When will the British have a true leader?

When will the British have a government that serves the people?
When will we stop our aggressive foreign policy?

Part 5(Final)

In my last article (Part 4) I covered the circumstances leading up to the death of Dr David Kelly and covered certain aspects of the Hutton Report. I think it is therefore relevant to mention some other concerns that also occurred around this time.

Let’s just run over some questions that were being bounced around at the time

Why are so many medical professionals saying that he could not have died from severing the ulnary artery and the fact that one would assume that clotting of the blood would have taken place before significant amounts of blood were lost. One would also assume that because of this one would normally have tested for any clotting disorder?
• Why was little blood found at the scene if he lost his life due to excessive blood loss?
• Why Did Lord Hutton deny access to Dr Kelly’s records for a period of 70 years?

Some very senior medical professionals have added their voice of concern namely:
Dr Michael J Powers, QC, Barrister, Medical Practitioner and Examiner to the Faculty of Forensic Law and Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.

Professor Julian Bion, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Dr Margaret Bloom, Barrister, former General Medical Practitioner and former Deputy Coroner.

Dr Neville Davis, MBE. Consultant Forensic Physician,.

Dr Elizabeth Driver, Solicitor and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists.

Sir Barry Jackson, past President British Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Dr David Payne-James, Consultant Forensic Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Bart and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Denis Wilkins, retired Consultant Vascular Surgeon.

As one can see these distinguished medical experts had very deep concerns regarding the autopsy findings and why this particular autopsy report was suppressed. Many had other areas of concern, namely:

No fingerprints were found on the knife Dr Kelly is alleged to have used.

No coroner’s inquest has ever been held into his death. The only official verdict came from the Hutton Inquiry, a non-statutory public inquiry at which witnesses did not give evidence under oath.

Dr Powers stated that the inquiry into the cause of Dr Kelly’s death was inadequate and resulted in an implausible conclusion.

It was the opinion of all of the experts that his death was not due to hemorrhage.
The team of professionals were also concerned that Lord Hutton secretly classified all medical and scientific records relating to Dr Kelly – including the post-mortem examination report and photo of his body – for 70 years.

A female colleague who served with him in Iraq, Mai Pederson, says a hand and arm injury had left him ‘too weak’ to cut his own wrist.

The detective, who helped find Dr Kelly’s body, Graham Coe, gave an interview in which he revealed he lied about aspects of the evidence he gave to the Hutton inquiry. Mr. Coe, 63, who is now retired from Thames Valley Police, said there was very little blood at the scene. He also confirmed the disputed existence of a ‘third man’ with him and his partner DC Colin Shields that day. If you all can recall we mentioned this mysterious person in my last article (possible secret service operative).

At the Hutton inquiry Mr. Coe said he had been accompanied by only one other officer – DC Shields – but he now says there had also been a trainee police officer with him, whom he refused to name.

Another interest fact was that a Police search helicopter with heat seeking devices onboard flew over the spot where Dr Kelly’s body was found at 0250 am on July the 18th. The pathologist who took Dr Kelly core body temperature determined that he would have been alive at 0115 which was only 95 minutes before the helicopter flew over the wooded area. Why didn’t the helicopter pick up body heat with its sensor and especially when Dr Kelly was known to have walked in this area? (One of his favourite walks). Does this mean that Kelly did not die at this location?

It was also mentioned, as is always the case, that the police normally erect a tent over the scene. This is done for many reasons – to secure the scene for forensic testing and also to keep the media’s/public eyes away from the scene. Don’t you think that the fact he died deep inside the small wooded area the tent would have been partially hidden from overhead media helicopter. As you can see from this picture the tent was in actual fact outside the wooded area, so where did he actually die( most reports say he died in the wood.

I guess the question we all need to ask is Did Blair or Bush authorize the removal of the extremely dedicated man, who served his country well, to then become a “Whistle Blower”? There are so many rumours from Intel involvement on both sides of the pond and even someone saying the US Navy Seals were implicated.

We should also add one more name to the small nucleus of people involved with Dr Kelly (Tony Blair and his illustrious adviser Alistair Campbell), the arrogant Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon. Before we bring this perpetual liar into the fray we should refresh out minds on Dr Kelly’s dealings with the media.

It was on 22 May 2003 that Dr David Kelly had met the BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan in a London hotel to discuss his concerns regarding the government’s intention of going to war with Iraq and the sexed up Iraq Dossier written by the other scumbag Alistair Campbell.

It became obvious at this stage that in spilling the beans, Dr Kelly was about to ruin his own carrier and also possible loose his pension, which would have been substantial at the time. The other aspect was the fact that this could also cause him serious charges under the Official Secrets Act.

The Ministry of Defence promised that his identity would be kept secret. However, this policy was eventually reversed and his name was quite deliberately put into the public domain, which is where Geoff Hoon comes into the story.

The House of Commons foreign affairs committee had completed taking evidence for its inquiry into the accuracy of the information provided by the government in the run-up to the war with Iraq. Gilligan and Alastair Campbell had both provided evidence but Campbell took this opportunity to launch an attack against Gilligan and the BBC accusing them of lying (the pot calling the kettle!!).The committee then called Kelly as a witness and within a few days he was found dead.

