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

White washing Zuma

A dash through Europe has helped the new ANC leader establish his pragmatic credentials with diplomats and businesses With one bound Jacob Zuma was free. No longer was the new President of the African National Congress a dangerous populist in a threatening alliance with communists and trades unionists. Instead, he was a considered diplomat given to statesmanlike utterances, a pragmatist whose willingness to listen to other viewpoints marks him apart from his political rival and President of the Republic, Thabo Mbeki. That at least was the view of Europe's business people and bien-pensants who spent time with Zuma on his whirlwind tour of Western Europe in the week ending 26 April.