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British Criminal Cold War Germ Experiments

T Stokes | 13.04.2007 22:29 | Health | History

In the early 1970s the English Channel was the busiest area for shipping traffic in the world, and would often be used by various nations for testing defense initiatives. One night we had a senior British intelligence officer on board who waited until the wind was blowing toward the British coast, then got the lids off three large metal containers so the fine dust would be taken across to shore. Suddenly, excitement broke loose as we saw some strange experimental craft, these were very low in the water, camouflaged and fast and almost invisible to the naked eye, but silent. We watched and about 10 in all went past some distance away at high speed.

From our own analysis, we thought these were low troop carriers where men would crawl in and lay down side by side with about 30-40 men to a craft. The worry was this may be Soviet exercise, but subsequently we were told it was that of an E.E.C member country. Using this as a diversion we rummaged the papers of the intelligence man, who would spy on us, and in turning the tables discovered that this was a Porton Down chemical gas experiment on its own people. During the mid seventies, a London Tower block had its basement and bottom floor taken over by an innocent looking council storage depot, but internally it was used to train operatives to avoid Soviet brain washing techniques. This training was not pleasant, this was accomplished by a large plastic soundproofed tank, which contained blood temperature heavy thick saltwater. You were put in a sensory deprivation suit, tied to the side, blood temperature air was pumped into the top of the tank, so in the dark you could not tell which part of you was in the water and what was not. After some hours in the tank you would hallucinate, and thoughts became real. I remember struggling to touch the side and my toe just made contact with the plastic tank, and I was hysterical with laughter, one guy was left in too long and he lost his memory. The point is that this same unit would discuss the releasing of certain germ warfare gases on the London Underground, some during the day and some during S.A.S. hostage rescue maneuvers at night.

The London Cage was designed to interrogate and torture captured Germans after the war. Officially, approximately 3,500 were held there, many others unofficially. Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland saw many men tortured to death and used in Porton Down germ warfare experiments. Documentation of much of this and the experiments on the public under cover of the “common cold experiments” up until the sixties, are now held in Soviet archives. Their transference to the Soviets was assisted by the huge numbers of British socialist sympathizers. It was felt that of the many animal experiments carried out, none was predictive of how humans would cope with the various gas attacks.

Gas canisters were released in London, Essex and later in East Anglia in Porton Down-run public experiments to determine the spread of disease as a weapon of war. Much of this documentation contains the signature of Sir Richard Doll. The numbers of soldiers developing Gulf War sickness, which contaminates their children and grandchildren, yet was denied by the very government that sent them into the war. The real causes of illness like Morgellons disease, and the multiple chemical sensitivity range of disorders lie here. A splendid article in The Daily Mail of Dec 30, 2006, blew the lid on the clusters of cancers that are 20% higher in East Anglia, this among other conditions, such as bad coughs and strange chest infections from secret clouds of toxic gas releases. These are well known to doctors at the Kings Lynn Hospital, who have also seen clusters of children born with ear complaints, which they are told to put down to crop spraying chemicals in the area, and chemical contaminants in the water supplies. The Norwich hospital has on its staff a doctor who is said by staff to be “in the know” about hospital research into spiraling chest conditions in the area such as cancer, asthma and C.O.P.D, [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease] and is said to conceal data. Restricted documentation exists that suggest a possible link with cot death syndrome and house spraying with the pesticide organophosphate Methyl Parathion, which is said to bring on occasional infant respiratory arrest. Between the years 1957 and 1964 the Daily Mail, under newly released documentation, says over 100 secret experiments were carried out by government on its own people, most of the tests were in heavy metal cadmium distribution which is linked particularly to throat cancers. The M.O.D. [Ministry of Defense], of course, dismisses the findings as no risk, but then why if there were no risk was it all done in secret? It is time now for some degree of transparency. We have just murdered Saddam Hussein for gas attacks on his own people, with, by the way, gas supplied by us, and hopefully some prosecutions will now follow in Britain for the same crimes, but don’t hold your breath, while doctors in hospitals still cover up what is going on.

Ed. note: Richard Doll was an esteemed British epidemiologist who died in 2005. After his death, it was revealed that Doll received consulting payments from Monsanto, Dow Chemical, the Chemical Manufacturers' Association, ICI, and the asbestos company, Turner and Newall. The London Cage, located in London's Kensington Palace Gardens, was officially known as the Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Center and was commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland, a former member of the German Army in Southwest Africa who, after joining the British Army, interrogated German prisoners in World War I.

"It wasn't the war they started. It wasn't the plague they created. It was Judgment. No one escapes their past. No one escapes Judgment. You think He's not up there? You think He's not watching over this country? How else can you explain it? He tested us, but we came through. We did what we had to do. Islington. Enfield. I was there, I saw it all. Immigrants, Muslims, homosexuals, terrorists. Disease-ridden degenerates. They had to go. Strength through unity. Unity through faith. I'm a God-fearing Englishman and I'm goddamn proud of it!" -- Lewis Prothero, V for Vendetta.

T Stokes
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