Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning

Who Poisoned the Skripals, and Why?  Was it the Usual Suspects in Her Majesty’s Service?

By former UK Ambassador Craig Murray, April 28, 2018
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/probable-western-responsibility-for-skripal-poisoning/Finally, some new information and informed speculation from two British patriots with integrity, conscience, first-hand experience of government crimes/coverup, and — not least — the courage to speak out.  The two are Ambassador Craig Murray and former Defense Ministry official Clive Ponting.Readers may find this shocking but, Her Majesty’s security services are run by thugs, assassins-on-call, and obedient “dodgy dossier” compilers for counterpart services in Washington.  Prime Minister Theresa May knows this far better than most, having served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016.  This is not to say that she was necessarily clued in on all the details of the latest skullduggery.  It IS to say that if she does not know chapter and verse it is because the thugs know, or assume, that she would prefer to have the Get-Out-of-Jail card that comes of having “plausible denial.”

Ambassador Murray quit Her Majesty’s Foreign Service at the height of his early career because it condoned torture by Uzbek thugs doing the bidding of CIA thugs. The British Establishment did all it could to award Murray pariah status — with steadily diminishing success.  In contrast, Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) presented Amb. Murray in 2005 with its annual Sam Adams Award. ( See:
http://samadamsaward.ch/craig-murray/ )

It is particularly good to see Clive Ponting back in the public eye.  For those unaware of Ponting’s own courageous whistleblowing, it had to do with the torpedoing and sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano by a UK submarine on May 2, 1982 during the Falklands War.

In July 1984 Clive Ponting, at the time a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defense, sent two classified documents to a Labour MP, showing that the General Belgrano was well outside the “exclusion zone” declared by the British, when then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ordered the attack anyway.  Of those aboard, 323 were killed.

Ponting admitted revealing the information and was charged with a criminal offense under the Official Secrets Act. He argued that his leak was in the public interest, but fully expected to end up in prison.  The jury acquitted him.  Ponting has since authored several books on British and world history.