{"id":2299,"date":"2022-01-26T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T13:10:43","slug":"project-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/project-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Coast &#8211; 1980s Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Program by South African Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Project Coast Background<\/h3>\n<p>Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the South African government during the apartheid era. Project Coast was the successor to a limited post-war CBW program which mainly produced the lethal agents CX powder and mustard gas; as well as non-lethal tear gas for riot control purposes. \u00a0Project Coast was headed by Wouter Basson, a cardiologist who was the personal physician of the then South African Prime Minister PW Botha.<\/p>\n<h3>Declassified Documents<\/h3>\n<h4>Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/dia\/FOIA-00045-2015.pdf\">FOIA Response Indicated 21 Pages Completely Exempt<\/a> [2 Pages, 1MB]<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/c01217642.pdf\">Prospects for Special Weapons Proliferation and Control<\/a>, July 1991 [42 Pages, 1.7MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/c01217641.pdf\">Chemical Weapons: Use in Angola?<\/a> November 1989 [15 Pages, 0.4MB] &#8211;\u00a0This paper provides an Intelligence Community coordinated\u00a0assessment regarding the reported use of chemical weapons in\u00a0Angola. There is Intelligence Community agreement that\u00a0technical public reports submitted to the US Government as<br \/>\nproof of CW use in Angola contain no substantive evidence to\u00a0indicate the use of lethal CW agents in Angola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Coast Background Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the South African government during the apartheid era. 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