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Special Report Transcript Episode 66, Section 1, Time 14:14They didn’t wear dark glasses, hats and raincoats. They looked like journalists and they talked like journalists, but gathering news was not why they were in the newsroom. Their priority was not the front page but police headquarters in Pretoria. They were South Africa’s media spies. Notes: Max du Preez References select each tab to search for references TRC Final ReportSpies in the newsrooms 93 State operative John Horak explained that there were four basic categories of media spies: agents, informers, sources, and ‘sleepers’. Craig Williamson confirmed this. An agent was a professional police officer with a job to do. Informers gave information either ... |