Abbreviations
- ADN
Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst (General German News Agency) – GDR
- ANC
African National Congress – South Africa
- ASP
Afro-Shirazi Party – Zanzibar
- BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation
- CCM
Chama cha Mapinduzi (Party of the Revolution) – Tanzania
- CDU
Christlich Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union) – FRG
- CIA
Central Intelligence Agency – USA
- CID
Criminal Investigation Department – Tanzania
- COREMO
Comité Revolucionário de Moçambique (Mozambique Revolutionary Committee)
- EAC
East African Community
- EAF
East African Federation
- FCO
Foreign and Commonwealth Office – UK
- FRELIMO
Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Mozambique Liberation Front)
- FRG
Federal Republic of Germany
- GDR
German Democratic Republic
- IPI
International Press Institute
- KGB
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) – Soviet Union
- MAE
Ministère des affaires étrangères (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – France
- MAE-DAL
Direction Afrique Levant, MAE (Africa and Middle East Division) – France
- MAE-DAM
Direction Afrique Malgache, MAE (Africa and Madagascar Division) – France
- MfAA
Ministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (Ministry for Foreign Affairs) – GDR
- MfS
Ministerium für Staatsicherheit (Ministry for State Security, ‘Stasi’) – GDR
- MNE
Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Portugal
- MOLINACO
Mouvement de Libération Nationale des Comores (National Liberation Movement of Comoros)
- MSZ
Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Poland
- NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NEC
TANU National Executive Committee
- NUTA
National Union of Tanganyika Workers
- NWICO
New World Information and Communications Order
- OAU
Organisation of African Unity
- PAC
Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania – South Africa
- PAFMECA
Pan-African Freedom Movement of Eastern and Central Africa
- PAIGC
Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)
- PAYM
Pan-African Youth Movement
- PDP
Panafrican Democratic Party – Malawi
- PIDE
Polícia Internacional e do Defesa do Estado (International and State Defence Police) – Portugal
- RTD
Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
- SCCIM
Serviços de Centralização e Coordenação de Moçambique (Services for the Centralisation and Coordination of Information for Mozambique) – Portugal
- SHIHATA
Shirika la Habari la Tanzania (News Agency of Tanzania)
- SPD
Sozialdemocratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) – FRG
- STC
State Trading Corporation – Tanzania
- SWAPO
South West Africa People’s Organisation – Namibia
- TANU
Tanganyika African National Union
- TAZARA
Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority
- TBC
Tanganyika Broadcasting Corporation
- TPDF
Tanzania People’s Defence Force
- TYL
TANU Youth League
- UDI
Unilateral Declaration of Independence
- UDSM
University of Dar es Salaam
- UN
United Nations
- USARF
University Students’ African Revolutionary Front – Tanzania
- ZANU
Zimbabwe African National Union
- ZAPU
Zimbabwe African People’s Union
- ZNP
Zanzibar Nationalist Party
- ZPPP
Zanzibar and Pemba People’s Party
Map 1.1 Tanzania and its neighbours, circa 1968.
Map 1.2 Central Dar es Salaam, circa 1968.
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