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November 9, 2009
Nothing To See Here: The Strange Death of Timothy Hampton
The UN wishes us to know that there is nothing to bother about in the death of Timothy Hampton. Here is their press release:
Note to Editors,
There have been many misconceptions in the media related to the death of one of our staff members on 20 October, 2009.
For the record, we would like to underline that there is no connection between the death of the staff member and the Iran talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The staff member, whose death is now being investigated, was employed by the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) as a processing engineer. The CTBTO is a separate organization from that of the IAEA, and has never had any role in the Iran negotiations. Therefore, media reports linking the dead CTBTO staff member with the Iran talks are baseless and untrue.
We request that media which have published such reports issue a correction.
Thank you,
Annika Thunborg, Spokesperson, CTBTO
Here is the CTBTO's description of what it actually does:
CTBT = Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyAim: bans nuclear testing everywhere on planet - surface, atmosphere, underwater and underground.
Why: to obstruct the development of nuclear weapons: both the initial development of nuclear weapons as well as their substantial improvement (H-bomb) necessitate real nuclear testing. The CTBT makes it almost impossible for countries that do not yet have nuclear weapons to develop them. And it makes it almost impossible for countries that have nuclear weapons to develop new or more advanced weapons. It also helps prevent damage caused by nuclear testing to humans and the environment.History: Between 1945 and 1996, when the CTBT opened for signature, over 2000 nuclear tests were conducted: by the United States (1000+) Soviet Union (700+), France (200+), United Kingdom and China (45 each). Three countries have broken the de-facto moratorium and tested nuclear weapons since 1996: India and Pakistan in 1998 and the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in 2006. Many attempts were made during the Cold War to negotiate a comprehensive test ban, but it was only in the 1990s that the Treaty became a reality. The CTBT was negotiated in Geneva between 1994 and 1996.
The Treaty has yet to enter into force: All 44 States specifically listed in the Treaty - those with nuclear technology capabilities at the time of the final Treaty negotiations in 1996 – must sign and ratify before the CTBT can enter into force.
Of these, nine are still missing: China, DPRK, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the USA. DPRK, India and Pakistan have yet to sign the CTBT. Otherwise, 182 countries have signed, of which 150 have ratified the Treaty (as of February 2009), including three of the nuclear weapon States: France, Russian Federation and the United Kingdom.The Treaty Organization: Since the Treaty is not yet in force, the Organization is called the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Organization, or CTBTO. It was founded in 1996, with approximately 260 staff from most of the CTBT’s 180 Member States. It is headed by the Executive Secretary, Tibor Tóth (Hungary).
The CTBTO’s main tasks are the promotion of the Treaty and the build-up of the verification regime so that it is operational when the Treaty enters into force. The budget is around US$120,000,000 or € 82,000,000.Verification regime: A unique and comprehensive system. At the heart of the verification regime is the International Monitoring System (IMS), which consists of 337 facilities located all over the world that constantly monitor the planet for signs of nuclear explosions. Around 75% of these facilities are already sending data to the International Data Centre at the CTBTO headquarters in Vienna.
The IMS uses the following four state-of-the-art technologies:
Seismic: 50 primary and 120 auxiliary seismic stations monitor shockwaves in the Earth. The vast majority of these shockwaves – many thousands every year - are caused by earthquakes. But man-made explosions such as mine explosions or the nuclear test announced by the DPRK in 2006, are also detected.
Hydroacoustic: 11 hydrophone stations “listen” for sound waves in the oceans. Sound waves from explosions can travel extremely far underwater.
Infrasound: 60 stations on the surface can detect ultra-low frequency sound waves (inaudible to the human ear) that are emitted by large explosions.
Radionuclide: 80 stations measure the atmosphere for radioactive particles, 40 of them also pick up noble gas. Only these measurements can give a clear indication as to whether an explosion detected by the other methods was actually nuclear or not. They are supported by 16 radionuclide laboratories.
On-site-Inspection: If the data from the IMS stations indicate that a nuclear test has taken place, a Member State can request for an on-site-inspection to be carried out to collect evidence that will allow the final assessment to be made regarding whether a nuclear explosion – a Treaty violation - has actually taken place. This will only be possible after the
CTBT has entered into force. A large on-site inspection exercise was carried out in September 2008 in Kazakhstan.
Civil and scientific applications: The IMS data are provided to the CTBT Member States and to other international organizations. They are used also for applications other than test-ban verification, such as for tsunami-warning (by proving timely data), research on the Earth’s core, monitoring of earthquakes and volcanoes; research on the oceans, climate change
research and many other applications.
http://www.ctbto.org/fileadmin/user_upload/public_information/CTBT_FactSheet.pdf
It is worth noting, therefore, that if it is claimed that Iran has moved to test a nuclear weapon, it is the CTBTO that would have responsibility for assessing the claim - and it appears that the processing engineer Timothy Hampton would have a role at that stage, at the HQ, interpreting the scientific data that comes in from the outstation monitoring systems as described.
I have not seem the stairwell in question, but jumping down a stairwell is a very strange - and very uncommon - way to commit suicide. Jumpers generally prefer the outside of buildings', bridges and sheer cliffs - places as free of obstruction as possible, while a stairwell is surrounded by obstruction. There are widespread reports that another scientist committed suicide down the same stairwell four months previously, but I cannot find any report naming that scientist or indicating what they did at work.
