The meeting of the unofficially named "Berserkers" took place on a wet Friday afternoon in London. Officially, it was known as the Biological Warfare Crisis Management Committee and its regular meeting place during this sensitive period was an obscure room on the upper floor of 70 Whitehall. It had been created as a direct result of the threat from the Raven Organisation.
In attendance, as they had been for the previous meetings during the crisis, were the Prime Minister, his Foreign Secretary, the Home Secretary and the Chief of the Defence Staff. Representing the covert arm of the British Government were the Director Generals of both the Security Service (MI5) and the Government Code and Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) as well as Sir John Hart, a career diplomat who had been given th
