EUGENE ALEXANDER DE KOCK
Generally speaking, we required authority or had to obtain authority. We had no carte blanche because then thousands of people could have been killed, but I just want to clarify something. It did happen on occasion that an operative on the ground would suddenly find himself in a situation where he has to make a decision whether he was an officer or not, and in that situation there would not necessarily be the time to phone head office and to find a senior officer, and that operative would then take an operational decision on the ground, and then he would have to carry the responsibility for that.  My answer is a bit long-winded but I just want there to be no misunderstanding.