The Wonga Coup
7Later it would be revealed that the British government was fully aware of the coup and did nothing to stop it. It has been claimed and seems likely that Margaret Thatcher as well as the intelligence agencies of Spain, the US and South Africa were also aware of, if not complicit in, the plot. It has also been suggested that and seems likely that Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s Authoritarian leader with an ax to grind against Margaret Thatcher and the UK, changed his mind about allowing the plotters to transit through his capital and he would later use Simon Mann’s extradition to Equatorial Guinea as a bargaining chip to receive a good oil deal.
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