David Kelly, the British WMD investigator who committed suicide, dissed by Downing Street: "The Government had tried to play down Dr Kelly's importance to discredit him as the BBC's main source for the claim that Downing Street 'sexed up' the September dossier. No 10 claimed Dr Kelly was a 'technical adviser', and 'he was not someone who had access to the intelligence which was in the dossier'.
But Dr Kelly not only had access to intelligence on Iraq but was consulted by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the Ministry of Defence on processing such intelligence.
He was also becoming increasingly sceptical about Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in the time leading up to his death. It was Dr Kelly who exposed claims by George Bush, Tony Blair and Colin Powell that mobile biological warfare units had been found in Iraq as false."
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