Category: South African Intelligence History

THE BUREAU FOR STATE SECURITY AS SOUTH AFRICA’S FIRST CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ORGAN

South Africa’s Bureau for State Security BfSS, founded in 1969, was its first central intelligence agency and though it supposedly was closed down and replaced by the National Intelligence Service NIS under premier PW Botha, in essence the NIS was just a continuation of the BfSS under another name, building on the foundation laid under the aegis of the Bureau.

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Dr LD (NIëL) BARNARD – AN APPRECIATION

Appreciation of the contribution made by the late Dr Niël Barnard, former head of South Africa’s then National Intelligence Service, to the peaceful transition to a negotiated non-racial new constitution.

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