Editing Project Coast (section)

== Employment ==

In 1985, four [[SWAPO]] detainees held at Reconnaissance Regiment headquarters were allegedly given a sleeping drug in soft drinks, taken to Lanseria airport outside Johannesburg, and injected with three toxic substances supplied by Basson. Their bodies were thrown into the [[Atlantic Ocean]].{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}

The Civil Cooperation Bureau operative Petrus Jacobus Botes, who claimed to have also directed bureau operations in [[Mozambique]] and [[Eswatini|Swaziland]], asserted that he was ordered in May 1989 to contaminate the water supply at Dobra, a refugee camp in [[Namibia]], with [[cholera]] and [[yellow fever]] organisms. A South African Army doctor provided them to him. In late August 1989, he led an attempt to contaminate the water supply, but it failed because of the high chlorine content in the treated water at the camp.<ref name=purkitt_burgess>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2001/southafrica.pdf|first1=Helen E. |last1=Purkitt|first2=Stephen F. |last2=Burgess|title=The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program|publisher=Air University, Counterproliferation Center| location=Maxwell Airforce Base, Alabama|year=2001}}</ref>