It was during this period of time and for some years after that Tony Blair, Geoff Hoon, Alistair Campbell and Gordon Brown would continue to cover up the events leading up to the Gulf War and during the Gulf War. This resulted in the Hutton Inquiry turning into an absolute farce with the truth being hidden under lock and key for another 70 years.

I cannot close before giving mention to the current Chilcot Inquiry (Iraq Inquiry) which seems to be following the same trend as all the previous government inquires. It always appears that despite the huge costs associated with these inquiries they always end up protecting all those in government positions with the occasional wrap on the knuckles. We hear the same words coming out of the lips of these hardened liars, such as “That in hindsight we would probably have made some changes and certainly we have learnt from this mishap.” Whatever the outcome I am sure that Dr Kelly was about the reveal the secrets of the stolen nuclear weapons and that could have toppled both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party.
Peter Eyre- Middle East Consultant – 22/8/2010

When will the British have a true leader?

When will the British have a government that serves the people?
When will we stop our aggressive foreign policy?

Part 4


Before we move on to some more very dark areas of politics we must discuss the topic that is hot on the agenda at the moment…..that of the apparent suicide of Dr David Kelly. We all know that this was most certainly an arranged assassination by someone of high standing within the UK and may also have involved the USA.

If we can also recall Princess Dianne also met a sudden death and many rumours were around at the time that she, like Dr Kelly, knew too much about illegal arms dealings and met with the same fate.

So how much did Dr Kelly know and what made him such a target for our political leaders? We know that he was directly involved in Chemical and Biological Warfare having been responsible for Porton Down and also having hosted many of his counterparts from South Africa. We also know that he was the government representative that signed off those illegal Battlefield Nuclear Bombs that were smuggled out of South Africa and shipped to Oman. It was Dr Kelly who carried out the final inspection on those weapons before the money was paid to that shonky arms dealer John Bredenkamp. We also know that Dr Kelly formed part of the weapons inspection team in Iraq and knew that Alistair Campbell had sexed up the Iraq Dossier that was so vital to Blair in making that terrible decision.

Dr Kelly unfortunately was in the wrong place at the wrong time and knew too much for the government to feel at ease with him. I am sure he also knew of the 17.8 million pounds (British Tax Payers money) that was stolen and then handed to the Conservative Party for their election fund. It was Dr Kelly who started challenging the reasons for going to war and threatened to become a whistleblower via the media. One can clearly see that he was certainly on the government’s hit list (as are many people who had previously worked in Intel, MoD or DTI). So let’s look into this mans past and see just how much he really knew.


Perhaps it would be fitting to explain what was happening to Dr David Kelly just prior to his death in the words of Gordon Bowden who is an expert in investigating the paper trail of Bogus Companies – Non Existent Mines or Drilling Locations. Gordon like many of the dedicated few in this world only seek to reveal the truth, especially when senior political figures are involved such as the notorious Tony Blair and the working of that shady complex known as 22 Arlington Street, London (which hopefully I will cover in another series at a later date).

This was Gordon’s summary in his own words:
Dr David Kelly was the overseer Scientist of Thatcher’s Conservative Government "Private" Funded requisition of 3 x 200 Kt Battlefield Plutonium Bombs from the Apartheid Government of RSA in 1991. The deal, conducted when a young David Cameron was sent by Thatcher to RSA to seal the purchase. Orchestrated through Lord McAlpine, Sir Brian Wyldbore Smith,Jonathan Aitken, Sir Mark Thatcher, MP Peter Lilley, MI6 Stephan Kock a.k.a. Stepahnus Adolphus Kock and a host of Private Conservative Grandee financial backers. The Bombs were sold via Kleptomaniac Weapons Dealer John Bredenkamp.

In the early 1980's South Africa had been part of a Joint Venture with Israeli Scientist to manufacture in total, 10 Battlefield 200Kt Plutonium Bombs at Secret Military Research Establishment Pelindaba, near Pretoria. I(One) Test Detonated in the Indian Ocean, South of RSA at Prince Edward Island on 22 September 1989
That left 9.

With RSA Apartheid Government about to be handed over to the "Terrorist" Black ANC, both USA and UK requested Botha's Government to remove the remaining 9 Bombs. It was agreed, 6 were to be sent directly to the USA for de-commissioning, where the Fissile material was to be removed and sent back to RSA so the new ANC Government could use it later in a Nuclear Dis-armament Propaganda PR Exercise.
The other 3 Purchased by Thatcher and her Conservative Cronies, for possible use against Saddam should he use Chemical or Gas weapons in the retake of Kuwait (Gulf War 1).

The exchange of "CASH" For 3 "BOMBS” transfer conducted in DURBAN Harbour. All 9 Packed into 20Foot ISO Containers. 6 onward bound to USA.
3 to OMAN where they were signed off by Dr David Kelly as 3 MOD "CYLINDERS" "ARRIVED IN ORDER" To be held over for the Entirety of Gulf War 1. So, what went wrong!

