South Africa's MKULTRA -- Project Coast

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. <a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/south_africa/index.html">www.crimelibrary.com/noto...index.html</a> Some excerpts: <blockquote>Quote:<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. 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> snip <blockquote>Quote:<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. 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. 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.<hr></blockquote> snip <blockquote>Quote:<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> snip <blockquote>Quote:<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. 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.<hr></blockquote> More to come.

by **professorpan** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 12:46 am

More: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>After assuming office in 1990, President F.W. de Klerk began a series of politically-motivated changes within the structure of the country. In February of that year, de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, as well as several other organizations that were previously deemed as enemies of the state. The lifting of the ban eventually led to the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. Less than two months after the ban was lifted, de Klerk ordered a stop to the production and the beginning of destruction of deadly agents produced by the CBW program. This posed a serious threat to Project Coast. The SADF and Basson's focus turned towards a different area, that of non-lethal chemical substances, and began the production of four agents not banned by the government. Gould and Folb list the chemicals produced by the CBW program: Ecstasy Mandrax or Quaaludes (sedatives) CR (a potent and irritating riot control agent) BZ (psychoactive incapacitant) Some of these substances were produced in extremely large quantities. Between 1992 and 1993 more than 900 hundred kilos of a crystalline form of Ecstasy was produced under Project Coast. Years later it would be counted among missing items produced under Basson's leadership. The CBW program not only produced Ecstasy, as well as other substances, but also imported some of them. For example, in 1991 Basson asked then Surgeon General Neils Knobel for $2.4 million so that he could import 500 kg's of Ecstasy into South Africa from Croatia, which was approved. Initially, it was unclear why such vast amounts of Ecstasy were imported and eventually produced. Many believed it was created for two primary purposes, to be used in a new form to temporarily incapacitate rioting crowds and to be distributed among the black townships to promote drug usage and dependency. According to Sunday Times writers Breda and Trench, scientists working on the drug claimed that it was used primarily in experiments to create drug-laced tear gas. In January 1992, Mozambican government forces were purportedly attacked with CBW by the South African apartheid regime. Several hundred commando soldiers claimed to see a plane flying in the area above them, which was thought to have released a lethal substance. Within a half an hour, many of the troops began to get sick. Four soldiers died and many were hospitalized. The incident was investigated by the U.S., U.K. and UN, which found that the symptoms experienced by the soldiers were consistent with that related to BZ agent exposure. However, the results could not be confirmed because too much time elapsed between the alleged attack and the investigation. It was suspected that the front company Protechnik was the most likely source of the lethal agent and that Basson and some of his colleagues were possibly behind the attack.<hr></blockquote> snip <blockquote>Quote:<hr>In January of 1993, following a high-level government investigation into South Africa's secret programs, Project Coast was decelerated. Eventually in March 1993 Basson was given an early retirement from his position as head of Project Coast. There were several suspected reasons behind the project's deceleration and Basson's release from his position. It was believed that Basson was released allegedly due to misappropriation of funds and the concern that he could sell secrets to other countries. Basson was given a one-year contract to dissolve the remnants of Project Coast. He was ordered by de Klerk to destroy all CBW research and stop all related research. To date, there are still concerns whether all the CBW agents were destroyed or merely relocated by Basson. What is known is that hundreds of kilos worth of chemicals and agents were unaccounted for when inventory was taken during a government investigation.<hr></blockquote> It just gets worse. Read the complete article if you want to get the full picture. I'll post some further excerpts tomorrow.

by **NewKid** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:00 am

This one's interesting too. (See page 5 for Wouter Basson again.) <a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/larry_ford/1.html" target="top">www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/larry_ford/1.html</a> Interestingly, the MC programmer in the remake of the Manchurian Candidate who programed Denzel was a South African character who'd fit right in with this stuff. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=newkid@rigorousintuition>NewKid</A> at: 7/31/06 11:04 pm

by **blanc** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:44 am

<a href="http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/cbw/63.html">ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/archive/cbw/63.html</a>

