{"id":268861,"date":"2018-09-02T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T05:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=268861"},"modified":"2018-09-02T07:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T05:25:56","slug":"the-cia-warned-south-africa-about-the-guptas-in-2009-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/268861\/the-cia-warned-south-africa-about-the-guptas-in-2009-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA warned South Africa about the Guptas in 2009: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) flagged the Guptas\u2019 dubious activities as far back as 2009, resulting in an investigation by South African intelligence agencies that concluded that the family was a threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2018-09-01-cia--alerted--sa-to-gupta-nuclear-danger---in-2009\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Times<\/a><\/strong>, former spy boss Gibson Njenje said that he was alarmed to learn about the scale of the Guptas\u2019 involvement in former president Jacob Zuma\u2019s first cabinet reshuffle in October 2010.<\/p>\n<p>However, he (Njenje) was later forced out of the\u00a0public service in 2011 by\u00a0then security minister Siyabonga Cwele, who called the Gupta probe &#8216;irregular&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Njenje, who headed up the National Intelligence Agency, told the Sunday Times he received a request from the CIA in 2009 wanting to know about the Guptas\u2019 interest in uranium mining &#8211; as enriched uranium is used for both nuclear power generation and military nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans wanted to know why the Guptas are interested in mining uranium and where they intend sending their product. Naturally we were interested as well,&#8221; said Njenje.<\/p>\n<p>He added that their subsequent investigations made it clear what the Guptas were doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2010 they started flexing their muscle and their links with the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were talking to ministers, directors-general and senior officials. From a state security point of view, we were trying to find out why this audacity. They were making an open show that they have a relationship with the president,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read the full story in today&#8217;s Sunday Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/267775\/multichoice-announces-news-channel-to-replace-gupta-linked-afro-worldview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multichoice announces news channel to replace Gupta-linked Afro Worldview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA flagged the Guptas\u2019 dubious activities as far back as 2009, resulting in an investigation by South African intelligence agencies that concluded that the family was a threat to national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-268861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268877,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268861\/revisions\/268877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}