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'dark actors playing games'

🔗Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>

7/22/2003 3:57:30 PM

Kelly warned of 'dark actors playing games'
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_801531.html?menu=news.politics
Weapons expert Dr David Kelly reportedly told of "many dark actors
playing games" in an email to a journalist hours before his suicide.
The words appeared to refer to officials at the Ministry of Defence and
UK intelligence agencies with whom he had sparred over interpretations
of weapons reports, according to the New York Times.
The message gave no indication that he was depressed and said he was
waiting "until the end of the week" before judging how his appearance
before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee had gone.
The newspaper did not name the recipient of the email.
It said another associate had received a "combative" message from Dr
Kelly
shortly before he left his Oxfordshire home for the last time on
Thursday.
The scientist said in the email that he was determined to overcome the
scandal
surrounding him and was enthusiastic about the possibility of returning
to Iraq.
Dr Kelly was grilled by MPs last week over his comments to reporters
about
the use of intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq. He had denied
being the
main source for a BBC story about claims that a dossier on Iraq had been

"sexed up" to boost public support for military action.
Dr Kelly's wife Janice told the New York Times her husband had worked on

Thursday morning on a report he said he owed the Foreign Office and had
sent
some emails to friends.
She said: "After lunch, he went out for a walk to stretch his legs as he
usually
does." Mrs Kelly said she had no indication that her husband was
contemplating
suicide."But he had been under enormous stress, as we all had been."
Story filed: 18:28 Saturday 19th July 2003

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