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Apr 11 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
1/ The removal/reassignment of Dr Fulton Mangwanya as CIO Director General this week has fascinated me.
Full disclosure: I have a long-standing obsession with intelligence, security & the hidden architecture of state power.
So let's talk about ALL the CIO DGs since independence. 2/ First, what is the CIO?
Zimbabwe's civilian intelligence agency. Internal security. Counterintelligence. Political intelligence. Executive protection.
It reports directly to President. Not Parliament. Not Cabinet. President alone. DG is his most intimate institutional weapon.