Remember David Kelly?
David Kelly, a leading British civil servant with advanced expertise in the proliferation, development, and inspection of biological and chemical weapons was found dead in the woods near his home in Oxfordshire in July 2003. The circumstances of his death have never been fully explained, but were attributed by the British authorities to suicide after Mr. Kelly leaked the fact that the British government's dossier on Saddam's WMDs had been "sexed up" to push the case for war against Iraq.
In a stunning development, new reports suggest that, at the time of his death, he was working on a book exposing this, and perhaps other secrets relating to classified biological warfare programs. From the Daily Express:
He was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the British and American invasion.
He had several discussions with a publisher in Oxford and was seeking advice on how far he could go without breaking the law on secrets.
Following his death, his computers were seized and it is still not known if any rough draft was discovered by investigators and, if so, what happened to the material.
Dr Kelly was also intending to lift the lid on a potentially bigger scandal, his own secret dealings in germ warfare with the apartheid regime in South Africa.
US television investigators have spent four years preparing a 90-minute documentary, Anthrax War, suggesting there is a global black market in anthrax and exposing the mystery “suicides” of five government germ warfare scientists from around the world.
No idea if the movie will be screened in the US, but if it is I'm there. For those of you interested in learning more, you can start with this letter of dissent from medical professionals expressing their doubts about the coroner's conclusion of suicide (hat tip to Meteor Blades for reminding me of this).
UPDATE: The Anomaly has more background and the whole documentary here.