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CONCLUSION

Since the TRC's mandate is relatively limited, this investigation has focused on three main issues:

1. Bacon's intelligence operation targeted on the ANC representation in Maputo. 2. Pinto's operation directed toward the ANC representation in Maputo. 3. The alleged link to the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister.

Bacon has tried to play down his role as an intelligence operator but the evidence contradicts this. The whole operation contains all the hallmarks of an advanced intelligence operation. The following facts are pertinent:

1. A false identity was created, including the supply of a false passport. 2. He was given intelligence training. 3. He was employed by a “front company”. 4. He was sent overseas to be able to verify his “legend”. 5. His “legend" was confirmed by his "front company”. 6. Handlers were appointed to him. 7. One or several "safe houses were used to debrief him. 8. He had alternative identities to be used for travel arrangements. 9. He cut off his links with his family. 10. There are strong indications that he received instructions via radio in a manner

that is internationally recognized as a modus operandi for intelligence agents. 11. At a later stage of his operation, he used a computerized e-mail system for

communication. 12. The fact that he was based in Maputo from at least 1984 to 1994, and even more

importantly that he was kept there after 1994 indicates that he or his operation

must have been considered to be of great importance. 13. The role of Gold Star Shipping is of special interest since it could also implicate a

third country in the operation.

It is my contention that Bacon's intelligence-gathering operation falls within the mandate of the TRC given that his intelligence would have fed into the planning of cross-border operations in Mozambique in which both ANC members and Mozambican citizens were killed or injured. The amnesty application of Henri van der Westhuizen gives details of target intelligence gathering in Mozambique undertaken by DCC. As an agent-in-place, Bacon must have been a key link in the collection chain which resulted in at least two operations in Maputo - a 1988 attack on four ANO targets in which the wrong houses were hit and two Mozambicans were killed, and the attempted assassination of Albie Sachs. It is also known that the planning of an attack on an ANC transit facility in Maputo in DEC 86 or Jan 87 was aborted at the last minute as was the planned murder of Robert Davies. detailed dossiers on these two operations would have been developed. There is thus a prima facie case against Bacon of involvement in gross human rights violations.

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H.W. Bacon has not applied for amnesty:

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