Wouter Basson--Evil Scientist

[Richard Romeo]

Thought y'all may be interested in this story

Check out last week's New Yorker for a disturbing article on this guy by 
William Finnegan.

Here's some background info

A small, slightly balding, white man sat in front of the Truth and 
Reconciliation Commission for the last two days of its sittings this summer 
in a discreet Capetown building, fighting to hold on to the secrets of the 
apartheid regime's covert programme of chemical and biological warfare. 
Poisoning its enemies,including Nelson Mandela in prison, creating racially 
specific vaccines, experimenting with infertility among blacks, and flooding 
the townships with tons of Mandrax and Ecstasy drugs, were Dr Wouter 
Basson's preoccupations
in his work in the Ministry of Defence under apartheid, according to others 
in the programme who confessed to the TRC earlier. Anthrax, cholera and 
botulus cultures, cyanide, aldikarb, thallium, paroxon, and a tear gas 
called CR, tentimes more potent than CS gas, were all in the repertoire of 
Dr Basson's Project Coast. Lethal bicycle pumps, screw drivers, walking 
sticks and umbrellas were also made.

P.S.  There's also a small anecdote about using balck magic against Desmond 
Tutu in the New Yorker article.  Project Coast sounds a bit like the White 
Visitation South

Rich
Rich
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