The Wonga Coup (41 page)

preparations
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writings:

‘Assisted Regime Change'
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–80,
117

Bight of Benin Company document
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–6,
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novel on a coup attempt
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–6

Walken, Christopher
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Walter International
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weapons
see
arms trade; Wonga Coup plot

Westhuizen, Henry van der
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Wheeldon, Ron
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Whelan, Theresa
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White's club
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Wild Geese, The
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Wilford, Commander Derek
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Witherspoon, Simon
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and Wonga Coup plot
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–5,
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Wolfowitz, Paul
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Wonderboom airport
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–9,
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wonga i,
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Wonga Coup plot:

contracts
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dry run
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finances and financiers
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footsoldiers (
see also
recruitment
below
)
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genesis and motivation
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implementation
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–xvi,
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informers and leaks
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and Moto
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plans for post-coup

arrangements
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preparations
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recruitment
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–33,
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retrospective views
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and South Africa
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and Spain
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and Thatcher
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and USA
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weapons
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World Bank
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Y

YKA Mining
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Z

Zafira oil field
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Zambia
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Zanu PF
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Zapiro
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ZDI
see
Zimbabwe Defence Industries

Zimbabwe
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arrest and trial of Wonga

Coup plotters
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and the author
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and Britain
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HIV/AIDS in
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and Obiang
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see also
Central Intelligence Organisation; Zimbabwe Defence Industries

Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI)
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*
Wonga
n
. Early twenty-first century British slang for money, usually a lot of it. A large splodge of wonga: great quantities of cash. Probably from the Romany word ‘wanger', meaning coal. Coal served as a slang term for money in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.