A close reading of papers filed at the Maun High Court by former president Ian Khama suggests that the South African intelligence service intercepted communication from its Botswana counterpart – the Directorate of Intelligence Services.
“Prior to my departure from Botswana, three intelligence agencies from states outside Botswana, issued credible warnings of threats to my life,” says Khama in an affidavit that replies one deposed to by Kgotla Autlwetse, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development. “Information in reports originating from the said three intelligence agencies, referred to as SIGINT, and shared with me on an ‘eyes-only’ basis, described how there had already been three separate and distinct plots to assassinate me, apparently organised by organs of the state of Botswana.”
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