in Angola. rather rapid exit from Sweden.
at a tennis court in Stockholm CIA man, telling Opot that they I'll scratch yours', Hutchins was reported as saying.
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Last week Bruce Hutchins, second secretary at the US Embassy in Stockholm, made a hasty exit from Sweden. His departure coincided with revelations in the magazine he was a CIA agent and had attempted to recruit a Kenyan freelance journalist employed by Radio Sweden for intelligence work The Fib-Kulturfront article gave a detailed picture of US concerns in Angola and how the CIA recruits agents. The London Evening Stan- Country dard ran the story as its main forcign news report on 4 March. but by next morning the item had mysteriously vanished from the pages of the national press despite Hutchins Hutchins first made contact with Arthur Opot, the Kenyan journalist, where Opot regularly played with again at any time.
African diplomats. They played ball for several weeks before Hutchins finally exposed himself as a were investigating a Chinese diplomat. Opot was told he could expect good money if he joined the investigation: If you scratch my back, Just what this meant was revealed after a very thorough CIA investigation into Opot's background. HutThere is a pressing need for confirmation and details on the reported arrival in Congo (Brazzaville) and/or Angola of MIG-21 According to some reports, MIGs were delivered to Brazzaville in early November, and press reports of 14 November quote East European sources in Luanda as saying about 400 Soviets have arrived in Luanda for the purpose of manning tanks and MIG-21s in support of MPLA - sarea information 0l Who is the SR representative already there, who is too conservative to be All info on his: bio, assessment.
Above top: extract from Opot's first briefing document demanding detailed information on Soviet military hardware. Below it the demand in briefing number two for information on Swedish journalists in Angola.
As the plane carrying the new Ameri Fib-Kulturfront that chins offered to obtain the release of a cousin of Opot who had been recently arrested in an East African After consulting fellow journalists, Opot agreed to 'play the game and with them work up an article on the CIA in Sweden. Opot started delevering false information on African diplomats in Sweden and the Chinese diplomat. His cousin was released, but Hutchins warned that the CIA could get him arrested On 19 September Opot was asked to go to Angola to collect political and military information on the MPLA government. The briefing document he was given (see extract below) is very complex and impossible for a single agent to answer, indicating that the CIA had about 15-30 agents in Angola at that time.
Opot returned to Sweden with none of the required information. but despite two days questioning in a hotel room by Hutchins, he Our witty friends in Fleet Street have ARTHUR OPOT was sent to Angola a second time His second briefing document contained questions about two Swedish journalists in Angola, making Hutchins responsible for espionage a much graver offence. The second document also contained a revealing demand for 'proofs and details concerning any form of Russian pressure on the MPLA to agree to a compromise solution with the FNLA and UNITA'.
If Hutchins had not been sheltered by diplomatic immunity he could have been taken to court in Sweden. The offences would have been blackmail (maximum 6 years in prison), 'not allowed intelligence activity" (two years), and possibly illegal threats (two years) and espionage (six years).
As it was, he fled just in time -Fib-Kulturfront reported that the Swedish Foreign Department was planning to declare him "persona non grata. This would in effect have meant his deportation. Cord Meyer et al take note. was being prepared for publication when