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Uncovering the Truth
about the Death of David Kelly
A Review Article
By Rowena Thursby
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Dr David Kelly
In 2003 Dr David Kelly was found
dead in the woods. Caught in a political vortex, Dr Kelly had been
forced to appear before a televised government committee
investigating whether he had accused British government figures of
planting in a dossier the questionable claim that WMDs could be
unleashed from Iraq in 45 minutes. The Hutton Inquiry concluded that
Dr Kelly took his own life. But did he? The KELLY INVESTIGATION
GROUP takes a closer look.... Contact:
RowenaThursby@onetel.com
The Kelly Investigation Group (KIG) is a loose affiliation of
professionals and lay people from all walks of life; it includes
nine doctors, four of them surgeons, and a QC. Medical and legal
expertise has ensured our objections to the the official line on Dr
David Kelly’s death are taken seriously by the media and public,
even if the authorities affect to ignore them. Our aim is to ensure
agents of the state do not bury the truth, along with Dr Kelly.
SUSPICIONS
FROM THE START
During 2002/3 it was
obvious to many that the search for WMD in Iraq was a disingenuous
ploy to secure regime change. Blair and his aides had claimed that
it would take only 45 minutes for Saddam to launch a CBW attack on
British bases, and that mobile laboratories found in Iraq were for
the purpose of making chemical/biological weapons. In asides to
journalists Dr David Kelly had shot both assertions down in flames.
So when he was found ‘dead in the woods’ three days after being
hauled before a televised government committee, many of us were
highly suspicious.
Why were Thames Valley
police labelling Dr Kelly’s death a ’suicide’ before his body had
been examined? At the age of 72, judge and law lord Brian Hutton had
never before chaired a public inquiry - so why did the prime
minister’s old friend Charles Falconer appoint this safe
establishment figure at such extraordinary speed*?
As the Hutton Inquiry got underway in August 2003, I pored over the
transcripts in an attempt to understand exactly how Dr Kelly had
died. I listed aspects of the case that did not add up, and joined
an internet forum to correspond with others working in a similar
vein. One was IT expert Garrett Cooke.
INITIAL PLEA TO THE CORONER
On 20th November 2003
Garrett and I wrote a letter to coroner Nicholas Gardiner explaining
our concern that the inquest had been subsumed into the Hutton
Inquiry. In particular, we listed the reasons why we felt a full
inquest with powers to subpoena witnesses and hear evidence under
oath should be held:
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Dr
Kelly’s body appeared to have been moved - twice
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the
knife, bottle of water, glasses, and cap reported beside the
body by later witnesses, were not seen by the two volunteer
searchers who first discovered it
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DC
Coe was with the body at the time its position changed from
sitting to lying
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DC
Coe claimed he was with one other officer yet five witnesses
said he was with two
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the
primary cause of death was given as haemorrhage from an
incised wound to his left wrist, yet the amount of blood at
the scene was, according to the paramedics, extremely sparse
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vomit stains from the corners of his mouth to his ears
suggested Dr Kelly had died on his back, yet his position
when found was slumped against a tree
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the
puzzling nature of the wound: the severing of a single
artery deeply embedded in the left wrist and total avoidance
of the more superficial radial artery
We received no response.
‘SECTION 17A’
MISAPPLIED
Later we discovered that to avoid an inquest,
Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer had invoked Section 17a of the
Coroner’s Act of 1988, citing as his reason avoidance of duplication
(having both an inquest and an inquiry) and consequent distress to
the Kelly family.
However, Section 17a was introduced in 199 at
his instigation to avoid unnecessary repetition (and mounting costs)
in cases of multiple deaths with a single known cause, e.g. a train
crash or a ferry disaster; Dr Kelly’s was a single, high profile
death of unknown cause. In view of the political manoeuvres
preceding this high-profile death, one suspects the avoidance of
‘distress’ to the family was a very British excuse masking the real
reason: that the authorities did not want witnesses subpoenaed and
giving evidence on oath.
Had the scientist’s close female friends, Mai
Pederson, Gabriele Kraatz Wadsack and Judith Miller been subpoenaed
we might have been provided with a much more intimate portrait of
events leading up to his death.
BUILDING A
MEDICAL CASE
Faced with the Coroner’s wall of silence, I
decided to try to secure medical support. I started a
blog
listing a number of KIG concerns and wrote two articles for the
internet entitled - ‘Dark
Actors at the Scene of Dr Kelly’s Death’
(October 2003) and
‘The David
Kelly Story: Turning Murder into Suicide‘
(28 November 2003.) The latter was a critique of the forensic
pathologist’s evidence to the Hutton Inquiry; for to me, his
reasoning seemed in places, quite farcical.
On 29 November 2003 Dr Searle Sennett, a
specialist in anaesthesiology from Johannesburg, responded to these
articles by e-mail as follows:
Dear Rowena
I have just read your piece at
rense.com and also the one at propaganda matrix.com and I
complement you on both of these articles but, more importantly,
on your guts and preparedness to take on the Establishment. I am
a retired specialist anaesthetist and I too, without knowing the
details of the Kelly incident that you do, considered the whole
“suicide” story to be phoney in the extreme. I am quite
satisfied that cutting the ulnar artery in the manner described
could not have been fatal.
He was clearly murdered in some other
manner and, in my opinion, there are a variety of ways in which
it could have been done.
You did mention the use of a
chloroform-like substance, of which there are many, and I can
assure you that the modern volatile anaesthetic agents are
extremely potent. They would not necessarily kill but could
certainly cause unconsciousness in less than a minute especially
if applied in high concentration. The subject could then be
asphyxiated by means of a plastic bag over his head which, in
fact, could also contain the agent. To show this technique is
distinctly feasible, I mention the incident where a potent
anaesthetic agent was introduced into the air-conditioning
system of a Moscow theatre and which incapacitated and, indeed,
killed the Chechen terrorists and some of their hostages.
Injectible muscle relaxants which paralyse all muscles within
seconds and stop the breathing of the subject receiving them.
Although normally intravenous, the injection could, in fact, be
given into any muscle or even under the hair of the scalp, or
elsewhere, so as to avoid subsequent detection. Muscle relaxants
are part of the lethal cocktail injection used in many US
prisons to carry out the death sentence.
It will be very interesting to see
what approach Lord Hutton takes concerning the inquest and
whether he, too, attempts to cover up the obvious murder.
Meanwhile, I am not surprised that Tony Blair is suffering from
a variety of stress-related disorders!
Keep up the good work.
Your sincerely
Searle Sennett
Johannesburg
Anomalies continued to accumulate, but things
were set alight when a friend sent me a letter published on 15
December 2003 in the Morning Star from orthopaedic and trauma
surgeon, David Halpin. Here was a surgeon, a man with intimate
knowledge of arteries, and how they behave, saying he did not see
how Dr Kelly could have died of haemorrhage from transection of a
single ulnar artery:
I write to enquire as to the status of the
coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. I hope that it
has not been subsumed within the Hutton Inquiry.
He had been put through the psychological
mincing machine of the elite running this country and it is easy to
imagine his sense of failure as well as betrayal in both directions.
We have been told that he died from a cut wrist and that he had
non-lethal levels of an analgesic in his blood.
As a past trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, I
cannot easily accept that even the deepest cut into one wrist would
cause such exsanguinations that death resulted.
This one point was key: the primary cause of
death could not have been haemorrhage because it is virtually
impossible to bleed to death from severing a single ulnar artery.
Over the ensuing weeks we honed and refined our case to include
arguments against the second and third causes of death cited -
poisoning by co-proxamol and atherosclerosis. With Dr Sennett and
David Halpin’s continued input and support, the KIG was able to
develop a strong medical case against suicide.
Around this time we were joined by Jim Rarey,
an ex-newspaper editor from the US, who wrote
seven
articles
for the internet on a number of aspects of Dr Kelly’s death.
KELLY’S
DEATH A PHENOMENON ACCORDING TO STATISTICS
In January 2004 we were contacted by Dr Andrew
Rouse, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Dr Yaser Adi, from the
Dept of Public Health & Epidemiology at the University of
Birmingham, who three months earlier had submitted a letter to
national newspapers:
IS DR KELLY A STATISTIC OR A PHENOMENON?
The pathologist who performed Dr Kelly’s
autopsy reported that “The features… of Dr Kelly’s wounds… were
quite typical of self-inflicted illness”. Unfortunately he did not
report that it is almost unheard of for such wounds to result in
death.
Suicide associated with wrist-slashing is
extremely rare - so rare that the Office of National Statistics does
not report wrist slashing as a specific cause of death; it groups
such deaths with other uncommon suicide methods such as belly and
abdomen stabbings and throat cuttings (see table)
This table shows that fewer than five 55-50
year old men use cutting and piercing instruments to commit suicide
annually. This statistical evidence, combined with the fact that
even after searching the medical literature and speaking to medical
and surgical colleagues we have not been able to document that wrist
slashing can lead to successful suicide, suggests that for all
practical purposes wrist slashing suicide does not exist in Britain.
