19 May 2003

Clr. Derek Fleming asks that this request be widely distributed.

REQUEST for INFORMATION

bearing on the

Relationship between South Africa and Iraq
under the Ba’ath Party and Saddam Hussein

(1968 – 2003)

From: Clr. Derek Fleming
            Centurion
            South Africa

For: all relevant private persons or other instances presently in Iraq or elsewhere with access to Iraqi records with origin between November 1968 – April 2003 that helps explain the nature of:

1. Bilateral matters between successive South African Governments and Saddam Hussein and his Government.

2. Private South African instances, personal or corporate, and their dealings with Iraq.

3. Iraqi communication with third parties with bearing on 1 and 2 above.

4. Political relationships between the Iraqi Ba’ath Party and South African political or civic formations. 

GENERAL

Any copy or facsimile of any document (whether official or not, and where possible accompanied in translation into English), sketch, plan, note, model or article recording the relationship between the government of Iraq and the South African Government or private South African entities, corporate or personal, would be gratefully received either in hardcopy (PGP encrypted disc) at the postal delivery addresses listed below or electronically (preferably encrypted in PGP set out below) to the following email addresses:

Postal (hardcopy PGP encrypted disc; Clr Fleming public key below)

P.O Box 511
WITS 2050
South Africa

E-mail

delaf@lycos.com
sa_recon@hotmail.com
cbmandr@lycos.com
usmc_float@hotmail.com

Postal (for paper hardcopy (Photostat)):

Clr Derek Fleming
C/o John Young, 251 West 89th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA
Fax: 011-212-787-6102
Telephone: 011-212-873-8700

SPECIFIC

With regard to the following South African instances where there may be linkage of past dealings:

Office of the Presidency (apartheid era 1948 - 1994: Prime Minister’s Office; Office of the State President)

State Security Council (apartheid era)

National Intelligence Agency (apartheid era: National Intelligence Service and Bureau of State Security)

South African Secret Service

National Intelligence Co-coordinating Committee

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Mineral and Energy Affairs

Ministry of Defence

South African National Defense Force

South African Defense Force (apartheid era)

Department of Military Intelligence (current and apartheid era)

Chief Staff Intelligence (current and apartheid era)

South African Medical Services (current and apartheid era)

South African Police Service; South African Police (apartheid era)

South African Security Police (current and apartheid era)

Ministry of Govt. Communication and Information Systems

Ministry of Trade and Industry

New National Party (apartheid era: National Party)

African National Congress

South African Communist Party

South African private or semi-private corporations participating in or dealing in:

• Telecommunications equipment, construction (irradiative receiver, microwave, copper-line and optic fiber) and communications software in general; and research.

• Electronics in general; electronic warfare systems; radio telemetry, antennae arrays.

• Petro chemical processing equipment.

• Pesticide and herbicide production, design, handling, transportation and research.

• Other chemical, inorganic and organic, in particular propulsive and explosive hydrocarbons.

• Chemical laboratory equipment; and precursor supply for biochemical weaponry.

• Cryptographic devices and/or software, inclusive of aviation IFF transceivers.

• Cryptanalytic devices and/or software.

• Industrial metallic drilling /bore/punch machinery.

• Pharmacology, particularly continuous and batch biochemical process equipment and storage.

• Medical instrument supply; inclusive of biochemical, human sera testing kits and protective barrier suits / masks / footwear.

• Microbiology; especially bacteriology/virology, inclusive of pathogenic library swaps / transfer.

• Computer mainframes and other hardware.

• Computer software; mathematic and algorithmic resources.

• Materials processing equipment and management systems.

• Animal life sciences: products, processes, applications and equipment.

• Avionics in general.

• Navigational and electronic guidance instrumentation.

• Armaments in general; supply, training; systems and ordinance.

• Military and civilian dual-use infrastructure design and construction.

• Cannonry, and rocketry systems, propulsive means, fuses, launchers, delivery ordinance; design and research.

• Airborne platforms and propulsion systems, inclusive of UAVs.

• Riot control technologies, security training and equipment.

• Mining technology, management and plant processing.

• Information management systems in general and hardware.

• Transportation equipment and management systems: terrestrial and airborne.

• Atomic energy, inclusive of reactor design and construction, nuclear precursors or isotope production, applications, handling, storage and transportation equipment; and research.

• Personnel exchanges and any other form of cooperation.

Clr Derek Fleming PGP:

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John Young PGP appended:

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Fingerprint:
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