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Peter John Caselton – SA agent sentenced to four years for raids on London offices of various black organisations. Bertl Wedin, former Swedish military intelligence officer, found not guilty.
Caselton worked with professional burglar, Edward Aspinall, through Isle of Man front co. Africa Aviation Consultants (G 12th April 1983). Details of court proceedings (T. 21 April 1983). Appeal rejected (G. 8th June 1983). Evidence that Bertl was maybe not so innocent, and had links with Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983).
Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983).
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SA propaganda links to Tory rightwingers and funding of Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) (G. 11th February 1983). In recent years FARI’s members have included Cons. MP’s Julian Amery, Director of Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining; Amery is ex-British intelligence and probably still a link to SIS, Julian Critchley, Philip Goodhard and Tom Normanton, Director of Commercial Union Assurance (CUA) and Midland Bank; and Sir Ian Gilmour.
Current FARI Chairman is Sir Frederick Bennet, Director of CAU and Kleinwort Benson and a member of the Bilderberg group.
See Labour Research June 1983 – The South African Connection, for Tory links to SA. Also mentioned are the familiar names of G. Stewart Smith, Ian Greig and Lord Chalfont.
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Funding of ‘cultural’ links between UK and SA by Yorkshire-born millionaire, Stuart Weaver, founder of the Pennine textile group. Weaver is founder and Chairman of ‘Friends of Springbok’ – 100,000 members claimed in 10 countries – and Chairman of ‘Weaver International Friendship Foundation’, which arranges cheap fares to SA. Both organisations hold meetings in UK at which SA affairs are discussed. Weaver also launched the ‘Support The Springbok Cricketers’ aimed against Peter Hain’s attempt to stop the tours, and may have been involved with SA front organisation ‘Club of Ten’. Weaver’s PR man, Geoff Wald, gave Gordon Winter a small bribe to knock down that particular rumour by writing a favourable article in The Citizen, Feb. 27th 1978: British Tycoon Denies Tie-up With SA Government. See Winter below pp488-491.
9.
Inside BOSS – South Africa’s Secret Police
Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981)
About to go out of print – essential reading. Caused Penguin considerable publishing and legal difficulties.
(SD)
10.
Economic Power in Anglo-South African Diplomacy
Geoff Berridge (Macmillan, London 1981).
Background to post-war UK-SA link: Economic Power in Anglo-South African Diplomacy – Geoff Berridge (Macmillan, London 1981). Was £20, now remaindered at around £2. Very good, too, if not for the economically illiterate.
(RR)
11.
Broederbond, secret society said to more or less run SA, is splitting under the strains of pressure towards reform of apartheid. B’ bond Ch’man Boshoff resigned (G. 6th July 1983). Described in ST 10th July as ‘enforced resignation’. On B’bond’s history and scope of its operations, see The Broederbond,Wilkins and Strydom (Corgi, London 1980)