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Sergei Skripal, the Nerve Agent Novichok, and the Proximity of Porton Down

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The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down (photo – BT)

by Dee McLachlan

Thank goodness Teresa May won’t be joining Scotland Yard to become a detective. In the attempted murders of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter — allegedly with the nerve agent, Novichok — she has outlined only two possible options:

  1. Russian did it, or
  2. The Russians lost control of “their” nerve agent.

May gave a stirring address at the House of Commons, saying, “It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia… This is part of a group of nerve agents known as Novichok.” She seems confident that the production of this nerve agent has stayed in Russia since it was developed. Now, that’s a laugh!

Why would Russia attempt to kill Skripal with an agent that leads directly back to them?

This is sounding more and more like a false flag.

And where did they find out what chemical was used? At the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down — only 7 miles from where Skripal was found. Amazing!

Novichok

Let us assume it is Novichok, and not some other imitation nerve agent. Novichok is more powerful than VX and sarin, and allegedly the most deadly nerve agent ever made. It was first developed in Russia in the 1970s — and became known, publicly, to the West in the early 1990s. That was over twenty years ago.

Can we honestly believe the West has not experimented with the production of Novichok?

Nerve agents work by overriding neurotransmitters, and shutting down the body — causing a slowing of the heart and restriction of the airways, leading to death by asphyxiation. Professor Gary Stephens, University of Reading, says, “One of the main reasons these agents are developed is because their component parts are not on the banned list. It means the chemicals that are mixed to create it are much easier to deliver with no risk to the health of the courier.”

Even though only a drop is required to kill a person, the MSM is pondering how the Novichok was transported into the country from Russia.

Maybe this nerve agent did not come from Russia, but from somewhere else.

Porton Down

Porton Down in Wiltshire, England, is situated on about 7,000 acres and is the UK’s CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) facility. The highly secretive work that goes on there is protected from oversight, and monkeys, and even people, were in past routinely tested upon. Around 2009, it emerged that hundreds of ex-servicemen were used as chemical warfare guinea pigs there between 1939 and 1989.

What is interesting is that Porton Down is a mere 16 minute drive from the center of Salisbury, where Skripal was found.

And Skripal lands up to settle in Salisbury of all places.

Skripal nearly joined a long list of fatalities in the area. They were trialing sarin B at the Porton Down centre back in the 1950s, and though an inquiry initially focused on the death of Ronald Maddison (in 1953), the Wiltshire Police are believed to be looking at another 45 cases where relatives claimed a death had been caused by the tests.

In 2012, Dr Richard Holmes, 48, resigned from the government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory — then a few weeks later, he is found dead in a field. As reported in Truthfall, Dr Holmes, like Dr Kelly, also told his wife that he was ‘going out for a walk’  before later being found dead. Dr David Kelly, was another weapons scientist (UK weapons inspector to Iraq) that “suicided” back in 2003.

All this a stone’s throw from Salisbury.

Vil Mirzayanov

Now Vil Mirzayanov, a Russian chemist, is best known for revealing the illegal chemical weapons experimentation in Russia – a whistle blower soon after the Communist Party collapsed.  He was arrested on October 22, 1992, on charges of treason. But the existence of Novichok was then openly admitted by Russian authorities, and so Mirzayanov was eventually released because, “not one of the formulas or names of poisonous substances in the Moscow News article was new to the Soviet press…” He has been living in the US for quite some time.

Interestingly, I looked him up on Facebook, and his latest post (a few hours ago) claims that he has published the formula of Novichok in his book.

Some interesting points in Vil Mirzayanov blog:

“…some people from Washington persistently advised me not to include the formulas of the chemical agents of the Novichok series in my book. I reminded these people that the formulas of VX gas, sarin and soman have already been published. In some books it is even possible to find the basics of the production technologies of these agents.

“In GOSNIIOKhT, the Russian center for developing chemical weapons where I worked for 26 years, all scientists and engineers, including the departmental and laboratory chiefs, had to pass safety exams every year… Only special military personnel can operate them with minimal risk of poisoning or death.

“The volatility of both Novichok and VX-gas are hundreds of times less than that of sarin. For that reason, it is impossible to the same kind of methods Aum Shinrikyo did [in the Tokyo subway], and release them, exposing targets… All of the advice people gave me not to publish formulas of the Novichok chemical agents, based on the argument that terrorists would use them, does not ring true.

