Chapter Six
THE IDEA GROWS UP
AFTER. my talks with John Holmes on the subject of developing our new idea we had ceased to regard the Post at Kamiti as an interrogation centre. Instead we called it the Special Methods Training Centre and gave Eric Holyoak the job of working out the best way of translating our theories into practice.In the early days Eric organized his patrols in two halves. First there would be James and two or three of our men dressed as gangsters. It would be for them to approach and mix with the terrorists. Eric and some more of his men would wait a short distance away. If the first group got into serious difficulties Eric could go to their assistance. If all went well the pseudo-gangsters, as we called them, would talk to the real ones, find out what they could, and then come back to Eric who would decide what to do with the information. He could either return to camp after making a future date with the gang, which was a good way of getting ordinary information, or he could get soldiers or police to the spot in the hope that the gang would still be there, or he could go straight into the attack himself.
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Now James was pretending to be a fairly senior Mau Mau officer from Kiambu in order to have a reason for asking for the whereabouts of the gang leader, so he found himself in an awkward position.As a terrorist leader he would not carry much weight if he allowed the indiscipline to pass unnoticed, but with only two others to support him it might be difficult to enforce the rules. James was not the sort of person to be put off by a trifle of that sort, however, and he managed to get the rest of the gang to side with him against their comrades. They held a trial and the two offenders only just avoided a death sentence. In the end James ordered them to be whipped and fined.
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