Suicide and self inflicted injury by
cutting and piercing instruments amongst males in England and Wales
Year 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69
1991 2 4 9 8
1992 5 6 4 1
1993 7 4 6 4
1994 2 3 3 6
1995 6 5 3 5
1996 6 4 4 5
1997 8 4 3 1
1998 7 7 2 8
1999 5 4 5 3
2000 9 3 2 4
Av 5.5 4.4 4.1 4.5
Data from: Twentieth Century
Mortality, Office of National Statistics, London 2003
We must
also remember that Dr Kelly was a first rate researcher. As such,
before making a suicide attempt, he would surely have done an
internet or library search into the success of various suicide
methods. He would have learnt that - since it invariably fails -
wrist slashing is not a recommended suicide method. There fore why
would Dr Kelly slash his wrist in the first place and against, all
odds, actually die?
MORE
DOCTORS CHALLENGE OFFICIAL SUICIDE RULING
As the medical case challenging suicide became
stronger, we were happy to welcome in a new doctor - Chris
Burns-Cox, and two more surgeons - Martin Birnstingl and William
McQuillan. Birnstingl, a retired specialist in vascular surgery from
London responded enthusiastically to a Kelly article with “Count me
in”. He was a foundation member of the Vascular Surgical Association
of GB and Ireland and President in 1986. In private e-mails he
wrote:
Vascular surgeons deal with vessels of all
sizes but I have never seen or heard of anybody dying from a cut
wrist artery even when both ulnar and redial have been cut
Dr Kelly did not “slit his wrists” as
suggested by Professor Milroy. The evidence is that one wrist was
cut, dividing only one of the four main wrist arteries, which is
very unlikely to have been fatal.
During 2004 I made
contact with a Dr C Stephen
Frost who had written a list of 35 questions about Dr Kelly’s death
on the Independent internet forum . Working together, and liaising
with the rest of the medico-legal team, we managed to get five
letters published in the Guardian:
1.
OUR DOUBTS
ABOUT DR KELLY’S SUICIDE
27 January 2004 signed by David Halpin, C Stephen Frost, Searle
Sennett
2.
MEDICAL
EVIDENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT SUICIDE BY KELLY
12 February 2004 signed by Andrew Rouse, Searle Sennett, David
Halpin, C Stephen Frost, Peter Fletcher, Martin Birnstingl
Our arguments met with a blustering emotional response from
Professor Chris Milroy in a letter entitled:
FANTASISTS
& DR KELLY14
February 2004
3.
QUESTIONS
STILL UNANSWERED OVER DR KELLY’S DEATH
19 February 2004 signed by Andrew Rouse, Searle Sennett, David
Halpin, C Stephen Frost, Peter Fletcher, Martin Birnstingl
4.
NEW DOUBTS
OVER KELLY
28 September 2004 signed by C Stephen Frost, David Halpin, William
McQuillan, Searle Sennett
5.
QUESTIONS
OVER KELLY
28 December 2004 signed by Dr Michael Powers QC, Martin Birnstingl,
Chris Burns-Cox, C Stephen Frost, David Halpin, William McQuillan,
Andrew Rouse, John Henry Scurr, Searle Sennett
The first letter, published on 27 January to
coincide with the publication of the Hutton Report, caused a media
storm, and we were inundated with requests for radio and TV
appearances. David Halpin appeared on TV and radio in the UK, and Dr
Sennett gave newspaper interviews from his home in Johannesburg. The
Evening Standard ran a headline on the evening prior to the
publication of the Hutton Report: “Was Kelly Murdered?” But since
‘The Sun’ chose to leak the Hutton Report a day ahead of publication
- and we think this may have been a deliberate tactic - the angle of
possible murder was not pursued in the media the following day.
On 21 January 2004 five of us - David Halpin,
Dr Searle Sennett, Dr C Stephen Frost, Garrett Cooke and myself -
wrote an eleven-page letter to the Coroner setting out our concerns
in detail. He failed to respond. A month later I phoned him to ask
if he had received the letter - he said he had noted the contents
but did not think these were sufficient grounds for concern. He had
seen a police report and was satisfied everything was in order.
On 31 January highly qualified pathologist Dr
Peter Fletcher wrote a letter to the Daily Telegraph:
Sir,
As a retired pathologist, I have been
dismayed by the lack of information on the precise circumstances
of the discovery of Dr David Kelly’s body. It is claimed that
the major cause of death was blood loss from a severed wrist
artery, possibly complicated by the ingestion of an unstated
number of co-proximal tablets. An adult human body contains
about 10 pints of blood, of which about half has to be lost to
cause death. Anybody who has seen five pints of blood spurted
forcefully out of a severed artery will know that there is one
hell of a mess. The two searchers who found the body did not
even notice that Kelly had incised his wrist with a knife. The
two paramedics who arrived at the scene later apparently stated
that there was remarkably little blood around the body.
Something, somewhere is seriously
wrong. Either Dr Kelly did not die of blood loss or it occurred
at some place distant from where the body was found. It is, of
course, possible that blood was spattered everywhere, which four
witnesses failed to notice.
A coroner has the power of subpoena, witnesses give testimony
under oath and a jury is usually involved. Lord Hutton was
denied these requirements for his inquiry.
Dr A Peter Fletcher, Pathologist,
Halstead, Essex
I contacted him and he too agreed to lend his support to the KIG.
I was put in touch with lawyer Michael
Shrimpton by an e-mail correspondent and he joined the cause on 29
January 2004. The following month he was invited onto the Alex Jones
Show, one of the top conspiracy radio programmes in the US.
Unfortunately
the slant
he put on Kelly’s death - that it was a ‘hit’ performed by the
French DGSE - was not one shared by the rest of the KIG; although
allegedly received from intelligence sources, there was no way of
corroborating it. We were frankly uneasy with his strong bias
towards the US’s ‘neocon’ administration.
On 8 February 2004 Andrew Rouse and Yaser Adi
submitted an adapted version of their original letter entitled
‘Hutton,
Kelly and the missing Epidemiology’’to
the British Medical Journal. They called for readers to send in
details of any 55-65 year old males who had committed suicide by
slashing their wrist, during the previous 10 years.
Professor Milroy responded to their report by
saying, 'The problem with use of statistics in any single case is
that unlikely does not make it impossible.’ In his view the
combination of all three causes on the death certificate was
sufficient to account for Dr Kelly’s death. This had been the key
tactic of KIG opponents: not to examine one cause of death at a
time, but if one cause did not stand up, hop on to the next one, or
even cite all three as ’somehow’ working together -- hardly a
scientific way to proceed.
Another surgeon - John Scurr - was quoted in a
Washington
Post report,
21 February 2004.
I looked up his details and found him to be a practising vascular
surgeon, also London-based. David Halpin wrote to him and he too
become a willing participant in the KIG. He has since appeared on
Channel 4 News and in a US documentary to be screened in 2007 - in
both cases explaining in his professional capacity why Dr Kelly is
highly unlikely to have bled to death from a single transected ulnar
artery. He put us on to his friend and lawyer, QC Michael Powers.
Once he had reviewed all evidence accumulated by the KIG, it was his
view that there should have been a full inquest into Dr Kelly’s
death.
On 29 February 2004 Renan Talieva, an e-mail
correspondent from the US, wrote a long and detailed article derived
from KIG discussions and her own assiduous research entitled
“The
Strange Suicide of David Kelly.”
CORONER SHUTS THE DOOR
Before the Coroner returned to court after
reviewing The Hutton Report, a
letter
from Michael Powers was published by ‘The Times’ declaring:
Suicide cannot be presumed. Even evidence
pointing to the likelihood that Dr Kelly took his own life is not
sufficient. Suicide has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
After reviewing the Hutton Report, coroner
Nicholas Gardiner returned to court on 16th March 2004 to announce
his decision on whether to re-open the inquest into Dr Kelly’s
death.
The same day David Halpin was interviewed by the Today programme,
and when Gardiner declared his satisfaction with the Hutton
Inquiry‘s ruling of suicide, was asked to comment.
Around this time, practising vascular surgeon John Scurr and QC
Michael Powers made separate appearances on Channel 4 News. Mr Scurr
explained why, in his view, one cannot bleed to death from full
transection of a single ulnar artery while Michael Powers stated
that by law, suicide must be proved beyond reasonable doubt, and an
inquest was the only forum equipped to provide this degree of rigour.
In his view the medical evidence provided since the Hutton Inquiry
was sufficient to warrant a full inquest. When phoned by the Channel
4 News team, Dr Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist to the
Hutton Inquiry, said that he too would be ‘more comfortable’ with a
full inquest.
On 13 May 2004 Renan Talieva answered the
Coroner’s refusal to reopen the inquest with an excellent and
thoroughly researched critique of the coroner’s actions in
“The
Coroner and David Kelly”.