“These agents should be acknowledged and immediately put under the control of the OPCW, the organization that administers the Chemical Weapons Convention. We need to stop mystifying chemical weapons and the non-existent biological weapons. It is time to stop scaring the American people with imaginary problems, in order to blindly extract as much money as possible from them for protection.”

Mirzayanov seems to think that only professional scientists and special military personnel can operate sophisticated toxins like this.

Possible Scenarios

  • Russia wanted to kill a washed-up double agent with a nerve agent that leads directly back to them
  • some rogue Russian got hold of Novichok to try kill Skripal
  • Skripal was working for the FSB, as a condition of his being allowed to live in the West?
  • a Porton Down accident, or
  • a classic False Flag by the CIA or UK agencies designed to blame Russia.

One has to ask: Who will benefit? And who needs increased tensions?

I fail to see how the Russian government could benefit from this incident. But President Putin has less than 24 hours to respond to Teresa May’s claims.

Australia’s ABC headline:

“Skripal attack: Why the use of a Novichok nerve agent suggests Russia was involved”

Consider this: Novichok is designed to override neurotransmitters and shut down vital organs. The MSM, including the ABC, is designed override neurotransmitters, and shut down critical and logical thinking.

Addendum.

Having just read a piece in The Guardian, I think it should be included in this article. It seems the attempt to poison Skirpal could be, possibly, a more significant false flag distraction than I had originally thought.

10 Possible Responses

The ten possible British responses to Russia over the Sergei Skripal affair — as presented in The Guardian (In ascending order):

1) Expulsion of diplomats

2) Ask Ofcom to declare that Russian media outlets such as RT are not fit to hold a broadcasting licence

3) Seek support in the EU for sports officials not to attend the World Cup

4) Introduce amendments to the sanctions and anti-money laundering bill

5) Freeze assets of Russian oligarchs unable to explain sources of London property wealth
This would be legally risky and might hit as many Putin opponents as allies.

6) Seek further EU-wide sanctions on Russia

7) Step up Nato presence on the Russian border

8) Designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism

9) Cut Russian banks off from Swift

10) Leak or publish classified material on the scale of alleged money laundering by Putin and his allies

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37 COMMENTS

  1. Thank you, Dee, for this excellent article that asks the question:
    How much chok could a Novi chok chok, if a Novi chok could chok chok?

    And answers, not really surprisingly:
    As much chookie chook as a chookie chook requires
    to gobble up Jonathan Faine.

  2. it is interesting how residents who were in the area were told to wash their clothes and wipe their handbags and phones with wipes -then put the wipes in plastic bags and secure tightly -just in case—also to wash their jewelery —–
    great article–

    porton downs–Cathi Morgan knows lots to say about Porton Downs

  3. Yes Diane, Cathi Morgan is terrific; best researcher on UK re mind control.

    I got this from BibleSabbath.blogspot.com.au:

    Cathi Morgan’s research first alerted us that the mind control programmes are happening in Salisbury, in Porton Down. There they have a scientific and technological unit that specialises in electro magnetic frequencies.

    RAF Rudloe Manor, nor Corsham, Wiltshire, is home to underground “bases”. These seem to be linked to a computer system hosting the UK’s nuclear’s deterrent, Trident. There are rumours of even more levels to these underground bases where top security passes are required with everyone sworn to top secrecy.

    Diane, in what year were people told to wash their phones?

  4. Wow, this is a bigger false flag than I thought.

    This from the Guardian:

    10 possible British responses to Russia over the Sergei Skripal affair

    In ascending order, the UK’s potential options are:

    1) Expulsion of diplomats

    2) Ask Ofcom to declare that Russian media outlets such as RT are not fit to hold a broadcasting licence

    3) Seek support in the EU for sports officials not to attend the World Cup

    4) Introduce amendments to the sanctions and anti-money laundering bill
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    5) Freeze assets of Russian oligarchs unable to explain sources of London property wealth
    This would be legally risky and might hit as many Putin opponents as allies.

    6) Seek further EU-wide sanctions on Russia.

    7) Step up Nato presence on the Russian border

    8) Designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism

    9) Cut Russian banks off from Swift

    10) Leak or publish classified material on the scale of alleged money laundering by Putin and his allies

  5. Can’t get my little LLB head around this one:

    “5) Freeze assets of Russian oligarchs unable to explain sources of London property wealth
    This would be legally risky and might hit as many Putin opponents as allies.”

