A JOHANNESBURG High Court judge on Wednesday dismissed an application for an urgent interim interdict by two former Civil Co-operation Bureau agents who wanted the book “Dangerous Deceits” banned from being distributed or sold because it contained “defamatory” passages. The book, written by Frank Welsh and published both in South Africa and abroad, implicated the two agents, Abraham “Slang” van Zyl and Leon “Chappie” Maree, in an alleged conspiracy to kidnap and kill an ex-head of Tollgate, Justin Askin, about ten years ago. More than 4300 copies of the book, published by Jonathan Ball Publishers locally and Harper Collins Publishers of London, had already been distributed to about 126 book outlets such as CNA and Exclusive Books, against whom the interdict was also sought. Mr Justice Mohamed Navasa on Wednesday concluded in a 63-page judgment that the applications had failed to satisfy the requirements for the granting of an interim interdict, dismissing it with costs.