See You In November Rhodesias No Holds Barred Intelligence War
Author: Peter Stiff
Publisher: Galago
Edition: First, 1985
ISBN: 0 947020 07 1
Language: English
Condition: Fair. Age related discolouration, stains and foxing, sellotape marks and the book binding is out of alignment, otherwise a clean copy. Good reading reference copy
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 354. Print with images
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This is the true account of the Rhodesian intelligence war, told by Taffy, the code name of the leader of the Central Intelligence Organisations most secret externally operational team. It is an incredible story of more than six years of high adventure, of bravery and of cunning, of fortitude and of loneliness brought about by the participants being aware that if they were caught, their country, Rhodesia, would disavow all knowledge of them.
It is a story, which, if Rhodesia still existed, would never have been told. Two had earned their impeccable credentials in the elite ranks of the unsurpassed war school that is Britains 22-SAS Regiment and the other was a Zambian farmer, born in that country when it was still Northern Rhodesia. Although their ranks were thinned first by death and then by capture, they succeeded brilliantly in creating a chasm between Rhodesias main terrorist enemies rear based in Zambia, Robert Mugabes ZANU and Joshua Nkomos ZAPU, that lasts to the present day.
They led both parties by the nose on a bewildering dance of death and destruction, making each party believe their rivals were the culprits. By assassinating Herbert Chitepo, ZANUs Chairman, they were responsible for President Kaunda of Zambia arresting all members of the ZANLA Military High Command as murder suspects and expelling ZANU from the country, halting their war effort for 18 months.
The team supplied intelligence for the major raids by the Rhodesians against Joshua Nkomos Soviet supplied and supported ZIPRA bases in Zambia, they attacked Zambian economic targets to discourage them from sup-porting Rhodesian dissidents derailing trains, rocketing a fuel depot and failing only by a stroke of ill fortune from putting the giant Mufulira copper mine permanently out of action.
Taffy guided the SAS into Zambia on a daring al-though abortive raid to kill Nkomo, after ZIPRA had shot down an Air Rhodesia civil airliner with a Soviet supplied surface to air missile, murdering most of the shocked and maimed survivors afterwards.
In September 1979 Taffy went to London to assassinate Robert Mugabe, ZANUs leader, at the Lancaster House constitutional talks. His plan to detonate an explosive device in the foyer of the Royal Gardens Hotel, Kensington, was advanced to trigger stage, when the operation, code named November, was called off. The reason why is a question that remains open for conjecture to this very day.
Included, also, are previously unpublished and sensational details of the training and operations carried out by Taffy while serving with Britains 22-SAS Regiment and the MI-6 plan to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi of Libya in 1970, foiled when Americas CIA found out and stopped it.
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