Willem du Plessis
Willem du Plessis  is a retired Rear Admiral of the South African Navy. He was appointed as a Defence Advisor to Washington, DC at the South African Embassy with the rank of commodore in the mid seventies, and in 1979 he was expelled by the United States' State Department for alleged espionage back to the Republic of South Africa. He was later promoted to rank of rear admiral and served as Deputy Chief of Staff Intelligence and later seconded to the National Intelligence Service. Despite being expelled in 1979 du Plessis visited the US in 1981 with the then Chief of Staff Intelligence but was recognized and the party had to leave the US.

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