Name: The Silent War – South African Recce Operations 1969-94 - Peter STIFF
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The Silent War was conceived in 1987 when the author was invited by the then Chief SADF to write a history of the Recces. The author was unwilling to involve himself in a propaganda exercise, so it was agreed he would be given what amounted to an unprecedented access to official documents relating to operations and allowed to interview operators of all ranks for research purposes. The cost of research, except for flights on routine SAAF milk runs, would be at the authors expense.

Effectively he was given a carte blanche, but on the understanding that an outline would be prepared when the research was completed. He agreed to reconsider and delete anything considered as likely to affect the security of the state after a round table conference.

The author found himself in a unique position. On a need-to-know basis Recce operations were compartmentalised, with only those involved and a few senior officers knowing anything about them. Little was committed to paper. Peter Stiff was an outsider, but from his research and contact with operators, he gained an unprecedented overview shared by few others. The outsider became an insider.

After two years of research an outline was submitted to the SADF. There was no response to this, only silence. No round table meeting ever took place. It seems he had discovered far more about secret operations than had been the intention. Specifically, he heard on the grapevine, the National Intelligence Service was furious he had discovered how in 1971 a hundred Zambian dissidents under training by the Recces in the Caprivi under the code name Operation Dingo, had been hurriedly forced across the Zambezi River by BOSS, their predecessor organisation headed by General Hendrik van den Bergh.

There will never be anything better researched and definitive on South African secret operations than this forthcoming trilogy by Peter Stiff. The Silent War is the first.

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