by **Byrne** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:09 am

A British MP has been trying to raise the subject in the Houses of parliament, but without much success. There have been some accusations of improper involvement of the British Security Services with Project Coast (illegal sanctions busting & involvement of the UK Biological Weapons facility at Porton Down). See this original written question by Andrew Mackinlay here: <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18a.39802.h&s=project+coast" target="top">www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18a.39802.h&s=project+coast</a> Follow ups here <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-06-28a.79315.h&s=project+coast" target="top">www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-06-28a.79315.h&s=project+coast</a> & here <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-06-14a.76369.h&s=project+coast" target="top">www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-06-14a.76369.h&s=project+coast</a> (quoted below) Andrew MacKinlay (Thurrock, Labour) <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060614/text/60614w0913.htm#06061513000241" target="top">Hansard source</a> To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which officials attended the ad hoc meeting held on 13 January to discuss the Basson/Project Coast handling strategy; and which Department or agency each represented. Kim Howells (Minister of State (Middle East), Foreign & Commonwealth Office) <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm060614/text/60614w0913.htm#06061513000242" target="top">Hansard source</a> The meeting on 13 January 2006 was attended by 13 officials from a number of relevant departments and agencies, including the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Health Protection Agency, to review what information was available on Project Coast and to ensure that the 12 parliamentary questions under consideration received consistent, full and accurate answers. i.e. to get the story straight......... Also see this statement in the house by Mackinlay referring to the original written question……… <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2006-07-11a.1350.1" target="top">www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2006-07-11a.1350.1</a> The South African apartheid regime had a facility equivalent to our Porton Down. I believe that there was intercourse between that facility and UK intelligence and security services, and that people from the real Porton Down were also involved. There is evidence that an unhealthy sanctions-breaking attempt was covered up because some of the people involved are still members of the security and intelligence community and do not want an investigation. I do not say that the attempt was authorised by Ministers at the time, but it happened none the less. This is my only opportunity to shed daylight on that serious matter. It is something that the ISC [UK Intelligence & Security Committee]—flawed though it is—should investigate. Evidence from the South African court proceedings, which is available on the web, shows that people from the UK broke the law and were involved with Dr. Wouter Basson, who has been described as a South African Dr. Mengele, in sanctions-busting— MacKinlay’s statement was brought to an abrupt halt as he was getting to the details.......

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:37 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Interestingly, the MC programmer in the remake of the Manchurian Candidate who programed Denzel was a South African character who'd fit right in with this stuff.<hr></blockquote> Yup. That's what Denzel found at the library when he went to research online. Did you notice the camera shot about 5 seconds long of the person at the computer next to him? It was a fat Elvis complete with mutton chops and leather fringe jacket. This was a way to discredit the internet at the same time that the movie's hero was using it to find a bad guy. And evil scientists are in other countries, not the US, of course. The arrow away from MK-ULTRA and towards South Africa was well-lit and telegraphed to the movie's young recruitable BLACK audience. 'Uncle Sam wouldn't do that Nazi thing.' Guess many young black Americans haven't heard of the Tuskegee Experiment. That movie also made the evil controlling woman into Hilary Clinton and her son's evil campaign for office into the Kerry campaign complete with controversy about his military history and medals. Yup, 2004 presidential campaign agit prop trying to peel black voters away from Democrats, recruit them, and steer away from MK-ULTRA. There was also dialogue between Denzel and a potential ally where 'Gulf War Syndrome' was discredited as merely the symptoms of stressed, confused, and vigilant soldiers. Aw, it's just entertainment. Nevermind.

by **blanc** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:53 pm

"When the trial began on October 4 1999, Dr Wouter Basson faced 67 charges of trafficking in drugs, fraud, murder and conspiracy to murder, emanating from his activities while head of Project Coast from 1982-1993. Six of the murder charges were dropped before Basson entered a plea, on the basis that the alleged crimes had been committed on foreign soil (Namibia, Britain, Swaziland, Mozambique)..."

