Kelly was Murdered Says UK Intelligence Insider

Kelly was Murdered' Says UK Intelligence Insider

by Simon Aronowitz

Shocking new details about the death of Dr David Kelly emerged today exclusively on the Alex Jones radio show. Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer who was a guest on the show, revealed that sources within MI5 and MI6 are 'furious' that Kelly was murdered.

Shrimpton spoke in depth about the details of Kelly's murder on 17th July 2003, information which has been withheld by the British press.

With apparent backing from the organisations whose members he claims to speak for, Shrimpton presented their view that Dr Kelly had been murdered by a team of assassins and the charade of an apparent suicide was then played out to cover this up.

Speaking with impeccable credentials, including contributions to the Journal for International Security Affairs and having previously given a closed-doors confidential briefing the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Shrimpton exploded the much-reported myth that Dr Kelly had taken his own life.

He spoke of the probable method of Kelly's death, the group which most likely carried out the assassination, who arranged it and finally where the responsibility lies. Additionally, he explained the political context and motive for Kelly's murder.

David Kelly went missing on 17th July 2003 and was found dead on 18th July. In the previous days, Kelly had testified before Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee that he was not the source of a BBC story which had accused the Government of making false claims about Iraq's WMD. When Kelly's body was found, the British press quickly reported it as a suicide, though several analysts had their doubts.

On Jones' show, Shrimpton explained how he had learned that David Kelly was the BBC's source before the BBC disclosed this fact. He went on to explain that his source from within the intelligence community knew David Kelly personally, and did not believe that he had committed suicide. After making their own enquiries, says Shrimpton, this source determined that Dr Kelly had not committed suicide, but rather had been assassinated.

Michael Shrimpton

Apparently at ease to discuss these explosive disclosures, Shrimpton explained that there was advance knowledge of Kelly's death in Whitehall, but that the deed itself was most likely carried out by the French external security organisation, DGSE. There was no indication that anybody in MI5 or MI6 had been involved. He went further by suggesting that the hit squad itself was composed of Iraqis from the former regime's Mukhabarat intelligence organisation, recruited from Damascus with the help of Syria's own intelligence apparatus. They were apparently then flown into Corsica, seven days prior to the murder. He doubts that any of the hit-squad are still alive.

Officially, Kelly's body was said to have been found in a copse, in a wood, but the forensic tents were set up in the adjacent field, suggesting, says Shrimpton, that the body was found in the field. This has not been explained to his satisfaction.

The incision in Kelly's wrist was probably to conceal the injection of both Dextroprypoxythene, the active ingredient in Co-Proxamol, and Succinylcholine, a muscle relaxant, rather than as evidence of his bleeding to death, as highlighted by a group of six doctors in letters published in the British press. Shrimpton further agreed with the doctors by pointing out that Kelly only had one Co-Proxamol tablet in his body and that this was not sufficient to kill him.

According to Shrimpton, Kelly was murdered because he had been talking to the press and there was a fear of what else he might discuss with journalists. Furthermore, Kelly was due to return to Iraq and may have learned fresh information on that trip which Whitehall could not afford to trust him with.

Shrimpton's appearance on Jones' show gave him the first public opportunity to bring forward his information, since the story has been effectively censored by the British Press, who according to Shrimpton are concerned about losing the pro-Euro Tony Blair as Prime Minister were they to publish details of Kelly's assassination. Blair's departure, he says, could threaten Britain's proposed adoption of the Euro as the national currency.

Whilst this story begins to circulate in the USA, the coverage in the UK may well remain nil, whilst maneuvering behind the scenes attempts to pre-empt Shrimpton's accusation of government-sanctioned murder of one of its own operatives.

Only with public support, and a belief that this information should be widely known, can this information be brought into the wide open and covered by the mainstream media.

