New evidence of cover up in Dr David Kelly's death. Doctors want inquest.

[Ed Jewett]

I am way off turf in terms of examining this case, or knowing the media in the UK, so I cannot judge it from any angle, and I post the following here with surprise that no one has yet posted it, and with the understanding that administrartors may position it where it belongs (including in the trash if appropriate).


Mystery of the helicopter that landed at scene of Dr Kelly's death after his body was found

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1MNr6bUy7

[Peter Lemkin]

It is interesting and new to me...though this is not an assassination I've studied more than casually...enough to see it as an assassination, likely connected to many others who worked with anthrax. There already are some threads on the Kelly 'hit' here.

[Ed Jewett]

It is interesting and new to me...though this is not an assassination I've studied more than casually...enough to see it as an assassination, likely connected to many others who worked with anthrax. There already are some threads on the Kelly 'hit' here.

Yes, and I reviewed two of those threads (are there more?) but saw no recent updates.

[Magda Hassan]

I'm sure I have posted on the forum about the helicopter at Kelly's death before. The new thing about the article is the FOI about the flight log which has been heavily redacted. Why if it was routine of innocent? It also gives an update on the group of doctors seeking an autopsy. I would have posted this if I had seen it so thank you Ed for finding it and posting :tea:

[Jan Klimkowski]

See particularly the beginning of this thread containing the Mai Pederson material.

Pederson is most likely US Military Intelligence, and the hypothesis involving her suggests that Kelly was not a "simple whistleblower". Rather he was being played - by US Military Intelligence and possibly by certain influential members of the Baha'i faith which he had adopted in 1999.

And now the chopper. It is intriguing that the helicopter was allegedly "hired by Thames Valley Police".

A helicopter mysteriously landed at the scene of Dr David Kelly's death shortly after the body was found.

The aircraft only remained on the ground for five minutes before leaving, suggesting it either deposited or collected somebody or something.

Details from its flight log, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the helicopter hired by Thames Valley police landed at Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire at 10.55am on July 18, 2003, 90 minutes after the body was discovered by volunteer search teams.

Significantly, the flight log has been heavily redacted, making it impossible to know who was on board or what its exact purpose was.

The flight was not mentioned in oral evidence at the Hutton Inquiry, set up by Tony Blair to investigate Dr Kelly's death.

Dr Andrew Watt, who has previously raised questions about the suicide finding reached by Lord Hutton, has written to Attorney General Dominic Grieve drawing his attention to the flight.

Dr Watt, a clinical pharmacologist, said: If the purpose of the helicopter flight was innocent, one has to ask why it was kept secret?"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1MRyUJ0ok

David Guyatt and I are especially interested in Operation Mason, the largely suppressed Thames Valley Police critical incident operation, which started before Dr Kelly was reported missing.

Here's a little info about Operation Mason and a speculative analysis at the blog linked below:

The Death of Dr. David Kelly - The enigmatic "Operation Mason"
One of the more opaque mysteries surrounding the death of David Kelly is the enigmatic "Operation Mason".

A post by Brian Spencer on his blog, A comment or two on Dr Hunt's Report, triggered a line of thought in my mind, about something seemingly unconnected - the mysterious Operation Mason (see my comment here on Brian's blog).

We know very little about Operation Mason, since Lord Hutton chose to withhold the information about it.

There are only two references to Operation Mason on the Hutton Inquiry web site, that I can find.

The first is the more informative and is on the Evidence submitted to the Inquiry by Thames Valley Police page. The Operation Mason material is a long way down the page.

The following information appears about Operation Mason on that page on the Hutton Inquiry web site:

TVP Tactical Support Major Incident Policy Book: Operation 'Mason' Between 1430 17.07.03 and 0930 18.07.03, DCI Alan Young - not for release - Police operational information
TVP/10/0099 - 0105

Not much to go on, perhaps.

What does that limited information tell us?

1. Operation Mason has something to do with "tactical support".

2. Operation Mason is, at least in some sense, related to a "major incident".

3. Operation Mason began at 14.30 on 17th July 2003 (about half an hour before Dr. Kelly left his home for the last time).

4. Operation Mason ended at 09.30 on 18th July 2003 (a few minutes after a body resembling that of David Kelly was found at Harrowdown Hill)!