Well, John Bredenkamp was not called a Kleptomaniac for nothing, the wheeler dealer stole them back again moving them in Ambulances out of their Poor Security held compound Location. He then sold them on the OPEN Market.
Now, unfortunately for ALL those involved in this CRIMINAL, COVERT Purchase and subsequent LOSS of 3 Plutonium Bombs, one of those re-Stolen by Bredenkamp was DETONATED by NORTH KOREA on 25 May 2009.
AND THAT IS WHY, ALL those involved in this Monumental Criminal WAR CRIME Deal had to get rid of the Links (DR DAVID KELLY)and the Paper-work threads, as per the MI5 / MI6 RAID and Seizure at Dr David Kelly's Home and Offices, of his Files, Computers and Documents. (THE CLEANING BRIGADE)
They made a massive Mistake. As with any crime involving "LOTS OF WONGA"
"FOLLOW THE MONEY."

Derby MP Margaret Beckett and the Labour Party found it. THE PROOF.
Q & A Parliamentary Report HANSARD 22 June 1993 From Col 197
THE MONEY LAUNDERING TRAIL. The CRITICAL Questions to the Conservative Party. From WHOM and WHERE did the donation to Conservatives Party Coffer account of £17.8 Million come from for the 1992 Election Campaign.
The Answer, From a Front Company of: JOHN BREDENKAMP.

I have met with Gordon Bowdon and find his knowledge of investigating bogus companies and frauds is second to none and the two of use once visited a political party workshop and together we provided evidence to a Member of Parliament (MP) for further investigation. I have no doubt the evidence we provided will be swept under the carpet. All I can say is that if this is the case, they do not know Gordon very well…..he will continue to track them down and where possible put them out of business.

Back to the Dr Kelly story - I read another comment which I though really did make sense: A witnesses spoke about a man in a suite. This had previously been denied and now admitted but we are told it was a trainee officer that cannot be named?

What immediately came to mind is that this person could have been a facilitator who was there at David Kelly's death (most likely with others) and who was responsible for overseeing the cover up (moving of the body from the original scene of the crime separates the body from possible forensics information). It is necessary to use a little imagination to construct a possible scenario that makes sense.

The facilitator would not want to take the chance of being seen together with the muscle used to move David Kelly from the original scene of the crime to the place where he was to be found. The muscle would have laid David Kelly out on the ground. (Well he is dead isn't he?) When the facilitator arrives at the scene under cover with the first response he sees that it is necessary to reposition David in a position that would be more convincing to help the support for suicide. It is interesting that agents in America are referred to as suits.

As you can see from such comments there are certainly areas of concern and especially the fact that Lord Hutton ruled that all medical records and unpublished evidence relating to Dr. Kelly's death are to remain classified for up to 70 years. This ruling is most unusual in regard to normal post - mortem practices. Many doctors have questioned the conclusion reached at the Hutton Inquiry which I will cover later.

We should look at another account of what was happening in the South African/Britain missing nukes scam and fully understand the important role that Dr Kelly played. The author of this account will remain nameless and you will clearly see how Dr Kelly became involved in this covert operation:
The South African government held talks at Mels Park House in Somerset in the summer of 1989. The series of meeting included the attendance of Nelson Mandela before he was released from prison; this in itself gives some indication of the corrupt workings of governments and also of Mandela’s direct involvement.

Mandela became very much involved in the pre take over and it was a known fact that he had borrowed 5 billion for arms which suggests the deal was made during the conferences in Somerset. I myself have given much thought to the current Naomi Campbell story regarding the blood diamond situation. I believe that based on the above facts, it is possible that blood diamonds from West Africa are being used in return for arms from South Africa, which if true, really does bring Mandela into disrepute.

The South African Government was in a state of panic when it became obvious that their apartheid regime was going to collapse and they therefore confided in Maggie Thatcher the fact that they had nine atomic bombs, and that they would pay for her to send people down (in secret) to see discuss this situation as it was of grave concern to the government that these bombs could end up in the hands of the blacks.
David Cameron (then only 24 years of age) was sent down to South Africa by his working mum for a free jolly at the expense of ARMSCOR (the South African arms trading company). Ken Warren was also involved in this trip with the DTI (under the control of Peter Lilley) as the overseers.

The biggest problem was how to move these weapons from the nuclear facility in Pelindarba to Durban and then by onward shipment to the US. It was at this stage that of the nine remaining battlefield nuclear bombs, three would be purchased by the British Government for possible use against Saddam Hussain. It was arranged that six of the weapons would go directly to Chicago, US and three would go to Oman for storage and possible later usage on Iraq.

It was at this point of the proceeding that Thatcher and many other senior politicians realized that some serious money could be made from this exercise. The government of the day (Conservative Party) had therefore had to implement some way of concealing this shipment in order to get them from South Africa – Oman.
It was therefore decided that this would be a low key operation and that the manifest would show them as three cylinders that would be concealed in standard 20 foot sea containers. They were to be loaded in some backyard arrangement at a railway siding and sent to Oman without the government in opposition knowing about them or the British public.

