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This is a tale of military machination and scientific subterfuge, of combatants who disappeared without trace, and bizarre experiments carried out behind locked doors.
Basson joined the army after completing a doctorate in chemistry, and was rapidly promoted through the ranks. He travelled around the world as a spy, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, using fake identities - and often fake marriages - as a front. Back in South africa, Basson headed Project Coast, the state's CBW programme, during which time he was allegedly involved in poisoning people, developing drugs to placate the state's opponents, and simple, brutal murder.
Basson was arrested for possessing Ecstasy tablets, and was investigated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and then in a criminal trial. This book, written by a chief TRC investigator and a journalist who has followed every day of his case, unpacks the fascinating and sordid story of the man who became known as Doctor Death.
Set against the backdrop of the international Cold War and South Africa's bloody passage to democracy, the events related in this book were uncovered during ten years of investigation and made public by the trial of Wouter Basson, the first criminal prosecution in the world of the head of an official chemical and biological warfare programme.

About the Author(s)
Marléne Burger
Seasoned journalist Marlene Burger was appointed to monitor the trial of Wouter Basson. She was present in court throughout the trial, and provided daily reports about the proceedings.

Chandré Gould
Chandré Gould was one of the researchers responsible for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigation into South Africa's chemical and biological warfare programme and is co-author of a report to be published by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. In 1999 she was commissioned by the Centre for Conflict Resolution to continue her investigation into the CBW programme.