Book Extract

Tinker, tailer, sailor, spy: the naval commander who sank secrets

In this extract from his book 'Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies', Jonathan Ancer tells how Dieter Felix Gerhardt and his wife Ruth were exposed for spying on the apartheid government for the Soviet Union

11 August 2019 - 00:00
By Jonathan Ancer

In this extract from his book Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies, Jonathan Ancer tells how Dieter Felix Gerhardt and his wife Ruth were exposed for spying on the apartheid government for the Soviet Union

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