Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (68 page)

CONCLUSION

As one British newspaper summed it all up, Dr. Kelly’s highly suspicious death occurred “shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the Government’s claims that Saddam Hussein had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction which could be deployed within 45 minutes. Lord Hutton’s 2004 report, commissioned by Mr Blair, concluded that Dr. Kelly killed himself with a blunt gardening knife. It was dismissed by many experts as a whitewash for clearing the Government of any culpability, despite evidence that it had leaked Dr. Kelly’s name in an attempt to smear him.”
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There are some very disturbing similarities in the deaths of Dr. Kelly and Vince Foster:

•Both were operating right in the eye of a political hurricane;

•The political firestorm had recently reached
critical mass
;

•Both were men of notably high integrity, who may have refused to “play ball” when it was expected of them;

•Both were very strong-willed, highly intelligent, and dedicated professionals, with no inclination toward suicide;

•Both died under extremely suspicious circumstances, with mountains of conflicting evidence, in “official” suicides that had all the characteristics of murder;

•Both cases
still
have a plethora of unanswered and even
unad- dressed
—questions.

At a certain point, there are so many anomalies that they begin to take a major role in determining what actually took place. That is clearly the case with the death of David Kelly.

However, with every great mystery, there is often one thing that holds the key to deciphering it: A matrix which, when applied over the evidence, correctly matches up all the factors in the equation which had previously not added up correctly.

In the case of the JFK assassination, that realization comes by asking the question
What if there were
two
conspiracies?—One that killed the President and another that, for whatever reason, covered up the crime.
Then the previously anomalous actions of the players suddenly are easily explainable. Then we understand how Attorney General Robert Kennedy acted in the aftermath, covering the tracks of the crime even though he obviously didn’t participate in the crime itself.
Then
we know the right question to ask:
What could cause him to act in such a manner
? And when we look under that microscope it all fits—the disclosure of Oswald’s name, which RFK immediately recognized from the anti- Castro black ops, seriously compromised U.S. Intelligence; and the secondary intent of the assassination was to force an invasion of Cuba, which the cover-up subverted. Then the contradictions disappear and darkness is illuminated.

This leads us to what is overwhelmingly the most commonly proposed explanation of what actually took place in the death of Dr. Kelly. Because it’s the one matrix with which all the different variables of the puzzle suddenly fit precisely together and the many anomalies suddenly sing in harmony.

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

One scenario illuminatingly explains the death of David Kelly, and it turns out to be the one that they don’t want us to talk about: politically-based assassination. If Dr. Kelly was murdered, the crime scene staged as a suicide and those facts covered up by the government, then all the anomalies are magically explained:

•It would explain the inability to track Dr. Kelly’s location via cell phone technology, and the complete absence of information regarding what should have been those attempts, as well as the absence of information on attempts to call him on his cellphone which would have been the first logical thing to do;

•It would explain the inability to locate Dr. Kelly’s body with heat- seeking technology which was conducted over a wide area via helicopter searches with hi-tech equipment—because the body
wasn’t there
at the time;

•It would explain the presence of the huge 110-foot communications towers placed in the yard of Dr. Kelly’s home (there was no earthly reason for them to be there except to communicate with someone who was airborne, as PM Tony Blair was at the time);

•It would explain all the contradictory witness reports;

•It would explain the fact that he left his house without his jacket, yet it was found next to his body in the woods.

It should be noted that the term
political assassination
encompasses several possibilities:

•Assassination (sometimes referred to as “extermination”) by an intelligence agency of one’s own nation (in this case,
MI5
or MI6);

•Assassination that is
farmed out
(brokered) through another nation’s security force or through private resources such as the Mafia;

•Enemy action: in this case, a Mid-eastern security force (Kelly was on Saddam Hussein’s official “hit list”) or China (he was also reportedly on the hit list of CSIC, Chinese Secret Intelligence Service.

One has to be very cautious about forming simplistic conclusions in the complex world of Intelligence. At first glance, Western Intelligence agencies (MI5, MI6 & CIA) seem to at blame for covering up the true facts concerning the death of Dr. Kelly. But just as with the JFK assassination, those who cover up a crime aren’t necessarily those who committed it.

We checked with some intel sources, and it turns out it’s a bit more complicated. We found out that MI6 (SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service of James Bond lore) was actively attempting to
protect
Dr. Kelly from known threats at the time of his death. For example, it was known that Kelly was on the notorious “hit list” of Saddam Hussein and also on the hit list of the lesser known but even more sophisticated CSIS . Kelly reportedly sought low-profile protection so as not to draw unwanted attention about the matter.
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It should also be noted that Dr. Kelly’s death occurred against the backdrop of many other very mysterious deaths of microbiologists, in much the same time frame.

