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Great Britain:Ex PM Tony B liar and Prince Harry Defame Princess Diana

by Tony Ryals Monday, Sep. 03, 2007 at 11:20 AM
endoscam@lycos.com

There's room at the top they are telling you still, But first you must learn how to smile as you kill, If you want to be like the folks on the hill, A working class hero is something to be. A working class hero is something to be. If you want to be a hero well just follow me, - John Lennon


GB:Ex PM Tony B liar and Prince Harry Defame Princess Diana



Prince Harry remembered his embattled pals fighting in Iraq as the London concert dedicated to the memory of his mother got underway on a somber note on July 1.:

www.sponkit.com/prince-harry-salutes-iraq-trops-at-princess-diana’s-concert/



The 22-year-old prince joined his brother Prince William onstage at Wembley Stadium in front of an estimated crowd of 63,000 after Sir Elton John kicked off the Concert For Diana with a stirring rendition of Your Song.

The two royal princes nervously read from handheld cue cards as they thanked the masses for helping them celebrate what would have been their late mother Diana, Princess of Wales’ 46th birthday.

Prince Harry then made a point of saluting friends serving in the Middle East. He revealed, “I would also like to take this opportunity to say hi to all the guys in A Squadron of the Household Cavalry, who are serving out in Iraq at the moment.

The prince added, “I wish I was there with you. I’m sorry I can’t be. But, to all of those on operations at the moment, we’d both like to say ‘Stay safe.’”
Security issues forced Harry to abandon plans to join the Household Cavalry regiment in Iraq.

The two princes then introduced their late mother’s favorite band, Duran Duran, who dedicated hits Wild Boys to the young royals and Rio to the memory of their mother.
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GB:Ex PM Tony B liar Prince Defame Princess Diana
on 10th Anniversary of Death

Something about the eulogies to Princess Dianna or 'Lady D' by Ex British Prime Minister Tony B liar and her son Prince Harry on the 10th anniversary of her death did more to defame her memory than celebrate it.

In regards to the liar and war criminal Tony Blair,any
statement from him about anybody or anything would be hypocrisy and self serving subterfuge as always, just like his fellow war criminal and U.S. Terrorist In Chief , W Bush, or 'Busholini', as I call him.In regards to her son Prince Harry using her name to bring praise for British troops occupying Iraq,(and applause for them from the crowd attending the concert in her honor),this was equivalent to using the 10th anniversary of her death to praise the very land mines that kill and injure that his mother worked so diligently to ban !

Cluster Bombs and Land Mines:

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cluster bombs land mines&btnG=Google Search


The prince may as well have done an ad for the companies and arms dealors that manufacture them ! Or for the U.S. cluster bomb manufacturers of Raytheon,et.al. who made the cluster bombs which lie around and are equal to more land mines than the now deceased princess could ever hope to remove from the planet !Why did the young prince not use the 10th anniversary of her death to denounce them rather than praise a fascist invasion and occupation of Iraq reall y no different or better than the Nazis invasion of Poland and so many other European countries in WW II ! ?

Residents Take on Cluster Bomb Manufacturer on War Anniversary
by Middle East Crisis Coalition
boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/200646
The Middle East Crisis Coalition held a demonstration on Thursday, August 2nd in downtown Waltham to protest Raytheon's manufacturing of weapons designed to indiscriminately kill all living things in a wide area.

Raytheon, headquartered in Waltham, is the biggest missile manufacturer in the world, one of the world's leading manufacturers of cluster bombs, and ranks fourth in terms of military sales.
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Well the young prince,under the influence of his father and the Queen Mum after the death of his mother DID wear a Nazi uniform to a party to impress his elite and upper class British peers did he not ?! No wonder the 19th English poet Percey Shelley dropped or was kicked out of that elitist upper class system whether it be Cambridge or Oxford that passes,both poorly and jokingly for an 'education'.

Below are some fragments of British history past as seen by more credible Brits than the young deluded prince and Tony Bliar and reflections upon the death of Princess Charlotte in the lifetime of Percy Shelley and comparisons to her life and death,(she died in childbirth) in comparison with that of Princess Diana.

