Chris Waldburger

Chris Waldburger

South Africa and the Missed 'KGB Option'

You know the Cold War was pretty fake when it turns out the apartheid government believed the KGB was too right-wing in the 1980s…

Jan 11, 2023
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On Politicsweb this week, the revered political thinker, RW Johnson, has recounted a curious story concerning the apartheid regime’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).

Surprisingly, it turns out the NIS was seeking advice from the KGB in the final years of both apartheid and the Soviet Union.

Both the K…

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