Saturday, 19 September 2009

Flashback: E-Coli - Secret UK 'Bio-weapon' Tests Revealed

'Defence scientists secretly tested E.coli bacteria as a possible biological weapon in and around two British towns, documents revealed today. Between winter 1965 and November 1967 a series of Government trials involving the release of "microthreads" covered in the bacteria were carried out near Swindon and Southampton.

The experiments are detailed in the 1966 Ministry of Defence report on the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down, Wilts. It is being released for public viewing for the first time today at the National Archives in Kew, south west London.'

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