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Early in 1984 he was told hy Colonel At Nel that Polaris Shipping needed a representative in Maputo. Later that year he was placed in that post and started his intelligence operation for the DCC.

He has stated that his main handler up to 1994 was Colonel At Nel and thereafter until his arrest in March 1997. Horace Doncaster. The latter was at this point the Director of the DCC and is perhaps indicative of the importance of Barnett as a source and operative. He has also named the co-handlers during the period 1984-1994. He has explained that Nel and Doncaster were his handlers on an operational level while the co-handlers were his administrative handlers.

He has described his tasks as an intelligence gatherer by dividing them in two main time periods:

1984-86/87: Collected data on the serviceability of Maputo llarhour. c.g. how many cranes and forklifts in working condition, etc.?

1987- 92/93: Collecting data on ANC' personnel, supporters, transit houses and foreign visitors, i.e., target identification. In general, this operation was aimed at monitoring the activities of the ANC representation in Maputo.

His tasks in the 1993-97 period is unclear. However, a copy of a report' dated 11/02/97 was secured during the investigation which clearly shows that - and Barnell has confessed as much - that his intelligence activities continued after the clections in South Africa in 1994. Furthermore, another report dated 11/12/1995 which, apart from the fact that it support the evidence that he was active at this time, also indicates that Barnett had a very good "source" within the civilian intelligence agency (SISE) in Mozambique.

In short, this investigation has established that South African Military Intelligence continued to run an operation in Mozambique after the democratic elections in South Africa 1994, using at least some of the apartheid-era agentsin-place, such as Barnett.

OLOF PALME

The investigation into Barnett's possible links with the murder of the Swedish PM was initiated by the fact that a tape recording was found in his possession of an international radio-broadcast by Radio-Sweden in which details from the Swedish investigation into the murder were revealed. Furthermore, it was established that the suspect had a family connection with Sweden. Ile was adopted as it young child by a South African father and Swedish mother. There was also information available that he had visited Sweden a number of times. A search of his apartment uncovered letters

To: N. is copy of report found on a computer disk in Barnett's apartment. A report dated 11/12.1995. directings all".

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