In Search of Enemies - A CIA Story - John Stockwell

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Mercenary George Cullen.
general in Angola. Kinshasa, reporting favorably on his activities,
wanted to recruit him as an in-place observer of the fighting. He was
fit and aggressive, it was reported. Almost singlehandedly he had
ambushed and routed a small MPLA column near Negage. Cullen,
a native of Leeds, England, had been a British paracommando, then
a mercenary in Oman; he spoke Greek, Arabic, English, and some
Portuguese. Altogether, a good man, it seemed.
Only days later Cullen seemed much less of a good thing. Incredible
tales concerning him began filtering out of the war zone. Cullen
was beating up blacks; Cullen was murdering blacks; Cullen had
stripped, beaten, and humiliated Zairian officers; Cullen was a psychopath.
On February 1, 1976, a mobile patrol of twenty-five mercenaries
went on a reconaissance operation near Sao Salvadore. On the way
back they attacked a forward defense post of their own men, mistaking
their colleagues for Cubans and a little Panhard armored car for
a T-34 tank. Then they fled to Sao Salvadore.
Two days later Cullen, having tracked them down, lined fourteen
of the malefactors beside the road, and gunned the whole lot down.
Stripping their bodies, he left them in the sun as an example to others
and disappeared into the bush.