Lieutenant General Ian Rimbault GleesonSSA SD SM (15 August 1934 – 7 June 2021)[1] was a South African Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff.
He graduated from the Military Academy after attending Christian Brothers College in Pretoria and joined the Army in 1954.[2][3] He became Officer Commanding 2 South African Infantry Battalion in 1971 and in 1972 OC Walvis Bay military base,[1] and in July 1976 became GOC 101 Task Force. He then became Chief of Army Staff Operations on 15 January 1978[1] before taking on the recreated post of Chief of Defence Force Staff.[3]
He retired in February 1990.[4]
The post-Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission found that when General Johannes Geldenhuys and Gleeson were informed that the SADF and Security Branch had assassinated Dr Fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence Ribeiro on 1 December 1986 they failed to pass this information onto the Attorney-General or the police. The commission concluded that they both "acted in an obstructive way for which they are legally responsible".[5]
^ abcNöthling, C.J.; Meyers, E.M. (1982). "Leaders through the years (1912-1982)". Scientaria Militaria. 12 (2): 93.
^Visser, Deon (2009). "CIVILIAN-MILITARY INTERACTION ON THE MATIE CAMPUS: THE 'BATTLE OF WILGENHOF', 1957". Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies. 37 (2): 82.
^ ab"The SADF: Supplement to the Financial Mail" (PDF). Financial Mail: 14. July 1987.
^"Meiring kry bevel van leër" [Meiring gets command of Army]. Die Burger (in Afrikaans). 1 March 1990. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
^Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1998). "Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. Volume Two" (PDF). Pretoria: Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. pp. 266–267.
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