What really happened at Porton Down?

Soldier In the years during and after World War II, the Microbiological Research Establishment (MRE) at Porton Down was the UK Government’s centre for germ warfare research (or defence, depending on who you believe). There were two parts to the MRE, the part “outside the wire”, which contained among other things, the Common Cold Unit, and the section “inside the wire”, which was top secret and has been the subject of much rumour and speculation.

I recently came across an article by Bill Parker, who worked at the MRE for two years and which lifts some of the curtain of secrecy. Makes interesting reading.

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3 Comments

  • Amiya Sarkar says:

    Porton Down was really an interesting read, a bit spine chilling at that.
    Bye the way, what I don’t understand is we all have defense ministries; who has offense ministry(ies) then?

  • Nikola says:

    Bioweapons are something greater than any other weapon in use.Just thing of killing everyone but not destroying their properties, using them, they are cheap (very relatively said), they can spread anywhere around and infect and kill everyone through their way.
    So, the defence ministry should be dealing with 2 tasks – protection of civilians and development of new ideas or technologies.

  • gordon bell says:

    I was one of those airmen who were “behind the wire” in the MRE – the hospital ward where some of the most vile biological experiments were carried out. One such experiment involved injecting into the anticubital vein of 81 airmen a lipopolysaccharide (lps) that was derived from Salmonella abortus equi. For those of you who do not know the inherent dangers associated with lps exposure you will find on the internet much information as to the dangers of the substance. During my eleven year inquiry into the sinister workings of the MRE – some via Freedom of Information and by other means, much has come to light. The most shocking discovery concerns airmen who were never accounted for by police after lps exposure. Out of a total of 115 airmen who took part in the experiment only six were ever accounted for during the five year corrupted Wiltshire Police investigation. Coupled with this is a “summary record” – now known to be falsified – that makes a brief mention to “pyrexal” the name used by Porton Down to describe lipopolysaccharide. Anyone reading Porton Technical Paper 841 “Effects of Pyrexal in Man” will soon realize that matters went horribly wrong during one phase of the experiment with men taking ill, with fevers recorded to 104 degrees. The possibilty of “severe sytemic effects” is also mentioned.
    So one needs to ask why the Wiltshire Police – who knew of this scenario – as well as the falsified record, as well as the missing hospital records, fail to make any inquiries in order to determine the fate of the missing airmen? The answer is simple, they were not allowed to go there, it is to be noted the military police, as well as MI 5 and MI 6, were seconded to the corrupted investigation very shortly after it commenced something that would explain this bizzare behaviour.

    So what happened to the 109 missing airmen? My inquiries via several medical research facilities show that
    lps is a bacterial endo toxin that when administered has many curious effects. (1) Because lps is a cell altered bacteria it fails to activate the auto immune system, In most animal studies invariably all test subjects die. LPS causes intravascular coagulation, tumor necrosis, and hypotention causing death. There is little doubt that hypotension due to endo-toxic shock was the fate suffered by the missing airmen.
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