by **Byrne** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:19 am

From <a href="http://planetquo.com/The-Murder-Of-Dr-David-Kelly" target="top">planetquo.com/The-Murder-Of-Dr-David-Kelly</a> In 1984 Dr. Kelly was invited by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) to take the position of chief microbiologist at its secret facility at Porton Down. Kelly had been working in the NERC Institute of Virology in Oxford. He brought a number of scientists with him from there to Porton Down. At the Hutton inquiry, Brian Jones testified as to Kelly's involvement, with the highest security clearance, in analyzing top-secret information regarding biological weapons of the U.K. and other governments. Jones was director of a department on the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS). That involvement, beginning in 1987, presumably continued until his death and through his several other jobs as weapons "inspector" in Russia and (for UNSCOM) in Iraq. It was before and during Kelly's tenure at Porton Down that it became involved with South Africa's bioweapon program named Project Coast. A cardiologist named Wouter Basson who was the personal physician of South African Prime Minister Botha headed the project. After the apartheid government fell, there was a nearly two-year trial of Basson who was charged with numerous crimes including murder and misappropriation of project funds. During the trial several astounding revelations came out. (Basson was acquitted of all charges by a judge who would not let him take the fall for an official government program.) Basson was said to have had entrée not only to Porton Down but the U.S. Army facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland (the U.S. counterpart of Porton Down). The two main thrusts of Project Coast were developing genetically altered diseases that would affect only groups with similar DNA characteristics, e.g. blacks, and weapons to be used in assassination of individuals. Two (as yet unidentified) scientists working at Porton Down were also paid consultants to Basson's projects.  [This is why the British Security Services/Parliament are struggling to answer the written question put to them & have to co-ordinate a response...........] The CIA in the U.S. contributed to Basson's efforts through Dr. Larry Ford. Ford was set up as co-president of a laboratory supposedly developing a feminine birth control device that would also protect against AIDS. The company never had a product or any sales. According to an undercover FBI informant, Ford did develop an "anti-black" product he delivered to an attaché of the South African government in California. Ford was later killed by a shotgun blast that was ruled a suicide. At the time he was under suspicion of involvement in the attempted assassination of his partner in the CIA front. Ford had made several trips to South Africa in connection with Project Coast. In 1989, Vladimir Pasechnik, head of the Soviet bioweapons program at its Biopreparat facility, defected to the U.K. His revelations of Soviet activity created a diplomatic uproar over violations of the 1972 treaty banning such activity that had been pushed and signed by the U.K., U.S. and USSR. Dr. Kelly and Christopher Davis of the U.K and U.S. microbiology experts debriefed Pasechnik. Davis, who comes out of MoD Intelligence, was at the time an employee of Veridian Corp., which has an interesting history. According to mind control researcher David Hoffman, in 1946 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory was founded including the "Fund for the Study of Human Ecology." The "fund" was a CIA financing conduit for mind control experiments by émigré Nazi scientists and others under the direction of CIA doctors Sidney Gotttlieb, Ewen Cameron and Louis Jolyn West. Gottlieb, of course was the director of the CIA's infamous MK-ULTRA mind control program. Cornell was later absorbed into Calspan Advanced Technology Center in Buffalo , NY . The company continued experiments in mind control and artificial intelligence. In 1997 Calspan was in turn absorbed by Veridian Corp. Veridian (Calspan) is deeply involved in artificial intelligence. In August of this year giant defense contractor General Dynamics acquired Veridian-Calspan. Here is a strange "coincidence." After Timothy McVeigh left the army, he joined the Army National Guard in Buffalo . He landed a job with Burns International Security and was assigned to guard the premises of (you guessed it) Calspan. McVeigh had told friends the army had implanted a microchip in him during the Gulf war. (We now know that a number of soldiers were implanted with microchips explained as an experiment to keep track of their locations during battle.) The CIA doctors at Calspan were experimenting with merging brain cells with microchips. Pasechnik was put to work at Porton Down where he remained until set up with his own company. Three weeks after the mailed anthrax attacks in the U.S. , He died, "apparently" of a stroke. Strangely, the death was announced by Christopher Davis. His death began a string of mysterious deaths and obvious murders of world-class microbiologists, which continues to this day. Dr. Kelly's death is one of those but not the latest. One of the most disturbing deaths is that of Harvard scientist Don C. Wiley. Wiley was one of America's preeminent researchers into infectious diseases and HIV in particular. After years of meticulous research, Wiley had just scored a breakthrough by identifying the properties of the HIV virus that make it infectious and how it avoids destruction by the antigens in the human immune system. In theory, the discovery has application to other viruses that cause diseases. Viruses, as opposed to bacteria, seem to be immune to treatment by antibiotics. The dark side of the discovery, as Wiley himself discussed, is that the same information could be used to change relatively benign viruses into killers. **(See footnote on this author's three-part series on "Anthrax, GOCO's and Designer Germs.") <hr /> {On edit) New Yorker article from January 2001 here <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020422fr_archive04" target="top">www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?020422fr_archive04</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=byrne@rigorousintuition>Byrne</A> at: 8/2/06 3:26 am

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