''The obstetrician, Sir Richard Croft, who had correctly diagnosed a transverse lie of the baby during labour and failed to use a forceps, was distraught. Three months later he shot himself. Thus this single pregnancy is known in medical history as “the triple obstetrical tragedy”.[2]

The Princess was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor with her son at her feet. Her death was mourned nationally, on a scale similar to that which followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. On the other hand, in An Address to the People on The Death of the Princess Charlotte (1817), Percy Bysshe Shelley argued that while her death was very sad, the execution the following day of three men incited to lead the Pentrich Rising was the greater tragedy.....''
- Wikipedia



In viewing the concert and eulogies briefly on tv I did not see Elton John's real eulogy the the princess which was in truth a beautiful work.Why ? Was even his song,'Like A Candle In The Wind',too controversial, (or too real ?),for the staid upper class British audience he was playing for ? Or perhaps I just missed it...........





from Death of a Princess: the press, the public and the powerful in changing times


Dr Cathy Jenkins



However it should not be assumed that the government of the time was open or tolerant of any but the most supportive news outlets. The Home Secretary, Lord Sidmouth, was part of a government responsible for the Gagging Acts, which banned meetings of over fifty people and allowed for the jailing of radical journalists for seditious libel. Even the Times was cautious in outlining the royal family's history of disasters in the aftermath of Charlotte's death: “… all the vices and villainies of Henry VIII, numerous as they were, sprung from a servile Parliament, and the indulgence of an unrestrained will” (8 November 1817, p.2). The Times at this period appears to have walked a fine line between submitting to the government's oppression of the press and arguing against what it saw as unjust law. At this time Britons were living without the protection of Habeas Corpus, which would normally ensure that those detained by the authorities could have their cases examined by a court. After Charlotte's death, the Times reported that the Prince Regent had released some of those who were under detention, apparently as a means of commemorating his late daughter:


Our opinion is known respecting the confinement of persons under the act for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus. We therefore rejoice the more on learning, that orders were issued on Tuesday night for releasing from various prisons, ten men confined under that suspension” (14 November 1817, p.2).


Not surprisingly, the Times eulogised Charlotte and also reprinted the praise heaped on her by the provincial press:


“Blessed by nature with a masculine understanding - with a mind too firm to be misled by flattery - too great to find pleasure in the noisy nonsense and childish fascinations of fashionable life, too virtuous to participate in its vices … she would have been the glory of her country, and the honour of her age! (Exeter newspaper, quoted in the Times, 13 November 1817, p.3).


However not everyone held such a romantic view. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote that the accident of Charlotte's birth had not made her death more worthy of grief, and went on to denounce the hanging, drawing and quartering of three men who had been among 300 people incited by a government agent into a farcical attempt to overthrow the government. The men were executed the day after Charlotte died, and Shelley made it clear that there was a more deserving subject to be mourned:


A beautiful Princess is dead: she who should have been the Queen of her beloved nation, and whose posterity should have ruled it for ever … LIBERTY is dead. Slave! I charge thee disturb not the depth and solemnity of our grief by any meaner sorrow

-Percy Bysshe Shelley(1817), An Address to the People on The Death of the Princess Charlotte, November 1817


The Ghent Journal, published in Belgium, also provided a more pragmatic view of the consequences of Charlotte's death, pointing out that with the loss of the two future heirs of the House of Brunswick, the people of England might dare start to hope for a new dynasty to rule them. The Journal's comment on the expected race by the Prince Regent's brothers to produce an heir reads not unlike a modern gossip column: “Four of them are unmarried; they must therefore begin by a marriage. It will not, therefore, excite surprise, if, before a year has elapsed, four nuptial ceremonies, and perhaps one divorce, enliven Old England …” The Times reproduced this article while at the same time condemning its writer as 'the Jacobin of the Ghent press' who had a steady hatred of England and its people (14 November 1817, p.2).









www.lyricsfreak.com/l/lennon john/working class hero_20082554.html

John Lennon - Working Class Hero Lyrics

As soon as your born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be a hero well just follow me,
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.
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www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic Poems/Shelley/the_mask_of_anarchy.htm

The Mask of Anarchy
Written on the occasion of the massacre at Manchester.

by Percy Bysshe Shelley



As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea,
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.

