This is gonna sound like a Chemtrails story but it aint.

From 1953-1975 military scientists from both the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment ( CDEE) and the Microbiological Research Establishment (MRE) Porton Down, conducted biological warfare experiments (trials) in public areas of the UK.
Down here in Weymouth, over 80 trials took place which involved spraying massive quantities of live bacteria ( normally from a ship) but occasionally from a dual use aircraft) over the resident population of Dorset.
The normal procedure was for a ship to sail in a straight line across either Weymouth or Lyme Bay, spraying massive quantities
of live bacteria. The bacterial cloud would float onshore and were sampled up to 50 miles inland by mobile sampling teams.
The live bacteria used in most of the trials were E.coli MRE162 (the 162 is just its' MRE tissue sample No) which was isolated from a Porton Down toilet seat in 1949) and Bacillus subtilis var niger, a sporulating bacteria.

I, and others in South Dorset have been campaigning for the last 7 years for more information about these trials.
By campaigning we have found out that 110 experiments were carried out by CDEE Porton Down between 1953-1964 which involved the UK population inhaling a toxic chemical Zinc Cadmium sulphide (ZnCds). The MOD have admitted that they had no official permission for any of these trials to take place.
During 1971, Porton Down invited the US Armed Forces to conduct joint trials at Portland, Dorset. Yet again massive quantities of live and inactivated bacteria were sprayed on 16 occasions from a ship, this time the target was various types of BW detection devices being developed by both countries.
During 1975 the trials were repeated. This time a Land Rover was strapped to the ships deck and on 24 occasions sprayed bacteria onshore. Even after asking Parliamentary Questions we are none the wiser about the 1975 trials. Information was withheld by the MOD. Even Professor Spratt, a Royal Society scientist appointed by the MOD to review the health implications of all Porton Biological trials, was not given access to the 1975 US/UK trials. He did however find that although most of the exposed population would not have suffered any ill effects from the bacteria, some individuals with underlying disease would have suffered from chest and/or blood diseases. He also criticised the use of contaminated bacterial suspension in the trials. When questioned, Porton could not inform him about the type of bacteria which caused the contamination.
Dorset also saw the use of the MODs dual use aircraft. During 1963 the Ministry of Aviation wanted an Icing Research Aircraft and the Army Depatment of the MOD wanted a BW spraying capable aircraft. The chosen aircraft, Canberra WV787, was capable of contaminating up to 10,000 square miles should it have disseminated a pathogenic bacteria.

So, as it all happened a long time ago why campaign?

Well, in the mobilisation for the 1991 Gulf War the UK Chiefs of Staff were horrified to find that after all these past experiments, Porton still didn't have a BW detection device. Porton scientists concocted nine ad hoc systems which saw service in the war.

Determined to avoid this situation reoccurring the CoS tasked Porton Down to develop new battlefield BW detection systems.
From the mid 90s the following systems have been developed;
Pototype Biological Detection System (PBDS), Integrated Biological Detection System, Interim Naval Biological Detection System, and under development as I write, Maritime Biological Detection System.

All of these systems can only be developed by challenging them with large clouds of biological simulants.
Likewise the operators of the developed systems need training in their use. Some training involves the release of simulants.
In answer to a PQ the Minister for Defence Procurement admitted that the majority of the releases of bacterial simulants take place on MOD land. So, if you live near a MOD site, watch out for a large Bedford Truck with an inverted cone on its' roof. If you see one hold your breath for a few hours.
And if the majority of trials are held on MOD land, that leaves a minority which are held in public areas.
That's why it is still relevant to campaign for more info. Since the US anthrax attacks the use of biological simulants in public areas has increased.
In answer to my Code of Practice on Access to Government Information request the HSE admitted that in order to check how anthrax would act in a sorting office, they released on three occasions an anthrax simulant in three different Royal Mail Sorting Offices.
The sorting offices were:

Sheffield 10 November 2001

Nottingham 18 November 2001

Mount Pleasant, London 23 November 2001

The bacteria released was Bg. Porton has stated in the past that Bg is Bacillus subtilis var niger. The Health Protection Agency staes that Bacillus subtilis is a cause of food poisoning.

