Secrets and Lies: Wouter Basson and South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme

About this book

The trial of Dr Wouter Basson the head of apartheid South Africas chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme generated intense interest both inside South Africa and in the wider world. Basson joined the Army after completing a doctorate in chemistry and was rapidly promoted through the ranks. He travelled around the world as a spy on both sides of the Iron Curtain using fake identities - and often fake marriages - as a front. Back in South Africa Basson headed Project Coast the states CBW programme during which time he was allegedly involved in poisonings developing drugs to placate the states opponents and simple brutal murder.