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

Secrets and Lies: Wouter Basson and South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme by Chandré Gould. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781868723416.

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.