By Karyn Maughan and Boyd Webb (The Star reporters)
Suspended prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli has blasted the Scorpions' controversial spy probe into Jacob Zuma as sourced from "old apartheid military intelligence".
And he has accused National Intelligence Agency Director-General Manala Manzini of lying about his "excited" response to the "Special Browse Mole Report".
Denying Manzini's earlier evidence to the Ginwala Inquiry into his fitness to hold office that he had told spy bosses that he had "a hot potato", Pikoli said the comment was inconsistent with his order that the report hold no status in the Scorpions.
"Mr Manala is wrong, Mr Manala is not saying the truth," Pikoli testified.
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Pikoli was responding to Manala and his deputy Arthur Fraser's claims that Pikoli should be held responsible for the alleged failure of former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy to reveal the sources of the 2006 Report, which claimed Zuma was being bankrolled by Angola and Libya in support of his presidential ambitions.
It claimed Zuma was involved in a conspiracy to topple President Thabo Mbeki's government.
This conspiracy was apparently driven by left-wing groups, such as the South African Communist Party, Cosatu and the ANC Youth League, which had been alienated by government policies.
Pikoli on Thursday morning testified that he had first been exposed to a draft version of the report in March 2006 and immediately had a "gut feel" that it was "going to cause trouble".
"It was one of those documents that you wish you had never seen," he said.
When McCarthy gave him the final version of the report four months later, Pikoli said his reaction was "one of anger".
"I thought if there was going to be a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave, it would be now.
"The point I was making to him...
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