{"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 – 1980s Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Program by South African Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Coast Background<\/h3>\n

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

Declassified Documents<\/h3>\n

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)<\/h4>\n

FOIA Response Indicated 21 Pages Completely Exempt<\/a> [2 Pages, 1MB]<\/p>\n

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u00a0Prospects for Special Weapons Proliferation and Control<\/a>, July 1991 [42 Pages, 1.7MB]<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chemical Weapons: Use in Angola?<\/a> November 1989 [15 Pages, 0.4MB] –\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
\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":"

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