The United Nations Plan to invade (German) South West Africa in the 1960s to steal it from S.Africa

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[I thought, that while I'm on the topic of SWA (now Namibia), that I'd add in another little story I found. And it's quite interesting because the CIA actually did not like this and tipped the South Africans off! Jan]

For the record: In the 1960s the United Nations had a plan to invade SWA, but the CIA actually tipped off the White South Africans and the Boers had troops in place in SWA to fight the invasion. The UN invasion plan was to fly in troops to land in SWA and seize it.

The South African Army put troops in place at the airfield where the UN troops were expected. And the UN thus aborted their plan to steal South West Africa from South Africa. This is another story – I spotted it in a book written by a South African soldier who was sent there and they were ready to fight the UN.

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