Conflict

Spy vs spy in State Security Agency’s bitter office politics

The ‘arrest’ of South African State Security Agency operatives in Mozambique that has recently come to light, and the subsequent suspension of SSA foreign branch chief Robert McBride, reveal a truth far stranger than fiction. Erika Gibson sheds some light on a bizarre tale

25 July 2021 - 00:00
By Erika Gibson

The ‘arrest’ of South African State Security Agency operatives in Mozambique that has recently come to light, and the subsequent suspension of SSA foreign branch chief Robert McBride, reveal a truth far stranger than fiction. Erika Gibson sheds some light on a bizarre tale.

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