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Following the investigation into the possibilities that Bacon was in possession of other safety drawers or safety boxes, inquiries were also made to the Standard Bank Beach branch in Durban. This followed a letter from H.W. Bacon in which he gave authorization to Mr. Jan-Ake Kjellberg to access his security drawer in the bank. The response from the bank was that there was no safety drawer in the bank ither in the name of H.W. Bacon nor in the name of N. Esslin. Bacon was confronted with the result of this inquiry and his response was that he probably made a mistake when he thought that he had a safety box in the Standard Bank branch in Durban. Copies of the letter of authorization*%, letters to the Standard Bank branch in Durban and the written response" thereof are attached. A verbal inquiry was made to the bank regarding the name Nigel Barnett. T'he head of security in the bank would not. however, agree to deal with such a request in the same "informal" way that the other requests had been dealt with. The Nedbank Legal Department advised the TRC to obtain a court order to access this information. At that time of the investigation, it was considered to be not tactical to expose the investigation into this sensitive matter by going to a court with such request. It is, however, suggested that the time has now come when the risk of such exposure could be tactically accepted given the position of the investigation. Such request should also include full information about known and possible bank accounts in various banks.

On 30 May 1997, a letter was sent to the Nedbank branch in Nelspruit requesting information regarding services offered by the bank to H.W. Bacon, N. Esslin and N. Barnett. The telephonic response from the bank came a few days later and stated that there was no service whatsoever offered by the bank to any of these people. A copy of the request to Nedbank is attached.".

There are a number of reasons why it is considered to be important for the investigation to try to establish which bank accounts and bank safety boxes were used by H.W. Bacon. One is to trace the payment into the different bank accounts back to his employer, the Directorate of Covert Collection. Another is to try to obtain further documentation that can further clarify either his background or his activities during the period 1981-97. This could be achieved either through items found in the possible safety boxes or via documentation of transactions concerning his bank accounts. The fact that he continued to use the name H.W. Bacon after 1982/83 for at least one bank account after he had officially changed his name to Nicbo Esslin is of interest.

Copy of letter of authorization. To Standard Bank, Durban. 12 June 1997. *** Three letters sent to Ms. Veronica Christian, Standard Bank, Durban.

Two letters from Standard Bank, dated 19 June 1997. Letter to Ms. Anka, Nedbank. Nielspruit, dated 30 May 1997.

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