Aids was intentionally spread across Southern Africa in the 80s and 90s, according to new statements from a former South African mercenary group intelligence officer.

Alexander Jones claims the South African Institute for Maritime Research’s leader Keith Maxwell believed the spread of AIDS would decimate black populations, cement white rule and bring back religious conservatism.

Despite no medical training Maxwell opened many health clinics in black apartheid areas which he used to proliferate the disease.

Maxwell was never convicted and died in 2006.