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From information given by him we know that he travelled frequently to South Africa from Maputo. This is confirmed by Barnett's passport which contains several stamps from his border crossings.

Some of this trips were obviously to meet his handler to report and receive instructions about further intelligence gathering. His handler has also mentioned that they used a "sate house“ in Durban for their meetings. According to the handler, meetings were also held at the DCC head office in Pretoria.

At a later stage, probably after 1994, a computerized e-mail system was introduced. It has been established that Bacon used this system to send reports to his handler. To be able to enter the system, he had to type a 12-letter code as a password. The codes were changed every month. A copy of a document found in his apartment in Maputo listing the codes for every month from May 1996 to April 1997 is attached. Bacon has stated that Charles Richards introduced the computer system during 1995.

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He used an E-mail system named PEGASUS and another program , NORTON COMMAND, to “compress” the document. To do this he had a computer with two desk stations. The sender and the receiver of the document had to use the monthly codes mentioned earlier in this report to be able to access the document. The reports were always sent on the telephone number given by Charles Richards, located in Pretoria. Copies of reports dated 4/12/96, 11/2/97, 12/3/97 and 17/3/97 are attached. These clearly indicate that Bacon was active as an intelligence operator until shortly before his arrest on 24 March 1997.

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There are also two other documents seized by the investigators in Maputo that are of interest. One is a code-chartdivided into 6 columns and 9 rows. Each column and row are numbered and the combination of numbers indicates a square on the chart that has a letter, number or word. This is most probably a simple code-chart for some sort of communication e.g., radio or telephone. The chart is marked "CIRCULAR" and "SECRCID".

The other is also a code-chart-* containing 5 digit blocks of numbers. This could have been used for secret radio communication. The same kind of system is well known to have been used for a long time by intelligence agencies for communication purposes with their agents in foreign countries. It has been used particularly by all former East European agencies and more recently by the Russian agencies. This document is also market "C'IRKULAR" and "SECRCID"

Bacon has denied that these two documents belonged to him but has not been able to give an explanation as to how they could have been found amongst his belongings.

" Codes for the E-mail system.

Copy of the code-chart. - Copy of the code-chart.

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