ICI ran Tube Alloys, were involved in Child Studies, Donned Uniforms and went into Germany right after the war. They Kidnapped Nazi Scientists (ALSOS, TFORCE, PAPERCLIP) and much more!
I was interested to research ICI because they sponsored the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME), an organisation I looked into previously because a neighbour who was an MP attended board meetings there whilst I lived in Bath with my twin sister and family.
When I received an email from someone who's family was working at ICI during the war explaining her memories of receiving Jugular Injections whilst at the dentist, I investigated further . . this article is the report I produced for free for the person who contacted me. Please support me so I can continue to do this for people.
(Sir) John Rodney Quayle who was both a member of BIME (Bath Institute of Medical Engineering) and a fellow of Oriel College. (as mentioned in his obituary in 2006 here) https://socgenmicrobiol.org.uk/pubs/micro_today/obituaries.cfm
I was told by a whistleblower, "Mr T Stokes of London" that I should look into Tube Alloys and Fellows of Oriel College Oxford for evidence of secret experiments on the public.
Quayle and ICI Teesside
He was involved in setting up a huge fermenter in Teesside in a project that grew a food for animals called PRUTEEN (similar to Quorn), that was supposedly scrapped after spending £100 million on it (which seems hightly unlikely - I suspect it is a cover story)
"Rod was approached by two chemists, P.P. King and D. Watchorn, from the Agricultural Division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI, at Billingham, Cleveland, UK) who felt that ICI might be interested in the possibility of very large scale microbial conversion of methane to bacterial protein for use as an animal foodstuff. They invited Rod to Billingham where in discussion he persuaded them that methanol would be a far more suitable substrate than methane. P.P. King recalls this “As a Eureka situation" adding that "if there is one thing we can do it is to make methanol out of natural gas very efficiently”. Out of these beginnings the ICI Pruteen project was born. Within the astonishingly short time of 13 years from the first discussions, the world's largest fermenter was constructed for the fast-growing Methylophilus methylotrophus, and full production was achieved on Teesside in 1980 (Figure 4). The Pruteen output from the 50m high (1.5 million litre) airlift fermenter was 50,000 metric tons per annum. Sadly this pioneering ICI project costing well in excess of £100 million had to be abandoned due to falling prices of competing products such as soybean protein. Although nutritionally excellent, Pruteen was just too expensive to produce. ."
When I looked into all this further Quayles work was associated with neurobiology and how the methanol related produce he was studying could create pathways into the brain. These pathways have been since been experimented with for the delivery of certain types of drugs and medications.
Rod’s extraordinarily fruitful exploration of the biochemistry of the highly diverse range of microbes growing on C1 compounds during his time in Oxford and this period in Sheffield led in 1978 to the award of the CIBA Medal and Prize of the Biochemical Society (4), and his election as a Fellow of The Royal Society. If he had ‘merely’ elucidated a single novel pathway for microbial carbon assimilation, that pathway would probably have become the ‘Quayle Cycle’. This could not happen because he had described three novel pathways: the serine cycle, the ribulose monophosphate pathway (and its four variants) and the dihydroxyacetone pathway.
(See also for example Targeting the Serine Pathway: A Promising Approach against Tuberculosis? †https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6630544/)
and l-Serine links metabolism with neurotransmission https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008220301519 )
So I am suspicious that there was more going on with what was being released into the air at Billingham than the by product of synthetic animal feed. Quayle was already studying the "Serine Pathway" in the early sixties (http://www.methanotroph.org/wiki/history/) and was aware of the interaction with genes.
"This chapter describes biochemical pathways operating in aerobic methylotrophic bacteria. . . a brief account of genetic manipulation tools in methylotrophic bacteria and examples of systems approaches for studying their metabolism, including availability of whole genome sequence information. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-642-30141-4_68
When I saw all this I had a hunch . . there had to be a smell at the time they were pumping out these methanols and people talking about it and sure enough I googled "Teesside Smell" and there were newspaper headlines about it at the time. Here it was discussed in parliament in 1964.
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1964/jul/29/atmospheric-pollution-stockton
. . but it was still being discussed as a problem in 2009
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-12261985
Rats and methanethiol and genetics
There were experiments with rats in respect of genetic effects of these processes - ICI were involved in providing materials for this one for example, in 1979
Inhibition of mitochondrial electron transfer in rats by ethanethiol and methanethiol https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/225090/
Another thing I picked up was that sometimes injections in the jugular in rats were to collect blood.
Quayle's work and biography is covered here
His work relates to neurobiology involving Pyrimidal pathways relating to Qualia or moments of consciousness which have been extensively studied by another BIME chap called Orpwood, here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia#:~:text=In%20philosophy%20and%20certain%20models,instances%20of%20subjective%2C%20conscious%20experience.
See also https://philpapers.org/archive/ROBFQA-2.pdf Form, Qualia and Time: The Hard Problem Reformed
ICI was virtually running Tube Alloys in that the government asked them to set it up and put an ICI man as the first working director, Wallace Akers
You can trace some more of those involved in Tube Alloys at my mindmap - this is a link to Akers. (I haven't uploaded the new info about Quayle yet.) https://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/751A17B2-8524-F06B-8EF8-65BEB60D86AD/thought/191#-782
ICI were also funding child studies - I will be updating the mindmap soon and will send you a link then. I would also like to share some very strong links to Tavistock via a guy called Donald Bumstead brought in by John Harvey Davis to do surveys.
Looks like the secret Tube Alloys cover story applied to both the development and appropriating German technical and weaponry knowhow, but also the programming techniques to continue to be equally secretly developed. . . to build and continue them. I say this because I've been reading how T-force soldiers went into universities and kidnapped scientists and doctors to bring back to work in the UK, they wore military uniform. ICI were given places on the team and donned military uniforms. . cathi morgan
