Arthur 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."
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).
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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.