 The Angolan Ambassador to Zambia, Luis Neto Kiambata, said Forsyth was "a regional problem" because she was "spying in all the Frontline states" and that "President Kenneth Kaunda, as the Frontline States' chairman, should decide on whether she should be given a visa".Sources in the ANC and anti-apartheid movement claimed that she had been captured and escaped twice.The Angolan government offered to release Forsyth in exchange for a number of important anti-apartheid prisoners in South Africa.