I met Murder on the way—
He had a mask like Castlereagh—
Very smooth he looked, yet grim ;
Seven blood-hounds followed him :

All were fat ; and well they might
Be in admirable plight,
For one by one, and two by two,
He tossed them human hearts to chew
Which from his wide cloak he drew.

Next came Fraud, and he had on,
Like Lord Eldon, an ermined gown ;
His big tears, for he wept well,
Turned to mill-stones as they fell.

And the little children, who
Round his feet played to and fro,
Thinking every tear a gem,
Had their brains knocked out by them.

Clothed with the Bible, as with light,
And the shadows of the night,
Like Sidmouth, next, Hypocrisy
On a crocodile rode by.

And many more Destructions played
In this ghastly masquerade,
All disguised, even to the eyes,
Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, and spies.

Last came Anarchy : he rode
On a white horse, splashed with blood ;
He was pale even to the lips,
Like Death in the Apocalypse.

And he wore a kingly crown ;
And in his grasp a sceptre shone ;
On his brow this mark I saw—
‘I AM GOD, AND KING, AND LAW!’

With a pace stately and fast,
Over English land he passed,
Trampling to a mire of blood
The adoring multitude.

And with a mighty troop around
With their trampling shook the ground,
Waving each a bloody sword,
For the service of their Lord.

And with glorious triumph they
Rode through England proud and gay,
Drunk as with intoxication
Of the wine of desolation.

O’er fields and towns, from sea to sea,
Passed the Pageant swift and free,
Tearing up, and trampling down ;
Till they came to London town.

And each dweller, panic-stricken,
Felt his heart with terror sicken
Hearing the tempestuous cry
Of the triumph of Anarchy.

For from pomp to meet him came,
Clothed in arms like blood and flame,
The hired murderers, who did sing
‘Thou art God, and Law, and King.

‘We have waited weak and lone
For thy coming, Mighty One!
Our purses are empty, our swords are cold,
Give us glory, and blood, and gold.’

Lawyers and priests a motley crowd,
To the earth their pale brows bowed ;
Like a bad prayer not over loud,
Whispering—‘Thou art Law and God.’—

Then all cried with one accord,
‘Thou art King, and God, and Lord ;
Anarchy, to thee we bow,
Be thy name made holy now!’

And Anarchy, the Skeleton,
Bowed and grinned to every one,
As well as if his education
Had cost ten millions to the nation.

For he knew the Palaces
Of our Kings were rightly his ;
His the sceptre, crown, and globe,
And the gold-inwoven robe.

So he sent his slaves before
To seize upon the Bank and Tower,
And was proceeding with intent
To meet his pensioned Parliament

When one fled past, a maniac maid,
And her name was Hope, she said :
But she looked more like Despair,
And she cried out in the air :

‘My father Time is weak and gray
With waiting for a better day ;
See how idiot-like he stands,
Fumbling with his palsied hands!

‘He has had child after child,
And the dust of death is piled
Over every one but me—
Misery, oh, Misery!’

Then she lay down in the street,
Right before the horses feet,
Expecting, with a patient eye,
Murder, Fraud, and Anarchy.
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http://www.goodtimebob.com/industrialism.htm


My poem for England:

Industrialism...