The Murder of Dr. David Kelly: Alex Jones Interviews Michael Shrimpton

Monday 23rd February 2004

Alex Jones: Before we go to our first guest, who I'm honoured to have, well our guest for this hour, I wanted to just remind you that Dr David Kelly was the head of the Level-4 Porton Down Bio-weapons lab in Wiltshire, England. And he was then the head British weapons inspector who'd been pro-war. He then came back and leaked information that 'look I'm a hawk for this war but I'm not gonna lie. Saddam doesn't have weapons of mass destruction. And Tony Blair mis-used my assessment.' Well suddenly he wound up dead. He told British and US colleagues that 'I'm gonna be murdered and found dead in the woods if I don't shut up.'

This is now mainstream news. Three top doctors have gone public who have looked at the autopsy results and say he was clearly, he clearly did not commit suicide, and we have that posted at Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com. So a lot of people are starting to go public on this.

There were rumours of this last week that somebody who had been inside the British government had sources who said that they could confirm that Dr David Kelly had been killed, but the folks that got that story, I guess didn 't take time out to go ahead and get in contact with the individual who was bringing forward this information himself. We've done that and he's coming up here in just a few minutes and we're so honoured to have him with us here on the show. He's Michael Shrimpton and Michael Shrimpton has a long bio. I did some research on him over the weekend. Michael Shrimpton, of course, is a national security lawyer, that is barrister, in government matters. He's written for the Journal for International Security Affairs. He has given advice and briefed the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that's the US Senate. He's given speeches and consulted all over western Europe and the United States. And of course he's been an invited guest of the State Department.

So he's a mainstream guy, and I was very impressed talking to him. We're about to break for a quick three minute break, come back and join a bunch of stations that carry news during this segment. And I'll briefly re-cap who our guest is and we'll go to him. Michael Shrimpton is on the line with us, and again we're gonna break and come back, and he has some bombshell information for you from his sources inside MI5 and MI6. Again, he's a national security lawyer, that is barrister, who has advised the United States Senate Intelligence Committee. So you wanna have your tape recorders going, you wanna call your friends and family and tell them to tune into this show. And one of our great writers, Simon, is going to have an article written for us by this evening that will be posted on the websites as well.

[Commercial Break]

We're going to have an article this evening on the websites. It'll appear first on PrisonPlanet.com and I wanna thank Simon, and I wanna thank Rowena and Paul Watson and all the folks that have been working on this story and for getting us this guest. And again he's Michael Shrimpton and a national security lawyer or barrister, and he's written for major anti-terrorism journals. He has given his expert advice to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for the US Senate, and the bio goes on and on. He's also been involved in a lot of prominent, high profile cases in England. I came across that in my research on him. And he's a really nice fella, during the break I was talking to him and I said 'Y'know, I hope you don't end up in the woods like Dr David Kelly', and he said 'Well, no, by going public you protect yourself.'

And that's the truth. For other government whistleblowers, telling the truth is what protects you. If you covertly leak something, that's what's dangerous. So he protects himself by going on air. And obviously because of all of his sources he's a great source for all of us.

Michael, good to have you on the show with us.

Michael Shrimpton: [inaudible]

AJ: Just, for folks around the world who aren't very familiar with Dr David Kelly, hard to believe people aren't, could you re-cap who he was, what happened to him and then from your sources you even know down to the specifics of how they killed him and from your sources who was behind the killing. Can you just go through it for us?

MS: Yes, David Kelly was probably the most respected microbiologist in the United Kingdom. Certainly one who specialised in weapons of mass destruction. And he was the head of our main WMD laboratory at Porton Down in Wiltshire. He was very involved in the dismantling, verification of the dismantling of the Soviet WMD programmes after the end of the Cold War. He spent some time inside what was the bad old USSR. He was the senior British inspector on UNSCOM, the UN mission inside Iraq. He spent some considerable time in Baghdad. He was working very closely with our overseas intelligence service, MI6 or the Secret Intelligence Service, and he was a major, high-value, British intelligence asset. He was a good man. Decorated, awarded the CMG, Commander of St Michael and St George. Highly regarded and well liked too within the British intelligence community, and also respected in the United States.

AJ: And then suddenly Tony Blair's smearing him in the press and he ends up dead, and the witnesses according to the London Times and their publications, saw four men in black uniforms standing around him, they run off and 'Oh, it's a suicide'. Go over the whole controversy of, I mean Dr David Kelly was a hawk for the war, but he wasn't going to put out false intelligence. Go through that for folks that missed out on it.

