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4 unusual facts about Craig Williamson


Bertil Wedin

His accuser, Peter Caselton – who with eight others including Craig Williamson had applied for amnesty from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the March 1982 bombing of the ANC office in London – was allegedly a member of an apartheid South Africa assassination squad.

Wedin was eventually acquitted of the offence by an English court but not before having admitted that he was working for - and being paid by - South African intelligence, and that he had been recruited by South African superspy Craig Williamson.

Craig Williamson

Williamson addressed a letter-bomb to exiled anti-apartheid activist, Marius Schoon, in Angola but killed Schoon's wife Jeanette and daughter Katryn on 28 June 1984.

International Freedom Foundation

In apparent support of the politicians' denial, a former member of SA's Directorate of Military Intelligence, Major Craig Williamson, told Newsday that Operation Babushka was designed so that the people it recruited would be unaware of the foreign funding — they would simply be reinforcing their own principled views on South Africa and the ANC.



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