Infogate Influences on Reforms of South Africa’s Intelligence Services

The relationship between the political echelons, e.g., the Prime Minister and the Bureau's Director, was too close and so allowed misuse of state funds. The relationship between the political echelons, including the Prime Minister and BOSS's Director, were too close and so allowed state funds to be misused. The aim of the involvement of the South African security services in the regional sub-Sa-haran Africa conflicts was to create buffer zones against encroaching communist forces aimed at toppling the Apartheid regime.5 The Birth of the Intelligence Service BOSS In 1963, Mr. B.J Vorster, the Justice Minister under Prime Minister H.F. Ver-woerd, examined the option to form South Africa's first non-military intelligence agency in addition to its small military intelligence gathering capability. Attached to the Prime Minister's office, he would be in command of all security and intelligence chiefs in the country, including the military, and report only to Vorster.