-Caveat Lector- Scandal of dumped deadly nerve agent BY ALUN REES A HUGE dump of killer nerve gas threatens an ecological disaster on the British coast. An MP believes there is enough of the Sarin nerve agent - which killed 12 people in a Tokyo subway attack by cultists in 1995 and was deployed by Iraq in the Gulf War - to wipe out most of London. The top secret Nancekuke base in Cornwall - an offshoot of the Porton Down research centre, Wiltshire - was abandoned by defence scientists in 1980, but they left behind a cache of the chemical warfare weapon. No one knows how much is hidden in the honeycomb of old tin and copper mines beneath the base near Redruth. Local MP Candy Atherton believes there could be about 20 tonnes. The Ministry of Defence said it suspected a lethal mix of high explosives had been dumped with the chemical weapons at Nancekuke. A spokesman admitted: "We don't know what is in those mineshafts." The danger is real - 41 men who worked at the plant died of Sarin poison and the case for compensating survivors and families of victims is still going on. For years there have been mystery illnesses among swimmers, rafts of dead seabirds and fish have been found and hundreds of seals have been beached suffering convulsions, burns and burnt-out eyes believed to have been caused by Sarin leaking into the environment. Last week the Daily Express handed a map of the base to detectives from Operation Antler who are investigating the scandal of human experiments with nerve gas at the top secret Porton Down base. The map shows shafts reaching out from the danger area under the neighbouring village of Porthtowan. The Express has been told of unauthorised dumping of Sarin into shafts on the base by truckers contracted to carry Sarin to Porton Down. Sarin was produced at the rate of a tonne a week in a factory taken from the Nazis at the end of the war and re-assembled on the Cornish clifftops inside the perimeter of the RAF fighter base at Nancekuke. The factory closed in 1980. Ms Atherton, Labour MP for Falmouth and Camborne, said: "I have been to Nancekuke and they tell me that they are too frightened to drill into some formations where they suspect stuff has been dumped and covered on the surface. As to what is in the shaft, that's anyone's guess. No records were left. "I don't believe it is thousands of tonnes but maybe 20 tonnes. However, that in itself is a huge stock of nerve agent to have hanging around. "Of course, my other major concern is for the men who were affected by working there and the families of those who died. That's a fight I'm continuing with. There is a need for justice here." Cornish campaigner Liz Sigmund, of the Organo-Phosphates Information Serv-ice, said: "At Nancekuke we know many staff were exposed to grave dangers in the workplace and paid with their lives or their health.The question of the Sarin that was dumped there is a nightmare. "The Ministry of Defence is responsible for this debacle and they should now tell us the truth. They should tell us how much is there and exactly what they intend to do about it. The whole business of Porton Down and Nancekuke is a national disgrace and should be the subject of a public inquiry."A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: "There is an environmental review of the Nancekuke site under way at the moment. It's being undertaken by a specialist firm and they are expected to report their findings by the end of the month." <A HREF="http://www.lineone.net/express/express_copyright.html">� Express Newspapers, 2000</A> http://www.lineone.net/express/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