The HSE states that the sorting offices carried on working as normal.

We all got a little something extra with our Christmas cards that year.

Cheers,

Zero Lift

If you are interested in more information about some of these trials, the click on the following urls. The site is an urban exploration site.

http://www.darkplaces.co.uk/phpBB2/album_c...at.php?cat_id=8

That will take you to two Porton Trials maps.
The 1963-64 trials and the 1964-65 trials. They are to be found towards the bottom of the page. Click on them to enlarge.

More Porton trials maps and photographs are to be found in the personal gallery of LAC section of the Album, or click here

http://www.darkplaces.co.uk/phpBB2/album_p...php?user_id=113

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I've managed to get my research on Portons' public area biological warfare experiments used in two upcoming ITV West programmes.

Please watch if you can, it's not often a Porton programme gets made.

More details on

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/forums/index.p...st=250&p=81209&


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HEADS UP EVERYONE

*Reads from prepared statement*

"The first of two Porton programmes in the ITV West series, Top Secrets Revealed, is being delayed for legal reasons due to the Ronald Madison inquest"

Hopefully this postponement will be only for one week.

Watch this space for further information.


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I used to live just up the road from Porton Down, in a small town called Andover. During the early ninetees myself and a group of friends began to notice that there were some spectaularly weird bouts of different colds and flu's.

One of these, which the doctors called 'a strong infection and allergic reaction' almost killed a friend. I have little doubt that unauthorised, authorised testing has been carried out on the public near to this establishment.

Andover itself was used as a testing ground for a social experiment, which went horribly wrong in the sixties. Mixing London 'overspill' and simple country folk in a small market town. Stunningly inept.

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I have no doubt that Andover was on the receiving end of many of the Biological Warfare experiments that Porton have conducted on the Porton Range. The experiments (trials) were/are done for many reasons, most often to challenge BW detection systems.

In the early 1960s, MRE Porton conducted a series of trials in order to practice methods of small-scale biological warfare for a much larger series of trials that were to be conducted in Dorset.
During 17 March 1961-22 June 1962, MRE Porton carried out a total of 12 long-range trials. The source, a cloud of bacterial suspension of live Bacillus subtilis and killed Klebsiella aerogenes, was sprayed from the Porton Range and was sampled by mobile Porton sampling teams 15 miles away. Often the cloud travelled towards Andover. Up until a few years ago Porton Down always denied that such experiments had taken place. They said that experiments were carried out on the Portob Range but that live bacteria had never travelled on to publi areas. These statements have been proved to be untrue.

As for whether Porton still spray live bacteria on the Porton Range which might drift onto public land, this letter might shed more light on the subject.



As you can see, the third paragraph reveals that the MOD would conduct larger scale trials in the future should there be a military question that needed answers. As the Dorset biological warfare trials contaminated an area of over 1,000 square miles with "an appreciable dose of bacteria", it boggles the mind as to how much larger scale the MOD have in mind.


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The second Porton Down public area BW experiments programme,in the ITV West series "Top Secrets Revealed" is to be broadcast on Thursday 25 November at 19:30.

Tonight’s TOP SECRETS REVEALED tells exclusively of secret biological trials in the late 1960’s and mid 70’s, some of which remain classified today. And we reveal more recent tests simulating deadly anthrax on our postal system and ask, is the UK witnessing a return to cold war paranoia.

In 1968, scientists from the Biological and Chemical Research Establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire, sprayed live bacteria from a ship off the South Coast. To this day, the people living in the area are unaware these trials even took place – that’s about to change.

Former Top Secret documents obtained by ITV West less than a month ago from the Public Records Office show a series of experiments took place during 1968 to test the demonstration of new biological warfare detection system.

As well as the public being kept in the dark about these secret trials – so too was the man charged with conducting an independent review in 1998, into the effects on the public from other Porton tests carried out during the Cold War.

Microbiologist, Professor Brian Spratt, based at Imperial College in London was shown these documents for the first time, by programme Producer, Michelle Maynard. He says, “I’m surprised to hear that and I did try and get hold of all the documents and I think if the MOD is going to go to all the trouble of having an independent report, they should show me all the documents.”

