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*[[Hendrik van den Bergh]] - Head<ref>Mary Braid, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-hendrik-van-den-bergh-1246509.html Obituary: Hendrik van den Bergh], The Independent, 21 August 1997.</ref> | *[[Hendrik van den Bergh]] - Head<ref>Mary Braid, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-hendrik-van-den-bergh-1246509.html Obituary: Hendrik van den Bergh], The Independent, 21 August 1997.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 18:46, 1 July 2014
The Bureau for State Security, popularly known as BOSS was a South African intelligence agency active at the height of the Apartheid era.[1]
BOSS replaced the previous domestic security agency, Republican Intelligence in August 1968, and also acquired responsibility for foreign intelligence. It was itself replaced by the National Intelligence Service in 1979.[2]
People
- Hendrik van den Bergh - Head[3]
References
- ↑ Hayden B. Peake, The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 51, No. 4, accessed 6 June 2010.
- ↑ Hayden B. Peake, The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf, Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 51, No. 4, accessed 6 June 2010.
- ↑ Mary Braid, Obituary: Hendrik van den Bergh, The Independent, 21 August 1997.