5. DCI Alan Young was, in all likelihood, in charge of Operation Mason.

6. Operation Mason was a police operation, in all likelihood a Thames Valley Police operation.

7. In some sense there was a Thames Valley Police "policy" relating to whatever it was that Operation Mason concerned itself with.

If we spend a moment trying to put those seven points into some sort of coherent whole, some very interesting thoughts arise.

1. A Thames Valley Police major incident started at a time when Dr. David Kelly was still at home (i.e. 14.30 on 17th July 2003).

2. As far as the publicly available storyline from the Hutton Inquiry is concerned there was no incident at all at 14.30 on 17th July 2003.

3. Yet, at a time when there was no incident of any kind (at least reported by the public), that is when Thames Valley Police start a "major incident" following a "policy book".

4. Perhaps most intriguingly of all Operation Mason ended at 09.30 on 18th July.

5. What could be the reason for ending Operation Mason at 09.30? It was only a few minutes since the body had been found at Harrowdown Hill. It wasn't conclusively known if the body was Dr. David Kelly. It wasn't known if the person was alive or dead (other than on the basis of the observation of a lay volunteer searcher, Louise Holmes). Yet, Thames Valley Police (presumably specifically DCI Alan Young) terminated Operation Mason.

You may have alternative hypotheses about what all that means but here's my take on Operation Mason.

Not surprisingly, it raises some very disturbing possibilities about the conduct of Thames Valley Police on 17th and 18th July 2003.

Some of what follows is pretty inescapable from the few facts we know. Some is more conjectural.

1. The initiating person who caused Operation Mason to be started at 14.30 on 17th July 2003 wasn't a member of the public.

2. The circumstances that provided the context for Operation Mason were defined in the Policy Book.

3. The initiating person or organisation had authority to initiate a "major incident".

4. No incident of a conventional kind merited Police action at 14.30 on 17th July 2003.

5. I conclude that Operation Mason was initiated by an agent or agency of the UK Government at 14.30 or thereby on 17th July 2003. I can see no logical explanation for the initiating agent or agency not having the preceding characteristics.

6. The most likely nature of Operation Mason was concern by a security service that Dr. Kelly might release "sensitive information".

7. The possibility exists that Dr. David Kelly was under surveillance by Thames Valley Police from 14.30 on 17th July 2003.

8. Dr. Kelly was reported missing at around 23.40 on 17th July 2003.

9. A body, later identified as Dr. Kelly was found by Louise Holmes at roughly 09.20 on 18th July 2003. (The time of finding the body is something I have questions about but won't pursue here.)

10. Some 10 minutes after a body is found, Operation Mason closes. The body has not been positively identified. Nor has it been confirmed by anyone with appropriate training that the body is a dead body.

11. At around 10.07 the paramedics confirm death of the body, using ECG evidence.

The unwholesome possibility is that someone of significant seniority in or close to the British security service ordered a Thames Valley Police operation, a "major incident" as defined in the Policy Book, at 14.30 on 17th July 2003 and was content that the perceived problem had been solved when David Kelly's body was found at 09.20 or thereby on 18th July 2003.

In all likelihood, Dr. Kelly was under observation by Thames Valley Police from that time point of 14.30 on 17th July 2003, or soon thereafter.

The "fortuitous" meeting of DC Coe and Ms Absalom on the morning of 18th July becomes obvious, if it's true that David Kelly was under observation when he spoke to Ms Absalom, sometime after 15.00 on 17th July 2003.

How is the termination of Operation Mason to be explained? The body that Louise Holmes found wasn't known to be dead and it wasn't known to be David Kelly.

At least those crucial facts weren't publicly known.

The only credible explanation in my view is that Thames Valley Police already knew the identity and location of the body and already knew that the body was a dead body.

It seems to me that three possibilities exist in the light of this consideration of Operation Mason.

1. Thames Valley Police allowed David Kelly to kill himself. Despite knowing his identity and location they allowed him to bleed to death.

2. Thames Valley Police allowed person or persons unknown to murder David Kelly.

3. A member of Thames Valley Police murdered David Kelly.

Of course, none of those possibilities sheds a positive light on Thames Valley Police, to put it at its mildest.

I can put no less unwholesome construction on the available facts. Can you?

See also the comments at the link here.