In response to the KIG’s medical arguments,
Professor Robert Forrest, forensic toxicologist at Sheffield
University, set up the ‘International Toxicology Advisory Group’ and
on 18 September 2004 had an article published in the BMJ entitled
‘Forensic
science in the dock’.
The Hutton Inquiry had conveyed the impression that Dr Kelly may
indeed have taken the 29 tablets missing from the blister packs in
his pocket, even though the toxicologist stated that the amount he
measured was only a third a what is normally a fatal amount. But in
this article Forrest et al listed reasons why forensic science was
unable to specify the amount of drug a person had taken prior to
their death.
“Post-mortem measurements of drug
concentration in blood have scant meaning except in the context of
medical history, the sequence and circumstances surrounding death,
and necropsy findings. The paucity of evidence based science,
coupled with the pretence that such science exists in regard to
post-mortem toxicology, leads to the abuse of process…’
In December 2004, in a 'Daily Mail' article
entitled ‘Specialists demand a new Kelly inquiry’ it was reported
that medical and legal experts in the KIG were arguing that it was
vital to have an inquest. Michael Powers called for backers to help
him fund a legal challenge against the coroner’s decision not to
reopen the inquest. It was discovered however, that without a
‘properly interested person’ to call for a judicial review of the
coroner’s decision, the KIG could not proceed.
A ‘properly interested person’ is a legal term
for what in Coroner’s Law has to be someone who stands to gain or
lose by the death in question. In practise, that could only have
been Mrs Kelly, and she made it clear in a private phone call that
she did not want the inquest re-opened because she was convinced her
husband had committed suicide. She claimed to have studied the KIG’s
doubts about the official reason for her husband’s death, but gave
few reasons for her thinking it was suicide other than her husband’s
anguish at the time. This was a blow which appeared to shut the door
on further progress. However we persevered.
PARAMEDICS
UNHAPPY WITH OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH
I contacted the two paramedics who had
attended the scene of Dr Kelly’s death and put them in touch with
Antony Barnett of the Observer. They arranged to meet Barnett in the
presence of their solicitor and gave him the material for his 12
December 2004 article,
‘Kelly
Death Paramedics Query Verdict’
where their shock at the general absence of blood at the scene and
scepticism over the official cause of death was described in detail.
When the press arrived on their doorsteps, they gave a televised
press conference.
MP NORMAN
BAKER BEGINS HIS PRIVATE KELLY INVESTIGATION
it was not until MP Norman Baker came forward
this year (2006) to announce that he had resigned his seat on the
front bench to pursue a private investigation into Dr Kelly’s death
that the case was injected with new life. According to a
Guardian
report:
Mr Baker said he wanted to return to the issue
because the 2003 Hutton inquiry had "blatantly failed” to get to the
bottom of matters. He vowed to question ministers and to unearth new
facts in a bid to establish the "truth" of the case.
After a few months on the case he wrote
a major
article
for the ‘Mail on Sunday’ vowing to prove Dr Kelly’s death was not
suicide. His new finding was that the Coroner had irregular and
clandestine meetings with Department of Constitutional Affairs
officials and representatives of the forensic staff just prior to
the issuing of a full death certificate - before Lord Hutton had
even started to examine the details of Dr Kelly’s death. Normally a
temporary death certificate is issued pending a full inquiry. In
this case it seems, the rules were bent.
In 2006 the KIG launched a
NEW DR
DAVID KELLY BLOG
and is now working in conjunction with Mr Baker. Significant
progress is being made. Watch this space….
Dr Kelly was found dead on 18th July 2003; Lord Hutton was appointed
only a few days later - on 22nd July.
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THE MURDER OF DAVID KELLY
By Jim Rarey
October 14, 2003
(This first part lays out the case from the
evidence presented in the Hutton inquiry why the death of Dr. David Kelly
was not by suicide. Part two will show the reasons, in this writer’s
opinion, Dr. Kelly was killed.)
On Thursday, July 17th sometime
between 3 and 3:30pm, Dr. David Kelly started out on his usual afternoon
walk. About 18 hours later, searchers found his body, left wrist slit, in
a secluded lane on Harrowdown Hill. Kelly, the U.K.’s premier
microbiologist, was in the center of a political maelstrom having been
identified as the “leak” in information about the “dossier” Prime Minister
Tony Blair had used to justify the war against Iraq.
While the Hutton inquiry appears set to declare
Kelly’s death a suicide and the national media are already treating it as
a given, there are numerous red flags raised in the testimony and evidence
at the inquiry itself.
Kelly’s body was likely moved from where he died
to the site where two search volunteers with a search dog found it. The
body was propped up against a tree according to the testimony of both
volunteers. The volunteers reported the find to police headquarters,
Thames Valley Police (TVP) and then left the scene. On their way back to
their car, they met three “police” officers, one of them named Detective
Constable Graham Peter Coe.
Coe and his men were alone at the site for 25-30
minutes before the first police actually assigned to search the area
arrived (Police Constables Sawyer and Franklin) and took charge of the
scene from Coe. They found the body flat on its back a short distance from
the tree, as did all subsequent witnesses.
A logical explanation is that Dr. Kelly died at a
different site and the body was transported to the place it was found.
This is buttressed by the medical findings of livor mortis (post mortem
lividity), which indicates that Kelly died on his back, or at least was
moved to that position shortly after his death. Propping the body against
the tree was a mistake that had to be rectified.
The search dog and its handler must have
interrupted whoever was assigned to go back and move the body to its back
before it was done. After the volunteers left the scene the body was moved
to its back while DC Coe was at the scene.
Five witnesses said in their testimony that two
men accompanied Coe. Yet, in his testimony, Coe maintained there was only
one other beside himself. He was not questioned about the discrepancy.
Researchers, including this writer, assume the
presence of the “third man” could not be satisfactorily explained and so
was being denied.
Additionally, Coe’s explanation of why he was in
the area is unsubstantiated. To the contrary, when PC Franklin was asked
if Coe was part of the search team he responded, “No. He was at the scene.
I had no idea what he was doing there or why he was there. He was just at
the scene when PC Sawyer and I arrived.”
Franklin was responsible for coordinating the
search with the chief investigating officer and then turning it over to
Sawyer to assemble the search team and take them to the assigned area.
They were just starting to leave the station (about 9am on the 18th)
to be the first search team on the ground (excepting the volunteers with
the search dog) when they got word the body had been found.
A second red flag is the nature of the wounds on
Kelly’s wrist. Dr. Nicholas Hunt, who performed the autopsy, testified
there were several superficial “scratches” or cuts on the wrist and one
deep wound that severed the ulnar artery but not the radial artery.
The fact that the ulnar artery was severed, but
not the radial artery, strongly suggests that the knife wound was
inflicted drawing the blade from the inside of the wrist (the little
finger side closest to the body) to the outside where the radial artery is
located much closer to the surface of the skin than is the ulnar artery.
For those familiar with first aid, the radial artery is the one used to
determine the pulse rate.
Just hold your left arm out with the palm up and
see how difficult it would be to slash across the wrist avoiding the
radial artery while severing the ulnar artery. However, a second person
situated to the left of Kelly who held or picked up the arm and slashed
across the wrist would start on the inside of the wrist severing the ulnar
artery first.
A reasonably competent medical examiner or
forensic pathologist would certainly be able to determine in which
direction the knife was drawn across the wrist. That question was never
asked nor the answer volunteered. In fact, a complete autopsy report would
state in which direction the wounds were inflicted. The coroner’s inquest
was never completed as it was preempted by the Hutton inquiry and the
autopsy report will not be made public. Neither will the toxicology
report.
Two paramedics who arrived by ambulance at the
same time as Franklin and Sawyer (some time after 9am) and accompanied
them to where the body was located. After checking the eyes and signs of a
pulse or breathing, they attached four electro-cardiogram pads to Kelly’s
chest and hooked them up to a portable electro-cardiograph. When no signs
of heart activity were found they unofficially confirmed death. One
paramedic (Vanessa Hunt) said the Police asked them to leave the pads on
the body. The other paramedic (David Bartlett) said they always left the
pads on the body.
Both paramedics testified that DC Coe had two men
with him. Curiously, both also volunteered that there was a surprisingly
small amount of blood at the scene for an artery having been severed.
When the forensic pathologist (Dr. Nicholas Hunt)
who performed the autopsy testified, he described copious amounts of blood
at the scene. He also described scratches and bruises that Kelly
“stumbling around” in the heavy underbrush may have caused. He said there
was no indication of a struggle or Kelly having been forcibly restrained.
However, the police made an extensive search of
the area and found no indication of anyone, including Kelly, having been
in the heavy underbrush.
Strangely, none of the witnesses mentioned
anything about rigor mortis (stiffening of the body) which is useful in
setting the approximate time of death. Even Dr. Hunt, when was asked
directly what changes on the body he observed that would have happened
after death, failed to mention rigor mortis. He only named livor mortis.
