U.K.: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY EXPRESSES WORRY OF SECRET POLICE ACTIVITY DURING SOUTH AFRICAN VISIT.
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U.K.: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY EXPRESSES WORRY OF SECRET POLICE ACTIVITY DURING SOUTH AFRICAN VISIT.
- Title: U.K.: ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY EXPRESSES WORRY OF SECRET POLICE ACTIVITY DURING SOUTH AFRICAN VISIT.
- Date: 9th December 1970
- Summary: 1. GV London. 0.13 2. CU Archbishop Ramsey. 1.02 TRANSCRIPTS: (SEQ 2): RAMSEY: "Because the whole population is aware of it. Secret police, special branch policemen and amongst the Africans paid informers spying on meetings, spying on conversations." REPORTER: "Do you feel yourself that you were being spied upon. Did you feel that your room might be bugged even ?." RAMSEY: "Sometimes I used to say to myself "Is the room bugged" but the bugging of the room didn't seem to be the issue so much as that people who talked to me might be interrogated about me, what they were talking to me about." REPORTER: "And what of the church. Are there informers within the church, do you think ?" RAMSEY: "There was no doubt all that at the meeting of the church's synod on my first morning there were paid informers so that Africans were inhibited as churchmen from speaking their minds through knowing they might be got at and interrogated. WE know what that means if they did." Initials PBS/DW/CO/2.12 PBS/DW/CO/2.15 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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