July 1979 - Bob Astles -Amin's White Henchman Bob Astles

July 1979 - Bob Astles -Amin's White Henchman Bob Astles - Partners In Idi Amin with Bob Astles, reportedly his closest and most loyal aide. Astles'c victim: Bruce McKenzie. Bob Astles has held one of the most dangerous jobs in the world for the last eight years. He has been an advisor and confidant to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin throughout his bloodthirsty and chaotic rule. Bob Astles, a Briton by birth, is now a naturalised Ugandan. During the Obote regime of the 1960s, Astles was an intelligence officer and it was he and Akena Adoko who founded the state Research Bureau in the early 1970s, before President Obote was overthrown. When Idi Amin took over in 1971, Bob Astles remained behind although he seemed to be likely candidate to be killed by Amin. But he convinced Amin that he knew intelligence work. He pleased Amin by telling him that the first people to be dealt with were those who were involved in investigating Brigadier Okoya's deat

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