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Truth & Reconciliation Commission Investigative Unit Jan-Ake Kjellberg

28 April 1998

A SUMMARY OF THE INVESTIGATION RELATING TO THE ARREST OF A SOUTH AFRICAN CITIZEN IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE

INTRODUCTION

On 23 March 1997, a South African citizen was arrested in Maputo, Mozambique. The initial reason for his arrest was his alleged involvement in a reported attempted arson. The investigation very soon developed into suspicions that the arrested man had been involved in an intelligence operation in Mozambique on behalf of South African Military Intelligence. There were also, at an early stage, indications that his activities might be linked to the assassination of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in Stockholm on 28 February 1986.

The individual in question was born Leon van der Westhuizen but his name was changed at adoption to Henry William Bacon. In 1982, his name was changed legally to Nicho Esslin but the name under which he operated in Mozambique was Nigel Barnett.

INTELLIGENCE

According to information obtained in Maputo, Barnett had been operating in Mozambique as an agent for South African Military Intelligence from 1984 until his arrest in March 1997. In a statement to thư Mozambican police. hc revealed that he had been recruited by Colonel At Nel of the Directorate of Covert Collection in January 1983. He was first placed in a "front company“ in Durban called Lesotho Mountain Carriers, which was in turn, owned by another front company" called Polaris Shipping. Later during 1983, he was supplied with a false passport by ('olonc! At Nel in the name of Nigel Barnell, and with ID NO: 5006305202006.

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