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Dirk Coetzee: branch as branch commander, security, Middelburg.

I then transferred to headquarters, police headquarters, to section C, which was Vlakplaas, where we based all our 'ascaris', the so-called turned ANC terrorists who decided to work for us.

And from there, in theory, we were only supposed to, on paper, to roam around bus stops and police stations and shebeens, illegal drinking places, to look whether we, our ascaris can identify infiltrator terrorists.

And then if you sort of catch them you must hand them over to the local branch. In my time there was only one incident, I think, in the whole existence of Vlakplaas maybe ten, thirteen years it existed.

On occasion I was called to perform specific duties like the murder of a ANC lawyer who served us for a short while on Robben Island, but he was a supporter of the ANC and he acted as instructing attorney on ANC cases.

And it was ordered to murder him, with specific instructions, how to do it: not to shoot him, must make it look like a murder. I was also involved in the murdering and burning of two other activists, for instance.

being one of the guys that the army abducted from Mozambique on their first raid into Matola in February 1981, because he did not want to cooperate, so they said: "Make a plan with him", with another ANC guy on the farm which gave them a lot of trouble.

In other words it involved murders, it involved stealing cars. I can go into more detail if necessary.

Then in ... during December 1981, 31st of December I was transferred by the then police commissioner, or ... no no he was then still security police chief: Johan Coetzee, General Johan Coetzee, because of a mish with the abduction of from Swaziland.

It was an ANC Indian guy working for the ANC in Swaziland and I was called back to Pretoria to make a progress report.

I was told to leave the ascaris there in the hands of the local Ermelo security police.

A mishappening: they abducted him, they were caught, it was a hell of a political international outcry. So they had to take him back.

But of course, like Johan Coetzee always says: "Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan, and I was transferred to Westrand security branch and he brought Jan Coetzee, Captain Jan Coetzee to the farm.

I couldn't go to Westrand because of my child's illness, he was a ... diabetically ill, so they transferred me to narcotics.

I was then in charge of liquor, brothels... There are two divisions in narcotics; I was heading the one.

After that I wasn't happy in that circumstances and I was transferred to police headquarters, recruiting headquarters where I was national head of all white recruits.

Well, you had a white recruit, black recruit and a re-recruiting guy that had left the police and wanted to come back.

I was in charge of white recruiting.


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