MS: Well, yes. David Kelly briefed in a British BBC journalist called Andrew Gilligan and also spoke to another journalist for the BBC Television's Newsnight programme, and he briefed in both journalists along the lines that the case for, the WMD case for war with Iraq had been exaggerated. There's a lot of dispute about exactly what was said and what wasn't said. The BBC Today programme which is the leading radio current affairs programme led with a story from Andrew Gilligan, which didn't name David Kelly as Andrew's source. Now we know that David Kelly was, and my own intelligence sources confirmed that before the BBC itself confirmed it on Sunday 20th July. David Kelly was outed in the media, big dispute as to who authorised his name to be given to the media, and he was asked to appear before a committee in the House of Commons. There was a lot of controversy about what the government had been told, how truthful a dossier that they had prepared on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was, and shortly after he gave evidence to the House of Commons, he was found dead on Friday 18th July of last year. He was found dead. There is a dispute over exactly where he was found.

According to the official version of events he was found dead in a copse, or a wood, at a place called Harrowdown Hill, between the village where he lived and the River Thames. But the forensic tent, it's noticeable, Alex, that the forensic tents that were set up by the local police force, Thames Valley Police, were actually set up in the field. Why you would have someone killed in the woods and have the police tent over the scene of the crime set up in the field, no-one has yet been able to explain to my satisfaction.

Now the government were blamed for causing the death, but the way the government were criticised was this: that they had caused his name to be leaked to the media. That had put him under intolerable pressure and he had allegedly committed suicide. The initial media reports all went with suicide and the mainstream media in the UK is still reporting it as a suicide. The government responded very quickly and brought in a Law Lord, Lord Hutton, who'd previously been Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. And the Hutton Inquiry has very recently reported. Lord Hutton didn't challenge the suicide verdict, there was no cross-examination of witnesses before the Hutton Inquiry as to the cause of death. It was assumed that it was suicide and the BBC were essentially blamed for poor reporting, the government were let off the hook.

The Hutton Report, I'm sorry to say, is widely seen as a whitewash and it's been rubbished. A very senior British Intelligence officer recently retired, a Lieutenant Colonel, Crispin Black, who was on the Defence Intelligence Staff until 2002, has basically described the report as a 'laughing stock' and I respectfully agree.

AJ: Now I've seen major polls where over two thirds of the British people believe it's a complete fraud. I mean obviously Tony Blair hires one of his cronies to come in and say 'Oh you didn't do anything wrong' and then even that's a whitewash of a larger whitewash because obviously according to the medical reports, the coroner's report, the doctors that have looked at it, the suicide verdict - that's a fraud itself and let's go into your sources and what really happened to Dr David Kelly.

MS: Absolutely, although I wouldn't be allowed to say that Tony Blair had hired a judge, you understand that in England we don't hire judges [chuckles]. The judge is on the State payroll anyway and I wouldn't want to be thought of as suggesting that anybody had put a little extra funds Lord Hutton's way. I'm quite sure Lord Hutton took no extra payment.

AJ: Well what I'm saying is, is that obviously Hutton's been involved with what's been called whitewashes in the past.

MS: The Report, I'm sorry to say, with respect to Lord Hutton, the Report is a complete whitewash.

AJ: Well I mean they take, I mean you have a government institution whitewashing for another government institution.

MS: Well exactly. This is the problem with appointing senior judges to hold inquiries. There's been a lot of adverse comment in England. The senior judge is, by definition, part of the establishment. It's very difficult to judge, of

Michael Shrimpton is known to me and I can vouch for his credential here.

It is perfectly obvious that Dr. Kelly was the victim of a political murder - but when is Blair going to stand trial for it ?

The cover up, including the disgusting Hutton whitewash, has been obvious and Hutton is most certainly not the end of the matter.

This post repeats the evidence that he was murdered and is well written.

Ooohh don't worry. The people you claim to be against will throw everything in their arsenal at him before the referendum... Thing is.. I think the Yanks have already hung themselves...