    Quite the list, Dee. OK, Troops, Please go to Guardian comments and make reference to the Gumshoe scoop: Porton Down the likely source of the gobbling chooks. Go on, this is wild.

  6. Dee, I recommend you go back and add the Guardian’s list into your article, and Diane’s comment also. If we try to link this article hither and yon it may not pick up comments.

  8. Had a lovely time at the Adelaide Fringe tonight. People were eating blue fairy floss. One of the shows cost $70. Mine is free, you know. Free, gratis, and fur nicht. That’ll be March 18 at 2.30pm at Burnside Library. Gonna be historic.

    If somebody in Melbourne is too cheap to pay the all-night-bus fare, not mentioning any names (HB), well, they will be missing an EXPERIENCE.

  12. Teresa May — House of Commons address:

    Extracts:

    With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to update the House on the incident in Salisbury…

    This incident has, of course, caused considerable concern across the community….

    But as a nation that believes in justice and the rule of law, it is essential that we proceed in the right way – led not by speculation but by the evidence. [note]

    It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. This is part of a group of nerve agents known as ‘Novichok’.

    Mr Speaker, there are therefore only two plausible explanations for what happened in Salisbury on the 4th of March.

    Either this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country.

    Or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others.

    Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea was the first time since the Second World War that one sovereign nation has forcibly taken territory from another in Europe.

    Russia has fomented conflict in the Donbas, repeatedly violated the national airspace of several European countries, and mounted a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption. This has included meddling in elections, and hacking the Danish Ministry of Defence and the Bundestag, among many others.

    During his recent State of the Union address, President Putin showed video graphics of missile launches, flight trajectories and explosions, including the modelling of attacks on the United States with a series of warheads impacting in Florida.

    While the extra-judicial killing of terrorists and dissidents outside Russia were given legal sanction by the Russian Parliament in 2006.

    And of course Russia used radiological substances in its barbaric assault on Mr Litvinenko.

    ….It was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom, putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk. And we will not tolerate such a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil.
    Published 12 March 2018

  14. “….It was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom, putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk. And we will not tolerate such a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil.”

    Righteo-ho then, let’s get on with a few arrests.

  17. yes I am finding msm-coverage of events very interesting-and very orchestrated -politics-coverups etc–seems to be contributing more “professionally” -but just causing a diversion maybe—or as the truth is coming out and everyone is waking up a little – they run with a part truth to keep us all busy—- muddy the water–

  18. Re Cathi Morgan – Porton Downs her research -Military Mind Manipulation-experiments -networks

    https://cathki.wordpress.com

    “Journey Into Knowing” a presentation by Cathi Morgan
    December 16, 2017

    Journey Into Knowing – Decoding the Matrix
    AwakeCon Presentation 11/11/2017
    I present some of my latest research including new information about covert population studies and documented UK links to Projects MKULTRA Bluebird and Artichoke.. I also look at links to the early British TV and film industry and Tavistock Institute and include previously undisclosed details from my personal story.
    (I look a bit pirate-like due to a dental emergency which I didn’t get chance to fix prior to being filmed)
    Huge thanks to Taj and crew for doing a brilliant job organising the conference and to the other speakers. The audience were fantastic and very clued up, it really was great to meet everyone.
    I’m not planning any further presentations, I’m going to focus on writing a book. (I will still be available for interviews).

    This video-is quite long–but very informative–very relevant to RAMCOA.

    Maybe Gumshoe et al could organise an interview.

    She has told her story–the story of these times– her last presentation

    Just heard Alison Miller has “retired” she has completed her part of the story-

    Fiona Barnett -played her part in the story– she signalled that she had completed her part of the work-amazing work

    Cathi Morgan UK–Alison Miller- Canada-Fiona Barnett Australia—–and there are hundreds, thousands of us with stories that need to be heard.

    Great work re; the Fringe Mary– I pay my respects to the amazing women you have chosen to feature -Kathleen A Sullivan. Carol Rutz. Wendy Hoffman. Janine Jones. Blanche Chavoustie.

    I sent the flyer to Wendy Hoffman -this was her reply

    “Thank you for letting me know. It looks very interesting. I appreciate Mary’s reviews of my work. She really gets it”.

    • Readers of Wendy’s books could hardly fail to “get it.” They are crystal clear and delivered with passion in the most perfect English. One day they will be seen as literature.

      Her new book of poetry is called Forceps. Let that title warn you that it is not pleasant reading, though the poet’s endurance shines through.

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