-Caveat Lector- http://www.bday.co.za/99/1130/news/n20.htm SADF brain research 'terrifying' PRETORIA - The SA Defence Force (SADF) was involved in highly secretive research in the early 1990s into changing people's brain functions, the Pretoria High Court heard yesterday. Jaap Cilliers, counsel for the apartheid government's chemical warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, put it to former SADF surgeon-general Niel Knobel that the research "terrified the world" because it was feared it could be abused to permanently alter people's brains to make them passive or aggressive. Knobel said he had been aware that highly specialised equipment was imported for AIDS research and knew this equipment was also used in research on substances to incapacitate crowds - including the drugs mandrax and ecstasy. However, he found it difficult to comment on claims by Basson that the same equipment was also used in studies on altering brain function. The then defence minister decided it would be in SA's best interest to scrap the programme and destroy all drugs the SADF had bought shortly before. Knobel agreed with Cilliers that the whole idea to stockpile drugs on a large scale had been approved by former state president FW de Klerk. Knobel expressed surprise that Gen Lothar Neethling, former forensic head of the SA Police (SAP), had been aware of the SADF's involvement in research on drugs, although he knew the SAP had provided drugs, confiscated in police actions, to Basson for research. He confirmed the defence minister had given permission to the SADF to possess drugs for research. Cilliers revealed Basson had, at the height of the apartheid era, bought raw materials for the manufacture of drugs from the Croatian government in a joint operation with the Swiss secret service, which, he believed, would get "nuclear technology" out of the deal. Knobel said the SADF's chemical and biological warfare programme, Project Coast, did research on deadly substances in the 1980s to protect SA troops. He said he had been upset by a 1992 decision by De Klerk to fire 23 SADF officers, including Basson, on the strength of a verbal report by Gen Niel Steyn. As Project Coast was at a delicate stage, the SADF could not afford to lose Basson. An agreement was reached that he would work for the SADF in a private capacity. - Sapa. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