Hunt set the time of death within a range of 4:15pm on the 17th
to 1:15am the next morning. He based the estimate on body temperature
which he did not take until 7:15pm on the 19th, some seven
hours after he arrived on the scene.
A forensic biologist (Roy James Green) had been
asked to examine the scene. He said the amount of blood he saw was
consistent with a severed artery. Green works for the same private company
(Forensic Alliance) as Dr. Hunt. A majority of the company’s work is done
for police organizations.
The afternoon of the 18th DC Coe
turned up at the Kelly residence accompanied by a man identified only as
“an attachment,” who acted as an “exhibits officer” presumably collecting
documents in behalf of some other government agency.
Detective Constable Coe and those accompanying
him are somewhat of a mystery. There are no corroborating witnesses to any
of his actions to which he testified (other than “just being there” at the
scene where the body was found).
However, on a listing of evidence provided to the
Hutton inquiry by Thames Valley Police is a reference to a document
described thusly, “TVP Tactical Support Major Incident Policy Book…Between
1430 17.07.03 and 930 18.07.03. DCI Alan Young. It is labeled “not for
release – Police operational information.” Many of the exhibits are
labeled that way or are not to be released as personal information.
The police took over 300 statements from
witnesses but less than 70 were forwarded to the Hutton inquiry. Witness
statements were not to be released (even to the inquiry) unless the
witness signed an authorization permitting it. TVP also withheld witness
interviews they did not consider “relevant” to the inquiry. Witnesses were
not put under oath so it is impossible for the public to know if their
public statements are at variance with what they told police. The
‘tactical support” document must have been considered relevant to the
inquiry on Kelly’s death or it wouldn’t have been forwarded.
So this “tactical support” began at 2:30pm on the
17th, about one hour before Dr. Kelly left the house on his
final walk. It ended at 9:30am the following morning about the time DC Coe
and his men left the death scene. The obvious question is, to what was TVP
giving tactical support? The name given the effort was “Operation Mason.”
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THE MURDER OF
DAVID KELLY
[Part two of three]
By Jim Rarey
October 19, 2003
(In part one of this report we examined evidence
ignored by the national media, both in the U.S. and U.K., that shows
fairly conclusively (at least to this writer) that Dr. David Kelly did not
commit suicide. * (For an expanded, detailed report of more evidence see
the URL in the footnote below.) In this last part, we will look at Kelly’s
involvement in and/or knowledge of the secrets of several governments so
explosive that once he was adjudged “unreliable” he had to be eliminated.)
In 1984 Dr. Kelly was invited by the Ministry of
Defense (MoD) to take the position of chief microbiologist at its secret
facility at Porton Down. Kelly had been working in the NERC Institute of
Virology in Oxford. He brought a number of scientists with him from there
to Porton Down.
At the Hutton inquiry, Brian Jones testified as
to Kelly’s involvement, with the highest security clearance, in analyzing
top-secret information regarding biological weapons of the U.K. and other
governments. Jones was director of a department on the Defence
Intelligence Staff (DIS). That involvement, beginning in 1987, presumably
continued until his death and through his several other jobs as weapons
“inspector” in Russia and (for UNSCOM) in Iraq.
It was before and during Kelly’s tenure at Porton
Down that it became involved with South Africa’s bioweapon program named
Project Coast. A cardiologist named Wouter Basson who was the personal
physician of South African Prime Minister Botha headed the project.
After the apartheid government fell, there was a
nearly two-year trial of Basson who was charged with numerous crimes
including murder and misappropriation of project funds. During the trial
several astounding revelations came out. (Basson was acquitted of all
charges by a judge who would not let him take the fall for an official
government program.)
Basson was said to have had entrée not only to
Porton Down but the U.S. Army facility at Fort Detrick, Maryland (the U.S.
counterpart of Porton Down). The two main thrusts of Project Coast were
developing genetically altered diseases that would affect only groups with
similar DNA characteristics, e.g. blacks, and weapons to be used in
assassination of individuals. Two (as yet unidentified) scientists working
at Porton Down were also paid consultants to Basson’s projects.
The CIA in the U.S. contributed to Basson’s
efforts through Dr. Larry Ford. Ford was set up as co-president of a
laboratory supposedly developing a feminine birth control device that
would also protect against AIDS. The company never had a product or any
sales.
According to an undercover FBI informant, Ford
did develop an “anti-black” product he delivered to an attaché of the
South African government in California. Ford was later killed by a shotgun
blast that was ruled a suicide. At the time he was under suspicion of
involvement in the attempted assassination of his partner in the CIA
front. Ford had made several trips to South Africa in connection with
Project Coast.
In 1989, Vladimir Pasechnik, head of the Soviet
bioweapons program at its Biopreparat facility, defected to the U.K. His
revelations of Soviet activity created a diplomatic uproar over violations
of the 1972 treaty banning such activity that had been pushed and signed
by the U.K., U.S. and USSR.
Dr. Kelly and Christopher Davis of the U.K and
U.S. microbiology experts debriefed Pasechnik. Davis, who comes out of MoD
Intelligence, was at the time an employee of Veridian Corp., which has an
interesting history.
According to mind control researcher David
Hoffman, in 1946 Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory was founded including the
“Fund for the Study of Human Ecology.” The “fund” was a CIA financing
conduit for mind control experiments by émigré Nazi scientists and others
under the direction of CIA doctors Sidney Gotttlieb, Ewen Cameron and
Louis Jolyn West. Gottlieb, of course was the director of the CIA’s
infamous MK-ULTRA mind control program.
Cornell was later absorbed into Calspan Advanced
Technology Center in Buffalo, NY. The company continued experiments in
mind control and artificial intelligence. In 1997 Calspan was in turn
absorbed by Veridian Corp. Veridian (Calspan) is deeply involved in
artificial intelligence. In August of this year giant defense contractor
General Dynamics acquired Veridian-Calspan.
Here is a strange “coincidence.” After Timothy
McVeigh left the army, he joined the Army National Guard in Buffalo. He
landed a job with Burns International Security and was assigned to guard
the premises of (you guessed it) Calspan. McVeigh had told friends the
army had implanted a microchip in him during the Gulf war. (We now know
that a number of soldiers were implanted with microchips explained as an
experiment to keep track of their locations during battle.) The CIA
doctors at Calspan were experimenting with merging brain cells with
microchips.
Pasechnik was put to work at Porton Down where he
remained until set up with his own company. Three weeks after the mailed
anthrax attacks in the U.S., He died, “apparently” of a stroke. Strangely,
the death was announced by Christopher Davis. His death began a string of
mysterious deaths and obvious murders of world-class microbiologists,
which continues to this day. Dr. Kelly’s death is one of those but not the
latest.
One of the most disturbing deaths is that of
Harvard scientist Don C. Wiley. Wiley was one of America’s preeminent
researchers into infectious diseases and HIV in particular. After years of
meticulous research, Wiley had just scored a breakthrough by identifying
the properties of the HIV virus that make it infectious and how it avoids
destruction by the antigens in the human immune system.
In theory, the discovery has application to other
viruses that cause diseases. Viruses, as opposed to bacteria, seem to be
immune to treatment by antibiotics.
The dark side of the discovery, as Wiley himself
discussed, is that the same information could be used to change relatively
benign viruses into killers. **(See footnote on this author’s three-part
series on “Anthrax, GOCO’s and Designer Germs.”)
In 1991, a team of U.S. and U.K scientists,
including Kelly and Davis, made a trip to the USSR to inspect Biopreparat
facilities at four locations. Their host was deputy chief of the program,
Kanatjan Alibekov, who would later “defect” to the U.S. and change his
name to Ken Alibek. Kelly made several inspection trips to Russia.
Dr. Kelly was described by his contemporaries as
an iron-willed individual who did not hesitate to challenge Russian and
Iraqi authorities and scientists. However, he may have been a bit naïve
concerning three individuals with whom he had extensive communications,
all three women.
Judith Miller of the New York Times (NYT)
exchanged numerous e-mails with Kelly. The Pulitzer Prize winner is a
long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and through her
articles in the paper the most prominent of those warning of Iraq’s
weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
The second “confidant” of Kelly’s was Olivia
Bosch, a senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA). The RIIA, also known as Chatham House, is the U.K
counterpart of the CFR. Both organizations were set up by the financial
elite to work for a one-world government. Both wield inordinate influence
on the governments in their respective countries. Kelly had recently
joined the RIIA.
The third woman is a real-life Mata Hari. Mai
Pederson met Kelly in Iraq where her cover was as a translator. She is a
U.S. Army intelligence agent. Mai was instrumental in Kelly’s conversion
to the Baha’i faith.
The first inspection trip was dramatized in a
Frontline production in 1998 entitled “Plague War” shown on PBS in the
U.S. and BBC in the U.K. Its main theme was that only Russia had violated
the 1972 treaty but the U.S. and U.K. had abated their programs. Co-author
of the script for the program was Tom Mangold, a sometime author and until
very recently a BBC employee (propagandist?). Mangold was one of the
earliest writers to proclaim Kelly’s death as a suicide and has written
articles “explaining” why Kelly killed himself. He bills himself as a
“best friend” of Kelly but had to admit to the Hutton inquiry that his
contacts with Kelly had been relatively few and mostly by e-mail.
