Iranian assassins suspected in scientist's death

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LONDON – Agents for Britain's MI6 intelligence service are investigating if an Iranian hit squad murdered a British nuclear expert working in a high security United Nations building for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Timothy Hampton, 47, specialized in monitoring tremors caused by nuclear tests in Iran. He reported directly to the International Atomic Energy Agency and his widow, Olena Gryshcuk, is a weapons inspector for the organization.

Before joining the United Nations, Hampton already was a qualified bio-chemist and had worked with David Kelly, the director of microbiology at Porton Down, Britain's biological warfare establishment.

Kelly's subsequent death in 2003 has remained a mystery even though the Hutton Inquiry returned a verdict Kelly had committed suicide.

The links between the two men now are part of the MI6 investigation that its new director, Sir John Sawyers, has given top priority. He took over the Secret Intelligence Service a week ago – ironically on the day that Hampton was found dead at the foot of the building where he worked.

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Gryshcuk was told her husband committed suicide. But now MI6 agents are investigating whether Hampton may have been drugged and carried from his office on the sixth floor of the secured Vienna building and hurled to his death from its 17th floor.

The possibility has been reinforced by Karin Yen, an internationally respected pathologist in traumatology research at the Ludwig Institute in Austria. She has been called in by Hampton's widow.

Yen used new forensic techniques to conclude:

"In my opinion the cause of death does not look like suicide. My example is that somebody took him to the top floor and threw him down."

The MI6 investigation is focused on Vevak, Iran's prime foreign intelligence service.

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