Professor Spratt’s report covered a series of trials known as the Dorset Defence Trials, aimed at mimicking germ warfare attacks. These took place at a time of great fear of a biological attack by the Russian’s, either by air or by sea. His findings were published in 1999 and concluded that “the experimental releases of bacteria may have put a small number of individuals at risk of infection” and that “any infections would probably have been restricted to individuals who were particularly susceptible to disease.” Following the Dorset Defence Trials, more trials began from the air using a converted Canberra bomber – this time the affected area was north Dorset where e-coli was mixed with bacteria and sprayed from the plane.



Joint 1971 US/UK Biological Warfare Detection Experiments map



Aerial Photo of 1971 US/UK BW Experiments trials area

While Professor Spratt was told about another set of trials, known as the Collaborative US/UK biological detection trials in 1971 – he claims not to have been told of similar trials four years later, known as the DICE trials, where live bacteria was sprayed over land at the South Coast. Under the 30- year rule, details of these trials with the Americans remain secret, but we have seen written evidence from Porton Down that they did take place.

Although the threat from a Russian attack is over - fear of terrorist attacks remain on the minds of everyone, including the security services. Just three years ago, mock anthrax attacks took place at three of the countries largest postal sorting offices. We talk to Union representing postal workers - It’s worried the system couldn’t cope in the face of a biological terrorist attack.


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Two Porton Down documents that detail biological warfare experiments that were carried out in Norfolk (mainly centred on Norwich) during the years 1963 and 1964 can be viewed and downloaded on the following website.

http://www.nr23.net/spray.htm

Porton Field Trial Report No 610 The Penetration Of Built Up areas at night - 1963

CDEE Porton Programme Report 2 64 The Penetration of Built Up Areas By Aerosols At Night

Please take a look- even if you don't live in Norfolk, the docs make very interesting viewing. The second doc would never normally have seen the light of day as it is not MOD policy to place Porton Programme Reports in the National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office).


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More Porton Zinc Cadmium sulphide experiment documents have been can now be seen on

http://www.nr23.net/spray.htm

Included are:

DOC Porton Field Trial Report No 610 The Penetration Of Built Up areas at night - 1963 experiment

"CDEE Porton Programme Report 2 64 The Penetration of Built Up Areas By Aerosols At Night PDF file

MOD Internal Review re Zinc Cadmium Sulphide FP public area experiments

DOC Porton Note No 188 The Long Distance Travel of Particulate Clouds

Porton Note No 74 Extract 13 November 1957

Porton Field Report No 515 13 Nov 1957

Porton Note No 188 18 August 1959


It's worth having a look at the 11 page - DOC Porton Note No 188 The Long Distance Travel of Particulate Clouds.

Check out the particle count map and compare the level of particles counted for the rest of the UK with the amount counted for the south Dorset area.

The Dorchester area count was the highest ever recorded in a Porton ZnCds experiments, a massive 4,315! As you can see the aircraft flew along the coast from Norfolk-Dover and the along the Engish Channel until a point just off Swanage,Dorset-where it appears to have dumped an enormous amount of ZnCds.

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MI6 Ordered LSD Tests On Servicemen

Volunteers fed hallucinogen in mind control experiments

Rob Evans
Saturday January 22, 2005
The Guardian

Fifty years ago, Eric Gow had a baffling and unexplained experience. As a 19-year-old sailor, he remembers going to a clandestine military establishment, where he was given something to drink in a sherry glass and experienced vivid hallucinations.
Other servicemen also remember tripping: one thought he was seeing tigers jumping out of a wall, while another recalls faces "with eyes running down their cheeks, Salvador Dalí-style".

Mr Gow and another serviceman had volunteered to take part in what they thought was research to find a cure for the common cold.

Mr Gow felt that the government had never explained what happened to him. But now he has received an official admission for the first time, confirmed last night, that the intelligence agency MI6 tested LSD on servicemen.

The Guardian has spoken to three servicemen who say that they were not warned that they were being fed a hallucinogen during experiments.

One of the scientists involved at the time suggested that the experiments were stopped because it was feared that the acid could produce "suicidal tendencies".

