| The Russians & Communists in South Africa |
NB: This is a very important page. It is a quick, but highly informative photo essay of some of the
amazing Russian/KGB/Communist activity in South Africa and southern Africa. Please spread this around.
It is bound to amaze people. Take a good look at the two men above. Would you believe they are one and the same? This is Bram Fischer before (left) and after (right) undergoing some surgery. Bram Fischer was a notorious South African communist. He was on the run from the authorities when the KGB helped him. Fischer was in hiding inside South Africa when he decided to change his identity. He underwent surgery to change his features. Fischer had undergone a complete physical change. He had lost much weight and, with an electric needle, the hair roots on his forehead had been burned out. His eyebrows had also been greatly altered by the same process. He looked a different man, complete with new glass frames, dyed hair, goatee beard and plastic surgery. He had engineered this metamorphosis while hiding at Rustenburg. During his Rustenburg experience he had been in contact with someone acting as a courier for the KGB in South Africa. This courier had secured photographs of the new Mr. Fischer after surgery and sent them to Moscow to the KGB's Fourth Division of the First Directorate. In their 135 Lubyanka Street headquarters, they prepared for him fake and forged documents of various types so that he could travel and open bank accounts under an assumed name.  Above is the bilingual driver's licence the KGB forged for him!  And here is the bilingual identity card the KGB forged for him!  Fischer was a master of disguise. Here is a small portion of his disguise equipment which included: female clothes, wigs, hats, suntan lotion, glasses, female gloves, dresses, false beards, fake number plates and various false documents  This man is Yuriy Loginov, a KGB agent who was in Johannesburg in 1967.  This is his KGB-forged identity document showing him to be a Canadian citizen!!  These are the hollowed-out Pakistani Rupees Loginov used to transport microfilm in! Both Loginove and his wife turned out to be KGB spies. His wife had in fact been sent by the KGB to Cuba to perform some intelligence missions against Cuba! Below is Captain Alexei Myagkov, a former Yugoslavian counter-intelligence officer:-  Frequently various KGB officers brave the storm and take the extreme risk of defecting to the freedom of the West. One such defector visited the Republic as the guest of the Freedom Foundation of South Africa. He was Captain Alexei Myagkov, a former KGB counter-intelligence officer. His factual revelations regarding Africa, and especially South Africa, were astounding. Myagkov said there might be "as many as 400 KGB agents operating in South Africa". His statement that "all the Soviet Union is doing in Angola and Mozambique is geared towards getting to South Africa" came as a revelation to the uninformed South African public. Further, his statement that "the Russians would like to have the whole of Southern Africa, and South Africa is the key to that ambition" has been an established fact among security officials. However, one of the biggest problems faced by the Soviets was "not having an embassy in South Africa". Without this, they are greatly hindered in their attempts to subvert and overthrow the Government. As an alternative, "they work through embassies in neighbouring states". He further explained how certain young people are persuaded to leave South Africa and are then sent to a special school in Samarkand, USSR, for seven to twelve years of special training. They are then sent back into South Africa as servants of the KGB, where they get to work organizing conspiracies and manipulating other people He said "these people have caused trouble here in South Africa". One point he stressed is that these KGB trainees have been drilled and taught to "commit suicide should the going get too hard and they feel they might give away too much under interrogation". Possibly this would explain the "deaths" of some of South Africa's detainees over the years. In the whole of Southern Africa, he estimated that there is a total of between 3 000 and 5 000 active agents. An American publication revealed that "39 000 Soviet-bloc advisers are now being based in Southern Africa". There are hundreds of espionage agents among this number.  This is Major Aleksie Koslov, a KGB agent who was arrested in South Africa in 1980 due to a tip-off from West German Intelligence. He was later repatriated as part of a prisoner exchange. The Security Police built up 3 bulky dossiers on him, his links to the ANC and SACP (South African communist party) as well as Kremlin activities in Western Europe. As you can appreciate, South Africa only caught a handful of KGB spies. Most remained undetected. Later in the 1980's it was discovered that one of the highest ranking officers in the South African Navy, the Commodore in charge of Simon's Town, South Africa's largest naval base, had been a KGB spy for most of his life. His wife was also discovered to be a KGB agent. Their discovery was a total accident. I remember hearing news reports in the 1980's that there were was another KGB agent discovered in the South African army, but nothing further was heard about this. |