However, it was not that easy as the engineering required to move these bombs via a standard sea container required good quality engineering skill and design. The engineering was carried out by a British company who designed the special cradle required to secure the weapons.

It became obvious that serious money was required in order to set the ball rolling and this is where politicians chipped in and formed a private sector investment company to handle the initial setting up with none other than Mark Thatcher, the son of the Prime Minister taking a leading role. There had to be certain conditions met before the British Government would release any money, hence the launch of an operating fund in the meantime.

So the scene was set for this remarkable scam to take to the road (or should I say to thesea). The nine warheads had tremendous value and obviously Thatcher, Lilley, Warren and Cameron etc knew that this would be a good opportunity to get Tax Payer’s money diverted offshore and then back into the coffers of the Conservative Party Election Funds. It also gave access to the notorious arms dealer John Bredenkamp to earn himself much money as it did for the private investors.

Everyone at the time believed that all nine warheads would be sent directly from Durban to the US. However a select few in the Conservative Part knew otherwise as did the US and the Intel services.

This entire episode involved many people including senior South African politicians, Lord Alistair Mc Alpine, many senior Conservative politicians, the DTI, MoD, Mark Thatcher and his investment group, Astra, ARMSCOR and John Bredekamps company Casalee. So the scene was set for this unscrupulous bunch of thieves to secure for themselves millions of Tax Payer’s money and at the same time securing 17.8 million for their 1992 election campaign.

Thatcher was obviously delighted that her son would be involved but may have not been so amused that daughter Carol was having an affair with none other than Jonathan Aitkin a very senior Conservative politician (who was also involved in shonky arms dealings)……oh well “All is fair in love and war.”

So now the scene is set for the purchase of three cylinders, the camouflage for the contained warheads, at a fixed price to be delivered to Oman. This procurement would then move into the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) to be signed off. The DTI would then contact the contracts branch at MOD, Sloane Square, to draw up a contract in the name of the MOD, acting as agents for the DTI.

The minister who signed the Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR), which is a fast track way of moving something very quickly without going through Parliament, was non other than Peter Lilly who headed the DTI at the time. The other person to sign was Stephen Kock on behalf of the Astra Group, who would implement it via John Bredenkamp’s company Casalee, and a government agent who would sign off all the invoices after the three cylinders had arrived in Oman…. enter Dr David Kelly, the only man with the qualifications to act as agent.
Kelly would have had a letter of comfort and instruction from Peter Lilly the head of the DTI, explaining there was a UOR to buy three atomic bombs, which for security purposes were named cylinders, and that he, Kelly, would monitor everything from the bombs being placed into the transit cradles, in South Africa, to their unloading in Oman.

Dr Kelly would be under the impression that these warheads may have to be used, so compartmentalising the information David Kelly actually had in relation to the procurement. After the warheads were placed into the cradles and into the containers, the umbilical cord to monitor the temperature of the warheads, the doors shut…Kelly would seal the containers with his seal placed on the padlock. The containers were then moved to a private rail siding, and loaded onto a train and the nine hundred or so miles from Pelindaba near Johannesburg, to the coast of Durban, Kelly would then sign he had seen the containers to this point and would sign again when they arrived in Oman.

With the weapons on the ship and ready to go, at which point private investors money is needed to pay the supplier, or the product isn’t leaving, so from a fund put together by private investors, the balance is paid across to John Bredenkamp’s company which has a head office in Durban, and all is set for transportation to Oman.
Meanwhile this UOR required the signature from Thatcher for the nukes to move - (concealed as cylinders). This was the last act by Thatcher before she left office, apparently without knowledge as to what she had signed off……….do you really believe that?
Maybe now we can truly understand why Dr David Kelly was at the top of the British Governments hit list and why he was assassinated. We can add to this the total scam and cover up of the Hutton inquiry and now we have the Chilcott Inquiry which is already showing signs of being another total failure.

Of the original nine warheads, three went missing, and as of today, only one of the three has been accounted for, that being the Nuclear Test carried out by North Korea in 2009.

The final Part 5 will cover what happened after the arrival of Tony Blair in office and later the best Chancellor and Prime Minister in the world (or so he says!) Gordon Brown. I will also cover some of the mysteries associated with the death of Dr Kelly

Stay tuned for another failed inquiry and the possible re opening of the circumstances leading to Dr David Kelly’s apparent suicide?
Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 19/8/2010

When will the British have a true leader?

When will the British have a government that serves the people?
When will we stop our aggressive foreign policy?

Part 3

In my last article we revealed the level of deceit and corruption that exists at all levels of the political arena and finished up discussing the various scam inquiries that failed to produce the goods. What should have been an inquiry to reveal the corruption or failings of leaders and their government actually cleared them of any wrong doing and wasted valuable tax payer’s money in doing so.

Before leaving the Astra Story and the missing nuclear bombs we should listen to some of the words spoken by Astra’s ex boss Gerald James who had a wonderful insight into government corruption and how a massive covert web became involved in illegal arms dealings at a time when there were many sanctions in place.

