This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it has cost South Africa?
The current Spy vs Spy farce summons a sense of déjà vu, with a CIA spook lurking in every nook.
Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, has condemned the spy cables leak and welcomed the State Security Agency’s investigation into the matter.
There’s nothing fancy about being a spy – in fact, one intelligence document warns that candidates should not be recruited if their motive is glamour.
Spook action at a distance: From Mossad agents and jams to assassination plots and plagiarism.
"What hurts is that my government might have been engaging in surveillance on me and may have shared that, upon request, with South Korea," he said.
An investigation into the leaking of classified security documents by broadcaster Al Jazeera is under way, says State Security Minister David Mahlobo.
The leaked ‘spy cables’ published this week have SA’s intelligence community tying itself in speculative knots.
We’re safe under the State Security Agency, but intelligence is lacking, says minister.
SA’s intelligence service relied on a spy close to Russia to find out details about its own government’s involvement in a $100-million satellite deal.
Here are 7 things you need to know about SA’s intelligence services, in the wake of details from spy cables released by Al-Jazeera and The Guardian.
According to leaked secret intelligence documents, Dlamini-Zuma allegedly faced "an eminent threat" to her life in Addis Ababa in 2012.