When Alibek defected to the U.S. in 1992 he
underwent extensive debriefing by, among others, Davis and William Patrick
(“father” of the U.S. bioweapons program and a CIA consultant). He was
then rewarded with a job at BMI and became a CIA consultant. He is
currently president of a subsidiary of Hadron, the defense contractor that
peddled the PROMIS software to various governments (with a backdoor in the
software) that resulted in an intelligence bonanza for the U.S.
According to author Gordon Thomas, Kelly
maintained close communications with Alibek, Patrick and other scientists
in the U.S. Thomas reports that Kelly had contacts only weeks before two
of the scientists died violent deaths. One was Dr. Don Wiley.
In the months before his death, Dr. Kelly became
embroiled in a shouting match between the British government and BBC.
Andrew Gilligan, a reporter for BBC claimed that Kelly had given him and
other reporters information that proved the government had exaggerated the
Iraqi danger in its “dossier” justifying the war against Iraq and that
Kelly had not been completely honest in telling his MoD superiors what he
had disclosed to them. Writer Tom Mangold (it’s not clear when he left the
employ of BBC) used this to reason that Kelly’s loss of integrity at being
exposed as a “liar” was what led him to suicide.
Mangold was not the only one to push the suicide
angle. After Kelly’s death, Foreign Office diplomat David Broucher made
headlines around the world when he claimed Kelly had said if Iraq was
attacked he might be “found dead in the woods.” Broucher testified the
remark was made at the end of a meeting he had with Kelly in February of
this year in Geneva where they discussed the WMD “dossier.” He said he
didn’t think much of it at the time but in retrospect Kelly may have been
considering suicide then.
When Kelly’s daughter Rachel testified at the
inquiry, she proved through her father’s diaries that the only time he had
been in Geneva, and the only time he ever met Broucher, was a year earlier
in February of 2002. There was not even a draft of the “dossier” in
existence at that time suggesting that Broucher’s story was fiction.
Actually, the opposite of the Mangold thesis
appears to be the truth. Kelly was treated badly by MoD over the last
three years of his life. He had not had a salary increase in three years
as he approached retirement where his pension would be a function of
salary. At one time he was told there would be reorganization within the
intelligence operation and he would get a sizeable increase in salary.
That didn’t happen. Kelly had written several letters about his position
and, according to his widow, was quite upset and frustrated about it (not
despondent and suicidal).
Kelly had voluntarily disclosed to MoD his
contacts with the media. To his dying day, he maintained that he had not
provided all the information Gilligan attributed to him. Nevertheless,
Kelly was hauled before the Joint Intelligence Committee for a grilling.
The final affront came in a mandated one-on-one
session with MoD Personnel Director Richard Hatfield. MoD, with the
approval of Tony Blair, had devised an orchestrated charade to “out” Kelly
as the source of the “leak. Hatfield, head of the department that had been
jerking Kelly around for three years, was supposed to get Kelly’s
acquiescence in the plan. Somehow, he never got around to the subject.
Subsequently, at an MoD press conference, through
a series of disclosures to the press, the MoD confirmed Kelly as the leak
(as previously planned) when a reporter asked if Kelly was the one.
Understandably, this treatment would have made
Kelly a resentful employee. In intelligence circles, resentful employees
are considered “unstable” and security risks. Kelly had for years
maintained his silence about his extensive knowledge of the bio-warfare
weapons of at least four countries. Had it become imperative that the
silence be made permanent?
Footnotes:
*See
Dark Actors at the Scene of David Kelly's Death
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DAVID KELLY AND
VICTORIA’S SECRET
By Jim Rarey
November 12, 2003
No, it’s not the
Victoria’s Secret of the soft porn lingerie ads. This is a different
Victoria who may have innocently provided the final impetus for the
assassination of David Kelly.
In Part I of this writer’s *article, “the Murder
of David Kelly” we detailed the numerous red flags in the evidence and
testimony submitted at the Hutton inquiry into Kelly’s death that showed
conclusively that his death was not a suicide. One of the more important
“clues” was evidence that his body had been moved after he died to the
scene in which it was found. Other testimony showed it to be very doubtful
that Kelly had inflicted the knife wounds on his left wrist that severed
an unlikely artery but left the most easily reached artery untouched.
In Part II of the article, we detailed Kelly’s
extensive involvement with and/or knowledge of the bio/chemical weapons
programs of the U.K., U.S. and Russia. One author reports Kelly also had
visited the Israeli bio/chemical weapons facility. Kelly almost certainly
would have been aware of the involvement of two U.K. scientists at Porton
Down simultaneously as paid consultants to South Africa’s notorious
bioweapons program. He had also served as an inspector in Iraq of that
country’s WMD programs.
We also recited the deplorable treatment Kelly
had been subjected to by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) Personnel
Department in withholding any pay increase over a three-year period as
Kelly approached retirement.
However the public perception of Kelly was as the
“single source” of statements made by BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan to the
effect that the government had “sexed up” the dossier used to justify the
war against Iraq. Kelly had voluntarily disclosed to his MoD superiors he
had met with Gilligan but denied he made the statements Gilligan
attributed to his source.
In a July 9th press conference, the MoD confirmed
that Dr. Kelly was Gilligan’s source. Kelly was hauled before the
parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee for a grilling but convinced
committee members he had not provided statements ascribed to him by
Gilligan. The committee chairman, MP Donald Anderson wrote a letter to
Secretary of State Jack Straw confirming the committee’s judgment and
adding their view that, “Dr. Kelly had been poorly treated by his
government..”
Kelly told his wife he felt he had been betrayed.
We did not understand the depth and duplicitous nature of that betrayal
until further reviewing testimony at the Hutton inquiry, particularly that
of Richard Hatfield, Director of MoD Personnel.
Hatfield had no personnel management experience
when he was appointed to that job in June of 2001. He had been Policy
Director of MoD and a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee. On July
7th Hatfield met with Kelly to review (and get Kelly’s approval) of a
clarification the MoD intended to issue to clarify inaccurate information
in Gilligan’s report without naming Kelly. What Hatfield knew, but did not
tell Kelly, was that MoD intended to confirm Kelly’s name as the source to
the press if any reporter mentioned his name after the charade of a “Q &
A” session designed to lead to Kelly.
When Kelly learned of this deception it must have
infuriated him. Indeed, if it had been Hatfield’s body that was “found
dead in the woods” Dr. Kelly might have been a prime suspect in the death.
Another BBC reporter, Susan Watts, claimed on the
evening program Newsnight, that Kelly made statements to her indicating he
had lied to the MoD about statements he made to reporters. Later, after
Kelly’s death, Watts had to back off from that allegation when the inquiry
reviewed transcripts of a taped conversation Watts had with Kelly (without
Kelly knowing it was being taped) and hearing an enhanced version of the
tape recording.
However, in the interim the media, led by Tom
Mangold who claimed to be “Kelly’s best friend” and until very recently
was himself a BBC reporter, claimed Kelly was so shamed by being branded a
liar that he killed himself.
However, that was belied by Kelly’s actions and
communications right up to the morning of the day he disappeared (July
17th). He did not at all appear to be depressed and was looking forward to
returning to Iraq to continue the search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
However, he did communicate in an e-mail the day
before his death that there were “many dark actors playing games.”
Ironically, that e-mail was to Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter
and CFR stalwart who probably was one of those dark actors. Miller, along
with two other women was a close confidante of Kelly’s. The second was
Olivia Bosch, a long-time functionary of the CFR’s sister organization in
the U.K. the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). The third
was a U.S. Army intelligence agent named Mai Pederson.
In part two of the article, we suggested that
Kelly’s mistreatment by MoD had made him a resentful employee and, with
all his dangerous knowledge, a prime candidate for elimination.
However, information new to this writer since
that article provides a much stronger motive for the assassination of Dr.
Kelly.
For several months, Kelly had been communicating
with Victoria Roddam, a commissioning editor for Oneworld Publications
based in Oxford. One week before Kelly’s death, she had sent him an e-mail
that said in part, “I think the time is ripe now more than ever for a
title which addresses the relationship between government, policy and war
- I’m sure you would agree.” They had been discussing Kelly authoring a
book to be published by Victoria’s company.
Another document found among Kelly’s effects at
his home and removed by police was an undated hand-written note from
Roddam with a list of suggested topics to be included in the book, any one
of which would have sent the elite in several countries into a containment
mode.
One such topic was the ethics of biological
warfare, a sticking point that could be responsible for a string of deaths
of world-class microbiologists in various countries.
A second one was the involvement of corporations
in biological warfare.
A third was the role of the pharmaceutical and
biotech industries in biowarfare as well as prevention and containment.
Yet another was the connection between Russia and
Iraq with WMD.
