PRESSER: CRAIG WILLIAMSON [former SA spy] cont. reax. to allegations by Eugene de Kock that he was involved in the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme

Record ID: 893657

  • Title: PRESSER: CRAIG WILLIAMSON [former SA spy] cont. reax. to allegations by Eugene de Kock that he was involved in the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
  • Date: 21st October 1996
  • Summary: PRESSER: CRAIG WILLIAMSON [former SA spy] cont. reax. to allegations by Eugene de Kock that he was involved in the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme
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  • City: JOHANNESBURG
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96OCT21R15
  • Story Text:PRESSER; CRAIG WILLIAMSON [former SA spy] cont. re: Allegations by Eugene de Kock that he was involved in the assassination of Swedish prime Minister Olaf Palme

    18.55.59 WILLIAMSON: ...the allegations of dealing in arms & supplying arms to UNITA are as absurd as the allegations made about the assassination of Olaf Palme..
    18.56.50 TAKING A DRINK OF WATER
    18.57.03 LAWYER LEVIN COMMENTING
    18.57.16 WILLIAMSON:...no I'm not angry...
    18.58.12 ...there's been far too much speculation. I will not speculate. I will stick to facts...
    18.58.26 ...I've never been to Sweden since 1980...never...I have been to Sweden...
    18.59.28 ...every report...speculation since the first time I heard this allegation back in 1989...has got more & more absurd and farfetched. It just seems to continue and continue...I know nothing...
    19.00.11 ...the so-called OPERATION LONG REACH did not exist until after Olaf Palme was already dead...
    19.00.26 ...olaf Palme was anti-Soviet, he was opposed to Soviet style Marxism and therefore would therefore certainly as far as I'm concerned not be regarded as a political threat or problem to SA, while he may not have been regarded as a friend, the divide was whether you were in support of Soviet-Marxism or not.
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