This one British expert is not with us to deter another devious UK cabinet to put blame elsewhere with no evidence … Dr. David Kelly, chemical warfare expert on Soviet CBW program from Porton Down.
Russia’s Dirty Chemical Secret | American Legion Magazine – Dec. 1996 |
Buried in last year’s explosive report of Michigan Senator Donald W. Riegle, Jr. concerning chemical and biological warfare agents was the assertion that Iraq may have acquired chemical agents from the former Soviet Union.
Reigle–who has since retired from the US Senate–and his staff said the agents were developed by the Soviet Union under the name, “NOVICHOK,” meaning newcomer.
The Reigle report is just the latest piece of evidence pointing to the Development of a new class of poisons that may have been transferred to Iraq for use against American forces in the Gulf War.
This could explain why the DOD has engaged in what looks like a frantic effort since the war to dismantle the Russian chemical and biological warfare (CBW) program and develop effective defenses against the agents.
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Vladimir Petrenko is a victim of the Russian CBW program. As a young lieutenant in 1982, he volunteered to test a new chemical warfare suit and was exposed to a poison that the Soviets had been secretly developing since the late 1970s.
Michael Waller, a senior fellow with the American Foreign Policy Council, visited with Petrenko and says his health is deteriorating. At age 34, Petrenko looks 20 years older. He is haggard and gaunt, has a grey beard and is developing serious illnesses that require almost constant treatment.
Novichok has similar effects. It can be toxic like a chemical agent or cause diseases like a biological agent. It can be lethal or debilitating.
Equally frightening, Waller says he was told by Russian scientists who have worked on the Novichok program that the poison affects human genes, causing birth defects and infant illnesses among offsprings.
Posted earlier @EuroTrib – read full diary.
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Amazing, two diaries about the nerve agent attack on British soil produces zero comments within the Pond community 🙁
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