LUANDA - A former apartheid spy, Mr Craig Williamson, yesterday denied charges by a South African police colleague that he was behind the 1986 killing of Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme.
"It's crazy," he said. "It is enough to answer for what we did, but this is absurd. It came out in a Swedish newspaper six years ago and I denied it then and I shall deny it again."
His colleague, Mr Eugene de Kock, former head of an apartheid hit squad, told a court in Pretoria that the Palme murder was part of a Williamson project called "Operation Long Reach".
Mr De Kock said he had first-hand information that Mr Williamson was involved in killing the prime minister, a staunch supporter of President Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.