by professorpan » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:37 am
MKULTRA never died. It moved to the backrooms and laboratories of the racist, right-wing Apartheid regime in South Africa.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/south_africa/index.html">www.crimelibrary.com/noto...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Some excerpts:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>According to a paper by Burgess and Purkitt, The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program, Basson managed all aspects of Project Coast. His duties included the recruitment of approximately 200 medical and scientific researchers from around the world, management of annual funds of $10 million and the establishment and supervision of the program and related companies. Basson's activities remained largely unsupervised because those people above him in the chain of command lacked the scientific experience and knowledge essential for the operation and management of the project.<br><br>In an effort to maintain secrecy, Basson created four front companies that served various purposes. Gould and Folb claim the front companies were created for three primary reasons: 1) to maintain secrecy by making it difficult to link the production of CBW facilities to the military, 2) to procure chemical and biological related substances, which normally would have been difficult for the military to obtain, 3) to discreetly channel funds from defense accounts to the research facilities. The four front companies were Delta G Scientific Company, Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL), Protechnik and Infadel, which divided into two companies in 1989, D. John Truter Financial Consultants and Sefmed Information Services. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>snip<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>A majority of the products developed at the company were tested at Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL) which was established in November of that same year.<br><br>RRL, initially headed by Daan Goosen, was primarily responsible for the research, development and production of a range of biological and chemical pathogens to be used for defensive and allegedly offensive purposes. Some of the agents produced and tested at RRL during the 1980's included, anthrax, botulinum, cholera, plague, ricin, E. coli, Ebola and Marburg virus. <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Burgess and Purkitt state that genetic engineering research was also a component of Project Coast and led to the research of lethal bacterial agents which would affect only non-white people.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>snip<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Allegedly, a large portion of the research and development of the CBW produced by the front companies under the direction of Basson was used in the assassination and destruction of anti-apartheid leaders, militants and other regime enemies. Basson was purportedly involved in several lethal covert operations that were believed to have led to the elimination of hundreds of regime enemies by use of various deadly toxins. The operations that were claimed to have occurred in the early to mid 1980's were "Operation Barnacle" and "Operation Duel." Both operations were said to have resulted in the deaths of several hundred military prisoners and enemies of the state. Many of the bodies were allegedly disposed of by dumping them into the ocean.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>snip<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>During the 1980's Basson continued to travel to many countries in an effort to obtain information and make contacts about foreign chemical and biological weapons programs. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Basson was known to have traveled to countries, such as Denmark, Switzerland, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, Iran, Columbia, the Philippines, U.S., U.K., Germany and other European countries. It is believed that he was able to obtain a substantial amount of information that could be utilized in South Africa's CBW program. In fact, it has been suggested that many of the countries Basson visited could have assisted in the development of South Africa's CBW program, although there is little substantiating evidence.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>More to come. <p></p><i></i>