According to a CIO memorandum from Director-General, Happyton Bonyongwe, Mugabe has given instructions that strict surveillance missions be carried out on leaders of the opposition, the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA).
Bonyongwe describes these four as hostile organisations that should be crushed before elections, now seemingly scheduled for March next year.
“Zim 1 has now directed that all suspended missions be resumed immediately. However, renewed efforts are to be channelled towards MDC, NCA, Crisis in Zim and WOZA. Strict surveillance missions to be maintained on leaders of these and usual corrective methods employed”.
CIO sources also told The Zimbabwean that the “usual corrective methods” being referred to in the memorandum are arrests, abductions, torture and even executions, which are now synonymous with the CIO, Mugabe’s most feared terror squads.
“Executive Instruction is that these hostile organisations should be crushed and completely destroyed before elections next year,” reads part of the memorandum, whose reference number is DGRO93/07.
Dated 12/1/7, it is addressed to the agency’s Director Internal and copied to Didymus Mutasa, the Minister of State Security, Deputy Directors and Provincial Intelligence Officers.
The agency has already received more than Z$5 trillion meant for the “first phase” of the terror campaign, dubbed “Operation 2008” and most “field agents” have already been deployed in their strategic positions, said the sources.
Mutasa refused to talk to me on the matter. “Hey, I do not want to talk to you. Leave me alone, I am very busy,” he said over his mobile phone.
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