(23.2.2015) They reveal the South Africans’ secret correspondence with US intelligence agency the CIA, Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Russia’s FSB and Iran’s operatives.
In one document, a cable marked ‘Secret UK/SA eyes only’ shows that MI6, formally referred to as the Secret Intelligence Service, requested assistance from South Africa’s intelligence chiefs to carry out ‘a joint operation’.
The aim was to recruit a spy inside the opaque North Korean decision-making system.