![]() ![]() While working as a journalist in 1968 in Nigeria, he was approached by an MI6 man called "Ronnie" who wanted "an asset deep inside the Biafran enclave" where there was a civil war between 19. "You don't want anyone actually to do it!" said Forsyth, dressed in a light-coloured suit.įorsyth worked for Reuters and the BBC in the 1960s in France, Nigeria and East Germany. ![]() In "The Fourth Protocol", he said he avoided telling readers how exactly to trigger a nuclear weapon, after a bit of editing of the draft from MI6. The writer said he would submit draft pages from his novels to MI6 to check that he was not divulging sensitive details and they would sometimes come back with annotations and paragraphs underlined. In an interview on the sidelines of a speaking engagement organised by the London Grill Club, Forsyth also spoke about his work for MI6 in Africa and the former Soviet bloc during the Cold War. "How many bakers go on baking after 78?" he quipped. He said his memoir "The Outsider" was his "swan song". "There was some statistical information on Somalia but not what I wanted, which was atmosphere," he said. After his last trip to Somalia as research for "The Kill List", Forsyth said his wife told him: "You're far too old, these places are bloody dangerous and you don't run as avidly, as nimbly as you used to."įorsyth, who has only ever written on a typewriter, said he had tried an online search for Somalia but had been "very dissatisfied" with the results. ![]()
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