13 Facts About Craig Williamson

Craig Williamson was thus able to infiltrate the banned African National Congress and, at the same time, make high-level contacts in Sweden which provided most of the funding for the IUEF.

In 1981, Craig Williamson recruited the woman who would become South Africa's best-known female spy, Olivia Forsyth.

Again using IUEF funds, Craig Williamson set up the South African News Agency to recruit and use journalists for apartheid South African counter-intelligence purposes.

Craig Williamson attempted to infiltrate the International Defence and Aid Fund, though he was successfully deflected by Phyllis Altman, general secretary of IDAF.

Craig Williamson's cover was finally revealed by Arthur McGiven who reported his activities in the Observer.

Craig Williamson applied for amnesty in 1995 from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission for bombing the London office of the ANC in March 1982.

Craig Williamson ordered the assassination of Ruth Slovo, who was an exiled campaigner for the Anti-Apartheid Movement, close friend of Sweden's prime minister, Olof Palme and the ANC author of a pioneering study of Namibia.

Craig Williamson was the wife of the South African Communist Party's leader, Joe Slovo.

Craig Williamson was killed by a letter-bomb in Maputo, Mozambique on 18 August 1982.

Botha, recorded Craig Williamson as plotting the overthrow of the government in Mozambique.

In mid-1984 Craig Williamson mailed a letter-bomb which on 28 June killed Jeanette Schoon, who was the wife of Marius Schoon, and their six-year-old daughter Katryn, at the family's home in exile in Lubango in Angola.

Ten years later, Craig Williamson was named in a South African court for Palme's murder, as were three others: Anthony White, Roy Allen and Bertil Wedin.

Craig Williamson was one of the main collaborators with Peter Worthington in the anti-militant video The ANC method - violence which was distributed by Citizens for foreign aid reform throughout Canada in 1988.