Authur Fraser's family seeking legal advice over 'The President's Keepers'
The family of the State Security Agency director-general, Arthur Fraser, is demanding that Jacques Pauw retract what they call "lies" from his book 'The President's Keepers'.
In a statement, the family accuses Pauw of "not allowing facts to get in the way of a good story".
"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. This is the man on whom Pauw largely relies for 'evidence' about the Fraser family contained in his book."
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The Fraser family says the assertion by Pauw that a Fraser sister was married to 'all powerful' intelligence officer Graham Engel is patently untrue. They have also refuted an allegation that
Barry Fraser was the director of a company and NGO that benefited from an alleged intelligence operation dubbed Principle Agent Network (PAN).
PAN is a top-secret state intelligence programme described in Pauw's book.
The statement describes the allegation that 83-year-old Mrs CF Fraser acted as a PAN agent as "laughable if it wasn't so hurtful and malicious".
The family says they will be taking legal advice and will in due course set the record straight.