Browse Mole Report Download

The Browse Mole Report is an intelligence document of the Directorate of Special Operation. The report was supposed to be a ‘Top Secret’ document of the DSO but was leaked to the public in 2007 and consequently anonymously faxed on 7 May 2007 to the Secretary General of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (COSATU). COSATU shared the document with its alliance organisations and government ministers.

Download the leaked report here.

IVOR POWELL who authored the report is allegedly writing a book on his time with the Scoropions. Read his version on the report in the Mail & Guardian.

Browsing the Browse Mole Report

The leaking of the Special Browse “Mole” report arguably did more than any other event to tilt the balance of forces between the Scorpions and their foes in the Jacob Zuma camp.

Browsing the browse mole report
“browse” - research tactics used by security organisations
“mole” - influenced by fiction / spy story

relationship between fiction spy stories - Ronnie Kasrils: John le Carré
Spies for hire and information peddlers

Ivan on the old Johannesburg Stock Exchange building

17 Diagonal Street, Joburg

In 1978, the JSE took up residence at 17 Diagonal Street near Kerk Street, Johannesburg.

In September 2000, the Johannesburg Securities Exchange moved to its present location in Sandton, Gauteng and changed its official name to the JSE Securities Exchange.

2003 Adam Fleming, nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and nonexecutive chairman of Harmony Gold, buys the old JSE building in Hollard Street

The Scorpions occupied the JSE building before being officially disbanded late in January 2009.