This is an extract as publicised by Gerald James and I have decided to print it in full so that members of the public can clearly see the evil workings of governments, whereby on the surface they enforce sanctions but at the same time covertly wheel and deal in arms trading with the country they have sanctions against:

My experiences, the Scott Inquiry, the British Legal System
By Gerald Reaveley James

I am reminded of the very appropriate quote from Edmund Burke (1729-97) “It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.”

I am most grateful to Dr Badsha for inviting me and honoured to make this address at this Conference of the Environmental Law Centre.

The Astra case and my case reflect much that has been to the fore in recent years in not only scandals around arms companies like Astra, Matrix Churchill, Ordtec, Forgemasters, Walter Somers, Ferranti and other companies like Polly Peck, BCCI and Maxwell but also in the Scott Inquiry, the BSE Inquiry and the Lloyds of London affair and other scandals. The underlying problem is secret unaccountable government which bypasses Parliament and how the law is administered in the UK, gives aid and succour to such a state of affairs. The most common device is the concealment of evidence and manipulation of cases. There is a tendency when challenged for those in authority to talk of conspiracy theories. My experience is that those who do so are usually part of the conspiracy.
My company Astra gave rise to much of the circumstances which created the Scott Inquiry, the Supergun revelations (we reported it first), the Aitken affair, the murder of Gerald Bull in Brussels in March 1990 and much else.

My name is Gerald Reaveley James. Until March 1990 and between 1980 and 1990 I was chairman of Astra Holdings PLC (“Astra”) which became a leading ammunition and weapons manufacturer. By the late 1980’s Astra had factories in the United States (9), Canada (2), Belgium (5), United Kingdom (5) and administrative headquarters in Washington Dc, Brussels and London and employed 4,000 personnel.
The story of Astra is too long to recount here but a summary is contained in my book, “In the Public Interest” published by Little Brown UK hardback 1995, Warner paperback 1996, London. Astra became involved in covert weapons and ammunitions operations organised by MI5 and MI6 and the CIA, the MOD, DOD, FCO and the State Department and the DTI. To such an extent was Astra involved with its principal subsidiaries, Walters, Accudyne, Kilgore USA PRB Belgium, and BMARC UK; in the covert trade manipulations of Foreign Policy.

In 1989/90, following a reappraisal of Foreign Policy in the light of the demise of the Cold War and changing circumstances in the Middle East, where it became apparent the US, UK and EEC had transferred Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons technology as well as conventional weapons to countries like Iran and Iraq, and the discovery Pakistan had the atomic bomb, the whole covert network was reorganised. This involved the collapsing of companies like Astra, Ferranti/ISC, Polly Peck, BCCI, Maxwell Group etc and the prosecution of lesser fry Companies and their directors – companies like Matrix Churchill, BNJ, Ordtec, Euromac, SRC, Forgemasters, and Walter Somers are examples. The directors of Astra were to a large extent ignorant of the full range of covert activities carried out in their name but aware of some of these activities and the likely destination of their goods. As however all operations were sanctioned by the DTI, MOD, FCO, and in the US by the DOD and the State Department and in Belgium by the Belgian Government, not too many questions were raised initially.

However, in late 1988 and 1989 it became clear to me as Chairmen that the clandestine operations far exceeded anything remotely sanctioned by the full Board and I set out to investigate in depth. I became aware that certain plants were used to secretly store and ship goods; that monies were being transferred to other operations without book records or board approval in secret commission payments; that our paper work and parallel bank accounts were being used to process arms shipments from major UK defence companies like British Aerospace, Royal Ordnance, GEC Marconi, Thorn EMI etc. A leading British Defence Journalist wrote a report which was largely kept secret which indicated £100m was stolen from the Export Credit Guarantee Department (“ECGD”) in a fictitious subcontract for propellant which BMARC, an Astra subsidiary, had secretly obtained in 1998 from Royal Ordnance.

I also became concerned about payments to and business with MI6/CIA front company Allivane which had occurred between 1983 and 1988 via Astra. Is also became clear that all our main operations were involved in covert operations in the USA Belgium and the UK, and that Astra, when it acquired these companies, had inherited a hard core of MI6, MI5, DIA agents who operated behind the back of the original directors and who treated them as “useful idiots”.

All our main companies were involved with Space Research Corporation (“SRC”) and the late Dr Gerald Bull who was behind the Supergun and other secret projects which Astra companies were also involved in. In 1989 I realised we had a hugely dangerous individual on our main Board and the BMARC Board who was an MI6 agent. This individual, Stephanus Adolphus Kock had high level political connections to Thatcher, Heseltine, Younger, Hanley, etc as well as MI5 and MI6 connections.

It is now clear to me that he was involved in the murder of Dr Gerald Bull in Brussels on 22nd march 1990 and Jonathan Moyle in Santiago, Chile on 31st March 1990. BMARC was the only company outside the Atomic Weapons research Establishment and Government Arms depots with the capability to store nuclear bombs like Redbeard and WE177.

