He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that, for the first time, a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments, the hit squads, the assassination detachments, and the enormous, shabby, meritorious, violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work.