the rollback of south africa's biological warfare program
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162 According to Dr. Ian Phillips, interviewed 13 June 2000, Anglo-American<br />
cooperation on South Africa’s NBC <strong>program</strong> was not as smooth as it may have<br />
seemed. During <strong>the</strong> 1989-94 period, <strong>the</strong> British were was upset with <strong>the</strong><br />
Americans at <strong>the</strong> latter’s efforts to promote <strong>the</strong>ir own “solution for South<br />
Africa.”<br />
163 Interview with David Steward, 26 June 2000.<br />
164 Interview with Ambassador Lyman, 31 August 2000.<br />
165 Interview with Dr. Knobel, 15 June 2000.<br />
166 Mangold, Plague Wars, 243.<br />
167 Telephone interview with Roel<strong>of</strong> “Pik” Botha, 13 July 2000. He stressed in<br />
this interview that he never had detailed knowledge <strong>of</strong> South Africa’s CBW<br />
<strong>program</strong>, except when he had to obtain assurances that <strong>the</strong> <strong>program</strong> was closed<br />
down before South Africa signed <strong>the</strong> NPT.<br />
168<br />
Interview by Helen Purkitt with senior South African OSD <strong>of</strong>ficials,<br />
Johannesburg, July 1997.<br />
169 Weekly Mail and Guardian, 15 December 1994.<br />
170 Koch and Fleming, Weekly Mail and Guardian, 15 December 1994.<br />
171 Koch and Fleming, Weekly Mail and Guardian, 15 December 1994.<br />
172 General (ret.) Meiring, interviewed 3 July 2000.<br />
173 Oppermann, “How <strong>the</strong> taxpayer…,” Weekly Mail, 27 June 1997.<br />
174 Dr. Ian Phillips, interviewed June 13, 2000. Phillips also commented that, at<br />
<strong>the</strong> time, General Meiring, Chief <strong>of</strong> SANDF, held <strong>the</strong> ANC-dominated<br />
government and parliament in “complete contempt.”<br />
175 Although Basson’s trips to Libya did decline after he was “rehired,” <strong>the</strong><br />
South African government at one point placed Basson under an undeclared<br />
“house arrest.”<br />
176 Oppermann, “How <strong>the</strong> taxpayer…” Weekly Mail, 27 June 1997.<br />
177 Stefaans Brummer, The Mail and Guardian, 23 August 1996.<br />
178<br />
This view was expressed in confidential interviews with both South African<br />
and U.S. <strong>of</strong>ficials.<br />
179 Soggot and Koch, Weekly Mail and Guardian archives, 27 June 1997.<br />
180<br />
Max du Preez, “Forward” in Wendy Orr, From Biko to Basson.<br />
(Saxonwold, South Africa, Contra Press, 2000).<br />
109