W RIAAN BELLINGAN
Usually the Research Desk and the local security police, they started, did the preparation and as soon as a freedom fighter was arrested, they would try and determine whether he had been involved in any act of terror in South Africa.  If he had not been so involved then the people who had actually made the identification from photograph albums and so on would then have gone to the person, had an interview with him and from that interview it would have been determined whether that person was suitable for recruitment to Vlakplaas.  So, it was mostly people who were involved in murders or motor car bombs did not become askaris.  I think there were a couple of exceptions to that rule though and, of course, he had to renounce violence and he had to co-operate with the security police.