CAPT MENTZ
Yes, Mr Chairman it was absolutely political in the sense that a security policeman who 
was an ascari and then a security policeman at the same time, was in a
confidential unit, C2, which had all the information on the country, they evaluated information and if any 
information which had passed through C2 had been leaked it could affect the police, the security branches, 
and be to the advantage of the liberation movements.	Then it was political to me and it was important to 
me at that stage that should there be somebody who was a traitor, he had to be eliminated.
	I didn't know at that stage how much information he had given out, but as I said many policemen's 
houses had been burnt down, etc and it was important for me to do this.  The man had to be eliminated.  He 
was passing on information and it endangered his fellow policemen's lives, so he had to be eliminated.