From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sat Aug 17 2002 - 11:51:19 MDT
On 17 Aug 2002 at 19:29, Blunderov wrote:
> [Blunderov]
> Curiouser and curiouser...
>
> http://www.devvy.com/anthrax_20020629.html
>
> <snip>
> A South African Connection
>
> "The death of Wiley may be also linked to revelations recently
> uncovered in South Africa. His expertise on genetic fingerprints for
> various strains may have led him to particular countries and their
> bio-warfare projects.
>
> "The South African media has been abuzz with details of that
> nation's former biological warfare program and its links to the CIA.
> The South African bio-chemical war program was code-named Project
> Coast and was centered at the Roodeplat Research Laboratories north of
> Pretoria. The lab maintained links to the US biowarfare facility at
> Fort and Britain's Porton Down Laboratory. The head of the South
> African program, Dr. Wouter Basson, was reportedly offered a job with
> the CIA in the United States after the fall of the apartheid regime.
> According to former South African National Intelligence Agency deputy
> director Michael Kennedy, when Basson refused the offer, the CIA
> allegedly threatened to kill him. Nevertheless, the U.S. pressured the
> new President Nelson Mandela to turn over the records and fruits of
> Basson's work. Much of this work was reportedly transported to Fort
> Detrick.
>
> "Basson also claimed to have been involved in a project called
> Operation Banana, which, using El Paso, Texas as a base with the CIA's
> blessing, was designed to transport cocaine to South Africa from Peru.
> The cocaine, hidden in bananas, was to be used in developing a new
> incapacitating drug.
>
> "One of the South African's secret projects involved sending
> anthrax
> through the mail. Among the techniques that fell into the hands of the
> Americans was a method by which anthrax spores were, with deadly
> effect, incorporated on to the gummed flaps of envelopes.
>
This modus operandus does not match that of the US anthrax attacks;
they had weaponized, powdered and milled anthrax spores inserted
inside envelopes, rather than incorporated on the gummed flaps.
>
> "Other South African bio-chemical weapons allegedly transferred to
> the CIA included, in addition to anthrax, cholera, smallpox,
> salmonella, botulinum, tularemia, thallium, E.coli, racin,
> organophosphates, necrotising fasciitis, hepatitis A, HIV,
> paratyphoid, Sarin VX nerve gas, Ebola, Marburg, Rift Valley
> hemorrhagic fever viruses, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, highly
> potent CR tear gas, hallucinogens Ecstasy, Mandrax, BZ, and cocaine,
> anti-coagulant drugs, the deadly lethal injection drugs Scoline and
> Tubarine, and cyanide.
>
Of the list, thallium, ricin, Sarin VX nerve gas, CR tear gas, the
hallucinogens and anti-coagulant drugs, Scoline, Tubarine and cyanide
are chemical rather than infectious bioweapons agents.
>
> "Many of Dr. Wiley's family and friends doubt he would have
> committed suicide. The fact that he was certainly in a position to
> know about the origination of various viruses and bacteria -- which
> could have led to the U.S. government -- would have made him a prime
> target for a government seeking to cover up its illegal work in
> biological warfare. <snap>
>
> <Blunderov speculates> Perhaps The Mail&Guardian didn't dwell on this
> possibility because Wouter Basson was recently miraculously acquitted
> of many serious charges recently and is in a good position to sue?
>
All in all, an interesting and thought-provoking post.
>
> Warm regards
>
>
>
>
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