Special Report Transcript Episode 48, Section 3, Time 22:58

Look your position if I understand it correctly is that Vlakplaas is an aberration like a lot of these other things that were debated this morning. And the explanation, as I understand it, that you were proffering was that it must have been an officer or two or whatever, lower down the hierarchy, somewhere below these generals who were doing this exercise, this Vlakplaas exercise entirely on their own bat. // That is my impression. // How reasonable is that explanation, that a lowly officer, somewhere below these generals was responsible for this entire aberration that led to all these things that we know are being disclosed? // There’s nothing reasonable in crime. It’s unreasonable. I believe what the generals say to me and therefore I don’t offer it as an explanation, I offer it as an example where I have reason to believe, based on the accounts of four people to me that specifically in the case of Vlakplaas fundamental information with regard to totally unacceptable things for which we are all so sorry and which abhor all of us so much have taken place without the knowledge of superiors.

Notes: Denzil Potgieter (Truth Commissioner); FW de Klerk

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