the rollback of south africa's biological warfare program
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69 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Thirion, 13 June 2000.<br />
70 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Sass, 12 June 2000.<br />
71 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Geldenhuys, 13 June 2000.<br />
72 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Meiring, 3 July 2000.<br />
73 Interview with David Steward, June 26, 2000.<br />
74 Gen. (ret.) Meiring, interviewed 3 July 2000. Meiring was not certain if <strong>the</strong><br />
Cubans and <strong>the</strong> MPLA used CW at Cuito Cuanavale in 1987.<br />
75 Soon after his investigation, reports emerged that Dr. Heyndrickx<br />
manufactured allegations that <strong>the</strong> Angolans were using CW and that he was on<br />
<strong>the</strong> payroll <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> South African government or <strong>the</strong> CIA. In 1997, Weekly Mail<br />
and Guardian reported that Dr. Heyndrickx had been arrested for misusing<br />
funds at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Ghent and that <strong>the</strong> Belgian police are still looking<br />
for 12 British-made chemical agent monitors which Heyndrickx bought with<br />
university funds. He said he destroyed <strong>the</strong> machines because <strong>the</strong>y were<br />
defective.<br />
76 Gen. (ret.) Meiring, interviewed 3 July 2000.<br />
77 Testimony by Dr. Mike Odendaal in <strong>the</strong> Basson Trial, 24 May 2000. See<br />
“HIV Blood Sample Frozen for Chemical Warfare, Basson Trial Hears,” South<br />
African Press Association (SAPA), 24 May 2000.<br />
78 Mangold, Plague Wars, 243.<br />
79 Mangold, Plague Wars, 242.<br />
80 Dr. Basson told Mangold (Plague Wars, 442, note 443) in 1998 that <strong>the</strong><br />
reason why a detailed investigation by Britain's MI-6 , <strong>the</strong> Security Service,<br />
failed to substantiate <strong>the</strong> allegations that he visited Porton Downs is because he<br />
used false names and passports for his frequent visits. Ano<strong>the</strong>r possibility is<br />
that Basson met with former Porton Downs employees. Several former<br />
employees <strong>of</strong> Porton Downs report that <strong>the</strong>y were asked to pose as employees<br />
after reporting contacts with Wouter Basson to British authorities. See Michael<br />
Evans, “South Africa may have ordered British deaths,” The Times (London),<br />
(14 July 1998), 7 for fur<strong>the</strong>r details.<br />
81 Testimony by Dr. Odendaal, 24 May 2000. See “HIV,” SAPA, 24 May 2000.<br />
82 Interview with former South African military <strong>of</strong>ficer, July 2000.<br />
83 Ambassador Princeton Lyman, e-mail to Stephen Burgess, 18 September<br />
2000. Ambassador Princeton Lyman backtracked somewhat from earlier<br />
statements made in a 31 August 2000 interview about claims that<br />
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