{"id":220714,"date":"2026-01-16T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-a-spy-network-that-exists-only-on-paper\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:19:34","slug":"angola-a-spy-network-that-exists-only-on-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-a-spy-network-that-exists-only-on-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: A Spy Network That Exists Only On Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">This text examines the espionage charges within Case File 3846\/25-CE, the same case in which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.makaangola.org\/2026\/01\/angola-when-the-state-needs-terrorists-it-creates-them\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge Ant\u00f3nio Negr\u00e3o uncritically validated the terrorism theory already dismissed by the Public Prosecutor<\/a>. If the claim of terrorism was absurd, the accusation of espionage is nothing short of a parody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">According to the official narrative, two Russian citizens &#8212; Igor Ratchin Mihailovic and Lev Matveevich Lakshtanov &#8212; allegedly travelled to Angola to set up a clandestine espionage operation, assisted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160621.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This text examines the espionage charges within Case File 3846\/25-CE, the same case in which Judge Ant\u00f3nio Negr\u00e3o uncritically validated the terrorism theory already dismissed by the Public Prosecutor. If the claim of terrorism was absurd, the accusation of espionage is nothing short of a parody. According to the official narrative, two Russian citizens &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,28553,8265,257,11889,254,18194],"class_list":["post-220714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-exists","tag-network","tag-news","tag-paper","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}