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The [[Bureau for State Security]], popularly known as '''BOSS''' was a South African intelligence agency active at the height of the Apartheid era.<ref>Hayden B. Peake, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no4/the-intelligence-officers-bookshelf.html The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf], Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 51, No. 4, accessed 6 June 2010.</ref> 

BOSS replaced the previous domestic security agency, [[Republican Intelligence]] in August 1968, and also acquired responsibility for foreign intelligence. It was itself replaced by the [[National Intelligence Service (South Africa)|National Intelligence Service]] in 1979.<ref>Hayden B. Peake, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no4/the-intelligence-officers-bookshelf.html The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf], Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 51, No. 4, accessed 6 June 2010.</ref> 

==People==
*[[Hendrik van den Bergh]] - Head<ref>Mary Braid, [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-hendrik-van-den-bergh-1246509.html Obituary: Hendrik van den Bergh], The Independent, 21 August 1997.</ref>

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