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organisation that would have been involved. with something like that. I mean they'd run a mile. The police, I mean it's just not...I'm talking now of knowing the South African situation at that time. It's just not the type of operation that the police would be involved in. And I don't understand the motive anyway. Military...I mean that's what they're for. You know military are...exist and are paid and trained to kill people and enemies. But even in the military, even in special forces and all that, they didn't have the structures for this type of thing.

D:

Have you...ever, in South Africa or elsewhere, heard people that you know speculate over the murder of Olof Palme, who could be responsible for it in some...?

W:

You know, at the time that the article came out, I mean I was flabbergasted. And in fact I got very angry and I wrote a letter. Have you got a copy of the letter?

D:

I think so, yes.

W:

Yeah, because I gave it also...I arranged to give it to some journalist. I asked South Africa to fax it. And I actually asked Pik Botha. I sent a letter to him, said now...and I was very pissed off that the South African...all they wrote to me "n mooi brief, you know, 'nice letter, well done Craig. They didn't do anything to, you know, object. I mean I was a member of the President's Council at that stage. So they just left me you know, and they said, "ah!" you know. So at that time I was in fact amazed that there was no speculation. Because Swedish journalists found me. That's how I heard about this. And then since then the only people who've ever asked me about it, off and on, have been Swedish journalists. And I was quite amazed until that stupid story in Rapport, which I think had been cut by the edit...sub-editor or something, 'cos I mean it didn't make too much sense, that nobody actually

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