South African Navy officer
Rear Admiral Koos Louw (born 17 July 1952) is a retired South African Navy officer.
He served as Flag Officer Commanding Naval Base Simon's Town twice, first from 1 April 1999 to 31 March 2005 and again from November 2006 to July 2012.
He also served as Chief of Fleet Staff at Fleet Command (2005) and Director Fleet Logistics and retired in 2012.
An investigative report published in 1994 by The Mail &amp; Guardian exposes Louw as a former member of an apartheid-era covert intelligence and assassination unit, the Directorate of Covert Collections (DCC). 
Honours and awards.
 
In 2010 Louw was awarded the Order of Prince Henry by Portugal's ambassador to South Africa.
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