IRAQI HIT SQUAD

After a year and one half of work, Norman Baker’s systematic research had eliminated the potential suspects of South Africa, Israel, and Russia as being not responsible for the death of David Kelly. For a time, he examined the possibility the Blair or Bush Administrations were behind the murder, but settled on the conclusion that Kelly was murdered by a London-based anti-Saddam Hussein group; one of the opposition groups that was created and funded by the West, in much the same manner as anti-Castro Cubans were trained and funded during the 1960s.

He then theorizes that the group’s links to a murder of Dr. Kelly was unacceptable politically for the Blair government, because it would create even greater focus on Dr. Kelly’s views, which were that there was no case for war, from the standpoint of a weapons inspector. Those realizations made a cover-up necessary and, it was decided, to make the death out to be suicide.
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The counter to that argument, however, would be what purpose would there have been for his killers to take the extra time and risk to kill him in such a surreptitious manner?; especially due to the fact that it was known that Dr. Kelly was under the protection from MI5 because there were threats on his life (it was even suggested that he live in a “safe house,” but Kelly refused);
and
that anyone planning to try to kill him would therefore assume that their window of opportunity would be a very tight one indeed. So why would they not simply shoot him and run? Why would they kidnap him and hold him for seven- to-twelve hours with the logical assumption that every security team within a thousand miles would be looking for them?

The key to solving these puzzles is in asking the right questions through a process of logical deduction. So if an Iraqi opposition group in London was seriously planning to attempt to assassinate a high-profile asset like Dr. Kelly, they would certainly have to operate on the assumption that their time-window of opportunity would be a very narrow one. Under those circumstances, why would they kidnap him and detain him, kill him in a surreptitious manner, and go to all the trouble of carting his body off to a remote part of Harrowdown Hill, all the time risking failure. Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense just to have shot him and disappeared? And here’s an even more pertinent question:
Why would they have been able to?

The above reasons may, by the process of elimination, lead one back to looking at Western intelligence agencies as being responsible for his death.

WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES (OR “ROGUE OPERATIVES” FROM SAME)

We have seen that the Bush and Tony Blair Administrations were both very keenly making a case for an illegal invasion of Iraq based on entirely fraudulent data. Dr. Kelly was in the process of exposing the weaknesses in their data, and became, officially or otherwise, an enemy of the State.

However, we have also seen how the U.S. and British governments were extremely adept at putting their spin on the news. Therefore, in the context of contemporaneous events, if they had been able to hold up any evidence of the fact that Iraq was in any way to blame for Dr. Kelly’s death, logic demands that they would have done so. They certainly did so with the minimal evidence of Iraq’s alleged possession of WMD and the manufactured evidence, falsely reported, that Iraq had sought enriched uranium from Africa. The fact that they did not seize upon such a golden opportunity is highly indicative that they couldn’t.

However, Norman Baker points out, there may exist a very good reason why they couldn’t. If the killers came from the opposition group in London that was supported by the West, he argues that the blame would look bad and cause unacceptable political damage.

That argument could also be countered, however, by the observation that going to all of the trouble for a faked suicide and a cover-up is probably a lot more work than simply diverting blame from one Iraqi group to another Iraqi group via media spin, which certainly became a specialty of both the Blair and Bush Administrations in their false claims to justify and launch an invasion that was clearly in violation of accepted international law.

Dr. Kelly was what is known in Intelligence as a “high-value target” and, furthermore, everyone was well aware of that fact. At one point, just prior to his death, it was even recommended that he stay at a “safe house”—Kelly declined. But that means that he certainly should have been under surveillance for his own protection, and no one would be more aware of that need than MI5, the British equivalent of the FBI.

So where was his protection on the day that he went missing? Are we really expected to believe that MI5, under the circumstances of known death threats against a high-value target who is a national priority with the most top-secret intelligence of bioweapons research imaginable—just let Dr. Kelly wander off into the woods, all by himself, no protection, no surveillance? It doesn’t seem very likely. And we know that the intelligence mission to protect Dr. Kelly,
Operation Mason,
went operational thirty minutes before he even left his house on that fateful afternoon. Whoever did pick up Dr. Kelly that afternoon would have been very hard-pressed to do it, unless some of his would-be protectors had been looking the other way.

Yet the last person to officially see Dr. Kelly alive testified that he was totally alone; unaccompanied, unobserved, unarmed, and completely vulnerable.
Why?

Michael Shrimpton is a national security expert and prominent attorney in the U.K. with strong ties to MI5 and MI6. Shrimpton was informed, and apparently believes, that Kelly was injected in a high-tech, very professional assassination. His contacts informed him that the shoddy job at wrist-slashing was actually a technique to ensure they covered all traces of the needle mark where Dr. Kelly was injected.
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But wait— there’s still one more suspect.

INTERNATIONAL BIOWARFARE MAFIA

Another theory on Dr. Kelly’s death is that he was murdered by an international mafia operating in biochemical weapons. Though complicated, there is a great deal of evidence suggesting that such a network exists. Furthermore, the murder of Dr. Kelly by this network may have politically necessitated the cover-up and the suicide staging, in much the same way that the assassination of JFK necessitated a government cover-up for security purposes.