CIA/Africa Division/Accra Station
 CIA/Africa Division/Accra Station(CIA/Station)   | |
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The main CIA station in Ghana, directed by the CIA/Africa Division/Accra Station/Chief.
Activities
1966 coup
The 1966 Ghanaian coup was a military overthrow of President Kwame Nkrumah on February 24, 1966.
Sharon Scranage
In early 1980s the CIA clerk-stenographer Sharon Scranage was turned by Ghanaian intelligence. In 1985, her information led to the exposure of a coup, the arrest of eight Ghanaian CIA assets in important positions, and the death on one further. Dozens of CIA officers were forced to leave Ghana immediately.[1]
The eight arrested CIA informants included Colonel Bray, a military officer whose brother was a Deputy Director of the Ghana Education Service; Abel Edusei, former CEO of the state-run Ghana National Procurement Agency (GNPA), Adu Gyamfi, former Managing Director of the one-time national conglomerate, the Ghana National Trading Corporation (GNTC); Major John Kwaku Awuakye, Deputy Director (Organisation and Plans) at the Ministry of Defence and one-time Acting Commanding Officer of the Base Ordnance Depot. The eight suspects were given sentences ranging from 25 years of hard labour to life in prison. Other implicated officials were the head of the navy and the military government's chief of staff working at the chairman's office, Commodore D.J. Oppong, who fled the country, and Sam Okudzeto, a prominent lawyer.[2]
Thanks to Scranage, the Ghanaian government under the then-military ruler Jerry John Rawlings, also foiled a planned coup backed by the CIA and masterminded by Godfrey Osei. The coup was already in motion with a boat carrying six tons of heavy weapons when the crew rebelled. That led to the boat of arms and mercenaries returning to Brazil and the mercenaries being arrested, and later breaking out of prison and making their way back to the United States.[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/love-lies-and-espionage-how-a-cia-clerk-betrayed-america-for-her-ghanaian-lover.html
- ↑ https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-love-story-turned-espionage-that-almost-strained-u-s-ghana-relations-in-1985
- ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-26-mn-1944-story.html
