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The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has identified the main source of the Browse Mole Report but is still waiting for the Directorate of Special Operations to provide it, in terms of a co-operation agreement, NIA deputy general for operations Arthur Fraser told the hearing into prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli's fitness to hold office.

"To date, the DSO has not provided us (with) that name. We know who he is," said Fraser.

Fraser explained that they needed the identity of the principal, and other sources of the report which claimed foreign funding to bring African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to power.

The hearing has heard that Pikoli kept an interim copy of the report, based on an investigation by the DSO, for about four months after being advised by former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy that it was not complete yet.

The NIA believes he should have given it to them immediately in the interests of national security, and that the DSO should not have been having contact with foreign intelligence in the first place.

They needed the information to make a full presentation to President Thabo Mbeki on the matter.

They also had concerns that the report may have been compiled by foreign "information peddler". "We believed they had been duped by peddlers," said Fraser.

On Monday NIA director general Manala Manzini said that the NPA had not co-operated with the NIA during this investigation.

The hearing would continue after the lunch adjournment.

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