udt, to work for the SADF's medical military unit known as the 7<sup>th</sup> SAMS Battalion. His first duties were to travel to the west and collect information about other countries' CBW capabilities, as well as to make contacts in the international scientific and medical community for intelligence purposes. That same year Basson traveled to several European countries and returned with important information from his fact-finding trip, which he promptly reported to the SADF.</p>

<p>Basson learned that the