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On South Africa's Secret Service reveals for the first time sensational details of South Africa's ruthless secret intelligence war as conducted by the National Intelligence Service. It is told by Riaan Labuschagne, a man in the maelstrom of events during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1981, while still a university student, he was persuaded to take diving parties to the Seychelles during vacations to collect 'routine low grade intelligence on the islands to build up the Service's information bank'. He wasn't told that the intelligence was required in connection with a pending coup attempt by mercenaries that NIS was supporting. While he was there the coup attempt exploded into action and he was fortunate to escape. After the conclusion of his university studies and two year's national service as a naval officer, he was accepted into the Service's Counter-Intelligence Division as an undercover field operative. The Personnel records showed him as Riaan Lesage, which allowed him to work openly under his real name. He found he had entered a world of lies and half truths, secrecy and stealth, evasion and denials, deceits and manipulations.It had little to do with the Calvinistic ethics of Ch

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