MI6, known formally as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and responsible for spying operations abroad, carried out the tests in the cold war in an attempt to uncover a "truth drug" which would make prisoners talk against their will in interrogations.

It appears that MI6 feared that the Russians had discovered their own "brainwashing" chemical to control the minds of their enemies, fears triggered by pictures of American servicemen who had been captured during the Korean war confessing to their "crimes" and calling for a US surrender.

In 1949, a Hungarian dissident had also "confessed" robotically in a show trial without, it seemed, being in control of himself.

In parallel experiments, the CIA infamously tested LSD and other drugs on unwitting human subjects in a 20-year search to uncover mind-manipulation techniques. The trials were widely criticised when they came to light in the 1970s.

Mr Gow and another man say that while serving in the military they volunteered to take part in research. They were told to go to the Porton Down chemical warfare establishment in Wiltshire, where servicemen were regularly tested in experiments.

Mr Gow, then a radio operator in the Royal Navy, says that scientists gave him the liquid to drink in 1954, a decade before the effects of LSD were popularised by hippies.

Soon he could not add up three figures. The radiator started to go in and out "like a squeezebox", while shoe marks on the floor spun like a catherine wheel. He says he still seemed to be tripping that evening, when he and a colleague went dancing in nearby Salisbury, with wellies on. "I don't think we got a date that night," he said yesterday.

He added that the scientists had been "irresponsible", particularly as they had not kept the men under close supervision. Now a magistrate, he submitted an open government request to the Ministry of Defence seeking more details of the experiments.

The MoD replied that "much of the information concerning LSD involves research conducted at the behest of the Secret Intelligence Service ... We are more than happy to speak to them [SIS] on your behalf and will pursue the question of downgrading the security classification of certain documents to allow us to disclose them to you".

Last night, a Foreign Office spokesman confirmed that in 1953 and 1954 Porton Down carried out SIS-commissioned tests of LSD on service personnel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1396099,00.html

'It was frightening. I will never forget it'

This is quite a surprising admission from the Ministry of Defence. For the last 10-15 years they have constantly refused to comment on the early Porton Down (1950s) LSD experiments. Researchers have always suspected that Porton Down had carried out similar LSD interrogation investigations as to those conducted by the CIA during MKULTRA, but the MOD have always refused to comment.

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Two UK television documentaries, which discovered previously unknown Porton Down public area experiments, are now available for viewing on GoogleVideo.


Entitled 'Top Secrets Revealed', two 23 minute episodes were broadcast during late 2004.

The first episode covers the years 1950-1963, and contains details of formerly classified public area BW experiments such as:

The Westwood Trials - Following the successful BW 'sabotage' attack on the Pentagon, by operatives from the Special Operation Division of Camp Detrick, the scientists from the UK Biological Warfare research facility at Porton Down decided to conduct similar experiments of their own. Unfortunately for them, they were refused permission to use Government buildings in Whitehall, London and so they were forced to use the highly classified underground British Museum Art Repository in Westwood Quarry, Wiltshire. During 1950-1951, scientists released large aerosols of an opportunistic pathogen in the British Museum part of the underground quarry- live Serratia marcescens (the same bacteria which was used in the 1950 San Francisco experiments, and which are associated with a fatality of a hospital patient). Unfortunately, these large bacterial aerosols escaped from the BM Repository and entered the underground factory next door. This factory was occupied at the time by over 200 workers! Needless to say, Porton scientists did not warn the factory workers of the risks - neither did they monitor the workers health in case of a Serratia outbreak!

The Railway Coach Trials - Yet another series of 'sabotage' experiments. This time the purpose was to investigate the feasibility of sabotage attacks on railway trains as they travelled through a tunnel. During these experiments, Porton scientists contaminated regular trains carrying members of the public, as they passed through a tunnel on the Salisbury-Exeter line in the mid-fifties. The trials procedure was for a scientist to hide in a tunnell, equipped with a portable spraying apparatus. Just as the train passed, he operated the spray unit. Trials results proved the contamination of the interior of the train carriages. The passengers were not informed of their participation!

