Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
A question often posed by historians and many others. This post refers to 1978-1979 in Southern Africa, with Rhodesia as the key focus. For complicated reasons I have long had an interest in the history of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe and visited once for a holiday in 1985.

Tonight a BBC Radio Four documentary 'Document' in a programme entitled 'Did UK warn Mugabe and Nkomo about assassination attempts?' reveals the facts behind:

Link to BBC News summary, a podcast will be available tonight after the broadcast:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14311834

Some Rhodesians have blamed 'perfidious Albion' having access to Rhodesia's inner secrets, in particular using traitors and one Ken Flowers, the CIO Director (Rhodesia's external intelligence agency). So this will reinforce their suspicions, citing the British Foreign Secretary Lord Owen can clear up that mystery too:

Ken Flowers is deceased, as are many of those he worked with and those who suspected him.
David, thanks for the tip, I will certainly be listening tonight.

It needs to be said that Rhodesian counter-intelligence was poor generally.

On the positive side it should be noted that while the target was not at home when the boys arrived at least there was no "reception committee" in waiting.