Forsyth told how he had assisted Britain’s overseas spying agency in the Nigerian region of Biafra, East Germany, Rhodesia and South Africa
Frederick Forsyth
London: British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth revealed he had conducted missions for intelligence service MI6 in extracts from his autobiography published on Sunday. Mr Forsyth, whose bestsellers include The Day Of The Jackal, told of how he had assisted Britain’s overseas spying agency in the Nigerian region of Biafra, East Germany, Rhodesia and South Africa.
While working as a journalist in 1968, he was approached by an MI6 man called “Ronnie” who wanted “an asset deep inside the Biafran enclave” where there was a civil war between 1967 and 1970.
“When I left for the return to the rainforest, he had one,” he wrote in his memoirs The Outsider, extracts of which were published by The Sunday Times ahead of its publication next month.
While Mr Forsyth was there, he reported on the military and humanitarian situation while keeping “Ronnie informed of things that could not, for various reasons, emerge in the media”.
Then, in 1973, Mr Forsyth was asked to conduct a mission for MI6 in East Germany. “There was an asset, a Russian colonel, working for us deep inside East Germany and he had a package that we needed brought out,” he wrote.
( Source : AFP )
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