Special Report Transcript Episode 48, Section 3, Time 26:10

There was never any reference after that meeting at any time of the third force in any discussion that I can recall except for this continued discussion on do we establish another overt force or not. There was never any reference that I can recall in any way whatsoever of our policy using terrorist methods. Yes firm action, yes using and applying extraordinary measures, yes going underground, yes spying, yes having covert actions, having a state of emergency, putting people in camps without trial, all that yes. But not murdering people, not assassination; it was never part of the policy. // How would a reasonable person interpret those directives, those statements? Would a reasonable person, member of the security forces who is enjoined to use the strongest possible methods to combat the revolution, not interpret what was being said to authorise killings and assassinations, and that’s the question. // As far as I know, not having been directly involved then, there were at all times general rules and guidelines and the general rules and guidelines within my total experience of how the country was governed, also in the period when I was an ordinary minister, was that we were not above the law. That was the ethos of our approach. The recent information of atrocities I find as shocking and abhorrent as anybody else. It came to me as just a shocking a revelation as to anyone else.

Notes: FW de Klerk; Glen Goosen; FW de Klerk