The surviving co-author of the book was partly the subject of an unflattering Carte Blanche investigation on Sunday.
The surviving co-author of the bestselling book The Lost Boys of Bird Island, Chris Steyn, on Tuesday night released the results of a polygraph test she took at the start of the month in the wake of ongoing questions being raised about the authenticity of her book’s claims.
Last year, Pauw said that Steyn’s assumptions about the workings of the Civil Co-operation Bureau apartheid death squad did not ring true for him. He also criticised her for not declaring in the book that she had married a former CCB commander, Lieutenant Colonel Eeben Barlow, a man who had admitted to killing enemies of the apartheid state.
Raymond Nelson, the past president of the American Polygraph Association, had asked her in the office of Ben Lombaard of LieTech Polygraph & Forensic Services in Cape Town: “In your book Lost Boys of Bird Island did you fabricate any of your reported information sources?
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