A second autopsy conducted by the family believes there may be indications of murder, though at the moment the evidence appears less than conclusive either way. There are way too many parallels to the death of David Kelly for my liking.
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty has very wide international support, except for a small number of rogue states with nuclear technology who refuse to sign because they wish to continue nuclear testing to develop weapons, in defiance of the international community. These rogue states have an obvious motivation to destabilise the organisation's work, and it is their security services who are most likely to have been involved in foul play. They are:
China, North Korea, USA, Israel, Egypt, India, Iran, and Pakistan.
Posted by craig on November 9, 2009 2:25 PM in the category War and Iran?
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Craig,
You are not alone in struggling to find details of the 'other scientist' -
There is wide spread confusion on this as reports mention both a 'British' and 'American' previous victim.
Austrian Times mentions 'Under a year ago, an American died at the IAEA in strikingly similar circumstances, his body being found at the bottom of a stairwell.
('http://www.austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-11-01/17693/Mystery_deepens_over_Vienna_UN_death)
Of course this is not the first time there have been susipicious suicides at the UN:
Please read this link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/02/17/2008-02-17_austrian_un_employee_dies_in_apparent_su-1.html (New York Daily Times, 17 Feb 08)
The 19th Floor from which UN employee Maria DiBiase plunged to her death housed the Department of Peace-keeping Operations/Field Administration and Logistics Division (DPKO/FALD). The offices also house the code machines used for the encrypted fax machines used for DPKO activities in addition to a spare set of code machines used for DPKO rapid response teams. DiBiase, an Austrian national, was a computer specialist for the UN and a former Conference Services staff member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria.
The UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) maintained in a special UN's computer database all the files on Sadaam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program retrieved from compact disks provided to UNSCOM by Saddam's government prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The database is said to include all the black market nuclear suppliers involved in providing materials to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Libya via Turkey and the A Q Khan smuggling network. The list reportedly includes front companies in Switzerland linked to Marc Rich, the American fugitive pardoned by President Clinton, and Dick Cheney.
Posted by: Control at November 9, 2009 3:16 PM
Primo Levi, the Holocaust survivor and writer who was very critical of Begin's invasion of Lebanon in the 80s died the same way - again suicide - again there would have been plenty of people who would have had a motive to murder him.
Posted by: Duncan McFarlane at November 9, 2009 4:46 PM
"Concern Raised Over Suspicious Deaths Of 24 Bio-Scientists"...
http://tinyurl.com/6fpgf9
Minot Air Force Base...Missing Nuke?...
tinyurl.com/afmjs6
"Check out all these unexpected deaths of people involved with elections"...
tinyurl.com/7e9xw2
Posted by: George Dutton at November 9, 2009 7:12 PM
David Kelly, Michael Todd and Robin Cook all died after taking a walk and strangely all linked to 9/11 and WoT. Actually I really do not like these strange deaths - statistically they move from beyond coincidence into a pattern. We know the Russians don't mind selective killings... it is only a short paranoid jump away to Seymour Hersh's report of Cheney's executive assassination ring. Surely a surgical and clean death is easier to sign off upon than systematic and outsourced torture...
Posted by: Ynda at November 10, 2009 9:07 AM
Good thinking Duncan, Philip Zack I believe was behind the Anthrax attack and we know Bush Jnr had taken Cipro. This completes the bigger picture of 9/11 - a Zionist/Mossad conceived catalyst. I wonder what will follow 'swine flu' as this appears to be a transmission test before the 'switch' to something much more deadly.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at November 10, 2009 11:48 AM
"Anthrax"...
http://tinyurl.com/yzaxx4j
Posted by: George Dutton at November 10, 2009 5:15 PM
God! It seems it is dangerous to be a scientist of a certain type these days. If you are such a boffin, remember never to take a walk, never to venture up or down a stairwell or to go near a window more than 10 feet off the ground. Never be alone. Never be among crowds. Never eat, never sleep. If you shout to the media, they'll get you. If you remain silent, they'll get you. If you become a refuse collector, they'll get you. You might as well commit suicide. On the other hand... sod 'em! Do everything, they can't get you all! Can they...?
Posted by: Suhayl Saadi at November 10, 2009 9:10 PM
Thanks for bringing this one to our attention, Craig. I do hope you'll follow the developments and keep us posted.
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Timothy Hampton was not originally a nuclear weapons expert: he was a biological weapons expert, worked, briefly at Porton Down with David Kelly, went into the construction industry for a while (presumably becoming interested in geophysics in the process) and then went into the field of nuclear test detection.
Medawar has seen a lot of comment by Polish people and those from the other Baltic states, that the Russian FSB is allowed, by the Austrian government, to run three "training camps" in Austria. No idea of the truth of this, and it seems ALMOST beyond belief, but the Austrian police have behaved from the word go, as if they knew exactly what they might find if they investigated properly, so they chose to do no such thing.
All of Kelly's biological weapons work done while Hampton was with him, would have concerned the former soviet union and not Iraq, Iran, Korea or any of the other usual suspects.
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