http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750145,00.html
Vladimir Pasechnik
Defector who alerted the west to the danger of Soviet biological weapons production
Pearce Wright
Wednesday November 28, 2001
After a Biopreparat research unit in Obelensk developed a more deadly strain of pneumonic plague in 1985, Pasechnik's laboratory, the Institute of Especially Pure Biopreparations, was asked to refine the process for weapons production. By 1987, the Soviets had the capacity to make 200kg of super plagues every week, enough to kill 500,000 people
After he defected to Britain,
Pasechnik told Christopher Davis that he had been approached by China to work for them. Instead MI6 helped him defect from Paris –where he was attending a science conference. He brought to Britain highly secret documents which showed how advanced the Russians were in bio-chemical weapons. The documents also contained evidence of China’s effort to become the world leader in the field.
MI6, the CIA, and the intelligence services of Canada, Australia and Europe are combining all their resources to establish if China has sent killer squads from its own secret service (CSIS) to murder all those scientists it had approached – and who had declined to work for China.