As
London-Moscow relations are driven to the abyss, on the occasion of
the Russian double spy Sergei Skripal poisoning, there is a man that
could figure out what really happened. The only problem is that he
was found dead, near his home, fifteen years ago. He made the mistake
to reveal that the British government was lying about the
non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Fifteen
years passed since a case that would make John le Carré's most
fascinating spy novels look like boring, official reports from a
low-ranking diplomat. In July 2003, British scientist and defense
ministry adviser, David Kelly, was found dead in Oxfordshire,
England.
The
police announced that his wrist was engraved and next to his body
there was a box of Co-proxamol painkillers. The file closes with the
note "suicide," while prosecutors initially decide to deny
access to data for 70 years - a move that spilled more oil in the
fire of conspiracy theories according to which the British secret
services were involved in the death of the scientist.
A few
weeks earlier, David Kelly, speaking to a BBC reporter, had
questioned the evidence for Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass
destruction, with which the governments of George Bush and Tony Blair
went to invade and occupy Iraq.
Although
his colleagues considered him to be "hawkish" and he did
not hide his hatred for Saddam Hussein's regime, it seems that he
didn't bear to reproduce Tony Blair's provocation - as almost the
entire state apparatus did.
What
very few knew, even then, is that David Kelly had set up his career
(and his collaboration with the British intelligence) on monitoring
the Russian biological and chemical war programs.
In 1989,
the MI6 intelligence service will approach him to assign him one of
the most important missions of his career: the questioning of the
Russian scientist Vladimir Pasechnik who had defected to the West.
Pasechnik
supposedly revealed the existence of a former USSR secret biological
war program, and as Kelly earned the credit of British and US
intelligence services, he was getting prepared for his next
top-secret mission: along with US and British scientists, he visits
former Soviet laboratories in Siberia, where smallpox virus
experiments were reportedly conducted.
Today,
as the domino that began with the Iraq war has turned entire parts of
the Middle East into heaps of ruins, Britain is starting a new cold
war with Russia in the field where David Kelly excelled.
Yet,
according to several analysts, such as the former British Ambassador
to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, and the famous documentary filmmaker
John Pilger, the data file for the poisoning of the Russian double
agent is equally unreliable with the file for Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction.
Furthermore,
a year ago, Britain's Head of the Detection Laboratory at the UK's
chemical weapons facility, Robin Black, argued that there is
insufficient
evidence to prove the existence of Novichok, which
is believed to have been used for Skripal's poisoning. Robin Black
was a close associate of David Kelly and perhaps (if the latter was
still alive), they would investigate the case together.
But
times have changed. The BBC, which dared to oppose the British
government in 2003 for the death of David Kelly, today mocks those
who question London's official position concerning Skripal's
poisoning.
When
Labor Party leader, Jeremy Corbin, dared to suggest that the Prime
Minister was obliged to provide enough evidence for Russia's
involvement
before torpedoing diplomatic relations with Moscow, the BBC wore him
a Russian hat and placed him in a giant monitor with the Kremlin and
the Saint Basil's Cathedral in the background.
BBC is
not too far now from calling Corbyn a "Russian agent", as
Britain's yellow press had done a few days earlier.
Governments
and their secret services in East and West continue to use the same
Machiavellian practices that have been implemented for centuries. The
question for us is whether the chances of learning what really
happens are rising or falling over time.
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from article by Aris Chatzistefanou, translated from the original
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