[Magda Hassan]

An older article but I don't think it has been posted here and it is very interesting conjecture. So, just for the record.

The importance of identifying Andrew Gilligan's "original" source (for his infamous BBC Radio 4 Today programme story on the sexing up of the September 2002 dossier, which was later used to justify the UK's, and thereby the US's, illegal invasion of Iraq) is not immediately obvious, but we think, after painstaking research, cannot be over-emphasised.

Suffice to say that the BBC eventually did what the UK Government had wanted them to do all along i.e. name Kelly as their source (the Government seemed determined to make Kelly the source from the moment that Kelly came forward and admitted to the Ministry of Defence that he had talked to Gilligan).

It seems highly likely to us that Kelly was indeed the fall guy, that he was indeed set up, as was suggested to him at the Foreign Affairs Committee when he gave his evidence on 15 July 2003.

On Sunday 20 July 2003, only two days after Kelly's body had been found, the BBC surprised many people by breaking confidentiality (which one could reasonably argue was even more important to observe after death) and volunteering that Kelly was their "principal" source (when Kelly could no longer answer back). Most people took this to mean that Kelly was the ONLY source, when he clearly was not, indeed he was almost certainly not even the "principal" or "main" source. Crucially, the BBC did nothing to correct the almost universal misapprehension caused by their statement.

Thus the BBC (wittingly or unwittingly) assisted the Government in halting the search for the "real" source (or sources), and, in the context of Mr Toad's references (see below) to "civil war within the Cabinet of HMG (Her Majesty's Government)" and "USG's (United States's Government's) plans to help HMG make up its mind with regard to Iraq's WMD", and the connection betwen the two, it is surely not difficult to appreciate the importance of halting that search (for the "real" source of Gilligan's story).

Considerable suspicions have surrounded many aspects of the death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003, including the alleged manner of the death, its subsequent investigation, and the coverage of the whole affair in the mainstream media. Claims of murder by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker have continued to fuel speculation of foul play. Yet, in the light of these persisting suspicions, little attention has been paid to what could be the most important question of all: if David Kelly was not the only source for Andrew Gilligan's "sexed-up" story, as he was not, who was the original source?

On Sunday, 20 July 2003, two days after David Kelly was found dead in the woods, Richard Sambrook, Director of BBC News, named Kelly in a statement as the "principal source for both Andrew Gilligan's report and for Susan Watts's reports on Newsnight on 2 and 4 June".[1] Sambrook chose one word carefully, the word "principal". Subsequent reports described the BBC as admitting Kelly was the "main source".[2] "Principal" means first or foremost, or "main". "Principal", or "main", certainly does not mean the one and only source. Unfortunately, this is how the wider world came to understand the Sambrook/BBC statement.

Did Gilligan use Kelly to corroborate information from another source?

Sambrook's evidence to the Hutton Inquiry clearly suggests the possibility of another source. Gilligan's infamous Radio 4 report is described in an internal report as resulting "from two separate but related information sources".[3] Sambrook goes on to describe the other source as more general, and as "a background of concerns".[4] The fact that he talks about other sources or "concerns" in the context of Gilligan's story is important. It is surely not unreasonable to consider that out of the "background of concerns" a prime and headline-grabbing piece of information was given to Gilligan, before he had spoken to Kelly, perhaps from a disgruntled person connected with the compilation of the September 2002 dossier. At the Hutton Inquiry, Sambrook also spoke of "unattributable briefings from members of the security services" to a number of journalists at the BBC who were "expressing some unease at the way Intelligence had been presented in public".[5]

Did a prime piece of information come Gilligan's way through these channels? Did Gilligan take this original source and corroborate it during his conversation with Kelly on 22 May 2003? Kelly came forward voluntarily and always claimed he did not recognise some elements of Gilligan's story. Kelly was also sure he was not the "main source" of the story, and shortly before Kelly's death, after Kelly had given his evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), that committee publicly concluded that Dr Kelly was not the "main source".

