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Fildes allegedly claimed that he assisted with [[Operation Anthropoid]], the assassination of top Nazi [[Reinhard Heydrich]] in [[Prague]] by providing the [[Czech]] agents of the [[Special Operations Executive]] with modified [[Gammon grenade]]s filled with [[Botulin toxin]].[http://www.strategypage.com/articles/biotoxin_files/BIOTOXINASSASINATION.asp] |
Fildes allegedly claimed that he assisted with [[Operation Anthropoid]], the assassination of top Nazi [[Reinhard Heydrich]] in [[Prague]] by providing the [[Czech people|Czech]] agents of the [[Special Operations Executive]] with modified [[Gammon grenade]]s filled with [[Botulin toxin]].[http://www.strategypage.com/articles/biotoxin_files/BIOTOXINASSASINATION.asp] |
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Revision as of 12:02, 29 June 2006
Sir Paul Gordon Fildes (10 February 1882 - 5 February 1971) was a British pathologist and microbiologist who worked at Porton Down during the Second World War.
Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the RNVR, served in the Royal Navy Hospital, Haslar (1915-19), awarded the Order of the British Empire (1919); helped Donald O. Woods discover how sulphonamides worked; member of the scientific staff, Medical Research Council (1934-49); Fellow of the Royal Society and author of works on haemophilia and syphilis. Received the Copley Medal in 1963. Son of artist Luke Fildes.
World War II
Fildes allegedly claimed that he assisted with Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague by providing the Czech agents of the Special Operations Executive with modified Gammon grenades filled with Botulin toxin.[1]
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