MR LAMEY
I wish to refer you briefly to - Chairman, bundle 1D, the supplementary statement of Mr de Kock, which deals with the general background of Vlakplaas.  On page 26 to 27, reference is made to evidence of Gen Johan van der Merwe, who was then the Security Chief of the Security Police and where he mentions - and I read it briefly
"Chairperson, as I've already mentioned, Brig Schoon was the Head of the Vlakplaas unit.  I asked him to do the task.  I had already made use of the C1 unit and I knew personally that with certain incidents they acted across the border and they did their tasks extremely well.  And the members of C1 itself, all of them were very experienced and competent members and they had anti-insurgency training and they were capable of working in difficult circumstances and had to do the work with a clear mind and they were actually the only operational unit within the Security Forces."