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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 12. June 8 1981

[Introduction]

MOZAMBIQUE

The US Central Intelligence Agency and the South African secret services worked together to obtain up to date information on the Mozambican armed forces and on liberation movements which have representatives in Mozambique.

This information was revealed after the breaking up of a CIA spy network based in the American embassy in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. In March this year the country's foreign ministry announced the expulsion of six American citizens, four of them full time staff members of the embassy.

They were Frederick Lundahl, the embassy's Second Secretary; Louis Olliver, Second Secretary; Arthur Russel, communications officer; and Patricia Russel, secretary of the embassy's political section. Karen Lundahl and Ginger Ollivier, wives of the two Second Secretaries, though not part of the embassy staff, were also expelled because they took part in support operations.

The Foreign Ministry communique said the US diplomats had 48 hours to leave Mozambique because of "proven activities in espionage, subversion and interference in the internal affairs of the People's Republic of Mozambique".

The charge d'affaires of the US embassy was notified of the decision by Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano who strongly condemned such "blatant interference by the CIA in the internal affairs" of Mozambique.

Commenting on the government action Maputo's daily 'Noticias' said in an editorial that the expulsion of CIA officers from Mozambique was "one of the most important exposures ever in Africa of the activities of the largest and best organised international subversive organisation".