00:00John Friedrich is almost forgotten.
00:03A leader and a hero.
00:05He built a rescue organisation envied around the world.
00:08He was also a criminal mastermind
00:11who seduced governments and shook the Australian banking system.
00:17John was a driven man, quite a powerful person.
00:20I've never known anyone that when he walks into a room
00:23he'll command the room.
00:25He was able to just get anyone on side
00:27and get his story across to anybody.
00:29It was quite remarkable.
00:30He would sell ice to Eskimos
00:32and the Eskimos would come back for more.
00:34But if John suggested we were going to do something
00:36it generally happened.
00:37I don't think he should be seen as being a conman,
00:40a confidence trickster.
00:41He certainly, there's no issue of demonic motive.
00:45John Friedrich came and went as he pleased
00:47various defence establishments
00:49and seemed to operate in and out of them
00:52as though he owned them.
00:53There was a group of questions that he never answered
00:56and that was about his identity
00:58where he'd come from and his early life.
01:02If I say I am John Friedrich, you don't believe it.
01:05If I say I'm not John Friedrich, you don't believe it.
01:07That's all you've got to say.
01:08You've got to take what you say.
01:09Less than an hour ago, the Corporate Affairs Department
01:11issued an alert to all airports and seaports
01:14to be on the lookout for John Friedrich
01:17who resigned yesterday as the council's chief executive.
01:19says who is an expert at WK's
01:19and the Ohio State Department
01:19said who is a resident or woman
01:19and who is a resident.
01:20The Ohio State Department
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