By early 1990 my probing had become a major problem and a plot was hatched to remove me as Chairman shortly before the Supergun and other revelations and Bull’s murder. A new dummy board ld in reality by Kock with two MI6/MI5 stooges ran the company into the ground over the next two years. In order to explain away the destruction of the company with a £350m order book and a market capitalisation of £120m desperate attempts were made to find evidence of malpractice by the original directors. Gumbley, my Managing Director, who had been with Bull until an hour before he was shot had discussed with Bull suing UK Government and senior civil servants using Bull’s extensive knowledge of high level corruption and illegal operations. It had been agreed I would return with Gumbley to agree with lawyers how to proceed a week later. I had discussed such matters with Bull some six months previous but no further action had been taken. Gumbley was immediately framed up for corrupting an MOD official and jailed for 9 months and after desperately trying to find something on me and failing, Kock and MI6/MI5 decided to institute through Peter Lilley and the DTI a DTI Inquiry. Lilley was Secretary of state at the DTI at the time.

The DTI Inquiry lasted three years and cost £2.5m plus (as much as the Scott Inquiry). The announcement of the Inquiry and the misleading press statements issued by the DTI and Government ensured the downfall of Astra. Crooks and MI5, MI6, agents or informers were put in charge of Astra – Kock, Roy Barber FCA and Tony McCann.

Barber and McCann whose managerial and industrial competence and experience were negligible paid themselves £330,000 and £280,000 pa respectively. Barber took £100,000 in the first month. Barber’s annual payment was more than I received in salary and expenses as Chairman over ten years while I built the company. PRB was sold off immediately for £3m to avoid embarrassing revelations. MI5, MI6 and MOD police and Customs launched 17 raids on Astra premises in order to steal any sales and other documentation incriminating Government.

No new orders were obtained in spite of the Gulf War and the company ran on the £350m order book we had left for two years, before it was put into receivership on 2nd February 1992 on the eve of me giving evidence to the House of Commons Trade and Industry Select Committee re Supergun, Project Babylon and arms to Iraq (and Iran etc). Press coverage was hue and adverse. This facilitated, as clearly city interests like Banks and Astra’s main shareholders 3i, Prudential and Clerical and medical cooperated with Government for their own interest and purposes against the interests of smaller shareholders (a parallel with Lloyd’s techniques).
Kock had a cover as a consultant in Midland Bank’s secret arms department, Midland and Industrial Trade Services (”MITS”). This was staffed by ex service officers, MI5, MI6, agents and intelligence affiliated bankers. Midland with the Bank of Boston were Astra’s main bankers and dominated by MI6 CIA agents. Kock was also said to be head of Group 13, the Government’s assassination and dirty tricks squad according to Richard John Rainey Unwin, a close associate of Knock himself who was a contract MI6 agent and Consultant to Astra. Kock and Unwin, with Martin Laing Construction, negotiated the £2bn Malaysian defence deal before George Younger, the Defence Secretary even knew of it.

The MOD police arrested several of my colleagues, framed Grumbley up. I was subjected to harassment, burglaries; I was arrested by Customs, investigated by the Inland Revenue, subjected to surveillance, threats, bugging, telephone tapping (all documented), a DTI Inquiry which lasted 3 years and a DTI prosecution which lasted 4 years. In addition I had to give copious evidence to the Scott Inquiry over 4 years, 2 DTI Select Committees, Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Defence Select Committee, Public Accounts Select Committee, Public Services Select committee, Police (SOI), a huge law suit in the United States (Dooley case).
My family suffered considerably, my two eldest sons army careers suffered, my youngest son’s education because of adverse publicity, my brother was killed in an accident never satisfactory explained which could have been intended for me.
In the course of my own experiences I took considerable note and interest in parallel cases like Matrix Churchill, Ordtec, Euromac, Atlantic Commercial, BNJ, SRC, Forgemasters, Walter Somers, Polly Peck, Foxley Ferranti/ISC, BCCI, Maxwell etc. All these cases and others and the Astra case involved the gross abuse of power by Government and its agencies and servants, concealment of key evidence, intimidation, threats, false and selective prosecutions, manipulation of evidence, perversion of the course of justice.

It has also been clearly demonstrated that there is no separation of powers within the United Kingdom. Key legal appointments like Lord Chancellor and attorney General, Solicitor General are wholly political. It has also been clearly demonstrated that Parliament has no control of knowledge of events and that a vast apparatus of permanent unelected Government exists. This permanent Government consists of senior civil servants, intelligence and security officers, key figures in certain city and financial institutions (including Lloyds of London), key industrialists and directors of major monopolistic companies, senior politicians.
The Lord Chancellors Office which is responsible for the appointment of Judges, Clerks of the House of Commons select Committees and approval of Chairmen of such committees and the approval of the Queen’s Counsel, holds a total control of the legal administrative framework and has strong connections to the security and intelligence services. The last Clerk to the Crown in Chancery was Sir Thomas Legg, KCB QC who had strong links to the intelligence and security establishment and who was responsible for allocating Judges to controversial trials of a political nature where the “national interest” and “national security” (those much abused phrases) were involved, i.e. the Ponting Case. Legg’s successor will have a similar role.

