CIO Spies on NGOs, Diplomats to Strangle Opposition Funding.

They said the notorious spy agency was also stalking leaders of non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The umbrella National Association for Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO) – a coalition of more than 350 organisations operating in Zimbabwe – has issued an alert warning its members of the surveillance operation and urging them to remain vigilant.
Zimbabwe’s ambassador to South Africa, Simon Khaya-Moyo on Tuesday told the Institute of Security Studies, a Pretoria-based independent think-tank, that Prime Minister Gordon Brown was stoking political tension by working with the opposition to bring President Mugabe down.
He said government had in its possession a letter from Brown to the Law Society of Zimbabwe confirming that the British Premier had channelled funding to Zimbabwean groups working for democratic change.
The Zimbabwean can reveal that the CIO is working on a dossier accusing the NGOs of embezzling funds amounting to US$88,7 million in aid money mobilised by the UNDP for Zimbabwe’s consolidated aid appeal in 2003
The letter Khaya-Moyo mentioned at the ISS briefing is believed to be part of the body of evidence gathered so far by the CIO, and reveals a £3,3 million donation to the LSZ from Brown via the British Law Society, whose spokesman Steve Rudaini confirmed this week the bona fides of the letter. He said the letter was leaked.
Fixed telephone lines at virtually all the suspected aid agencies and embassies have been bugged, the sources disclosed. They said the CIO was even establishing and recording the identities and frequencies of movements of people who visit these aid agencies and embassies, in addition to opening mail directed to these organisations, including e-mails.
According to an official document shown to The Zimbabwean this week, top on the list of the aid agencies being targeted by the CIO are Germany’s humanitarian foundations Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Friedrich Naumann Foundation.
Also on the list is ZLHR, ZDHR, LSA, NCA, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, ZINASU, Hivos, CIDA, SIDA, DANIDA, MSO and Norad. Also under the CIO microscope is USAID, WFP and DfID.
All Western embassies in Zimbabwe but particularly the United States, the British, Swedish and the German embassies had also been put under strict surveillance, the sources said. The movement of diplomats was also being monitored as part of efforts to prove who they associated with.