I then phoned South Africa, and it was that next day, when I got to London, that there was another article in the newspaper, I think in The Guardian, saying that the IUEF had discovered a spy, but not saying my name. I then phoned South Africa, and it was written by Hugh Lewin, and Hugh Lewin, the journalist, is a big friend of Lars-Gunnar Eriksson, so I knew, obviously, that the game was up.
I phoned South Africa, they said...they told me:
- "Your name's already in the paper in South Africa. They haven't published it in England, but they haven't worried..."
because I think in England the first editions had a legal problem: they didn't want to say something that they might be sued for. But then the next editions came out with my name in them
I got a house. My wife sorted out a university because she had been studying in Geneva and I was then appointed as...to develop a new co-ordinating section in the security police: an intelligence section.
The idea of the section was basically to coordinate the deep penetration, deep cover operations such as the one that I'd been involved in.
That's what I did from '80 '81 82 '83 '84 and '85. And I was by that time a major.
When I came back to South Africa I was a captain and '80...end of '81 I was promoted to major.