Superiors warned Kelly against talking to BBC

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LONDON - British weapons adviser David Kelly was warned by his superiors at the Ministry of Defence about his contacts with reporters but was told no disciplinary action would be taken, an inquiry into his suicide heard today.

Kelly, who was named as the main source of a British Broadcasting Corp. report that claimed the government had exaggerated the threat posed by Iraqi weapons, was interviewed twice by his superiors and reprimanded for talking to BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan.

Kelly's line manager at the ministry, Bryan Wells, told the inquiry that Kelly was interviewed twice by personnel director Richard Hatfield, who warned that any further breaches of civil service practice would almost certainly result in disciplinary action.

Kelly, 59, a leading government scientist, was found dead, with his left wrist slashed, near his home in southern England on July 18.