From: mark@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Scandal alert: Cape Times article "SADF LIED" 17/11/92.
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:18:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Nov17.121816.203287
Organization: University of Cape Town

[from the Cape Times, Tuesday 17 November 1992:]

SADF LIED
Army paid CCB man for smears
By Barry Streek, Political Staff

The government has become embroiled in a security scandal with the
disclosure by the Goldstone Commission that convicted double murderer
Ferdi Barnard was employed last year by Military Intelligence to 
discredit uMkonto weSizwe (MK).

The commission said yesterday that the SA Defense Force had claimed in
a statement - now found to have been untrue - that Barnard, a former
policeman and former member of the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) was
not employed by the army.

The commission had found evidence of Barnard's employment by the SADF
when it raided a building housing a Military Intelligence unit last 
Wednesday and seized files.

The commission's findings were diclosed yesterday my its chairman, Mr
Justice Richard Goldstone.

The ANC said yesterday the disclosures confirmed what it had experienced
since its unbanning in 1990.

Questioned in London last night, President FW de Klerk denied his
security services had a mandate to undermine the ANC, and said anyone
caught doing to would be brought to book.

There mignt be "elements related . . . to maybe a few individuals" who
broke the rules, but this was not government policy, he told Britains
Channel Four TV news.

The Acting State President, Mr Pik Botha, said the government was giving
"urgent attention" to Mr Justice Goldstone's statement.

Mr Justice Goldstone said one of the people used by Barnard had helped 
in-stall computers at the ANC's headquarters.

In addition Barnard's team could get access to:
~ The computer system at the Police's criminal bureau.
~ Contacts at immigration control.
~ Contacts at licencing authorities.
~ Revenue office computers.
~ An independant group of telephone "buggin experts".

Mr Justice Goldstone said evidence from police had led to the commission's
search-ing the MI operations unit centre.

He said the commission believed "the evidence was of such a nature that
the public needs to know".

The five files taken from the MI building showed that Barnard, "a no-
torious former member of the CCB", had been employed by MI between
May 1991 and December 1991, as a result of a referral to the Director 
of Covert Collection by the former Chief of Staff Intelligence, 
Lieutenant-General Rudolph "Witkop" Badenhorst.

Between May 1991 and July 1991, Barnard had been employed for a trial
period at a monthly salary of R3000 and with operational expenses of
R800.  On August 1 his appointment became permanent.  His salary was
raised to R3500 and his monthly ex-penses to R2000.

"That appointment was recom-mended by the Director of Covert Collection
and approved by General Badenhorst".

Mr Justice Goldstone said Barnard was a former police drug squad
sergeant and had two previous convictions for murder, one for attempted
murder and three for theft.

He was sentanced to 20 years' imprisonment, effective for six years.  He
was released on parole after four years and employed in the CCB.

Barnard, now 33, was convicted of murdering two drug addicts after 
leading them into a trap, attempting to murder a third drug addict and
stealing three cars.

Mr Justice Goldstone said that be-cause of his previous convictions 
Barnard was not allowed to possess a firearm but the Director of
Covert Collection had recommended that he be given a firearm.

General Badenhorst refused to approve this.

On June 20 last year, Barnard submitted to MI a plan for the task force
he was to lead.  It was to concentrate solely on the activities of MK.

"In particular it was to concentrate on the involvement of MK in crime
and its relationship with criminal syndicates.

"For that purpose MK members were to be used to infiltrate criminal 
elements and where such members could not be recruited they would be
criminally compromised.

"For that purpose use would be made, among others, of prostitutes, 
homosexuals, shebeen owners and drug dealers."

Barnard's plan was submitted to senior MI members and after this he was 
employed as a chief agent.

On December 19 a newpaper reported that a Mr Christopher Human had stated 
in a bail application that Barnard had tried to recruit him for Military 
Intelligence and had left an Uzi machine-gun with him.  Barnard was placed 
"on ice" immediately and his services terminated on December 30 by the 
then-Minister of Defence, Mr Roelf Meyer.

According to the newspaper article, "a spokesman for the army denied that 
Barnard was employed by the army".

That denial was false," Mr Justice Goldstone said.

He also said that the MI centre raided last week had 48 members who 
operated credit cards.

"The expenditure by way of the cards involve hundreds of thousands of rands.

"One of the 48 members, until his recent dismissal, was Mr LWJ Flores, who 
was detained by the British police on suspicion that he was in-volved in a 
plot to murder former policeman Mr Dirk Coetzee.

"The commission believes that no decent member of the security forces would 
support or approve of such conduct or behavior by any branch of those forces.

"It can be calculated only to undermine their respect for the legitimacy 
and moral bese of thier own organisation and jeopardise the efficiency 
and resolve to fight against crime."

Responding the the disclosures last night, ANC spokesman Mr Saki Macazoma 
said the report was "shocking because contrary to belief that there were a 
few renegades conducting the activities we now find that top offi-cials are 
involved".

He urged President FW de Klerk to purge the security forces, put good 
people in the top posts and move speedily to an interim government.

Democratic Party leader Dr Zach de Beer said the statement underscored what 
his party had come to suspect: that reports of a third force in the 
security establishment were increasingly being verified.
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