Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead

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TJH: Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead

Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up DeadMore on Kelly … True or False?Exclusive to American Free Pressby Gordon Thomas

August 10, 2003 — Dr. David Kelly — the biological warfare weapons specialistat the heart of the continuing political crisis for the British government –had links to three other top microbiologists whose deaths have left unansweredquestions.

The 59-year-old British scientist was involved with ultra secret work atIsrael’s Institute for Biological Re search. Israeli sources claim Kelly metinstitute scientists several times in London in the past two years.

Israel has not signed the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention, aninternational treaty ratified by more than 140 countries. It forbids thedevelopment, possession and use of offensive biological and chemical weapons.

The CIA, FBI and MI5 are now examining Kelly’s connections. Their findingscould form part of the British government’s inquiry into the background ofKelly’s death, which opened last week.

The intelligence investigation is believed to have originated in Washington,where it emerged that Kelly had contacts with two companies in the U.S.bio-defense industry.

One of the men he was in touch with was a former Russian defector, KamovtjanAlibekov. When he arrived in America, he changed his name to Ken Alibek. Heis now president of Hadron Advanced Biosystems — a company specializing inmedicines against biological terrorist attacks. Kelly was himself consideringresigning from his senior post at the Ministry of Defense to work in America. Before his death, he had been discreetly ‘head-hunted’ by two companies. Onewas Hadron Advanced Biosystems, which has close ties to the Pentagon.

Hadron describes itself as “a company specializing in the development oftechnical solutions for the U.S. intelligence community”. Hadron also haslinks to William Patrick, who has five classified patents on the process ofdeveloping weaponized anthrax. He is a bio-warfare consultant to both thePentagon and the CIA.

The other company is Regma Biotechnologies — one that Kelly helped itsfounder, Vladimir Pasechnik, to set up in Britain, arranging for it to have alaboratory at Porton Down, the country’s chem-bio warfare defense establishment.

Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic andtherapeutic treatment of anthrax”.

Kelly had told family friends he wanted to go to America so that he couldobtain the specialized treatment his wife, Janice, requires. “He also feltthat working in the U.S. private sector would relieve him of the intensepressures which came with his government work”, said a colleague in theMinistry of Defense.

The two American scientists he had worked with were Benito Que, 52, and DonWiley, 57. Both microbiologists had been engaged in DNA sequencing that couldprovide “a genetic marker based on genetic profiling”. The research could playan important role in developing weaponized pathogens to hit selected groups ofhumans — identifying them by race. Two years ago, both men were found dead,in circumstances never fully explained.

In November 2001, Que left his laboratory after receiving a telephone call. Shortly afterward he was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami MedicalSchool. He died without regaining consciousness.

Police said he had suffered a heart attack. His family insisted he had been inperfect health and claimed four men attacked him. But, later, oddly, thefamily inquest returned a verdict of death by natural causes.

Many questions remain about Que’s death:

Who was the mystery caller who sent Que hurrying from his lab hours before he was scheduled to leave? What attempts did the police make to track the fourmystery men — after admitting Que was the “probable” victim of an attempt to steal his car? What were his links to the U.S. Department of Defense? What happened to his sensitive research into DNA sequencing? How close were his connections to Kelly?

A few days after Que died, Wiley disappeared off a bridge spanning theMississippi River. He had just left a banquet for fellow researchers inMemphis.

Weeks later, Wiley’s body was found 300 miles down river. As with Que, hisfamily said he was in perfect health. There was no autopsy. The local medicalexaminer returned a verdict of accidental death. It was suggested he had adizzy spell and fell off the bridge.

Again, there remain many unanswered questions concerning Wiley’s demise:

Why did Wiley park his car on the bridge? Why did he leave the keys in the ignition and his lights on? Why was Wiley’s car facing in the opposite direction from his father’s house, which was only a short distance away? What happened to his research into DNA sequencing? How close were his connections to Kelly?

Kelly, himself an expert on DNA sequencing when he was head of microbiology atPorton Down, had been kept fully abreast of the two men’s research.

The death of a third microbiologist — Vladimir Pasechnik, 64 — has left evenmore questions.

Kelly had played a key role in debriefing Pasechnik when he fled to Britain in1989, bringing with him details of Russian plans to use cruise missiles tospread smallpox and plague, the Black Death of medieval times, which killed athird of Europe’s population. Before the plans could be brought to completion,the Soviet Union had collapsed. Pasechnik had warned Kelly and his MI6debriefers that the weapons could be used by terror groups — using missilesobtained from China or North Korea.

Kelly, with government approval, had helped Pasechnik create RegmaBiotechnologies. Regma was allowed to set up a laboratory in Porton Down.

Research there is classified as top secret. However, in August 2002, thecompany obtained a contract with the U.S. Navy for “the diagnostic andtherapeutic treatment of anthrax”.

On Nov. 16, 2001, Pasechnik was found dead in bed — 10 days after he and Wileyhad met in Boston to discuss the latest developments in DNA sequencing.

It was only a month later that Christopher Davis, a former MI6 officer and aspecialist in DNA sequencing as a potential weapon, announced Pasechnik’s death.

Davis had retired from MI6 and settled in Great Falls, Va. He confirmed to areporter that Pasechnik was dead — from a stroke — a month after themicrobiologist had been buried.

Details of the postmortem were not revealed at an inquest, in which the presswas given no prior notice. Colleagues who had worked with Pasechnik said hewas in good health.

Why was it left to Davis to announce Pasechnik’s death? Who authorized theannouncement? Did an MI6 pathologist conduct the autopsy, as one source close to the service claims? Why did Pasechnik continue to visit Porton Down up to a week before his death? Who authorized his security clearance to enter one of the most restricted establishments in Britain?

Kelly’s links to the Institute of Biological Research in the Tel Aviv suburb ofNes Zions are also intriguing.

His connection to the secret biological plant began in October 2001, shortlyafter a commercial flight en route from Israel to Novosibirsk in Siberia wasblown up over the Black Sea by a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile.

All on board the flight were killed, including five Russian microbiologistsreturning to their research institute in Novosibirsk — a city known as thescientific capital of Siberia. It has 50 facilities and 13 universities.

Many questions remain about the death of these five scientists. Why did Mossadsend a team to Ukraine to investigate the crash? What became of their reportafter it was submitted to the Israeli government? Why do the Ukrainianauthorities still insist they cannot reveal the name of the deadmicrobiologists? Did Pasechnik know them — or, more importantly, did Kelly?

The Institute for Biological Research is one of the most secret places inIsrael. Only Dimona, the country’s nuclear facility in the Negev desert, issurrounded by more secrecy. Most of the institute’s 12 acres of facilities areunderground. Laboratories are only reached through airlocks.

There have been persistent reports that the institute is also engaged in DNAsequencing research. One former member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament),Dedi Zucker, caused a storm … when he claimed that the institute was “tryingto create an ethnic specific weapon” in which Arabs could be targeted byIsraeli weapons.

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