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A spook's progress : from making war to making peace / Maritz Spaarwater.
Van Pelt Library UB251.S64 S62 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spaarwater, Maritz.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spaarwater, Maritz.
- Military intelligence.
- Intelligence service.
- Intelligence officers.
- South Africa.
- Intelligence officers--South Africa--Biography.
- Intelligence service--South Africa--Biography.
- Military intelligence--South Africa--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town, South Africa : Zebra, 2012.
- Summary:
- Author Spaarwater, a retired attorney, was a senior member of military and national intelligence agencies in South Africa during the apartheid era. In his autobiography, he describes the political and security events that led the author and his peers to develop doubts about stereotyped views on the South African condition. Spaarwater draws on memories of events he was directly involved in but does not have access to classified documents. Distributed by International Publishers Marketing. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Beginning I Early Life 1
- Genetically Predisposed 3
- Growing Up 5
- Boarding School 16
- First Nibble at the Military 21
- University, and Another World 24
- War 31
- Beginning II Military Intelligence 35
- The SADF 37
- Academic Interlude 41
- Back in the Fold, Briefly 51
- The Law, Again 54
- Demise of an Empire 57
- Escape to Sanity, Again 60
- Special Forces/ARMSCOR 68
- South West Africa 73
- CSI Revisited 81
- Thoughts on the Military 88
- Cuito Cuanavale 97
- Fallout at Home 101
- Honouring the Living and the Dead 104
- Change of Tack and Destination 107
- Beginning III National Intelligence 111'Welcome' to NIS 113
- Research 115
- Politics Almost Intervenes 123
- Niel Barnard and the Afrikaner Broederbond 125
- Operations 133
- Trial, Tribulation and Hilarity 136
- Outward Movement 141
- A Word on Travel 157
- Outward Movement Inward 162
- The Fall Guy 166
- Talks About Talks About Talks 173
- Free at Last 183
- Beginning IV Constructing Democracy 185
- The Road to Democracy 187
- Return of the Prodigals 190
- Paving the Way 194
- Codesa I 202
- Shepherd to the Elusives 204
- Codesa II and the MPNP 209
- Decent Employment 214
- Reversion 225
- Beginning V End Game 227
- Interregnum 229
- The United Democratic Movement 232
- Further Meander 239
- The National Prosecuting Authority 241
- End Game 245
- Lamentation 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781770224377
- 1770224378
- OCLC:
- 785082821
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