The point is, I’d be quite prepared to give Box 6 credit for wanting to stop the massacres, if it wasn’t for the fact that I can actually remember this episode. By the time Forsyth appeared on the scene, the facts of the massacres were already appearing all over the less ‘Establishment’ papers, so his job was merely to make it look as if the Establishment was waking up and taking heed. All it really wanted was damage limitation, given that it had failed to keep stories of the massacres off of other front pages – RB
Famous British author of spy novels by Frederick Forsyth in his autobiography, said that he worked for more than 20 years in the service of MI6, reports the BBC. Forsyth said that it all started with requests for information. The intelligence agents approached him, asking “tell us what’s going on here” during the war for the independence of the breakaway state of Biafra in south-eastern Nigeria. They wanted to know whether it was true that a large number of children died in this war. The writer explained:
The foreign office denied that there were dying children, because they passionately defended the dictatorship in Lagos. However, oddly enough, MI6 had another point of view on this matter. In the last year of the war I was asked to produce journalistic reports for the media, and other materials for my new friends.
The writer added that he, like many others, was never paid for similar work. In 1997, Forsyth received the OBE, for literary merit of course.
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