the rollback of south africa's biological warfare program

162 According to Dr. Ian Phillips, interviewed 13 June 2000, Anglo-American
cooperation on South Africa’s NBC program was not as smooth as it may have
seemed. During the 1989-94 period, the British were was upset with the
Americans at the latter’s efforts to promote their own “solution for South
Africa.”
163 Interview with David Steward, 26 June 2000.
164 Interview with Ambassador Lyman, 31 August 2000.
165 Interview with Dr. Knobel, 15 June 2000.
166 Mangold, Plague Wars, 243.
167 Telephone interview with Roelof “Pik” Botha, 13 July 2000. He stressed in
this interview that he never had detailed knowledge of South Africa’s CBW
program, except when he had to obtain assurances that the program was closed
down before South Africa signed the NPT.
168
Interview by Helen Purkitt with senior South African OSD officials,
Johannesburg, July 1997.
169 Weekly Mail and Guardian, 15 December 1994.
170 Koch and Fleming, Weekly Mail and Guardian, 15 December 1994.
171 Koch and Fleming, Weekly Mail and Guardian, 15 December 1994.
172 General (ret.) Meiring, interviewed 3 July 2000.
173 Oppermann, “How the taxpayer…,” Weekly Mail, 27 June 1997.
174 Dr. Ian Phillips, interviewed June 13, 2000. Phillips also commented that, at
the time, General Meiring, Chief of SANDF, held the ANC-dominated
government and parliament in “complete contempt.”
175 Although Basson’s trips to Libya did decline after he was “rehired,” the
South African government at one point placed Basson under an undeclared
“house arrest.”
176 Oppermann, “How the taxpayer…” Weekly Mail, 27 June 1997.
177 Stefaans Brummer, The Mail and Guardian, 23 August 1996.
178
This view was expressed in confidential interviews with both South African
and U.S. officials.
179 Soggot and Koch, Weekly Mail and Guardian archives, 27 June 1997.
180
Max du Preez, “Forward” in Wendy Orr, From Biko to Basson.
(Saxonwold, South Africa, Contra Press, 2000).
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