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Date Posted: 09:13:54 03/28/02 Thu
Author: MJ
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Interesting angle from Gordon Thomas...

**Globe-Intel**

THE WORLD�S FIRST AUTHORITATIVE NEWSLETTER OF INTELLIGENCE

NEWSBREAKS�ANALYSIS� COMMENTARY

Number 7

March 18, 2002

EXCLUSIVE�

MI6-CIA PROBE INTO DEATHS OF TOP SCIENTISTS IN BIO-DEFENCE SECRETS PROGRAMS:
Were They Victims of China�s Secret Intelligence Service for Refusing to Cooperate on Doomsday Weapons?

by Gordon Thomas, Author of

Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America

MI6 are spearheading an investigation into the mysterious deaths of a top microbiologist, Vladimir Pasechnik. He is linked to Porton Down, Britain�s ultra secret bio-defence establishment. He is also one of five high-ranking scientists who have died mysteriously in the past five months. Like Pasechnik, they all worked in the doomsday world of bio-chemical weapons.

Colleagues of Pasechnik had confirmed that in Russia he had been working on a �bio-weapon that could wipe out a third of the world�s population.�

After he defected to Britain in 1989, Pasechnik told his MI6 debriefing officer, Christopher Davis -- now retired and living in Virginia in the U.S. � that he had been approached by China to work for them.

Instead MI6 helped him defect from Paris � where he was attending a science conference. He brought to Britain highly secret documents which showed how advanced the Russians were in bio-chemical weapons.

The documents also contained evidence of China�s effort to become the world leader in the field.

MI6, the CIA, and the intelligence services of Canada, Australia and Europe are combining all their resources to establish if China has sent killer squads from its own secret service (CSIS) to murder all those scientists it had approached � and who had declined to work for China.

Pasechnik had been attached to the Center for Applied Microbiology and Research in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

He was a foremost specialist with DNA sequencing � sophisticated research that is a vital element in designing biological weapons.

Dr. Ken Alibek, another Russian defector, who is now a consultant to the Pentagon, has confirmed China �very probably is not yet fully advanced in that area.�

Defence Analyst, David Jensen, said: �It would be logical for China to want Pasechnik on board. When he refused it would be equally logical to eliminate him. That�s how China handles competition. Kills it off.�

On November 21, 2001, shortly after his last visit to Porton Down, Pasechnik was found dead in his village home outside Salisbury. The cause of death was certified as a stroke.

�There are a number of nerve agents that can mimic a stroke and leave no traces,� said Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a U.S. specialist in the field of toxic poisons.

Pasechnik�s death went virtually unreported. Only a handful of colleagues from Porton Down attended his funeral.

The secret of the work he had been doing at the government research establishment died with him.

But intelligence sources say he was most likely to have been involved in creating a defence system against the use of aerosolised pathogens.

It is known that China has recently provided Iraq with such a weapons system.

By the time Pasechnik was dead, other scientists had met sudden deaths.

*Dr. Benito Que was a cell biologist working on how infectious diseases, like the HIV virus, could be genetically engineered into a bio-warfare program. He worked in a restricted lab in the Miami Medical School, Miami, Florida. He was a careful, meticulous man, who ran his life with a clockwork precision.

For some reason he left his lab early on the afternoon of November 12, 2001. As he reached his car four men with baseball bats clubbed him to death. They were never traced.

Dr. Que had met Vladimir Pasechnik on several occasions at bio-medical conferences.

*Dr. Don C. Wiley, 46, was one of America�s foremost molecular biologist researchers into infectious diseases � all with a capability to be used as biological weapons. He was found dead in a rental car in Memphis, Tennessee. His research at America�s prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has contracts with the U.S. bio-defense program, had included working with Ebola, Marburg Virus and Q Fever.

All these are germs that Chinese scientists are known to be working on.

In the past he had shared some of his research with Vladimir Pasechnik.

Wiley�s body was found on December 21, 2001. He appeared to have driven 300 miles to park his rental car on a Mississippi River bridge.

Local police chief, Walter Crews, at Memphis, said he was exploring several theories � including murder. To date he had arrested no one.

*Dr. Robert M. Schwartz, 53, a distinguished bio-physicist who had worked closely with Pasechnik on DNA sequencing, was found murdered at his remote farmhouse near Deesburg, Virginia, on December 12, 2001.

The local sheriff said, �It appears he was stabbed. The only evidence of theft was that the victim�s papers had been disturbed. We do not know what is missing.�

*Dr. Set Van Nguyen, 44, worked as a microbiologist at Australia�s Animal Health Laboratory ay Geelong. He had been part of the team which had created a new variant of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox. Mousepox could become an unstoppable killer once unleashed.

Like the others, Van Nguyen had kept abreast of the research Pasechnik was doing at Porton Down.

On December 13, 2001, he was found dead in an air-lock chamber that gave access to the biological samples he worked with. Deadly liquid nitrogen had seemingly, accidentally, leaked from a bottle of liquid nitrogen in the chamber.

MI6 and the other intelligence services are also looking into the backgrounds of five microbiologists who died on October 4, 2001. They were passengers on a commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Novosbirsk in Siberia. The aircraft of Air Sibit was �accidentally shot down� by a Ukrainian surface to air missile. The subsequent investigations found that the missile was 100 miles off course.

Siberia has over 50 research centers working on bio-chemical weapons.

But the prime intelligence focus is on the use China may have made of a sophisticated computer program, PROMIS, that was stolen from the Washington company that created it, Inslaw.

Inslaw�s president, Bill Hamilton, said � the theft of our software would give any country a flying start in keeping track of just about anybody�s work. It is capable of integrating a wide number of data bases.�

Both MI6 and CIA sources have told me that PROMIS has now been modified by Chinese intelligence, CSIS, to allow it to tap into the databases of all the mysteriously dead scientists and identify their line of research � one that almost certainly threatened to leave China�s own work in bio-chemical weaponry behind.

That may turn out to be the most logical explanation for their deaths. That they were murdered to allow China to steal their research � and to ensure they would do no more work for Britain and the United States.

Gordon Thomas is a writer on intelligence for a number of leading European newspapers (the Sunday Express, UK; El Mundo, Spain; Welt am Sonntag, Germany). His work is also syndicated internationally by World Wide Syndication. Any use of the above must carry a clear attribution to both Gordon Thomas and Globe-Intel. He is a Contributing Editor to Globe-Intel, an international newsletter devoted to intelligence matters.

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