Victoria had also listed a look at the
proliferation in the arms trade as well a look into the Royal United
Services Institute-Whitehall.
Finally, in the document there was a cryptic
one-line reference to the rules of the Royal Institute of International
Affairs (RIIA).
Recall Kelly was a neophyte member of the RIIA
and likely would not have known what rules, if any, the organization had
on members authoring books on sensitive subjects. He probably would have
inquired disclosing his intentions. He also may have discussed it with his
fellow member and confidante, Olivia Bosch.
It would have been in character for him to
discuss the project with Judith Miller and perhaps seek her advice as she
had authored several books on topic. He may even have discussed it with
his spiritual advisor Mai Pederson.
At any rate, Kelly’s and Victoria’s project was
no longer a secret (if it ever was). And now David Kelly has joined the
growing list of world-class microbiologists who have met mysterious deaths
and/or been murdered.
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DAVID KELLY, THE
BAHA’I AND MASONS
By Jim Rarey
December 14, 2003
Ask any bartender and he will tell you
religion and politics are two subjects that should not be discussed while
drinking. Mix the two and an altercation is almost sure to develop. With
that caveat in mind, readers are cautioned not to imbibe in alcoholic
beverages while discussing this article with friends, acquaintances and
certainly not strangers.
In previous articles we have detailed the
knowledge and/or involvement microbiologist David Kelly had in the
biowarfare programs of several nations including the UK, US, Russia, South
Africa, Israel and Iraq. He was privy to, and an analyst of, much of the
information British intelligence gathered around the world pertaining to
chemical and biological warfare.
We also discussed Kelly’s disgraceful treatment
by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), the resentment that must have
fostered making him (in some persons’ eyes) a security risk. This was
exacerbated by Kelly’s discussions with commissioning agent Victoria
Roddam about writing a book, or at least contributing to an anthology of
the many facets of government and industry involvement in biowarfare
programs. It could only have heightened concerns in some quarters that
Roddam’s publishing company (Oneworld Publications) specializes in works
of Islamic scholars and authors.
Kelly, some four years earlier, had converted to
the Baha’i faith (a minority branch of Islam) apparently under the
influence of Mai Pederson, a U.S. Army linguist and intelligence
operative. Pederson was one of several women Kelly evidently considered
confidants as he had extensive correspondence with them.
Another was Olivia Bosch, a senior researcher at
the Royal Institute of International Affairs (more commonly known as
Chatham House or RIIA). A third was Judith Miller, star reporter for the
New York Times and a long-time member of the RIIA’s sister organization
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Bosch testified at the Hutton inquiry in to
Kelly’s death. Police evidently obtained witness statements from both
Miller and Pederson, which have not been made available to the inquiry.
The MoD told police that witnesses could opt not to have their statements
given to the Hutton “probe.” At the hearings witnesses were not put under
oath.
Pederson has since, as the British say, “gone to
ground” or disappeared from public view. However she has hired (or had
provided for her) a very high profile spokesperson, a lawyer named Mark
Zaid. The attorney often represents former/current government employees,
intelligence officers and others. He is currently representing the father
of Dodi Fayed (who died with Princess Diana in a controversial car
accident) in obtaining alleged FBI and CIA documents said to relate to
those deaths.
However, in previous articles we might have
slighted one of Kelly’s colleagues who may have been closer to him than
any of the other three.
Was in Iraq from 1995 to 1998 - Gabriele Kraatz
Wadsack
Gabriele Kraatz Wadsack (pictured right) worked with Kelly in Iraq. She is
one of Germany’s top biowarfare experts and is a former head of Unscom’s
biological weapons program. She is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the German
Army.
Wadsack and Kelly had traveled around the world
giving joint presentations to scientists on Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction (WMD). Just weeks before Kelly’s death, he was gone for a week
in Baltimore, Maryland giving a presentation according to testimony of
Mrs. Kelly before the Hutton inquiry.
Upon returning home Kelly sent an e-mail to
Gabriele that said in part, “Thanks for a great week. I had a lot on my
mind so I know that I was a little subdued. – thanks for being just you!”
Police found a two-page handwritten note in
Kelly’s briefcase titled “Gabriele’s concerns.” They say it appears to
relate to Iraq and WMD.” However it is being withheld on grounds of
personal ”privacy.” Once a regular panelist on TV, Wadsack is refusing
interviews and is said to be working at the German Army’s biological
weapons facility in Munich.
While Kelly was definitely “plugged in” to the
biowarfare scene, there is an undercurrent of possible religious influence
on his actions and secret society involvement in his death that may yet
generate the biggest controversy.
According to news reports and former members, the
national (UK) and international leadership of the Baha’i branch of Islam
were solidly behind the removal of Saddam in Iraq, but for their own
reasons. Islamic religionists were frozen out of Saddam’s secular Baath
socialist government. The Baha’i leadership saw the removal of Saddam as
an opportunity to expand their worldwide membership of over three million.
It is not clear what the Baha’i attitude is toward the occupation of Iraq
now that Saddam is gone and the Baath Party has been outlawed.
One of the minor controversies raised during the
course of the Hutton inquiry was the allegation that Kelly had made
disparaging remarks about the “dossier” at a private meeting in the home
of a fellow member of the Baha’i, Roger Kingdon. About thirty invited
members of the Baha’i were present. Kelly had given a slide presentation
on Iraq WMD, but the alleged remarks were made during a question and
answer portion of the meeting.
However, potentially the most controversial item
to come out of the Hutton inquiry is a little noted piece of “evidence”
submitted by the Thames Valley Police (TCP). Listed among the items
submitted by the TVP is an exhibit titled “TVP Tactical Support Major
Incident Policy Book.” The name given to the effort is Operation Mason.
In 1997, Tony Blair’s election manifesto promised
to compile a register of freemasons in public life. In February 1998
Blair’s new government (put out by then Home Secretary Jack Straw)
required all new appointments to the judiciary, police, legally qualified
staff of the Crown Prosecution Service and probation and prison services
to declare membership in Masonic organizations. Existing government
employees in those categories were encouraged to voluntarily announce such
membership. Few have come forward.
The government’s action was the culmination of
anti-Masonic fervor dating back as far as 1869 when Rev. C.G. Finney in
his book, “The Character, Claims and Practical Workings of Freemasonry”
inveighed against the Masons with the following:
“Can a man who has taken and still adheres to the
oath of the Royal Arch degree be trusted in office? He swears to espouse
the cause of a companion of this degree when involved in any difficulty,
so far as to extricate him from the same, whether he be right or wrong. He
swears to conceal his crimes, murder and treason not excepted. He swears
to give a companion of this degree timely notice of any approaching danger
that may be known to him. Now is a man bound fast by such an oath to be
entrusted with office? Ought he to be accepted as a witness, a juror--when
a Freemason is a party, in any case--a sheriff, constable, or marshal;
ought he to be trusted with the office of judge or justice of the peace?
Gentlemen, you know he ought not, and you would despise me should I not be
faithful in warning the public against entrusting such men with office.”
Another author, Anthony Beevor, was told by a
leading Mason that all thirteen members of the Army Management Board were
Masons (in 1991). The board comprises a mix of politicians and top army
officers. It exercises authority over all forms of appointments, ranking
and promotion in the army.
The chairman of the Commons Home Affairs
Committee, Chris Mullin, is said to have been considering legislation to
mandate that members of the criminal justice system be required to reveal
if they are freemasons.
However, that proposal was dropped (at least
temporarily) after 5,000 Masons from London’s 1,585 lodges met to
establish a new central organization. They were led by Prince Edward
George Nicholas Paul Patrick Windsor, Duke of Kent. He and his wife
present the trophies at Wimbledon every year and is less well known in his
position as head of the English Freemasonry movement. The Duke and
Duchess, after selling their own home in Coppins, now live in two
residences supplied by the Queen at Anmer Hall and St. James Palace.
At the meeting, the Masons protested the
contemplated mandatory declarations as a violation of the 1998 Human
Rights Act. There are an estimated 300,000 Masons in England and Wales.
An Italian government was brought down following
a 1981 investigation of the (former) P2 Masonic lodge. Consecrated in
1895, the P2 lodge included elite members from the Italian government,
military and intelligence services and bankers serving the Vatican and
mafia. The P2 Grand Master, an Italian named Licio Gelli joined the CIA
and worked in league with mafia banker Michele Sindona and president
Roberto Calvi of the Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in the Vatican
banking scandal. Gelli himself was expelled from Masonry in 1976. As a
result of the scandal, the Italian government banned secret societies.
Calvi, twenty years ago, was found hanging from a
bridge over the Thames River in what was thought to be a suicide. However
British authorities have reopened the case and are now calling it murder
and may prosecute three men and a woman for the crime. The motives
conjectured include his mishandling of mafia money and/or potentially
blackmailing P2 members.
The timing of the reopening of the Calvi case
could be more than a coincidence considering the civil trial due to begin
next month against the Bank of England for its role in the supervision and
closing of BCCI. The mafia, CIA, British intelligence, the Mossad an
assorted terrorist and drug trafficking organizations used BCCI for
laundering money.
