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in 1983-84 hy a South African customs representative in Mozambique named Van Staaden. Ile has also admitted that he twice assisted Barnett in getting hold of certain documents related to the harbour in Maputo.

In 1987 Pinto was introduced to Mr. Antonio Pombo, a former South African Military Liaison Officer at the Trade Mission in Maputo, by Van Staaden. Amongst the items found in N. Esslin's safety box, in the Durban Nedbank branch was a handwritten note", dated January 1988. On it is written "R100.00 Mr. Pinto, Mr. Van Stuuden". Mr. H.W. Bacon has not yet been asked about this note but it indicates a connection between Bacon, Pinto and Van Staaden. It is suggested that the role of Van Staaden be further investigated. Bacon has revealed that he was once asked by Pombo to take an envelope to a person at the ANC office in Maputo called Monde. Hedid so and this led to Pinto being offered some work at different ANC houses in Maputo. At this time. Pinto was running his own construction company and he was asked to do some plumbing and general repair and construction work in offices and apartments where ANC people worked or lived.

From this time in 1987, Pinto regularly took envelopes from Mr. Monde to Swaziland where he met Pombo in Mbabane in an office above a restaurant. He has stated that he is not sure of the name of the restaurant but he thinks it was called C'-international (possibly the Continental which was a restaurant in the Swazi Plaza in Mbabane at the time). Most of the time he met Mr. Pombo, but if he was not there, he gave the envelopes to his secretary. According to Pinto, he delivered about one envelope per month during the period 1987-88 for which he was paid R500 per delivery. Normally he also brought an envelope back to Mr. Monde in Maputo from Mr. Pombo.

He has stated that he never opened or in any way tried to access the contents of the envelopes. He did not know what information it contained.

Pinto has stated that he also sometimes brought envelopes to Mr. Pombo from a man at the ANC office called Francis. This man worked as a radio reporter at Radio Mozambique and as far as Mr. Pinto can recall he was also a member of ANC. Pinto believes that Monde and Francis were transferred from Maputo to Lusaka in 1988 or 1989 which was when his work for Pumbo finished.

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This information has not been followed up or investigated. Of interest is the fact that Bacon's handler mentioned Antonio Pombo in relation to Bacon's operation and that some sort of disturbance occurred in the relationship between Bacon and Pombo. This led to the withdrawal of Pombo from Maputo.

Pinto was released on 25 September 1997, pending further investigation and a decision by the prosecutor.

Handwritten note, January 1988.

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