Gilligan's e-mail to Greg Simpson MP

One of the more mysterious and under-reported parts of the David Kelly affair concerns an e-mail sent by Andrew Gilligan to the Liberal Democrat MP, Greg Simpson. It was sent on 14 July 2003, on the eve of Kelly's televised appearance before the Foreign Affairs Committee.[6]

The subject heading of the e-mail reads "David Kelly pls onpass David Chidgey'". David Chidgey was also a Liberal Democrat MP, and, more importantly, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee charged with questioning Kelly. In one part of the e-mail, Gilligan refers to "my colleague Susan Watts" having spoken with Kelly, clearly indicating that the BBC were exchanging information internally. Towards the end of the e-mail, Gilligan poses the question: "Is Kelly our source?" and answers his own question with: "we are not ruling anyone in or out as the source", and: "I had many conversations with people inside and outside the Intelligence community about the issue of Iraqi WMD and the dossier. We suspect the MOD of playing games to try to eliminate names."

The existence of the e-mail came close to being exposed three days later, on 17 July 2003, during Gilligan's oral evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee:

Mr Chidgey: That is good. Thank you. I wonder if you can help me clear up something in the way that Dr Kelly responded to some questions from me. You are, of course, aware that he has spoken to other BBC journalists, in particular Sue Watts, I think.

Mr Gilligan: Sorry?

Mr Chidgey: You are aware that he spoke to...

Mr Gilligan: I am not aware of anything about Dr Kelly's dealings with other journalists, how could I be?[7]
At this point, Chidgey could have told the world about the e-mail, and that Gilligan was indeed "aware" of "dealings with other journalists", thereby providing the committee with a new line of inquiry. Chidgey declined to pursue.


Gilligan later apologised to the Hutton Inquiry for sending the e-mail. More questions need to be asked about this e-mail (along with Gilligan's oral evidence to the FAC), as it contains leads that suggest Gilligan had an original source BEFORE he approached Kelly.

"I have tried to persuade my source to go on the record, for obvious career reasons he is unable to ... "

At the FAC hearing on 17 July 2003 Gilligan makes some extraordinary and again under-reported remarks:

Gilligan I would respectfully submit to the Committee that anonymous source journalism does have its value and although I have tried to persuade my source to go on the record, for obvious career reasons he is unable to, and I must respect that confidence.

Sir John Stanley: The fact you have just said that is clearly absolute confirmation from you that your source is not Dr Kelly.

Gilligan: I simply cannot add anything at all to the evidence I gave about my source.[8]

Why was Committee member Sir John Stanley so sure that the BBC's source was not Dr Kelly? Because, two days earlier Kelly had gone on the record, in the fall glare of the television cameras and the wider world. So, who was the "anonymous source" who was "unable to go on the record"?

The other sources ...

In Gilligan's e-mail to Simpson, he says the source is someone "closely involved in compiling the document until a late stage".[9] Previously, he had said that the source was "one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up the dossier".[10] The mainstream version of events says this is David Kelly. The evidence appears to show beyond doubt that Kelly was around at a late stage, and involved in some discussions about the dossier. However there were others around at a late stage, perhaps up to seven or eight. Perhaps one of them spoke with Gilligan?

According to the BBC Conspiracy Files Dr Kelly timeline (online), on 19 September 2002, five days before the September dossier was published, "Dr Kelly takes part in an hour-long DIS meeting reviewing the draft of the dossier, in the Old War Office. Dr Brian Jones chairs the meeting with another seven or eight people present. Four pages of detailed comments were made. Entitled: "Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Dossier - Comments on Revised Draft (15 Sept 2002)".[11]

"Mr A", revealed in Norman Baker's book as Rod Godfrey, a chemical weapons expert, later told the Hutton Inquiry about 12 comments which were made by Dr Kelly. The DIS drafting suggestions were passed on to the JIO Intelligence staff. None of those suggestions mentioned the 45 minute claim.[12]

Gilligan said he spoke to sources "inside and outside the Intelligence community" and the source was "closely involved in compiling the document until a late stage".[13] Perhaps, one of those seven or eight', mentioned by Dr Brian Jones, provided Gilligan with some information? Perhaps one of them had a grudge against the Government, did not approve of the "sexing-up" of the dossier?

At 14.58 on 25 September 2002, Mr A sent an e-mail to David Kelly pointing to a mistake relating to the al-Qaeda plant: "Another example supporting our view that you and I should have been more involved in this than the spin merchants of this administration. No doubt you will have more to tell me as a result of your antics today. Let's hope it turns into tomorrow's chip wrappers ..."[14]

Mr Toad: "This from my friends on the river bank ..."

