CLOAK AND DAGGER

'Kelly was murdered' says UK intelligence insider

Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer -- speaking with impeccable credentials, including contributions to the Journal for International Security Affairs and having previously given a closed-doors confidential briefing the US Senate Intelligence Committee -- exploded the much-reported myth that Dr Kelly had taken his own life on July 17, 2003.
With apparent backing from the organisations whose members he claims to speak for, Shrimpton presented their view that Dr Kelly had been murdered by a team of assassins and the charade of an apparent suicide was then played out to cover this up.
He spoke of the probable method of Kelly's death, the group which most likely carried out the assassination, who arranged it and finally where the responsibility lies. Additionally, he explained the political context and motive for Kelly's murder.
Mr Shrimpton said the deed was most likely carried out by the French external security organisation, DGSE. He went further by suggesting that the hit squad -- composed of Iraqis from the former regime's Mukhabarat intelligence organisation -- was flown into Corsica a week before the murder. He doubts that any of the hit-squad are still alive.
According to Shrimpton, Kelly was murdered because he had been talking to the press and there was a fear of what else he might discuss with journalists. Furthermore, Kelly was due to return to Iraq and may have learned fresh information on that trip which Whitehall could not afford to trust him with.

[The story has been effectively censored by the British Press, who according to Shrimpton are concerned about losing the pro-Euro Tony Blair as Prime Minister were they to publish details of Kelly's assassination. Blair's departure, he says, could threaten Britain's proposed adoption of the Euro as the national currency. Read the transcript here.]