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As it turned out, writer Frederick Forsyth over 20 years was an agent

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'30.08.2015'

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One of the most famous British authors of spy novels, Frederick Forsyth, admitted that for more than 20 years he was an agent of the British Foreign Intelligence Service Mi-6.

The author of “The Day of the Jackal” (1971) and “Dogs of War” (1974) spoke about this in his autobiographical book The Outsider: My Life.

According to him, he was recruited by one of the officers of the Mi-6 during his work to cover the fighting during the war for independence of the unrecognized state of Biafra in the south-east of Nigeriathat lasted from 1967 to 1970 years.

"During the last year of that war I was sending both media reports and other materials for my new friend," Forsyth told the BBC on Sunday.

“The Foreign Office denied that children were dying there (in the war-torn region) because they (British diplomats) passionately defended the dictatorship in Lagos, however, strange as it may seem, MI6 had a different point of view on this matter,” - said the writer.

“The History of Biafra” (1969) was Forsythe’s first book, but none of the readers realized that the story was based on the author’s personal experience working in intelligence agencies.

“The Day of the Jackal” brought him great fame and money, but despite this, the writer continued for many years to send secret messages to MI6, including from Rhodesia (the territory of present-day Zimbabwe), South Africa and the GDR.

Forsyth worked as a correspondent for Reuters in Berlin, Paris and Prague. And only now it became clear that this was an undercover job. At the same time, the writer assures that he was never paid anything for his work on British intelligence.

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