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Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik                                                 November 21, 2001

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November 21, 2001: World-class microbiologist and high-profile Russian defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 

64, dies of a stroke. Pasechnik, who defected to Britain in 1989, succeeded in producing an aerosolized 

plague microbe that could survive outside the laboratory. He was connected to Britain's spy agency and 

recently had started his own company. "In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax 

at the disposal of the [British] Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism.

http://boards.charlierose.com/board/pst.asp?m=tq&ti=10922&fi=34

From the United States, the story moves to England. On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, a former 

microbiologist for Biopreparat, the Soviet biological-weapons production facility was found dead. The Times

 was the only newspaper to provide an obituary for Dr. Pasechnik, and said:



"The defection to Britain in 1989 of Vladimir Pasechnik revealed to the West for the first time the colossal 

scale of the Soviet Union's clandestine biological warfare programme. His revelations about the scale of the 

Soviet Union's production of such biological agents as anthrax, plague, tularaemia and smallpox provided an

inside account of one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War. After his defection he worked for ten years 

at the U.K. Department of Health's Centre for Applied Microbiology Research before forming his own 

company, Regma Biotechnics, to work on therapies for cancer, neurological diseases, tuberculosis and 

other infectious diseases. In thelast few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal 

of the Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism."

http://www.rense.com/general18/five.htm

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