Andrew Gilligan may have received some prime information from a source inside or outside the Intelligence services, and Dr Kelly was used to corroborate it. Any research into the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly entails encountering many sources of information. One particularly plausible scenario was described by a "Mr Toad" in his one and only post on the Guardian Talk forum website. We reprint the post below and in full. We do not consider Mr Toad's version to be definitive, but we do conclude that it provides leads worth exploring. It outlines a version of events which could be argued was unravelling before our eyes in July 2003, but was stopped by the death of Dr David Kelly.

Mr. Toad posts on the Guardian Talk forum on 30 December 2003:

"This from my friends on the river bank:

Hutton is a jigsaw puzzle. And like all the best puzzles there was a piece missing. Some people have found the missing piece, but they keep trying to put it in upside-down.

1998 - Mai Pederson attached to Kelly as UNSCOM translator.

1998 - UNSCOM out of Iraq

1998 - Tom Mangold presents Panorama documentary revealing extensive infiltration of UNSCOM by national security services.

1998+ Pederson / Kelly relationship remains close

2000-2003 MoD becomes suspicious of Kelly's relationship with Pederson. Begins moving Kelly towards the door marked 'exit', but does it quietly so as not to alarm Kelly or his friends overseas. No grading increase, retirement age reduced from 65 to 60, moved to PR role with no access to classified information.

May 2003 Gilligan interviews senior member of HMG, who makes the Campbell 45 minute claim 'off the record'. Gilligan cannot run the story without a creditable source, so is pointed to Kelly as 'unattributable' MoD source. Gilligan goes to Kelly, tells him he knows the 45 minute claim is fictitious and plays the 'name game', then goes home and writes up his piece overnight using info from source 1 effectively attributed to Kelly. Kelly is baffled by Gilligan's interview, but once Gilligan's piece goes out he realises he has been set up. He writes to MoD to admit the unauthorised interview but denies he is the original source of Gilligan's information. Kelly is called to meeting with line managers and told that orders from on high dictate that he will be the 'fall guy' or will lose his pension and find his relationship with Pederson plastered across the front page of the Telegraph and tv news. What Kelly did not realise was that this was a bluff. MoD were well aware of Pederson's actual role and would never have allowed the name to come out in this way at the time. Kelly does as he's told and goes before the parliamentary committee and ISC. This should be the end of it, except that Kelly broods on it and decides he will take steps to clear his name. Unfortunately, to do this he has to admit to the Pederson relationship. throughout the whole saga Kelly has been in close touch with Pederson, who has been reporting back to her masters. On July 17th Kelly tells Pederson he is going to leave his wife and going to the press to clear his name. Pederson reports immediately to her managers, the alarm bells go off in Washington as they believe she is about to be 'outed' and it's 'goodnight Vienna'.

Here's why:

The CIA did to Kelly what they did to everyone, lied to him about Iraq's WMD. The difference is that they thought Kelly's position as MoD bio-weapons expert would allow him to influence the policy of HMG. Here's how it was done: Pederson was a US airforce translator working from Arabic to English. After the removal of UNSCOM from Iraq in 1998, evidence of WMD capability came from satellites and smuggled documents. These would land first on the desk of Ms Pederson and her colleagues for translation, before passing to the scientists for analysis, who then advised USG. In the case of Pederson, however, the documents did not come from Iraq, but from the CIA. Pederson 'leaked' fake intelligence to Kelly over an extended period, which she claimed came from smuggled Iraqi documents indicating the existence of WMD.

By 2003, Kelly was completely convinced not only of the existence of WMD in Iraq, but also believed he knew what they were and where they were. However, when Kelly attempted to go to Iraq (post invasion) to locate them, he found his was mysteriously barred. On a first occasion his official visa proved worthless and he was turned back at Kuwait. On a second occasion he found himself confined to an airbase for the duration of his stay on security grounds.There may be some evidence that shortly before his death, Kelly became aware of the nature of Pederson's information.

