Frasers want Pauw book pulled

‘The President’s Keepers’ slammed

The family of State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser is demanding a retraction of Jacques Pauw’s controversial book, The President’s Keepers‚ charging he has “unjustly” accused them of “criminal activity”.

In a statement yesterday‚ the family claimed Pauw had committed “the classic journalistic deception of not allowing facts to get in the way of a good story” in his book.

In a lawyer’s letter to the SSA yesterday‚ NB Publishers said it will not desist from making Pauw’s book available to the public, will not withdraw it from the market and will not retract any parts of it.

The SSA served NB Publishers and Pauw with a ceaseand-desist letter last week in which they demanded that the book be withdrawn from book shops and that parts of it be retracted.

The agency claimed parts of the book contravene the Intelligence Service Act.

The book alleges Fraser was complicit in looting hundreds of millions of rands from the Principle Agent Network (PAN) slush fund and that he was potentially guilty of treason for setting up a computer server at his home into which the PAN reports were fed.

Fraser refused to comment on the allegations in the book when contacted by TimesLIVE last week.

The Fraser family warned journalists against becoming “political pawns” in the local political climate and the global phenomenon of fake news.

“In his enthusiasm to influence ruling party politics and the 2019 general election‚ Pauw has allowed himself to be manipulated by an apartheid spy/double agent who has scores to settle – and is now hiding out in Russia.”