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C:1 months in Cape Town, where Parliament is sitting, and six inonths in Pretoria. And I mean even though you liked people or they were good policemen or bad policemen, you haven't got the time at all to be in contact with them. In 1985,I remember that you know he applied for his discharge from the police. I think it must have been. I don't know exactly, one day from about half of '85 towards the end he applied and so on. And I met him there, you know the security branch headquarters is next to police headquarters and sometimes you meet people in the alleys and I says: "But Craig you know you've got a good career, you're a major, why do you want to leave now?" I must say this though, that Williamson was not in the police for money, money was never an issue with him. He comes from a rich family. He's a rich man in his own right, so one would expect that at some stage a man like that would not remain in a job for a pension and so on, but I said: "Well, you're a major already, why do you want to leave?" Now he told me that he was going into business. He was going to be a businessman. I said: "All right". And so he left the police. The first time that I again heard about Mister Williamson was when...now I must tell you that I left in...the police as I've said effectively end of '86, effectively, although I went to parliament in the beginning of '87, but then parliament was sitting and when I came back, it was just saying good bye: different parties all over the country and I'm gone. So it must have been 1987, late in '87 or '88. The police still invited me Santon City, it was a very big function, invited me and my wife. Very very big occasion: police, all the generals were there and so on and so on. I was with Foreign Affairs now at this stage. And then he came as we went into the foyer, he came and he had two gentlemen with him. And he said: "Hello, General, can I. introduce my friends?" And they were Portuguese people as far as I'm concerned. And then my wife still said: "They must be selling prawns or something. They must be in the prawn business." This is the last time that I saw Mister Craig