In preparation for his next planned visit to Iraq Kelly appears to have shared informaton from Pederson with Gabriele Kraatz-Wadsack, a German army weapons inspector and biological weapons expert. It appears from her reply, however, that she was less than convinced as to the veracity of the information, as made clear by the 'concerns' she expressed. In short, Kelly's death was the result of two conspiracies colliding. The first being the civil war within the cabinet of HMG, which nearly resulted in the exposure of the second, USG's plans to help HMG make up its mind with regard to Iraq's WMD.Ultimately, it wasn't murder or suicide, but a series of unfortunate accidents. Trouble with this jigsaw puzzle is, once you put it together, you realise it's just a part of a much bigger puzzle."[15]

NOTES

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3081529.stm
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates...798761.stm
and http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s906298.htm
[3] 112, 13 at http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/con...rans07.htm
[4] 113, 9 at http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/con...rans07.htm
[5] 112, 25 at http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/con...rans07.htm
[6] Andrew Gilligan e-mail to the Liberal Democrat MP, Greg Simpson http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Po...hidgey.pdf
and http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Po...6_0003.pdf
[7] Q228, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...102502.htm
[8] Q342, http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...102502.htm
[9] See note 6
[10] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3090681.stm
full text of defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan's original report on BBC Radio 4's Today programme from 29 May, 2003.
[11] 19 September 2002 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/co...380231.stm
[12] See note 11
[13] See note 6
[14] 25 Septemeber 2002 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/co...380231.stm
[15] Mr Toad transcript taken from http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2004/01/david-kelly.html

Source

[Jan Klimkowski]

An older article but I don't think it has been posted here and it is very interesting conjecture. So, just for the record.

Hi Magda - the Mr Toad, Mai Pederson, multiple sources other than Kelly material, etc, has been discussed in the original DPF thread on David Kelly here. I agree that it's significant.

Unfortunately, our search engine was fucked when we were hacked, so it took me ages to find this older thread.

If you' agree, I propose a merge of the two threads, as there's lots of excellent material in the original.

[Magda Hassan]

Kelly 'never opened reprimand letter'

Dr David Kelly never opened an official letter reprimanding him for secretly briefing BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan.
The weapons expert left the letter from MoD personnel director Richard Hatfield - which stopped short of formal disciplinary action - unopened in a briefcase on his desk at home.
It was only found - and first read - by police searching Dr Kelly's office after his death, the inquiry set up to investigate his apparent suicide heard on Tuesday.
Detective Sergeant Geoffrey Webb of Thames Valley Police told the Hutton Inquiry that he travelled to Dr Kelly's house in Southmoor, Oxfordshire, on July 18 to inform the family that a body had been found.
He said he spent much of the day there and carried out a "very cursory search" of Dr Kelly's study.
Inside a closed briefcase which he opened he found a letter in a sealed envelope dated July 9 2003 and addressed to Dr Kelly from Mr Hatfield, headed: "Discussions with the Media."
Det Sgt Webb said he opened the letter and accepted he was the first person to see it.
The document, which had already been published on the Hutton Inquiry website, told Dr Kelly that he would not be formally disciplined for his unauthorised contact with journalists.
But Mr Hatfield wrote: "These are serious breaches of standard departmental procedure and you were unable to give me any satisfactory explanation for your behaviour.
"Your contact with Mr Gilligan was particularly ill-judged. Your discussion with him in May has also had awkward consequences for both yourself and the department which could easily have been avoided."
Mr Hatfield went on: "I have concluded that although your behaviour fell well short of the standard that I would expect from a civil servant of your standing and experience, it would not be appropriate to initiate formal disciplinary proceedings. You should, however, understand that any further breach of departmental guidelines in dealing with the media would almost certainly result in disciplinary action, with potentially serious consequences."


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1WyKEH2N5

[Magda Hassan]

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Episode 192 Requiem for the Suicided: Dr. David Kelly
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Famed microbiologist and UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly became the centre of a dispute between the BBC and the UK government over claims that the government had "sexed up" its dossier on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction in order to sell the Iraq war to the public. He was found dead on Harrowdown Hill on July 18, 2003. It was ruled a suicide. Today we look at the troubling discrepancies, inconsistencies and questions surrounding that official verdict, and broach the question of what secrets Dr. Kelly may have taken to the grave…

For listeners with limited bandwidth, you can download a small, low-quality version of this episode here.