However, Lord Hutton’s report on his inquiry into
the circumstances surrounding the death of microbiologist David Kelly is
due out in the same time frame. It undoubtedly will dominate news coverage
as BBC and politicians try to blame each other for the supposed “suicide”
of Kelly and the debate over the “dossier” justifying the war against
Iraq. The capture yesterday of Saddam Hussein and its attendant publicity
may be a wild card in the public relations battle.
It is not clear why the TVP named its tactical
support Operation Mason. It could be a red herring or just a taunt to the
anti-Masonic movement. It possibly could be a straightforward reference to
support of a Masonic operation. But what was that operation?
One thing this writer can confidently predict,
the Hutton report will label Kelly’s death a suicide giving no credence to
any of the evidence that points conclusively to murder.
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HUTTON REPORT:
TOO CLEVER BY HALF
By Jim Rarey
February 1, 2004
Some may wonder why
an American writer would choose a purely British colloquialism as the
title of his article. There simply could not be found a better description
of Lord Hutton’s manipulation, distortion and omission of evidence in his
report on the death of world-class microbiologist David Kelly. But Hutton
may have outsmarted himself by providing information that will prove
Kelly’s body was moved at least twice before police and forensic
investigators saw it.
Come with us as we follow Hutton’s tortuous path
trying to discount the testimony of Louise Holmes (and Paul Chapman), the
volunteers who found Kelly’s body. Numbers enclosed in parentheses are
references to items in Chapter 5 of the Hutton report where Hutton
comments and (very) selectively presents testimony from published
transcripts of testimony at his hearings and/or excerpts from witness
statements and reports that are not available to the public.
In (130) Hutton correctly characterizes Louise
Holmes’ testimony saying, “She saw the body of a man at the base of the
tree with his head and shoulders slumped back against it.” (Keep this in
mind because it becomes crucial in two aspects of where Kelly died.)
The two volunteers started down a path on
Harrowdown Hill (where the body was found) to meet police who were being
dispatched from Thames Valley Police (TVP) headquarters after being
notified by Chapman over his mobile phone. On the way they met three
uniformed police (not the ones being dispatched). Chapman took one of
them, DC Coe back to where the body was. In (131) Hutton comments, ”Mr.
Chapman showed Detective Constable Coe the body lying on its back…”
Already, Hutton has moved the body to its back. Chapman had testified at
his hearing that the body was “sitting up against a tree….”
All subsequent witnesses at the hearings
(including DC Coe) said the body was lying on its back (but not in contact
with the tree). In item (151) Hutton tries to finesse a reconciliation of
these contradictory descriptions of the position of the body. He comments:
“In the evidence which I heard from those who saw
Dr Kelly's body in the wood there were differences as to points of detail,
such as the number of police officers at the scene and whether they were
all in uniform, the amount of blood at the scene, and whether the body was
lying on the ground or slumped against the tree. I have seen a
photograph of Dr Kelly's body in the wood which shows that most of his
body was lying on the ground but that his head was slumped against the
base of the tree (emphasis added)- therefore a witness could say
either that the body was lying on the ground or slumped against the tree.
These differences do not cause me to doubt that no third party was
involved in Dr Kelly's death.”
The photograph, to which Hutton refers, has never
been seen by the public or media. Hutton is very careful not to say the
back was on the ground (there is a reason) and neglects to say the
shoulders, as well as the head, were slumped against the tree. This
photograph could only have been taken by one of the volunteers who found
the body and could be the “smoking gun” that unravels the whole suicide
charade.
Hutton, in (131) skips very lightly over the
activities and testimony of the two Police Constables (Franklin and
Sawyer) dispatched from TVP headquarters in Abingdon who arrived about a
half hour after Chapman’s call with the two paramedics (Vanessa Hunt and
David Bartlett) in tow. Although not included in Hutton’s report, all four
testified Kelly’s body was lying on its back. Both Hunt and Bartlett said
the feet were facing towards them. PC Sawyer said the body was “lying on
its back with its head at the base of a tree….”
But most significantly, and also not disclosed in
the report, is the fact that PC Sawyer took several photographs with his
digital camera before, during and after the paramedics attended to the
body. When Hutton and Sawyer at one of the hearings discussed the
photographs, Hutton’s only interest was whether or not the photos showed
Kelly’s shirt buttoned or unbuttoned!
A simple comparison of Sawyer’s photographs with
the one Hutton referenced should prove whether his rationalization of the
differences in testimony is valid or if the head and shoulders
were against the tree as Holmes testified. If the photographs show
different positions of the body, the implications are obvious. Kelly’s
body was moved during the half-hour interval before the two constables and
paramedics arrived. It may be necessary for all the pictures to be
subpoenaed for that comparison to be made.
There is another reason Hutton has gone to such
pains to make it appear the body was found laying on its back. Not
discussed in the report is the portion of the testimony of Dr. Nicholas
Hunt, the pathologist who performed the autopsy, where he discloses
discoloration on the back of the body (called hypostasis, livor mortis, or
post-mortem lividity) indicates Dr. Kelly died while on his back. Hunt
also says the body was found on its back. Of course Hunt did not arrive on
the scene at Harrowdown Hill until about noon, a good three and a half
hours after the body was found so he has no first-hand knowledge of the
position in which the body was discovered. The discoloration appears on
the lowest parts of the body after the heart stops pumping blood.
This is a further complication for Hutton in that
if the body was found with its head and shoulders against the tree, that
means it was moved to the tree after he had died and the blood had settled
to the back and where Kelly died has not been established.
But where Kelly died is not the only thing in
question. Dr. Hunt assigned the primary cause of the death as bleeding
caused by self-inflicted knife injuries to the left wrist. He said one
artery (the ulnar) had been completely cut through while the artery
usually cut in suicide attempts, the radial (which is much easier to
reach), had not been touched.
Several medical experts have come forward to
challenge that finding. In a letter released to the media, three medical
professionals, Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon David Halpin, Dr. Stephen
Frost in Sweden who is a specialist in diagnostic radiology, and a retired
anaethesiologist in South Africa, maintained that a completely severed
artery would almost immediately retract and limit the bleeding while
promoting clotting. They said they dispute that Dr. Kelly could have died
from the bleeding.
Support came for that position Wednesday from Dr.
Don MacKenchnie who is head of accident and emergency at Rochdale
infirmary and chair of the British Medical Association’s accident and
emergency medicine committee.
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph yesterday, Dr.
A. Peter Fletcher of Halstead, Essex (a retired pathologist) derided
Hunt’s finding based on the blood evidence described in the hearings. He
said about five pints of blood would have to have been lost to cause
death. “Anybody who has seen five pints of blood spurted forcefully out of
a severed artery will know that there is one hell of a mess.” He concludes
that, “Either Kelly did not die of blood loss or it occurred at some place
distant from where the body was found.”
Fletcher closed by remarking, “A coroner has the
power of subpoena, witnesses give testimony under oath and a jury is
usually involved. Lord Hutton was denied these requirements for his
inquiry.”
Oxfordshire coroner Nicholas Gardiner has said he
will make a decision after a legally required 28-day period, whether to
reopen the inquest that was cut short by appointment of the Hutton
Inquiry. As this writer said in an earlier open letter to the public and
media (published before the Hutton report was released) if Gardiner does
not resume the inquest, color him part of the cover-up.
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OFFICIAL DOUBTS
IN KELLY DEATH?
By Jim Rarey
March 11, 2004
Oxfordshire Coroner
Nicholas Gardiner has a problem. On March 16th he is holding a
hearing to determine if he should resume the inquest into the death of
microbiologist David Kelly that was cut short with the appointment of Lord
Hutton to head an inquiry.
Earlier, Gardiner had been quoted as saying he
had seen no “fresh” evidence that would warrant reopening the inquest. The
hearing was expected to be a pro forma announcement of that decision.
However, Tuesday evening Dr. Nicholas Hunt, the Home Office pathologist on
whose testimony Lord Hutton relied for his suicide verdict, dropped a
bombshell in Gardiner’s lap during a Channel 4 news program.
Alex Thomson was airing film clips of interviews
with medical specialists who challenged the medical evidence provided by
Hunt (and toxicologist Allan) and were calling for resumption of the
inquest. Thomson also showed clips from supporters of Hutton’s verdict.
During Thomson’s how, Dr. Hunt called the
newsroom and told them he would, “feel more comfortable with a full
coroner’s inquest.” Dr. Hunt would obviously be one of the main witnesses
in a resumed inquest and apparently has some information he feels he was
not allowed to give at the inquiry.
While many have serious doubts about the suicide
verdict by Lord Hutton in the death of microbiologist David Kelly, a close
reading of the testimony of the two key forensic experts, on whose
testimony Hutton based his verdict, reveals they also had doubts.
