Frederick Forsyth believes that the BBC investigated his political beliefs after he clashed with the corporation over coverage the Nigerian Civil War. Mr Forsyth has admitted working informally for British intelligence Anthony Devlin/Press Association ArchiveFrederick Forsyth claimed yesterday that the BBC sent a “secretive” internal unit to break into his flat when he was working as one of its correspondents. The best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal said the BBC had sent a man called The Investigator to inquire into his political beliefs after he clashed with the corporation over coverage of the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s. Forsyth told the Edinburgh Book Festival that after he had been told by his BBC bosses that his reporting of the attempts of the Biafran minority to secede from Nigeria had been…

Source: The Times August 16, 2016 23:15 UTC