Opinion / Columnist
The desperation of Mugabe's CIO
09 Jul 2011 at 16:53hrs | Views
Mugabe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agents abroad are on a mission abroad to instil fear and disrupt the anti-Mugabe movement in the Diaspora. Among tactics they use are stalking bloggers (writers of internet articles) and just being a nuisance. I know what I am talking about.
Among things of special interest to them are the motivation and drive behind the new wave of online opinion papers written by Zimbabweans exercising their freedom of expression to criticise Mugabe's dictatorship and to educate people by challenging Zanu-pf propaganda. The regime is still very afraid of a Tunisia and is not leaving anything to chance.
One of the things that has irritated the leadership of the much-hated spy organisation is the courage of people to engage the regime in a no-holds barred global confrontation through the internet and independent radio stations.
So worried is the regime that it is desperately trying to find out if bloggers are being financed in their ever-growing attacks on the regime. What the CIO does not know is that not all Zimbabweans are motivated by money in their quest for a democratic, stable, non-racial and progressive country.
What is surprising the CIO is the fact that the cyber warfare against Mugabe's dictatorship is growing faster and in a very focused way by targeting the regime's propaganda which it uses to mislead people.
While their bosses back home are busy engaged in illicit deals involving precious minerals, CIO spies are wondering why some Zimbabweans are working tirelessly if they are not paid for expressing their opinions freely outside Zimbabwe's borders.
In 2008 CIO spies stepped up their surveillance of Harare-based Western embassies and aid agencies it suspects of co-ordinating funding for the opposition (The Zimbabwean, 01/03/08). That was an election year and they had reason to worry about opposition to Mugabe. Top on their list of the aid agencies they were targeting were Germany's humanitarian foundations Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Others on the CIO list of surveillance were ZLHR, ZDHR, LSA, NCA, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, ZINASU, Hivos, CIDA, DANIDA, MSO, NORAD, USAID, WFP and DfID. WOZA women also said they were being stalked by the CIO.
Fixed telephone lines at virtually all the suspected aid agencies and embassies were bugged by the CIO. Journalists were not spared the surveillance during the CIOGATE (NewZimbabwe, 11/12/09). The CIO hatched a plan to harm journalists who had exposed their dirty plans.
In the UK Mugabe's spies are active regardless of the laws of the host country. According to Guy Talyor , "often these agents pose as asylum seekers, completely fooling the UK border agency and judges of the immigration tribunals," ( Mugabe's spying on Britain, 20 May 2011).
It is common knowledge that there are some CIO agents in the UK, some of who were making life so difficult for Zimbabwe opposition supporters based in Southend and elsewhere pretend to be seeking asylum or students. What the CIO does not know is that we alert others about their presence and evil activities once we have identified them.
Contact author: zimanalysis2009@gmail.com
Among things of special interest to them are the motivation and drive behind the new wave of online opinion papers written by Zimbabweans exercising their freedom of expression to criticise Mugabe's dictatorship and to educate people by challenging Zanu-pf propaganda. The regime is still very afraid of a Tunisia and is not leaving anything to chance.
One of the things that has irritated the leadership of the much-hated spy organisation is the courage of people to engage the regime in a no-holds barred global confrontation through the internet and independent radio stations.
So worried is the regime that it is desperately trying to find out if bloggers are being financed in their ever-growing attacks on the regime. What the CIO does not know is that not all Zimbabweans are motivated by money in their quest for a democratic, stable, non-racial and progressive country.
What is surprising the CIO is the fact that the cyber warfare against Mugabe's dictatorship is growing faster and in a very focused way by targeting the regime's propaganda which it uses to mislead people.
While their bosses back home are busy engaged in illicit deals involving precious minerals, CIO spies are wondering why some Zimbabweans are working tirelessly if they are not paid for expressing their opinions freely outside Zimbabwe's borders.
In 2008 CIO spies stepped up their surveillance of Harare-based Western embassies and aid agencies it suspects of co-ordinating funding for the opposition (The Zimbabwean, 01/03/08). That was an election year and they had reason to worry about opposition to Mugabe. Top on their list of the aid agencies they were targeting were Germany's humanitarian foundations Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Others on the CIO list of surveillance were ZLHR, ZDHR, LSA, NCA, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, ZINASU, Hivos, CIDA, DANIDA, MSO, NORAD, USAID, WFP and DfID. WOZA women also said they were being stalked by the CIO.
Fixed telephone lines at virtually all the suspected aid agencies and embassies were bugged by the CIO. Journalists were not spared the surveillance during the CIOGATE (NewZimbabwe, 11/12/09). The CIO hatched a plan to harm journalists who had exposed their dirty plans.
In the UK Mugabe's spies are active regardless of the laws of the host country. According to Guy Talyor , "often these agents pose as asylum seekers, completely fooling the UK border agency and judges of the immigration tribunals," ( Mugabe's spying on Britain, 20 May 2011).
It is common knowledge that there are some CIO agents in the UK, some of who were making life so difficult for Zimbabwe opposition supporters based in Southend and elsewhere pretend to be seeking asylum or students. What the CIO does not know is that we alert others about their presence and evil activities once we have identified them.
Contact author: zimanalysis2009@gmail.com
Source - Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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