Sir Thomas was duly wheeled out to keep the lid on the Sandline Inquiry re the strange events surrounding the FCO, Sierra Leone and real foreign policy as opposed to the sham variety discussed at Westminster. He has been wheeled out again to keep the lid on an inquiry regarding the corruption in the hugely expensive building of new MP’s offices opposite Big Ben. The companies involved in this case are Alvis, formerly United Scientific Holdings and its Germany partner in the installation of a £35m contract for copper cladding. United Scientific Holdings is the company where ex Chief of defence Procurement and ex Lord Mayor Sir Peter, now Lord Levene was managing director (later a Director of N.M. Rothschild) was Chairman. An American competitor alleges irregularities and corruption as it offered to do the work for a much lower price.

The real framework which secretly controls our lives is little understood or studies even by those who work within its musty and murky depths. It has only recently emerged that Appeal Court Judges are secretly briefed making appearances before such luminaries a sham and a joke. The public can thank Mr Geoffrey Scriven for these revelations. Lloyd’s names can hardly have realised that legislation was secretly framed to prevent wrong doers being sued. (Times Magazine Article 21/2/00).

The other area which is little understood is the Crown. To many the Crown represents the Royal family but we now have a Constitutional Monarchy. The Crown in its constitutional sense is the last home of secret government. Much is done in the name of the Crown which is without the permission or knowledge of the Monarch. Token gestures are made by sending her despatch boxes of “selected” information. The Crown is represented by the Monarch but does not represent the on secret and major issues. The armed forces (the last bastion of institutional integrity) swear their allegiance to the Monarch not to Parliament as do Judges and the Intelligence and security services – the latter are totally unaccountable as is the Lord Chancellors’ office which controls Courts and Judges.

The Lord Chancellor is unelected as is the Attorney General who although chosen from the ranks of MPs is not elected, like the Solicitor General. The Attorney General holds sway over the Crown Prosecution service, serious Fraud Office, HM Customs (as revealed by the Scott Inquiry) and the Police in respect of sanctioning cases. The Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General are the Chief Legal Advisors (assisted by the Solicitor General) has overall responsibility for the work of the Law Officer’s Departments: i.e. The Treasury Solicitors Department, Crown Prosecution Service, Serious Fraud Office, Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers. All the duties of the above departments (and HM Customs) are ultimately supervised by the Attorney General.

The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland is also responsible to the Attorney General for the performance of his functions. There are also additional responsibilities with regard to civil and criminal law. The other area which is key to overall secret control outside Parliament is the Privy Council. It is important to note that all main members of the Cabinet become members of the Privy Council as do leaders and sometimes the deputy leaders of the opposition parties.

The Privy Council oath which all members take means they cannot freely discuss any matter they are informed of or told of “Under Privy Council terms”. This means that the Cabinet and opposition leaders cannot discuss freely in Parliament or elsewhere any matter told to them on “Privy Council terms”. This means in practice that the key MPs cannot discharge their democratic duties. It is in effect a gagging system like Public Interest Immunity Certificates dispensed by Judges on application of Government and its agencies. All senior Judges and Appeal Judges are Privy Councillors as is the Lord Chancellor, The Attorney and Solicitor General and other invited and key persons. This secret unelected body has a wide range of powers. On the surface other permanent secretaries, sometimes the Cabinet Secretary and certain members of the established aristocracy are Privy Councillors. The appointment is for life and Jonathon Aitken is one of the few members to resign. It should also be remembered Aitken was a Chairman of the Pinay Circle comprised of senior intelligence officers and world leaders who hold secret meeting around the world.

It is widely and erroneously assumed the Cabinet is the Executive of the elected Government whereas in our unwritten ill defined constitution it is in reality the executive arm of the Privy Council.

The Privy Council is responsible for the arrangements leading to the making of Royal Proclamations and Orders in Council for certain formalities connected with Ministerial Changes: for considering application for the grant or amendment of Royal Charters, for the security and approval of bylaws and statutes of Chartered Institutions, of the governing instruments of universities and colleges, for the appointment of High Sheriffs and many Crown and Privy Council Nominees for governing bodies. Under the relevant Acts, the office of the Privy Council is responsible for the approval of certain regulations and rules made by the governing bodies of the medical and certain allied professions.

The President of the Council has responsibility for the working of the Privy Council. A leader of the House of Commons he or she is responsible for supervising the Government’s legislative programme. He or she allegedly upholds the right and privileges of the House as a whole and in its capacity it falls to him or her to move motions relating to the procedure of the House. In January 1994 the Privy Council assumed responsibility for the newly formed Central Drugs Coordination Unit. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the highest Court of Appeal for the Commonwealth except the United Kingdom and those countries which had abolished appeals to it. It still can confirm death sentences in certain territories and in the UK hears ecclesiastical cases and appeals against disciplinary decisions by disciplinary bodies of the medical professions and certain allied bodies. It’s more secret and sinister workings are little known and in theory it is the advisory body to the monarch. It appears that the bulk of elected politicians do not penetrate its inner recesses yet can be influenced by it.

