under journalistic
cover from 1933-39 and 1945-1964 when he was murdered (as concluded by
legendary investigative reporter, Jim Marrs to me) to prevent him publicly
condemning the Warren Commission white wash of the CIA's group ambush murder of
his friend, President John F. Kennedy. Former U.K. MP Rupert Allason (spy
author Nigel West) revealed and validated this.
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