'Russia' Spy Attack 8 Miles from Top UK Chem Weapons Base - Inside Job?

Former Russian spy and daughter were attacked last week with deadly chemical nerve agent eight miles from top British chemical weapons base. Coincidence? Inside job? Mainstream media silent!
World leaders are up in arms over Russia’s alleged chemical poisoning of a former double agent, Sergei Skripal. But the mainstream media isn’t reporting the crucial fact the ‘Russian attack’ took place so close to a top government chemical weapons research facility: Porton Down.
On March 4, 2018 at 16:15 GMT Wiltshire Police and emergency services found Sergei Skripal, 66, and Yulia Skripal, 33 on a bench outside the Zizzi restaurant, Salisbury in an “extremely serious condition.”
Governments around the world were quick to blame Russia for attempting to murder the former top spy using a banned chemical weapon, Novichok, which cruelly attacks the nervous system.
Briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, British ambassador Jonathan Allen said Novichok was “not a weapon which can be manufactured by non-state actors”.  So, a government agency is behind it.
The mainstream media portray a cut-and-dried narrative blaming the Russians (as always).  But the Kremlin denies all involvement and demands samples of the nerve agent be handed over so they may carry out their own investigation. However, the UK government has refused.
But expert, Dr Patricia Lewis, research director for International Security at Chatham House, London, admitted, “There could be contaminants that would give away where it has come from,” she told The Independent, adding that high-resolution trace analysis could detect pollen and other clues.
Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s representative at the UN Security Council,  told delegates:
“In the Russian Federation there was no scientific research or development work under the title Novichok… in 2017 it completed the destruction of all existing stocks of chemical weapons.”
But isn’t there one extraordinary fact being overlooked?
The Elephant in the Room
The mainstream media are not reporting about a most startling coincidence –  the close proximity of the location of the attack (the Zizzi restaurant, Salisbury) with one of the world’s largest chemical weapons facilities –  Porton Down.
The Zizzi restaurant is a mere 20 minutes leisurely drive away from Britain’s notorious chemical weapons ‘Danger Area‘. Check it out yourselves:
(Source: AA routeplanner: http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/classic/planner_main.jsp)
  • The postode (zip code) for Zizzi restaurant is SP1 1TT
  • The postode (zip code) for Porton Down is SP4 0JQ
  • Distance between locations: 8.0 miles EIGHT MILES
  • Travel time: 20 minutes (under 10 minutes in emergency vehicles)
If the Russians were so serious about killing their errant spy then why make their attack so close to Britain’s top chemical weapons establishment?
With such a coincidence, plus President Putin’s adamant denials (echoes of the Iraq War’s WMD – those elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’) is there enough reason to suspect a false flag attack?  Elements online are attributing this latest Putin attack as proof of ‘Operation Beluga.’ Who can you believe anymore?
What Do We Know About Porton Down?
From 1945 to 1989, Porton experimented on exposing more than 3,400 human “guinea pigs” to nerve gas. It is widely believed Porton has tested more human subjects with nerve gas, for the longest period of time, than any other scientific establishment in the world.
What is a false flag attack? An operation carried out by covert government agencies to seek to hide the real organization behind an operation.
Dr Patricia Lewis, UK research director for International Security at Chatham House, told The Independent,:
“There could be contaminants that would give away where it has come from.”
Dr Lewis added that the binary agents are created by mixing unrestricted chemicals together, but need “extremely specialist facilities with high levels of security and protections for workers.” Why did the British refuse Russian requests for a sample of the nerve agent alleged to have been used?
Porton Down was shrouded in controversy in 2004 because of the unlawful death of airman, Ronald Maddison who died after being administered the deadly nerve agent sarin.  In 2008, the Ministry of Defence paid 360 veterans of the tests £3m without admitting liability.


No wonder the Kremlin smells a rat:
“To identify a substance, formula and samples are needed – means UK has capacity to produce suspected nerve agent.”
So says the Russian Embassy on Twitter. British Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn called for “calm” and shares the skepticism.
Nonetheless, France, Germany, the US and UK say there is “no plausible alternative explanation” and on Wednesday, Theresa May told Parliament that Russia was “responsible for the attempted murder of Mr Skripal and his daughter”.
But skeptics are still asking: why use a Soviet nerve agent that can be traced back to Moscow? And why attempt to kill a double agent who was traded back from Rusia years ago and no longer of any use?
Confusion Among Chemical Experts
Media reports are that Mr Skripal and his daughter exhibited muscle spasms and symptoms identifiable as those associated with a nerve gas made from organophosphorous compounds. Such symptoms would occur if British or Russian nerve agents were used. In tiny quantities these compounds disrupt a key element of the nervous system when a chemical, acetylcholine, is released from the nerve endings.
The UK government alleges the Skripals were attacked using a Russian type of nerve agent called Novichok. It was developed in the 1970s and 80s and, like the nerve agents developed by Porton Down, is also made from organophosphorous compounds.
A sample is to be sent to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – the independent international body set up to stop chemical warfare – for analysis – none to Russia.
So, just like the Russians, Porton Down has full capability to replicate Novichok nerve gas from organophosphorous compounds. These are created by reacting a substituted 2-methyl-1,3,2-dioxaphospholane (depending on which Novichok is being made) with dichlorofluoro(nitroso)methane.
During the Cold War Porton Down was tasked with synthesizing known Russian nerve agents like,Novichok in order to manufacture an antidote in the event of all out chemical war. After carefully assessing its structure they then put them into a library of reference materials. All this duplicity and subterfuge can be manipulated to wrongfoot even the most detailed forensic criminal investigation.
Porton Down and the Ministry of Defence are well practiced in the art of deceit. Back in 2004, revelations about mysterious poisonings of hundreds of British servicemen emerged. At the time (May 6, 2004) The Guardian reported on a reopened inquest into the death, in May 1953, of a young airman, Ronald Maddison (see: ‘The past Porton Down can’t hide’)
The Guardian exposed a detailed and macabre picture of secret nerve gas experiments, uncovered at the Public Record Office and from documents obtained under the “open government” code. The British nerve gas program was substantial and human testing was an integral part of Porton Down’s work since it was founded. During the past 80 years, some 25,000 humans have been subjected to experiments within these restricted government buildings.
UK scientists are world leaders in chemical weapons warfare. They are the most highly skilled at manufacturing and employing a muscle-attacking enzyme (acetylcholinesteras) which sends muscles into a state of spasm from which they cannot be relaxed. And keep in mind –  ‘Novichok’ was manufactured in Uzbekistan and the cleanup of the factory producing it was made by, you guessed it, a US company. Just saying.
Assassins who use such substances, however, are taking a big risk. And if British agents were complicit (and it is a big ‘if’) then an attack made close to Porton Down makes sense because if anything went awry it could quickly be contained. When Novichok agents get into the environment, they pose a danger only for a limited time period.
When the nerve agents interact with the moisture in the atmosphere, they actually degrade and trained personnel can wash the compounds off with water. This is another reason to suspect the chemical agent used was recently manufactured, and not degraded ‘old stock.’
The Ministry of Defence is facing a £20bn shortfall in funding over the next 10 years. But Porton Down laboratory is now set to get £48m boost due to the Skripal attack.
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