BBC Spotlight reveal 1971 Porton Down & US Army South Dorset Germ Warfare experiments
Published on October 28th 2010: "BBC Spotlight report that Porton Down & US Army repeatedly sprayed populated areas of South Dorset with live bacteria during a 1971 series of Germ Warfare experiments. On 16 separate occasions during November 1971, massive amounts of a bacterial suspension were sprayed from a ship sailing off the South Dorset coast. These bacterial aerosols were carried inland by the wind and over the target area (the AUWE compound at Portland Bill), and surrounding South Dorset countryside (including Weymouth and Dorchester). Two types of bacteria were sprayed: Inactivated Serratia marcescens (ISM); and live Bacillus globigii (BG). A recent US National Academy of Sciences report concludes that Bacillus globigii is now considerd to be a human pathogen - an organism capable of causing disease in humans. In January 2010, the US Army declassified a scientific report which revealed that in 1975 Porton Down and US Army scientists came back to South Dorset and conducted a larger series of similar germ warfare tests. The 1975 experiments involved 24 sprayings of ISM and live BG - on occasion, three sprayings per day!"
