How I Outmaneuvered FRELIMO’s Secret Police In Mozambique

I got a phone call in the spring of the ’80’s. One call that sent me into one of the most dangerous war zones in Africa — Mozambique. No backup. No extraction plan. No second chances. I went in under deep cover as a mining equipment salesman, moved through FRELIMO military checkpoints, dodged a Soviet-era surveillance team at a bombed-out building, came within 30 seconds of a secret police patrol in a flooded hospital basement, and walked out of that country with three intelligence caches that could have gotten every asset involved executed on the spot.