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was a fabrication, but which indicated to people in the intelligence or the nuclear physics world that it was a peacefUL thing, it couldn't be used for other purposes. Now this we forwarded, you can go and ask Mister Williamson, perhaps he's forgotten. Now this was basically for the Russians, that they could get, that they asked for and to find out. Not the American chaps or anybody, it was the Russians that wanted to know. Now this German...this Russian guy, at one stage he was arrested by the Swiss police and he was detained for a day or two and then he was declared an illegal immigrant and he couldn't come back. I know there was big problems and Eriksson was very cross, you know because this man couldn't come, so he had definite links there, that is a fact. That's what I know. The only case that I know, you know. I know that Craig Williamson reported that he came, he was a very...they went out together and then they went to restaurants and so on, but this is the one occasion, to me it was definite, it wasn't just a family or a social relationship, it really had on the basis of gathering information. So we've sent back four five six reports to Williamson about this which he handed I think to Erik William Eriksson or to the Russian himself. He must explain that, perhaps he's forgotten about it, I don't know, but this is a fact, It was very important at that stage and I reported that to our government also: I said: "You know the Russians are now interested in this affair through links of ours and this is what we've done." The government was very perturbed

and was very worried about it.Fourso that is basically what happened. You can ask

me more questions about that period, but that's an overall situation. Now I don't know the exact date, but when Craig Williamson was working att Witts University,

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