Most South Africans, even those who studied history at school, have never heard of the enigmatic Boer who fought, spied and sabotaged his way through three cataclysmic wars.
That seems a fairly strange historical legacy for a man who hunted big game with U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, headed the biggest spy ring in the history of the United States and claimed to have been the man who sent Britain's Lord Kitchener to a watery grave. And that's not even half of it: globe trotting journalist, serial prison escapee and one time publicist for a company owned by John F. Kennedy's father are just a few more incarnations of the man who was also known to some of his adversaries as the Black Panther. In fact, if you visit the FBI's website today you will find the Duquesne spy ring still listed as one of the agency's most famous espionage cases.
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