The Privy Council allied with the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and the Cabinet and Cabinet Intelligence Unit which is the real control over the security and intelligence services are part of the secret permanent unaccountable Government.
We have seen from the arms to Iran, Iraq affairs, the Sandline affair and other scandals that politicians and Parliament have little or no control and are more like players in a pantomime put on for the general public and gullible public.
The roots of this sinister power are rooted in history, particularly that of the usurping Tudors. The Privy Council and secret services have developed since then and it is wrong to regard MI5 and MI6 as the sole such bodies. As Douglas Hurd told a Commons Select Committee regarding nuclear proliferation they are but two tributaries of the main stream of intelligence. The communication and eavesdropping unit GCHQ works extensively with the intelligence and security services and with those of other countries including the intelligence services and National Security Agency of USA and with the Services of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Each regularly circumvents domestic laws for the benefit of the others under programmes like “echelon” and agreements between UK and USA. Politicians and civil servants and other leading figures who get out of line can be surveyed or bugged and then threatened, blackmailed, framed up or worse.

Secrecy breeds corruption, secrecy is power; information is power particularly confidential information. There is no accountability and the calibre of MP deteriorates with each Parliament. The young politician with no experience outside is naïve and powerless and many now have a blind loyalty to their party. Ironically the hereditary peers of the House of Lords provided one of the last vestiges of honesty and independence now largely destroyed by self-important and self-deluding figures like Blair and Baroness Jay. This the background against which decisions affairs like Lloyds of London have been handled and decided.

Secrecy has breed corruption and lack of accountability. Judicial Inquiries are cosmetic and carried out by the Judiciary who are key tools of the “cover up” and the status quo. (i.e. the Scott Inquiry). London is a key world money laundering centre (£500 billion per annum). Damage to Lloyds’ credibility will damage London and its position as a money or financial centre.

Much of the UK’s traditional industry is gone. To deal with Lloyds from the point of view of justice, will rock the boat and damage the so called national interest. Privileged persons in politics and the judiciary etc have been protected and the rest do not matter. The policy is to protect Lloyds and cover up. The same arrogant and self serving attitude was evident in the arms trade and the related drugs trade. Those on the inside are only interested in concealment, cover up, and their own ongoing benefits protected by secrecy and privilege. Justice does not count. The scandals involving political parties, large companies, the intelligence and security services, and corruption in Germany (Kohl), France (Mitterand/Dumas, etc) Italy (Craxi) are pale shadows of what has gone on in the UK. We have what the late Roberto Clavi of Banco Amnrosiano in Italy as described “potere occulto” –secret power.

Ironically the main threat to this secret power is the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) Article 6 which overturns UK legal decisions regularly and has already caused the sacking of deputy Judges, and Magistrates in Scotland while threatening Scottish Judges. Scotland under devolution adopted ECHR in 1999 and England did so in October 2000, although the Lord Chief Justice (Bingham) already recommended as a result of the Kebbilen case that the ECHR should be recognised in England before this.

It is significant that the Home Secretary Shaw is proposing the abolition of juries and magistrates in many and perhaps eventually all cases. This will put further power in the hands of secret and unaccountable Government and corrupt Judges. The ramifications are extremely sinister and serious. Already the rules of evidence have been perverted in favour of secret an unaccountable Government who routinely conceal evidence and pervert the course of justice.

It has never been more vital for people to challenge the views of politicians and opinion formers. We live in an age where much if not most of the media is controlled. The legal mechanism and Judges and the court system need to be beyond reproach. Sadly they are not and the chronicle of abuse and manipulation of cases is appalling. Judges are not independent in most government related cases and are no different to salaried and pensioned civil servants. The independence of the Judiciary is an allusion fostered by the Judiciary. Too often a Judicial Inquiry is a system for cover up and concealment. Too often the courts are influenced by political considerations as in the Scott Inquiry and the recent Lloyds of London case. Perhaps with pressure this can be changed. We do not want a society dominated by lawyers, accountants and monopoly commercial Interests with the courts administered by Judges who follow directions. Thank you very much.
I was hoping to move on to the current topic relating to the death of Dr David Kelly but I have decided to cover this in Part 4 of this current series.

I believe that Gerald James is certainly and extremely brave man and despite the life he has led since he became a whistleblower he still presses on in his campaign to reveal the truth. It is clear that if we the public had any conscience we would insist that Gerald James has his day in court to reveal the rot that lies within the corridors of Westminster. The same applies to the Hutton Inquiry into Dr David Kelly’s death…..there is no question that this trial, chaired by Lord Hutton was as corrupt as it gets and certainly needs to be re investigate.

Whilst on the subject of Lord Hutton and the House of Lords, it has become obvious that this bastion of the British Hiarachy has become polluted by persons, that have had in some regards a very shady past (such as Peter Mendelson), and others that have either brushed the palms of political parties or others that knew too much about the illegal goings on and were Knighted to shut them up. It is truly a sad day to see the history of British politics tarnished in such a profound way.

Stayed tuned for more grime and crime in Part 4

Peter Eyre – Middle East Consultant – 16/8/2010

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