Casement was so distressed by what he had seen in the Congo that the Foreign Office could not control him, and he gave several interviews to the London press. Their publication made it hard to censor or postpone his report, though Foreign Office officials did water it down by removing all names. When the report was finally published, in early 1904, readers found statements by witnesses that read: “I am N.N. These two beside me are O.O. and P.P.” Or: “The white man who said this was the chief white man at F.F. . . . His name was A. B.” This lent the report a strangely disembodied tone, as if
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