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Operation Daisy and the art prof spy

March 7, 2011

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At the height of the 1976 rebellion against apartheid in South Africa, the security police launched an audacious scheme that enabled them to steal anti-apartheid funds with the aid of bogus trusts headed by an apparently respectable fine arts professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.

One of the great survivors of apartheid’s military

November 20, 2010

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(Published in Unfinished Business — South Africa, apartheid & truth,  2001 and 2003) Horace William Doncaster, Major-General, Military Intelligence (rtd) Date of birth: 09.02.1950; military number: 66339243E Career soldier, 33 years service; promoted brigadier, 1993; major-general, 2000; given ‘employer-induced retrenchment package, November, 2001; retired, April, 2002. Senior positions in and eventual director of MI ‘dirty […]

The survival of a ‘dirty tricks’ chief

October 2, 2010

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Name: Horace William Doncaster, Major-General, Military Intelligence (rtd) Date of birth: 09.02.1950; military number: 66339243E Career soldier, 33 years service; promoted brigadier, 1993; major-general, 2000; given ‘employer-induced retrenchment package’ after publication of this investigation, November, 2001; retired, April, 2002. Senior positions in and eventual director of MI ‘dirty tricks’ unit, Directorate of Covert Collection (DCC); […]

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