of the line craig gordon brown's chief says that it was not its job to say where the agent was manufactured what impact does the recent statement have for this case do you think. well to be important statement i knew i published on my blog a fortnight ago but sources within the foreign income of officer told me that porton down scientists weren't able to say it was made in russia and that they were under very heavy pressure from the government to say that and they were refusing to say it and today it's been confirmed firmed up my sources were telling me the truth what we've seen today is news management because the government had to get over the hurdle that the organization for the purpose of chemical weapons would shortly be telling people that there is no evidence this came from russia not to slee the government decided firmly point of view would damage limitation that it was best porton down came out and said that first and so that they could try to manage the news story and we'll see very careful news management over the next day or two. the lump suggested that this agent is complex it