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With only two days to go the November Fund stil stands at only The Labour goyernmen still intends to deport the American citizens Philip Agee (a campaigner against the CIA) and Mark Hosenball (a journalist) on grounds that they are a threat to "national security"

Despite a mounting campaign in the Labour movement, and opposition by almost 100 MPs, Home Secretary Merlyn Rees has refused to give any details of the 'evidence" against them allegedly produced for him by the spies and informers of the secret services.

NOT TOLD Rees is using the "Staı Chamber" provisions of the 1971 Immigration Act under which foreigners can be deported as a danger to "national security" but without being told any of the specific accusations against them.

Agee - formerly a CIA agent in Latin America, but now working to investigate and expose the CIA's activities - gave notice at the Home Office on Monday of his intention to appeal against deportation. As he explained afterwards, he is in a position of having to account to a Reesappointed three man appeal panel for any acts on his part in the almost four years he has been living in Britain, but without ever being told the precise charges.

Agee hoped that Rees would PHOTO: Chris Davies. Report prove to be a reasonable man who would see through the "scenario" painted by the secret services. We doubt it! Rees is using this procedure because he has no "evidence" that would stand in public. «wise men" are His three picked to do his bidding. One of them, Sir Richard Haywara, Is a former leading official of the UPW and later on the Post Office Board.

The hand of the CIA in Rees' actions is obvious. The deporRees tation threats against Agee and Hosenball can be carried out within days. They must be stopped. This demands the widest possible mobilisation in the labour and trade union movement to counter this attack on democratic rights.

Activity organised by the Agee Hosenball Defence Campaign include:

- A picket of the Home Office (Whitehall) every Wednesday 122pm.

- A picket of the Home Office Saturday 12th December at Agee noon and at the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square at 2.30pm.

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They have also published a pamphlet "CIA Briefing" giving details of CIA plots - as set out in official US Senate and Congressional papers. (Price 20p from the Agee-Hosenball Defence Campaign, c/o NCCL, 186, Kings CrOsS Rd.. WC1 which donations and resolutions of support should also be sent). PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report. herded.

The white regime continues to claim they are inflicting heavy casualties on the black nationalists in return for very few losses on their side. Even given the predictable exaggerations of these figures, there seems no doubt that the white forces have in the short run inflicted significant casualties on the liberation forces.

One of the main reasons for this is the confusion which must have been created among . the liberation forces by the abject compromises being made by the leaders of all four of the black Zimbabwean delegations in Geneva.

The delegations of the "Front Line" states, including Angola and Mozambique, share this responsibility, since they have all used their influence to promote compromise with the racists and Smith The "Patriotic Front" delegates claim to have won a concession getting the British government to "fix" a firm date for independence under majority rule on March Ist, 1978.

This "concession" means

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- A day of action on Wednes- day 8th December, and public meetings and a "teach-in" on the