W RIAAN BELLINGAN
Mr Chairman, Colonel de Kock was taken into the confidence of the general staff and Minsters when they visited Vlakplaas and said that we should do something regarding Shell House.  De Kock was called in and the necessary plans were drawn up and when we say legal instructions, that does not mean legal, it means that the general staff and the Ministers gave him instructions.  On a regular basis they called him in, because they trusted him.  If there was instructions for a cross-border operation or operations internally, that would be conveyed to de Kock and he would plan accordingly.