‘Dr. Death’ Still on Payroll of Military
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From Times Wire Reports
The apartheid-era operative dubbed “Dr. Death” for his alleged role in plots to kill black activists is still on the South African military payroll, officials confirmed.
Wouter Basson, who once headed the white government’s germ warfare program, receives a monthly salary of $6,800 from the South African National Defense Force even though he was suspended in 1999, they said.
Basson was acquitted in 2002 of charges involving multiple killings, drug-trafficking, fraud and theft.
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