Fighting Men of Rhodesia ep213 | D SO Colin Evans | BSAP Special Branch
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The scent of fresh spoor. Don't stop now. Persist.
Thank you for those factual corrections Colin. And your short story.
WELL DONE Colin Evans for giving such a forthright and honest account of all the untruths and distortions...
Some very interesting historical facts , great talk , thankyou for sharing .
God bless Colin.
Thanks Colin for this interesting interview.Are there any books about the CIO that would be worth reading.
Very interesting interview
Very interesting interview! Thank you!! More please🙏🙏
Good man
Mac McGuinness is a man who comes up in a lot of conversations. Will Keys among others mentioned him. Peter McAleese the British SAS mercenary speaks about him in his books and only in the most glowing terms (while he presents a pretty negative picture of Rhodesians), but then, the longer his career went on, the more McAleese seems to have become a thinly disguised employee of British Intelligence. Many say McGuinness was also an employee of foreign governments. McGuinness has practically no online entries, certainly not Wikipedia. He died, attacked and killed in his home, along with his wife (or so I believe..) I obviously decry any peacetime violence against anyone, certainly someone peaceably residing in their own home, let alone somebody who is elderly. I wonder, does anyone know anything about what happened to him? Was it just random Southern African violence, or something else? Many thanks to the channel and contributors for all the interviews and histories from this time period.
Colin Evans :McGuiness was a great leader of the Scouts intel and a good operator during the war. However once the war ended and he and Stannard teamed up they only had one loyalty and that was to themselves.
@@ColinDEvans Thanks for your input on the subject, Colin, and for the interview.
Hi Colin. You are spot on about Danny and Mac.
After Danny had left cio and was involved in consulting and cricket ma agement he would regularly come to my office for a cup of tea and a chat, mainly about the old times and cricket.
Then I guess he was no longer needed by zanu and they staged an issue with one of his daughters and children as a not so subtle hint it was time to leave..
@@mikenorton3294 Colin Evans: Hi Mike great to hear from you and thanks for your comments on Danny and Mac. Very sad how they changed and betrayed what we all stood for. By the way I have enjoyed your Op Enterprise memoirs.
As mentioned by Colin, Mr Mac was highly regarded by my mates in Selous Scouts. But the one thing that troubled me after l had moved to Johannesburg was to find that he owned the Guildhall, one of the few drinking spots in Joburg that had a Kruger Licence. These establishments were like rocking horse shit & to acquire this required big bucks. Hardly the type of money that an ex SB officer would ever see in his lifetime?
Thanks
Thank you so much! We really appreciate it :)
Your welcome, have a good weekend.
Thanks Guys. Howzit Colin. I can varify Colins facts because Phil came to work for me after returning from England and before Joining Rich in KZN. Phil was a fine man. Certainly some bad eggs that turned on their own for personal recognition. Thats why I never joined CIO when asked and thank God I didnt. God Bless Guys.
Colin Evans: Thanks for the response and confirmation. Good to hear from you after all these years . Hope All well.
A wise move not to join CIO.
Ja, after 1978 the thing "went south" it was blamed on a lot that had nothing to do with it. The CCB caused a lot of strife and some are still at it even today. Let it go.
Ken Flowers name comes to the fore quiet often as batting for the enemy. I would like to hear Colins opinion if possible
I will ask him
Colin Evans. His name does crop up often by many people but I have never seen any tangible evidence. A lot of his decisions such as canceling the swapping of ballot papers during the election and not approving a number of assassination plans on senior ZANU and ZAPU leaders made him unpopular but as the decisions stopped illegal operations I don't think it means he was working for a foreign power and those were their decisions
Deny deny deny ...is the correction 😅
Who was this joe kwaby/kwavy?
Joe Gqabi (6 April 1929 - 31 July 1981) was a South African African National Congress activist who was the ANC's chief representative in Zimbabwe at the time of his assassination in Salisbury in 1981.
@@fightingmenofrhodesia ah OK, thanks John. I will Google more info on him
So who was the alleged mole pre-1980 ??
Colin Evans. That was the question when externals started going wrong and still is the question and whilst a lot of accusations have been levelled and names raised, as far as I know there is no evidence available and probably never will be.
Tks Colin.
@@fraseredk7433 Always niggled at my mind, all mentions are of a mole - why not more? Each not knowing of the other and a "controller" they all report to? Personally, I think with the nature of our ops and our overall gambit in World politics I reckon that a den was deeply entrenched to our eventual detriment.
Colin Evams: 100% agree. I believe that there were a number of people both in police, CIO and army working for foreign governments.
Why all the editing? Lets hear what Colin has to say without redactions. 🤷
Hi. No editing took place. Doing the interview is difficult to organise your thoughts so maybe I was a bit disjointed.
@@ColinDEvans no problem, thanks. I saw the pic with Den Thomson (RIP). I knew him very well. Top bloke and very funny guy. 👍
I only edited out the pauses and silent bits where Colin referred to his notes. No actual content was redacted or excised. I do the same for every interview when there are umms and ahhs. Nobody needs to wade thru long silences while the interviewee checks his notes.
@@fightingmenofrhodesiaok, makes sense. 👊
Colin Evans: All good guys and sadly many no longer with us. . I also meant to include Keith Chisnall who I did a few ops with and who was an integral part of Pachedu and recommend his book Watch my Tracer in my interview