Harare(ZimEye)-A senior Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) officer lost top state secrets after his laptop was allegedly stolen during a workshop at St Lucia Park conference centre in Harare’s Marlborough suburb.
Sources at St Lucia Park told ZimEye that the laptop belonging to an unnamed CIO official believed to be at director level, disappeared from a conference room on Friday morning during tea break.
“There was panic when the CIO’s discovered that their boss’s laptop had disappeared,” said an official at the conference facility. “We were ordered to block all exit facilities and all vehicles leaving the park were thoroughly searched, but unfortunately nothing was recovered.”
The official who requested anonymity fearing reprisal from the dreaded spy agency, said hotel officials were tossed around by the CIO’s who wanted to know details about all the guests and visitors in the premises during the time of the disappearance.
“They shouted to us that the laptop has to be recovered because it contained sensitive information which could compromise state security,” he said.
The CIO’s were attending a workshop which drew participants from other intelligence and security organizations in Southern Africa and elsewhere.
Sources at St Lucia Park said it is suspected that one of the participants, probably from a foreign intelligence organization, was responsible for the disappearance.
“If it is not one of the foreign agents responsible for the theft,” said the source. “then we suspect that one of the CIO’s caused the disappearance to undermine his boss as part of the power struggles to succeed the late Menard Muzariri who was the deputy director-general.”
St Lucia Park is also now the home to the SADC Regional Peace Keeping Training Centre which used to be housed at the KG V1 army barracks near the city.
The peacekeeping training centre houses many foreign security officers, including some from western countries. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)
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Ko ma Zimbabweans tinoitirei setisina kudzidza ma passwords pama computer haana kana nebasa nekuti kana hard drive rangotorwa chete kune software ino bypassa saka regai kutaura zvema passwords vamama ma CIO vanozvita vakapenga pasina chinozivikanwa basa rekurova vanhu ne humhondi ndo intellingence dzavo. gore rino tichaonerera kana paine anoziva kune laptop contact me ndikuvhurirei ma files ese arimo.
Wamama
Our problem in Zimbabwe is our line of thought. When you are mentally colonised and manipulated you politicise everything. Truly whats political about big brother? Does ZANU-PF have some or any rights in that programme? Its a shame that some people are so shallow minded as to think that Vimbai went there on a ZANU-PF ticket.
Don’t believe everything you read here. THERE IS NO MEMBER OF THE CIO who goes around with State secrets even on a lap top. No matter how important a meeting is, you ONLY carry information IN YOUR HEAD and thats why it is a place of intelligence. State secrets belong in the locked safe and are ONLY used indoors, if necessary.
This is the writer’s wishful will that State secrets were there but in reality nothing of that sort is real and that doesn’t happen in the world of intelligence. Sorry writer, your story once more is just a pile of trash and those who know the truth about intelligence are sympathetic with your wishes.
Some intellegence is not intellegent it is muppetry.
obviously this dude is enemy of the state number 1. Bandupandu chairo !!!! How could he lose our secrets.
This is certinly an interesting year so far. All these unusual signs we have been seeing only mean one thing to me. Zanu PF and its Mugabe are truly finished – no future left. Please mark my words!
I hear you Makwembere muzukuru, all I am saying is that she is an adult whether ZANU, ZAPU MDC or whatever. Akarepwa here? It is her body to do with as she pleases. Imiwo vechikomana kana muchinge mave kutsvaga vekuroora if because of this action you don’t think she is wife material then the choice is yours. Munogona kuroora uya wamunofunga kuti ndiye ariraiti. Chamusingazivi ndechekuti she probably slept with more men than Vimbai but was good at avoiding being caught. Do you know that some of these girls you think are young– nyasi uku they are much older than the one you may think is old.I am not in support of Vimbai, all I am saying is let her do what she feels is right for her. Some of you claim kuti vakaroora mukadzi asina mwana yet iye anenge akabvisa nhumbu hobho.Some with one kid could have been the result of one action chete chete. Lets be wise and not prejudge unless we have solid ground to base our judgements on. So?
Makwembere, mwana waformer minister, zvinorevei? Zvinoreva kuti baba vakadzingwa basa mushure mekukomita zvakaipa zvakawanda uye kutadza basa. Chidziidzo panyaya iyi ndechekuti kana newewo mwana wacho Makwembere urikungo mbwandarika sababa. Foolish man / woman whichever way you prefer to call yourself
TETE, maonawo here mashura that was written by this woman Sober/aka HON Minister Tracy Mutinhiri pa story iya of taht stuped girl that you like?
My opinion is that the little girl is a Minister’s daughter and the minister herself has made a public statement saying Big Brother is her personal religion. I also saw the statement on Herald two days ago.
If it was PM Tsvangirai’s daughter/son these ZANU PF goons and shameless CIOs would be cellebrating victory.
Fools like this Mutinhiri should not try to manipulate editors like that.
I have seen fair treatment of both Tsvangirai and evil Mugabe paPaper rino.
More fire on ZANU PF!
Ko Comrade Bonyongwe varikuti chii ko neizvi? Vafana vangu Banda na Hungwe paHQ they tell me kuti muLaptop u,mu there was 23GB of top secret information asi vanoti there are password saka mbavha iyi there is nothing he/she can do.
Chandiri kungotya ndechekuti kana iri imwe nhengo ye CIO mumwe munhu tichanzwa kuti aendeswa kumakuva. Asi ko kana ar a foreigner munhu wacho then?
It is going to be planted on MDC mirai muone. How can they loose such a crucial item? Hayiwavo nhema dzega apa. I stand corrected–CHOYA dzosera mudziyo yevanhu.So?