Well I found out something’s Im not sure I wanted to know! Operation Antler (mentioned in Express article) was experiments on Terminally ill and old (!) patients who were killed by injection of nerve agents...presumably to prove something, but mostly to remind us that nazi equipment and ideas on human experimentation had been imported. See the link at bottom of page for more on this and Harold Wilson implication....I’m glad I live over the other side of Cornwall! ..im wondering if any Operation Paperclip personel where in Cornwall (or maybe still are).........Another odd thing i found was the link between Marmite and Anthrax warfare!.. see this link for how to grow yr own!
mongrelmedia.co.uk/coldwarpages/coldwarlabels.htm
Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be retrieved from the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/2002010...relmedia.co.uk/coldwarpages/coldwarlabels.htm
Here is the relevant text:
BRITAIN'S BIOLOGICAL WEAPON
Britain brewed deadly anthrax spores in large metal milk churns as part of a Second World War experiment. Researchers at Porton Down cultivated the spores using a mixture of Marmite, molasses and simple salts. In 1942 and 43, some of these spores were released on Gruinard Island, off the coast of Scotland. Researchers wanted to measure how long the spores would last and how far they would spread. Anthrax was initially tested as an anti-livestock weapon. But as the war drew to a close, the British looked into the feasibility of using biological agents on people.
http://www.divernet.com/safety/nasty598.htm
Perhaps most worrying of all are the chemical and biological weapons lying in Britain's coastal waters. Shortly after the war, in an operation codenamed Sandcastle, huge quantities of chemical weapons were disposed of at sea. These included 120,000 tonnes of UK-manufactured mustard gas and 17,000 tonnes of the German nerve gas Tabun, all of which was loaded into 24 redundant vessels and scuttled in deep water off the Hebrides and Land's End.
........ Even more worrying is the nerve gas Sarin. This was used in the 1995 terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway that left seven dead and more than 4000 injured. Following a 1mg dose, death occurs within 15 minutes. Initial symptoms are loss of vision, vomiting and convulsions. Death comes from respiratory failure.
It is no secret that at Nancekuke, Cornwall, the MoD experimented with Sarin for at least 12 years after the war. Officials are, however, keen to point out that: "Sarin was developed in the UK for experimental use only. This was stopped in 1956, when almost all stocks were destroyed, and no Sarin has ever been dumped at sea by the UK."
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Seamen who sailed on dumping expeditions in the 1940s confirmed that in poor weather, the ships discharged their cargoes no more than a few hundred metres offshore.
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/p/portreath/
Mark Graves writes [5th Jan 1999]: ``RAF Portreath was opened in March 1941, and abandoned in 1946 after a very active wartime role. It was taken over by the Ministry of Supply in May 1950 and renamed Nancekuke. It was then operated as a sub-station of the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down (during which time VX nerve gas was produced) until 1978, when the CDE moved out and the site was cleaned up. It was then taken over by the MoD as a GCI radar station, commencing operation in 1980.''
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/1680/sw168007.htm
WORKERS AT a secret government chemical plant in Cornwall were poisoned by leaks of a deadly nerve gas. The Nancekuke base in Cornwall was used by the Ministry of Defence to supply its Porton Down chemical weapons plant with sarin nerve gas. The Independent on Sunday found that the military authorities have suppressed evidence of health damage to workers at Nancekuke for 30 years. A 1970 MoD report shows that between 1950 and 1969 staff at the plant were 33 percent more likely to suffer serious illnesses than expected.
http://www.lineone.net/express/00/11/06/news/n0620-d.html
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. (jon...its a well known danger to divers a few of whom have been washed up very dead on the beech at Portreath..jon)
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.
http://www.op-infonet.org/jan2001.htm
In the course of a recent Westcountry documentary on Nancekuke, the MOD pilot production plant for nerve gas, which was operating in the 1950s in Cornwall, it was revealed that there was research going on there into jet aircraft fuel - might this have been research of the OP additives which are causing problems to aircrew across the world? It seems to be rather a coincidence that this was being carried out at a top secret, high security facility, already working on OP compounds. (jon... Op dips are anti tick/mite sheep dips, implicated in illness in farmers...and amazingly i find now in JET FUEL!...jon)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~cnfrench/ics/assoc/rjm95.htm (ok i put this in as a small brake from the horror of it all!!!!!)
Equally amazing, was the discovery of Asplenium bulbiferum which was found growing wild in a damp gravelly area amongst the buildings of RAF Portreath at Nancekuke. Colin French saw, again in 1994, an unusual looking fern growing in a plant pot in his father's greenhouse and enquired as to its origin. His father worked at Nancekuke and whilst weeding around the Headquarters Building several years before spied the young sporophyte fern amongst the gravel. Being a keen gardener he dug up the curious fern and propogated it in his greenhouse.
Rose Murphy
http://millennium-debate.org/indsun6feb3.htm
Nancekuke's nerve gas factory supplied deadly GB Sarin to the
Porton Down chemical defence establishment in Wiltshire.
The plant was assembled using equipment brought back from
Nazi Germany after the war.
Last month the Independent on Sunday revealed medical
reports which had been suppressed for 30 years. These
showed that Nancekuke staff were one third more likely to
suffer from serious illnesses and 50 per cent more likely to
suffer from respiratory illnesses.
Candy Atherton, Labour MP for Falmouth and Camborne, is
calling for a full inquiry into the deaths of 41 men who worked
at Nancekuke.
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Jon...along with Nancekuke i have heard tat Gwithian Dynamite works was used to bury some nasty things. I was told that scattered about Gwithian Dunes are piles of rocks where sheds once stood. The rubble was used to fill in holes over collections of 25 gallon oil drums some containing waste from X-Ray machines!!!!!!!!!!!!!... There is a link with government here too...Harold Wilsons father was an industrial Chemist who worked in explosives at one time in Gwithian and near Trago Mills (where years after it had been closed they found quite a bit of TNT...just lieing around)
http://www.lineone.net/express/00/11/20/news/n0150-d.html