Around mid-March I met Major Valeri Petrofsky, a 1960s KGB agent of the former USSR, and he unravelled a story which will shake the foundations of the modern western world. Shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 the leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev was so enraged by his humiliation in front of the world's press that he ordered Russian nuclear missiles to be installed in secret in Britain - по любой стоимости - at any cost. Incredibly the missiles were not targeted at British cities but at those in the USSR! The reason being that the Soviets could launch a minor nuclear attack upon themselves from apparently British sites and then claim that the west had made a pre-emptive strike thereby paving the way for massive Soviet nuclear retaliation . Only one silo became operational in the UK and that was located underneath Portsdown. Major Petrofsky explained that they rented the land from the Ministry of Defence on the pretense of oil exploration. The entire planning department at Portsmouth City Council were bought off with free holidays at Anapa on the Black Sea and work progressed unimpeded. Irish laborers were employed for the construction work and were told they were building an Olympic swimming pool. Parts for the missile were smuggled into the UK in containers of Beluga caviar and the missile technicians gained entry by posing a troupe of Cossack dancers. The missile was not decommissioned until 1987 as a result of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Apparently Gorbachev did not even know the silo existed. Major Petrofsky said that the missile was broken up and sold for scrap on which he made a tidy profit. About the fissile material from the bomb assembly the Major says, "We dumped it on the doorstep of Windscale and let them deal with it. They could hardly refuse could they?" More to follow...