The questioning of the forensic witnesses was
aimed at eliciting only that information that would support a suicide
verdict. The “questioning was replete with leading questions (suggesting
the answer) and at times statement of “fact” with which witnesses were
asked to agree. Indeed, at times it was not clear who was giving
testimony, the witnesses or Lord Hutton and his Queen’s counsels.
Statements and answers by witnesses that begged for follow-up questions
were ignored or the subject was quickly changed.
For most of his time in the witness stand, Dr.
Nicholas Hunt, the Home Office pathologist who performed the autopsy on
David Kelly’s body, dutifully supplied the expected answers with two
notable exceptions.
Evidently witnesses had been directed to suspend
common sense and logic and stay within their fields of expertise in their
testimony. When Hunt and Alexander Allan, the toxicologist on the case,
were asked at the end of their stints on the witness stand “is there
anything else which you know of which might have contributed to the
circumstances of Dr Kelly's death?” Allan answered, “From a toxicological
point of view, no.” To the same question, Dr. Hunt replied, “Nothing I
could say as a pathologist, no.” Clearly both were implying they had other
information that was “outside their expertise.”
Mr. Allan had testified that the level of
coproxamol components he found in Kelly’s blood was only about one third
of what he would consider a fatal level. He also said it was not possible
to determine how many of the 29 tablets not accounted for had been
ingested by Kelly. However, he said, “What I can say is that it is
consistent with say 29/30 tablets but it could be consistent with
other scenarios as well. Of course he was not asked what other
scenarios.
During his testimony, Dr. Hunt refused to bail
Lord Hutton out of a dilemma he faced. The two volunteers who found the
body had described it as, “head and shoulders against a tree” and “sitting
up against a tree” respectively. Yet all subsequent witnesses saw the body
as flat on its back away from the tree. In item 151 of his report, Hutton
said he had seen a photograph of the body with its head against the tree
but the rest of the body on the ground. He reasoned there was no conflict
in the various testimonies.
Hunt was asked if any part of Kelly’s body was in
contact with the tree. He said no. He probably knew that was what
photographs taken by Police Constable Sawyer a half hour after the
volunteers left would show the body away from the tree. Thus Hutton had
actually furnished proof that Kelly’s body had been moved at least twice
after he died. Once to the tree and second to the position on its back to
conform to the livor mortis evidence that showed Kelly was on his back
when he died.
This may have been one of the things to which
Hunt was referring in his answer when asked if he could rule out any third
party involvement in Kelly’s death. His reply to that question was, “No,
there was no pathological evidence to indicate the involvement of a third
party in Dr Kelly's death. Rather, the features are quite typical, I would
say, of self-inflicted injury if one ignores all the other features
of the case.”
The subject was quickly changed and no mention of
this startling reservation appeared in the media and no one commented on
the lack of follow through. With a few exceptions, the media, which has
excoriated Hutton for his treatment of BBC in his report (and exoneration
of the government from any wrong doing), has been strangely silent about
all of the inconsistencies and contradictions in the testimony about the
death. That is, until two days ago. However, the print media has yet to
pick up on them or on Dr. Hunt’s courageous call to resume the inquest.
Stay tuned.
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TVP’S SUPER
PSYCHIC
By Jim Rarey
March 24, 2004
Many police organizations avail themselves of the services of psychics to
find missing persons, track criminals and other tasks involving extra
sensory perception (ESP). However, few are willing to admit it because of
public skepticism.
In the death of microbiologist David Kelly, the
Thames Valley Police (TVP) must have employed an extraordinary psychic
whose talents included precognition (foretelling future events), a power
some claim for “remote viewing.”
That the TVP had advance information about the
disappearance of Kelly, and possibly his impending death, is beyond
dispute. In the evidence on the Hutton inquiry website there is a
transmittal cover sheet to the Hutton inquiry of a report described
thusly, “TVP Tactical Support Major Incident Policy Book…Between 1430
17.07.03 and 930 18.07.03. DCI Alan Young. It is labeled “not for release
– Police operational information.” The TVP told Daily Mail reporter Sue
Reid that the Operation Mason file details their investigation into the
circumstances surrounding Dr Kelly's death.
Operation Mason began at 2:30pm on July 17th an
hour before Kelly left his home for his final walk followed by his
disappearance and subsequent discovery of his body the following morning
at HarrowDown Hill. This was a full nine hours before Mrs. Kelly notified
police that Dr. Kelly was missing. However, this foreknowledge did not
enable the TVP to save Kelly’s life, if that was the objective.
Despite the pronouncements of Lord Hutton and
coroner Nicholas Gardiner, there is a controversy over what caused David
Kelly’s death with a preponderance of medical experts saying it is highly
unlikely, nearly impossible, for Kelly to have died from the causes
attributed by the forensic pathologist Nicholas Hunt who performed the
autopsy on Kelly’s body.
But there is another mystery the TVP’s psychic
(if it used one) might be asked to solve. That is where did Dr. Kelly die
since it is almost certain he did not die on HarrowDown Hill where his
body was found.
Dr. Hunt estimated a nine-hour time span in which
Kelly died with death occurring no later than 1:15am in the morning of
July 18th. This was calculated using a formula based on body temperature.
Hunt also found hypostasis or livor mortis on
Kelly’s back meaning Kelly’s body was on its back for several hours after
he died as the blood settled to his back to form the discoloration called
livor mortis.
When the two search volunteers found Kelly’s body
it was slumped up against a tree in a wooded copse on Harrowdown Hill.
This was at about 8:30am the morning of the 18th. After the volunteers
reported the find they left. During the following half hour, the body was
moved away from the tree to its back. This occurred while the scene was
under the control of TVP detective constable Coe.
Obviously, the livor mortis had formed before the
body was propped up against the tree. In order to say that Kelly died at
the Harrowdown location, one would have to claim he was on his back when
he died and remained there for several hours. Then was moved to the tree
and a second time returned to its back. That defies all logic. It is much
more likely that Kelly died at some other location and was later moved to
Harrowdown against the tree to arrange what looked like a suicide scene.
The body was returned to its back when someone realized the livor mortis
would prove that was the position in which he died.
These aspects of the case should have been
explored at the Hutton inquiry, but weren’t. In a proper inquest they
would have been which may be one powerful reason Nicholas Gardiner refused
to reconvene the inquest that was cut short by the Hutton inquiry.
Even Dr. Hunt, when asked if his autopsy findings
could rule out third party involvement in Kelly’s death, replied, “only if
one ignores all the other features of the case.”
Serious researchers of David Kelly’s death have
justifiably concluded that there was ”third part involvement.” Authorities
try to dismiss them as “conspiracy theorists.” But the evidence is there
for any who care enough to look at it.
The TVP should be required to publicly disclose
how they knew in advance that Kelly would go missing to mount Operation
Mason and to whom they were providing “tactical support.”
The media also has a responsibility to raise
these questions instead of supinely accepting the flawed rationales of the
authorities.
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Dark Actors at
the Scene of David Kelly's Death
Rowena Thursby
www.propagandamatrix.com
Entering the witness box at the Hutton
Inquiry on 16th September 2003, one key figure stands out in the events
surrounding Dr David Kelly's death. The fact that his testimony contradicts that
of five previous witnesses has received no attention in the mainstream press and
has failed to be brought out in the Inquiry itself. Moreover, the position of
David Kelly's body prior to his arrival is different from its position when he
leaves. This man is a British policeman: his name, Detective Constable Coe.
In his testimony before Lord Hutton, DC
Coe, the third witness to Kelly's dead body, relates how he is called out at
6.00am on 18th July to Abingdon police station. Here he is instructed (we are
not told who by) to make house-to-house enquiries in the village of Longworth,
about a mile from Kelly's house. He does not follow these instructions. He heads
instead to Southmoor, Kelly's home village. Here he visits Ruth Absalom, one of
Kelly's neighbours, who was the last person to speak to the scientist the
previous afternoon. From here, rather than make house-to-house enquiries, Coe
sets off to the area where Ruth Absalom last sees Kelly to make what he
describes to the Inquiry as "a sort of search towards the river".
Perjury?
The next section of DC Coe's testimony
contains one of the most blatant discrepancies in the whole of the Hutton
Inquiry. While it is clear from his own and other testimonies that he is not
alone while in the region of Harrowdown Hill, a serious question mark hangs over
the number of people who are with him.
In the witness box Coe claims that he is
with only one other officer. But five previous witnesses - the
dog-handler/searcher, Louise Holmes, the two official search officers, PCs
Franklin and Saunders, and the two paramedics, Vanessa Hunt and David Bartlett -
clearly state he is with two others.
In front of Lord Hutton DC Coe relates
how he and "a colleague" go to the area where Ruth Absalom has last seen Kelly.
He names this "colleague" as one "DC Shields":
DC Coe: We spoke to a witness who lived
more or less opposite, 4 who had seen Dr Kelly on the afternoon, the Thursday 5
afternoon, and myself and a colleague went to the area 6 where she had last seen
him and made a sort of search 7 towards the river.
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