Special Report Transcript Episode 9, Section 3, Time 15:48

My investigation begins in Zambia. I have come here to meet a former government agent who has now defected to the ANC. This is a man who casts his shadow over my father’s murder. In 1978 the security forces were divided into an intelligence gathering arm: BOSS and an executive arm: the security police. Martin Dolinschek was my father’s case officer in BOSS. All reports so far point to him as someone who must know who killed my father. // I’m Jann Turner. // Rick Turner’s telephone was on tap at BOSS office local station in Durban. But later on when he was murdered it transpired that it was, it shouldn’t have been because security branch was in charge of his case. // What shouldn’t have been? // That BOSS shouldn’t have tapped his phone, but nobody told nobody. In other words the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing. There was 24 hours surveillance on him by surveillance units of BOSS in Durban. // 24 hour? // Yes. // For years? // For years. // And BOSS’ surveillance unit itself was doing surveillance and sometimes they puncture his car tyres and what not. And they were laughing when he was carting them one by one to the nearest filling station. // How come if both BOSS and the security branch had telephone taps on him and 24 hour surveillance nobody knows who went to that house that night and killed him? // That’s a good question. // What’s your answer? // Well, one thing is if you want to do something you can withdraw the surveillance, assign him somewhere else. // After my father was shot, what did you hear about who might have killed him? // We were told to leave, not to meddle. // Who told you? // Head quarters. // Dolinschek denies any involvement in the assassination and I believe him. He is certain that the murder was carried out by the security police and told me that BOSS rumours at the time pointed to a security branch officer who is now a colonel in the South African Police.

Notes: Interview with former BOSS agent, Martin Dolinschek; Jann Turner

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