Dr Alan Breck

In the novel They Came to Baghdad, Doctor Alan Breck is a scientist from the Harwell Atomic Institute. Towards the end of the novel, he testified before a committee of senior intelligence officials in Baghdad. He told them that Sir Rupert Crofton Lee had left him a number of specimens for testing. These had been gathered by Sir Rupert during his journeys through China and Turkestan through Kurdistan to Iraq. According to Dr Breck, these specimens were metallic ores with high uranium content although the exact source of these samples were unknown as Sir Rupert's notes had been destroyed. Presumably the samples related in some way to the activity of the secret organisation intend on creating a new world order by formenting tension and war between the west and the east, for example they had been mining ores to develop nuclear power.