EUGENE ALEXANDER DE KOCK
Chairperson, it may sound strange to you, but there were some of the Security Branches in this country and Security Policemen at Head Office, who didn't know about Vlakplaas' existence.  I can state this unequivocally.
	By nature, the Unit was an absolutely secret institution.  The continued existence or the survival of this Unit was absolutely necessary for the successful prosecution of ANC and PAC members in the courts.
	It was also established in order to promote the police and State dispensation, to give them the advantage of being one step ahead of the enemy with regard to information and identification and by nature of the situation, it was also a mechanism of protection for these former ANC and PAC members, for their families.  It was a sort of protection umbrella.
	However one would like to put it and I say this with compassion, because not everybody is equally strong, a white Askari or a black Askari, was a traitor to his people or his group, or that which he believed in.  I feel this within myself as well.
	These people's lives were genuinely in danger at that time.