Documentation
Documentation David Kelly BBC Profile
Time Reference: 02:28
Description: A brief summary of David Kelly's life and work.
Link To: BBC News


Documentation David Kelly Commits Suicide
Time Reference: 07:15
Description: Sky News report on Kelly's death that implants the main memes of the "official narrative" of the "suicide."
Link To: YouTube.com


Documentation Hutton Inquiry Web Site
Time Reference: 17:00
Description: An archival page maintained by the MoJ containing the evidence and findings of the Hutton Inquiry into David Kelly's death.
Link To: the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk


Documentation Conspiracy Files
Time Reference: 18:05
Description: Home page for the BBC Two "Conspiracy Files" program.
Link To: BBC News


Documentation Conspiracy Files: David Kelly
Time Reference: 19:00
Description: Official page for this episode of the program, including a transcript.
Link To: BBC News


Documentation Conspiracy Files: David Kelly (video)
Time Reference: 19:10
Description: Watch the program online.
Link To: Google Video


Documentation The Strange Death of David Kelly by Norman Baker
Time Reference: 37:22
Description: A review of Baker's book on the Kelly case, that includes such tidbits as the fact that the police investigation into Kelly's death named "Operation Mason" actually began 9 hours before he was reported missing.
Link To: Times Online


Documentation Dr David Kelly: The damning new evidence that points to a cover-up by Tony Blair's government
Time Reference: 39:08
Description: Police felt compelled to strip David Kelly's wallpaper in the hours after he was reported missing and before his dead body was found.
Link To: Daily Mail


Documentation Doctors say government scientist David Kelly was murdered
Time Reference: 39:54
Description: A report from PressTV in 2009.
Link To: YouTube.com


Documentation Detective who found weapons expert David Kelly's body raises questions over his death
Time Reference: 43:15
Description: The man who found Kelly did not see much blood at the scene.
Link To: Mail Online


Documentation Paramedic at death scene reveals concerns over Hutton Inquiry
Time Reference: 43:38
Description: Paramedic at the scene of the death says the body had obviously been moved.
Link To: Mail Online
Documentation Drug expert claims David Kelly was murdered as he could not have taken overdose
Time Reference: 43:59
Description: "Dr Andrew Watt, an experienced clinical pharmacologist, says he has told Thames Valley Police it is not possible Dr Kelly could have swallowed more than a safe' dose of two coproxamol tablets because there was so little in his system after death."
Link To: Mail Online
Documentation Mystery of the helicopter that landed at scene of Dr Kelly's death after his body was found
Time Reference: 44:39
Description: The flight logs of the helicopter's journey have been heavily redacted.
Link To: Mail Online
Documentation David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information
Time Reference: 47:10
Description: Hutton tries to seal up the Kelly post-mortem until all of us are long dead.
Link To: Mail Online
Documentation David Kelly postmortem reveals injuries were self-inflicted
Time Reference: 48:15
Description: The Guardian reports on the UK government's decision to release the post-mortem that Hutton had tried to seal. You can read the document via this link, and discover that it contains no breakthrough information about the case.
Link To: Guardian
Documentation Kelly's friend reveals he had a disabled right hand and had difficulty taking pills
Time Reference: 49:29
Description: More reasons why David Kelly could not have killed himself in the manner we are led to believe.
Link To: Mail Online
Documentation No need for inquest on Dr Kelly says PM, leading to anger as Cameron appears to pre-judge review
Time Reference: 50:09
Description: Cameron pre-empts Grieve.
Link To: Mail Online
Documentation Tony Blair on David Kelly murder
Time Reference: 51:00
Description: War criminal Blair being his usual slimy self.
Link To: YouTube.com
Documentation Dr David Kelly inquest refused
Time Reference: 52:16
Description: Surprise, surprise.
Link To: YouTube.com
Documentation Anthrax War: The Kelly Cover-up
Time Reference: 57:43
Description: Excerpt from a documentary that posits some of the possible reasons why Kelly may have been murdered.
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Documentation Anthrax War (video)
Time Reference: 59:53
Description: Your homework and mine: watch this documentary to see if it contains more pieces of the puzzle.
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[Peter Lemkin]

Dr David Kelly inquest ruling challenge fails
19/12/2011

BBC

A bid to bring a High Court challenge over the attorney general's refusal to give his consent for a new inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly has failed.

Government scientist Dr Kelly was found dead in July 2003 aged 59 after he was exposed as the source of a BBC story about Iraq intelligence. . . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16249783