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Det.Inspector Toohey of ‘A’ District. Det. Sgt Forbes of Scientific attended and is making the necessary inquiries. Sgt Gibson of Police Ballistics attended and made arrangements for members of the Army Bomb Disposal squad to attend and subsequently army personnel under Lieut. Stephenson attended the scene and they with the aid of trained Alsatian dogs, at this time are making a thorough search of all garbage receptacles in George and Pitt Street ... within a 400-yard radius of the Hilton Hotel with the purpose of locating any further explosive devices. The garbage truck is under guard and being kept in George St., outside the Hilton Hotel where all the garbage therein will be examined together with an area of 200 yards radius of the George Street entrance to the Hilton Hotel, in an effort to ascertain the device that caused the explosion …
    Detective Inspector Perrin of Special Branch also attended and he is supplying a list of possible suspects whom it is thought could be responsible for this explosion as it is thought that the fact of the numerous Prime Ministers being residents of this Hotel that this action could be Politically motivated. 12
    The day unfolds … The man completing the review of securing CHOGRM after the bombing is Alan Flemming, the 65-year-old head of the ProtectiveSecurity Coordination Centre and chairman of the inter-departmental committee advising the government on VIP security. A World War II veteran and intelligence officer, he had been brought out of retirement to head a new unit. Six months earlier his unit of 20 had been given sharply increased powers in preparation for CHOGRM and given the job of counter-terrorist planning. He has clearly failed in that and has until 8 am to come up with a new plan.
    Also wearing failure is Superintendent Reg Douglas, who was in charge of all CHOGRM security. He admits to Flemming that he no longer believes that he can guarantee the security of the Sydney–Bowral train line with the 300 police at his disposal.
    8 am. Flemming and his team complete the new security report. He flags calling in the Army.
    8 am. The President of Bangladesh arrives at the Hilton straight from the airport — God only knows what he thinks.
    10 am. CHOGRM starts inside the Hilton. The mood is bleak.
    Norm gathers witness statements. He makes no assumptions. He continues to corral the information that pours in throughout the day and begins the hunt. Everyone who was present at the demonstrations the day before will be tracked down and questioned — the feminists, the anarchists, the Ananda Marga. Leads are pursued from eyewitness accounts aroundthe time of the blast. Three men are seen driving a Mr Whippy van away from the explosion (reported by Trevor James Thomson, Station Assistant). A suspicious ‘Arabic-looking’ man is seen hanging around the escalator (reported by Hilton employee Manfred Von Gries). Other leads include someone seeing a Rolls Royce weaving up the street and information about an escapee from a Western Australian prison.
    Yet Norm is not content to simply receive information that may or may not be tinged with agendas. Given that he has 12 world leaders in close proximity to that explosion, who can say who the target was? Even the press is speculating:
    â€¦ was the bomber a lone eccentric with a general hatred for politicians and other great ones or was there a specific target for their protest? The guessing game [goes] on all day. Was it Tonga, Nauru, Western Samoa or Fiji? Surely not. Mr Michael Somare has his enemies, but seems high on the list of improbabilities … Mr Desai, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, [Mr] Datul Onn of Malaysia, Mr Jayawardene of Sri Lanka and General Ziaur Rabmen of Bangladesh. All have troubles at home. Each could be [the] target. So could, if it comes to that, Mr Malcolm Fraser. Whoever the bomb was intended for, it is providing police with a major headache for the next three days. 13
    Thus Norm sends a telex