Doctor Who_ Interference_ Book Two - Lawrence Miles [66]
BELL: There were weapons tests here, definitely. I don’t think anybody thought about it much at the time.
REPORTER: Was this supposed to be a weapons research centre?
BELL: God, no. The setup was purely… defensive. That was the idea, anyway. But the government had… I don’t know how to put it. The government had got hold of some new technology, and they wanted to test out the military applications. I can’t really talk about the details, it’s still under Official Secrets. But yes, a lot of the tests were done here. I think the Ministry hoped nobody was going to notice, seeing as the base was supposed to be under the UN’s control.
REPORTER: What kind of weapons were they?
BELL: I can’t really say. I mean, it’s enough to know that.., they’d probably be illegal under one of the conventions these days. We weren’t sure about some of them back then.
REPORTER: But new technology?
BELL: Yes. Yes. It’s hard to describe the way these people… look, I’ll try to explain. In the mid-eighties, I did some work for a weapons development company. Private, but under contract from the government. And these people, these weapons design experts, were sitting around the office all day watching SF movies on video, getting ideas from the hardware in Star Wars and Robocop and what have you. I mean, it wasn’t anything to do with the equipment the government needed, it was just… fetishism, I suppose you’d call it. That’s what it was like in the seventies, as well. The people who dealt with the technology were like a little boys’ club, their whole lives revolved around these pieces of plastic they were being given by the MoD. It’s the same now, with UNISYC coming in.
REPORTER [voice]: UNISYC is a new UN security group, founded two years ago. The purpose of the group is to research ‘cutting-edge’ technology, supposedly for ‘defence purposes’. Access to UNISYC’s Security Yard installation in Geneva is denied to nonmilitary personnel, but time and again UNISYC was mentioned by people we came in contact with during our investigations.
[Rostrum camera shot of a letter, on notepaper headed UNITED NATIONS INTELLIGENCE. The letter comes from one Corporal Belize of UNISYC, and reads:]
Due to UN security regulations, we are unable to grant your request for an interview with UNISYC personnel. However, with regard to your queries, we can deny any connection with COPEX, and with the international trade in equipment that can be used in breach of internationally accepted codes of civil conduct. UNISYC is a UN operation, and therefore wholeheartedly endorses all UN resolutions regarding civil rights and civil-rights abuses.
REPORTER: UNISYC claims it has no links with the security subculture. Yet Corporal John Belize, UNISYC’s public-relations liaison, is known to have attended COPEX in both 1995 and 1996. Furthermore, in a private conversation, Peter Morgan claimed to have ‘connections’ in UNISYC, as well as the British constabulary and the RUC.
[More footage of the office on Barnes Road. This time, we see Peter Morgan being led from the building by two policemen, towards a police car parked on the pavement.]
REPORTER [voice]: At the end of last August, the information uncovered by the Seeing Eye team was made public in the national press. As a result, on the second of September 1996 Peter Morgan was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police. Although questioned, he was never charged. His company claims that Morgan has been ‘suspended’, pending an investigation into his behaviour. The implication seems to be that the company denies any connection with illegal weaponry or torture equipment, claiming instead that Morgan was a ‘rogue operator’.
[Morgan is bundled into the car, looking slightly shell-shocked. The camera zooms in on the door of the office, where a third policeman is leaving the building, two large suitcases under his arms.]
REPORTER [voice]: But, if this is true, then why has Morgan never been prosecuted? We know for a fact,