WILLEM JOHANNES VAN DER MERWE
We were all together and I told Captain Erwee in particular that as we had already had a series of planning sessions, we wanted to arrest these people.  With Captain Bourne present I also made it very clear that we should have no illusions as to what was going on.  Whilst we were dependent on arrested infiltrators for information which was very, very valuable to us, we should have no illusions as to what would happen if things went wrong. We didn't foresee that but if things went wrong our members lives should not be endangered.