Chemical Defence Experimental

Toward the end of 1964, British scientist Dr. Bill Ladell invited me to visit Porton Down, where the secret Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment was located. Bill thought I would find it useful to observe an LSD field test, which was designed to test the ability of highly trained LSD-dosed commandos to defend their position against undrugged attackers. ... 

Treatment of Its Local and General Effects. Porton, Wiltshire, England Chemical Defence Experimental Station. 1944. 269 p. 

CDEE Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment(Brxt)... 

CDEE Chemical Defence Experimental char character, characteristic... 

Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton, Nr. Salisbury, Wilts, England. 

Sim, V.M. (1956). Effect on pupil size of exposure to GB vapour. Porton Technical Paper 531. Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Directorate of Chemical Defence Research and Development, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. 

A Brief History of the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment Porton, p. 8. (This was a restricted publication, written in March 1961 and declassified in 1981.)... 

Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Par ton Down, Nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire, England... 

Rydon, Norman (p. 243, Plate 36) born in 1912 studied chemistry at London (B.Sc. 1931, Ph.D. 1933, D.Sc. 1938), D. Phil., Oxford 1939. Chemical Defence Experimental Section, 1940-1945. From 1945-1947 Member of Scientific Staff of the Lister Institute, then Reader at Birkbeck College, London, until 1949 and from 1949-1952 Reader at Imperial College, London. Professor at Manchester College of Science and Technology 1952-1957, Professor and Head of Department, Exeter University 1957-1977. Rydon s work outside of peptide research was on natural substances peptide topics at Exeter included cysteine peptides, sequential polypeptides, synthetic studies of ferredoxins. Chlorination followed by starchh-potassium iodide for the detection of peptides is known as Rydon-Smith reagent. 

A Brief History of the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton (March 1961) pp. 17-18. See also R. Harris and J. Paxman, A Higher Form of Killing, pp. 46-7. 

A Brief History of the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton. March 1981. 

TNA, WO32/21200, Report on Enemy Shell from Chief Superintendent, Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Porton, Top Secret, to CCDD, MoS , 10 April 1945. 

BMJ, New Director General of Army Medical Services, i (1977), 6065, p. 912 also TNA, WO195/16136, Porton Note No. 119, Annexure A of Addendum, Administrative Instructions for the Attachment of Army Personnel to the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment as Volunteers for Tests , December 1963 (Lt Col R.E Bradshaw) and Annexure C of Addendum, Notice Board Leaflet , 1964 (Lt Col R.P. Bradshaw). 

See IWM, Film and Video Archive, DED 46A, The Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment Porton Down,Volunteers for Porton , 1966. 

MI, Folder 2A/I, Exhibit MNJ/20/2, Notes of Meeting held in Room 240 Lansdowne House at ii.oo a.m. on Tuesday 8 March 1955 to Discuss the Question of Remuneration of Service Volunteers Taking Part in Certain Tests at the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment Porton (and further correspondence), pp. 70-80. 

IWM, Film and Video Archive, DED 46A, The Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment Porton Down,Volunteers for Porton , i966.The film was apparently shown to service officers and NCOs at the Defence Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical School at Winterbourne Gunner and at army units through the Army Kinema Corporation and Astra cinemas Operation Antler, Witness Statement Richard B.M. Skinner, 9 January 2001. 

Bolton, T, Films, Ethics and Politics at Porton Down, 1939 to 1968 A Study of Films from the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Porton Down, in Relation to Medical Research Ethics in World War Two and Cold War Contexts (University of Kent, unpubhshed MA thesis, 2004). 

Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Studies on the LCtSO of nerve gas vapour in the rat and the mouse, PR 2756, UK Arehive Number... 

Chemical Defence Experimental Station, Provisional appreciation of the CW value of nerve gases, Porton Memorandum 32, UK Archive Number WO 189/252,1946. 

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