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January 25, 2010 11:27 AM

Records on U.K. Scientist's Death Sealed until 2073

By
Ken Millstone
Topics
Iraq
(AP (file))
In 2003, British nuclear scientist and U.N. weapons inspector David Kelly was found dead days after he accused the British government of ginning up evidence of Iraqi nuclear weapons in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

Now the government has ruled that medical records that could shed light on the case will remain under seal until 2073, London's Daily Mail reported Monday.

Left: David Kelly

Lord Hutton, who led the government investigation that controversially ruled Kelly's death a suicide in 2004, ordered the post-mortem records sealed at the end of the inquiry. But the restrictions only came to light in a letter Sunday to a group of doctors challenging the verdict on Kelly's death.

  • Ken Millstone

    Ken Millstone is an assignment editor at CBSNews.com

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by Uncle_Eccoli January 25, 2010 2:08 PM EST
This guy was croaked by either the CIA, MI6, or Mossad, and almost certainly at the behest of the United States. The seventy years simply ensures that no one will be prosecuted over his death.
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