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want to tell you that Sweden's name was never ever mentioned there in my...listen, the minutes, I suppose one can get the minutes. They must be in the archives. The death of this particular gentleman was never mentioned. Not one senior minister of foreign affairs or the then state president or someone said: "Ah there's now a big enemy of South Africa gone." Whether or not, no-one took any notice of it. That's why I said I'd be very very surprised, very surprised, you know if South Africa...I mean we had big enemies there: Mister Castro. I could understand if someone...they were fighting us, we were losing men in Namibia. There was a war on, we were fighting against the Cubans in Angola and so on. If someone had tried to do that, but Mister Parmer... Palmer...

Ö:

Palme.

C:

Palme. I mean I don't even know. I don't know. But I've asked myself already: did Mister Eriksson and Mister Palme...were they friends?

Ö:

Yeah, I think so.

C:

Were they...?

Ö:

Not friends, but they knew one another, yes.

C:

They knew one another. Because in the reports of Craig Williamson, I can't to...take up to you and say: "Listen there's never ever any mention of Mister Palme." You know I can't do that. Obviously I mean there were so thousands of names that it's impossible. In the process of trying to find out where does this money come from, because as I say we suspected at some stage: either it was a scam by someone else, or someone else was also working, also using this whole thing the same way that we're doing it, or we thought: perhaps Mister Eriksson was Swedish Intelligence. That's not impossible. Perhaps he was. How would we know? You know, he knew everyone. He was communicating with people in his room, he was going to the...he and I think he and this Russian, Williamson will tell you, I think they were keen on