the rollback of south africa's biological warfare program
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he still need to raise cash in South Africa.<br />
115 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 514.<br />
116 Interview with Dr. Niels Knobel, Pretoria, 15 June 2000.<br />
117 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Geldenhuys, 13 June 2000.<br />
118 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Geldenhuys, 13 June 2000.<br />
119 Interview with Brig. Gen (rtr.) Bill Sass, July 1994. See Purkitt, “The<br />
politics <strong>of</strong> denuclearization,” for fur<strong>the</strong>r details <strong>of</strong> changes made at <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong><br />
P.W. Botha’s rule.<br />
120 See H. Purkitt, “"The cognitive basis <strong>of</strong> foreign policy expertise: Evidence<br />
from intuitive analyses <strong>of</strong> political novices and 'experts' in South Africa," in D.<br />
Sylvan and J. Voss (Eds.), Problem Representation and Political Decision<br />
Making (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) for evidence <strong>of</strong> how<br />
widespread this fear was in 1992, after negotiations had broken down.<br />
121 Interview with Dr. Ian Phillips, 13 June 2000.<br />
122 Interview with David Steward, 26 June 2000.<br />
123 According to Gen. (ret.) Meiring, interviewed 3 July 2000.<br />
124<br />
Interview with senior <strong>of</strong>ficial <strong>of</strong> Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Secretary <strong>of</strong> Defense, July<br />
1997.<br />
125 According to Dr Renfrew Christie, interviewed 26 June 2000, <strong>the</strong> U.S.,<br />
backed by Israel and <strong>the</strong> UK, issued a “hostile nation warning” to South Africa<br />
in January 1990 to destroy <strong>the</strong> nuclear weapons <strong>program</strong> in order to keep it out<br />
<strong>of</strong> ANC hands. Christie claimed that, in <strong>the</strong> 1980s, <strong>the</strong> Israel had been<br />
involved in South African NBC <strong>program</strong>s, and <strong>the</strong> U.S. and Britain did not<br />
object to South Africa developing those <strong>program</strong>s.<br />
126 Interview with Pr<strong>of</strong>. Buys, 14 June 2000.<br />
127 Interview with De Wet Potgieter, a journalist in Pretoria who has reported<br />
for several South African newspapers, 13 June 2000.<br />
128 According to Col. Mike Ferguson, former Defense Attaché to South Africa<br />
interviewed 23 May 2000 in Washington, D.C.<br />
129 Interview with Gen. (ret.) Thirion, 13 June 2000.<br />
130 According to Col. Mike Ferguson, interviewed 23 May 2000.<br />
131 Interview with Col. (ret.) Joep Joubert, Pretoria, 23 June 2000, who worked<br />
with <strong>the</strong> CCB and Special Forces and retired from <strong>the</strong> SADF, before <strong>the</strong> Harms<br />
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