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K: M.FL

MAL

K: Okay. In October 1993, the now senator Philip Powell gave me the name of a man which I now will call The Shooter.

This man was involved in the killing of Olof Palme. He was the man that fired the shots. I unfortunately does not have his name at this stage. It was in my book, which I managed to recover with my arrest, and destroyed it.

The name, basically, if I think back does not coincide with that of Bertil Wedin, you know the sound doesn't make sense.

What Powell made very very clear was that this man was a Swedish intelligence officer, and then I'm talking about a commissioned officer, and I have a vague recollection that it was a captain.

That was the rank and I'm not sure if you have those ranks or whatever.

Now there was a very...there was a very open sort of relationship between myself and Powell.

We...there was a lot of trust between the two of us.

It is after I supplied them with about 60 tons of arms, ammunition, in training aids and some arms, yeah and in explosives. So there was a very close relationship at that stage between us.

The reason he gave me this information was that he said that if I would ever travel to Turkey, and I want to look up this man, or if I need his help or I want to go and visit him, then I'm welcome to do so.

And he gave me the name of the man, his post box number, there was a street number, there was a telephone number. And it was not something like Cyprus or northern Cyprus, it was Turkey itself.

That is how he gave it to me.

To give you a background on Powell, is that he worked for the South African police in (störande ljud), which was called STRATCOM which stands for Strategic Communications, which was involved in propaganda, you know counterpropaganda and then also in more or less dirty tricks.

He then left the South African police force and he joined a front company of the military intelligence unit that was known as Longreach. Now Longreach was a project of the army.

The grouping it under...the grouping that it was allocated to was DCI, that is: Directorate of Covert Intelligence or for covert information.

I know that specific unit very well, because we also operated together at various stages.

There was also a second body, which was international: the Freedom Foundation, which was also a project of DCI and it also dovetailed with Operation Longreach.

Now Craig Williamson was the chief of Longreach.

I don't know who the other persons were. I know that a former policeman called , who is now the owner of a bar and a restaurant at Quay Four in Cape Town, it's on the docks, it's very very popular.

He was also involved in Longreach. They used it, just by the way, they used to fly away, him and his girlfriend, they used to fly on a Friday,