Porton Down

Porton Down (Military Base, Black site, BSL4 facility)
The UK's biggest and most secretive military research facility.

Porton Down is a military research site in Wiltshire, England. It has long been the main site for the UK/Biological weapons and UK/Chemical weapons programs. It is home to two British government facilities: the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory – known for over 100 years as one of the UK's most secretive military research facilities, occupying 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) – and a site of the UK Health Security Agency. The area is also headquarters of a number of private companies, including Qinetiq owned by the Carlyle Group.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Craig Murray	“We have a programme, the Integrity Initiative, whose entire purpose is to pump out covert disinformation against Russia, through social media and news stories secretly paid for by the British government. And we have the Skripals’ MI6 handler, the BBC, Porton Down, the FCO, the MOD and the US Embassy, working together in a group under the auspices of the Integrity Initiative. The Skripal Case happened to occur shortly after a massive increase in the Integrity Initiative’s budget and activity, which itself was a small part of a British Government decision to ramp up a major information war against Russia. I find that very interesting indeed.”	Craig Murray	21 December 2018
Skripal Affair	“This is a carefully constructed drama as part of the propaganda campaign that has been building now for several years in order to justify the actions of NATO, Britain the United States, towards Russia. That’s a fact. The whole role of Porton Down has been integral to the Cold War apparatus of this. And this is so dangerous, with Russia being effectively pushed into a corner with these accusations, it’s part of a propaganda campaign. I can tell you that, I’m a journalist who has spent almost all my career working in the mainstream media in Britain. This is a propaganda campaign promoted specifically in the media and in the Government.”	John Pilger	March 2018

 

Group

Group	Start	Description
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory	2001	UK military research agency

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Paul Fildes	Head of Biology Department	1940	1945	Created the world's first anthrax bomb.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Toxic Dagger	20 February 2018	12 March 2018	Salisbury Wiltshire	The largest chemical warfare exercise in the UK, coinciding with the Skripal Affair. Held February 2018.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the COVID-19 virus	report	31 January 2020	Jonathan Jay Couey	Report of a thorough investigation into the origins of the virus that caused the pandemic. Whilst the author is circumspect, the evidence presented points clearly to the virus being the product of laboratory engineering.
Document:Novichok Part Deux: A Fusion of Media, Government & Military	Article	10 July 2018	Kenny Coyle	BBC diplomatic and defence correspondent Mark Urban revealed this week that he had in fact been meeting secretly with Sergei Skripal over a year ago.
Document:Salisbury Incident - Skripal Case Investigators Could Learn From The Lockerbie Affair	Article	24 September 2018	Ludwig De Braeckeleer	Porton Down has been renamed many times: RARDE, DERA, Dstl, but it's still the same damn place.
Document:The Salisbury Festival of Russophobia Opens Today	blog post	14 October 2024	Craig Murray	"The Public Inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, like the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly, is designed entirely to conceal the truth and further the official narrative."

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