True Anon Truth Feed Episode 539: Mercenary exposes alleged South African state-sponsored black ops involving LSD aerosols, death squads, and a billion-dollar arms-smuggling ring funding the Civil Cooperation Bureau. The segment details Magnus Malan's off-book operations, including a rumored "pedophile island" in Port Elizabeth, Ferdy Barnard's hit on activist David Webster, and grotesque intimidation tactics like hanging a baboon fetus near Desmond Tutu's home. Ultimately, these revelations suggest a vast, self-enriching network of atrocities that fundamentally corrupted the nation's security apparatus during apartheid. [Automatically generated summary]
Transcriber: CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026, sat-12l-sm, and large-v3-turbo
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Death Squads and Black Operations00:02:40
Anyway, he was the guy leading this program, driving people in helicopters and trying to see if you could make loots, Quay loots.
Quay loots.
So, yeah, we'll get to that later, but yes.
Yeah, but basically, like, and LSD, MDMA, if they could use, like, airspray this to pacify the masses.
So, they're doing this on one side.
On the other side, they have a bunch of other black ops going on, like, they have various death squads.
Effectively, and as you mentioned before, what also happened is they had to create this sort of vast Black market economy, billions of dollars for arms and oil smuggling.
And then they use some of this profit for self enrichment and then funding black operations to, in terms of death squads, to take out enemies of the apartheid state, to discredit journalists, to harass people, to spy on people.
And there's a number of things going on over time.
One of these, which is very important, is called the Civil Cooperation Bureau, which had a bunch of different branches, but among other things, got pretty infamous until it was disbanded.
Was set by a guy called Magnus Milan, who was the defense minister, but it was completely off the books and was supposedly self funded.
Magnus Milan also, if we want to go into that wormhole at some point, I'm saying, is alleged to have had a pedophile island off the coast of Port Elizabeth, a coastal city in the Eastern Cape, where he had helicopters, he and his associates, take boys from the township.
Colored township.
Colored means mixed race in South Africa for the gringos out there to play with.
And there's a book called The Boys of Bird Island.
And the author of the book died very mysteriously soon afterwards.
But anyway, so he had the Civil Corporation Bureau, which was a bunch of crazy guys.
And in South Africa, the most infamous figure is a guy called Ferdy Barnard, who was a cop who had killed someone, got kicked out of the police force, and was recruited as like a hitman and thug for the party government.
He killed an academic, famously called David Webster, which sort of exposed the scandal, a left wing activist and anthropologist, actually a friend of my mother's.
And they did other things like hang a baboon fetus in Desmond Tutu's house.
Sorry, they hanged a baboon fetus in Desmond Tutu's house?
Yeah, in his garden, I think in Bishop's Court in Cape Town, which is the official Bishop's residence, hence Bishop Court.
Killing David Webster00:00:40
And I mean, another thing they famously did.
Is an Afrikaner dissident journalist and editor who ran a sort of Frey Weikblatt, which is a South African dissident Afrikaans investigative journalistic focused newspaper, which exposed a lot of these scandals.
They pointed an RPG to his head and tried to like intimidate him.
They put an RPG at his head?
Yeah, I mean, this is a.
They also shot an RPG at their offices later, I believe.
Well, that makes sense.
But the RPG at the head, you'd be like, listen, the backblast gets both of us, fella.