The BW 'Attacks' on the City of Salisbury - During 1960, an aircraft, flying an arc 40 miles upwind of Porton's nearby city of Salisbury, sprayed large quantities of a cadmium compound - Zinc Cadmium sulphide (ZnCds). This compound was carried by the wind onto the city and was inhaled and digested by the population. Documents obtained by myself in 2001 revealed that although Porton were aware of the hazardous nature of ZnCds they never subjected it to toxicity tests prior to its release in populated areas. The population were never informed - even the Independent Review of 2000 didn't include the Salisbury experiments!

The Lyme Bay Trials (aka the Dorset Defence Trials) - Episode 1 contains details of the Lyme Bay Trials. This groundbreaking series of experiments involved the spraying, by a ship, of massive amounts of two types of live bacteria. E.coli MRE162 (isolated from a Porton toilet seat in 1949) and spores of Bacillus subtilis aka Bacillus globigii or BG). The huge bacterial clouds were carried onshore by the wind, and were sampled up to 50 miles inland by mobile teams of Porton scientists. The Lyme Bay experiments were repeatedly conducted between 1963-1975. Between 1963-1968, 38 separate massive-release BW experiments were conducted in Lyme Bay and the surrounding area. During the period 1963-1975, this number increased to over 80 experiments!

Top Secrets Revealed Episode 1
23 min 61 MB


Episode 2 contains the following information:

The Icing Tanker Aircraft - This was a classic piece of dual-use technology. On the surface this especially converted aircraft was just a research vehicle, constructed to facilitate investigations into aircraft icing. But it had another, highly classified role - as the UK’s BW spray aircraft. Experiments using this aircraft were conducted in populated areas on numerous occasions during 1967. As before, two types of live bacteria were released - E.coli MRE162, and Bacillus subtilis.

Interview with Professor Brian Spratt FRS - Prof Spratt was commissioned, in 1998, by the UK Ministry of Defence to investigate whether those residents who were exposed to the massive bacterial clouds suffered any adverse health effects. Prof Spratt reveals that while most people would probably have not suffered ill effects, some people, especially those with an underlying disease or suppressed immune system might have experienced pneumonia or sepsis. He also revealed that on four separate occasions, Porton scientists knowingly sprayed a contaminated bacterial suspension over a populated area!

As is this were not enough, during the interview Prof Spratt became aware that the MOD have not been as honest with him as he had thought. They had ‘forgotten’ to inform him of the six ‘massive’ crosswind line releases of live bacteria, which were conducted in 1968. Even worse, declassified documents revealed that these experiments were not conducted for any research purposes - they were instead carried out purely to show off Porton’s dubious abilities to the UK Military!

The 1971 Collaborative UK/US BW Detection Trials -

During November 1971, Lyme Bay and the surrounding countryside again became the host for Porton’s BW experiments, but this time there was a difference - Porton had invited two guests to participate in the tests; the US Army and the US Navy! As before, these experiments were highly classified, but in case the general public had discovered their existence, the MOD had prepared a Press Release which stated that no live bacteria were released. The declassification of the official trials report proved this statement to have been untrue - the report states that, on a number of occasions, massive amounts of live bacteria (Bacillus subtilis) were released.

1975 Joint UK/US BW Detection Trials (DICE Trials) - Little is known about this series of BW detection experiments, which were conducted in the Lyme Bay area. It is known that Porton scientists, in collaboration with US Military scientists, conducted 24 separate massive crosswind line releases of bacteria (Inactivated Serratia marcescens - ISM, and live Bacillus subtilis).
Yet again, as the interview shows, the Ministry of Defence appear to have ‘forgotten’ to inform Prof Spratt about the existence of a series of live bacterial releases in populated areas!

The 2001 Royal Mail Sorting Office Experiments - In response to the 2001 anthrax ‘attacks’ in the US, BW experiments were conducted at 3 major UK Royal Mail Sorting Offices which involved the release of live Bacillus subtilis.

Top Secrets Revealed Programme 2
23 min 61 MB


Do watch them if you can...they really give a good idea of the full extent of Porton Down's nefarious activities in the Lyme Bay and surrounding area.





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