Cape Town - The State Security Agency (SSA) will not let Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier have a copy of a presentation it made to a parliamentary committee earlier this year, at a meeting that was open to the media.
"Disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause prejudice to the defence and the security of the Republic," the SSA says in a letter sent in response to Maynier's request to obtain a copy, a request he made in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act.
Maynier, who said the refusal to supply the information reflected a "new paranoia which is spreading like an oil slick in government", released a copy of the letter, dated September 21, on Monday.
In it, the SSA also says that allowing access to a copy of the presentation "would reveal information supplied in confidence by or on behalf of another state or organisation".