by Tony Ryals

It started out in England,
On a coal seam that seemed to have no end,
And had repercussions neither Adam
Smith nor Carl Marx could comprehend,
And while we fought over the delusions
of communism and capitalism - it grew,
It was industrialism that always united the two,
Now we pump oil from the earth,
And mine fossil fertilizer to give us birth,
As Bob Dylan said, "None of them along the line
know what any of it's worth",
Fossil carbon is burned, and metal is turned,
Just as in England in the 18th century,
We continue with our entropy,
Fossil carbon is burned and metal is turned,
This basic technology,
Is still our philosophy,
Not communism or capitalism,
This technology so noble,
Even built Chernobyl,
Fossil carbon is burned,
And metal is turned,
This addiction now to oil,
Takes us more to foreign soil,
This world industrialism,
Is a new colonialism,
That can only lead to schism,
Strategic minerals outside our boundaries,
Lead o geopolitical quandaries,
Yet we go on squandering,
What we should be monitoring,
Fossil carbon is burned and metal is turned,
Giving more power to the industrialists- we call it free trade,
Only magnifies mistakes we've already made,
China now rips coal from the ground as fast as it can;
Mexico pumps oil to ship to Japan,
The rest of Asia and South America have the same plan,
It ain't communism or capitalism - its industrialism,
It builds freeways for our cars,
And computers for our wars,
General Eisenhower's military industrial complex,
Remains our Frankenstein - our Tyrannosaurus Rex,
Those who would say we're in a post industrial society,
Should be tested for sobriety,
Or at least show a little more piety,
To their big, unstable brother - industrialism,
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MI6 and Princess Diana plus Bush's Grandfather

by Tony Ryals Tuesday, Sep. 04, 2007 at 11:27 AM
endoscam@lycos.com


MI6 and Princess Diana plus Bush's Grandfather
Aided Nazis
by Tony Ryals
endoscam@lycos.com

Only since writing the above did I become aware of this document which appears to be bonafied legal testimony from an ex M16 Agent,Richard Tomlinson, WHICH IS British 'intelligence'.
I put the word 'intelligence' in parenthesis because, like the U.S. CIA, 'intelligence' does not appear one their strong points in light of the fact that both agencies work more for the military-industrial complexes and far right elite of their respective countries,(and even those of foreign countries !),than for the average citizens of their own countries.Thus disinformation seems to be a tool of their trade besides dirty black ops.
It has been many years(1999) since this ex agent made the statement apparently under oath in and for a French court of law.And no doubt in light of the serious claims and charges he makes and the formal manner in which he released them someone should indeed take them seriously until proven otherwise and M16 steps up to defend itself from said charges.If his claims of being denied freedom of travel and speech are correct and he is ex M16 what rights do the rest of us have !?
I now can't and don't blame the indymedias of the UK for being hesitant to post even my tongue in cheek remarks.It would appear that not much has changed since the English poet Percy Shelley's time and ironic that while he is my favorite English poet and his verse equals to me and sometimes exceeds that of Bob Dylan,(my favorite American poet) in his prime - in effect - by banning my post above - England has yet again after almost 200 years since his death - again censored Percy Shelley who I quote ! Ironic indeed.

I personally feel this post IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL
as far as the truth is concerned,i.e.- Tony Blair and W Bush DID lie about WMDS etc. in Iraq and led both Americans and Brits into a trap and even cost them their lives and cost Iraqi citizens MANY MORE lives.
The human pain and suffering caused by their war fraud has been immense and even now there is no end in sight.
So we outside the UK must be the ones now to keep a 'stiff upper lip' and resist the fascists who would take even free speech a basic right of democracy from us.After all it was the U.S. and even European military-industrial complex,(that even General Eisenhower warned us about),who sold Saddam Hussein as well as Iran arms in a WW I like trench warfare with chemical gases the west so happily supplied to both sides !

As an American I'm not afraid to say president George W Bush and his father George Herbert Walker Bush are war criminals.And George Herbert Walker Bush's deceased father and ex Senator profited from being banker to the Nazis.Facts are facts.

How Bush's Grandfather(Prescott Bush) Helped Hitler's Rise Power

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html



http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070901&articleId=6665

MI6 and Princess Diana: Unpublished document pertaining to the "Car Accident Plot"
Text of sworn testimony of former MI6 Agent Richard Tomlinson

Global Research, September 1, 2007
- 2003-10-21

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Global Research Editor's Note

The 1999 sworn testimony of MI6 Agent Richard Tomlininson made available to French police investigators and judicial authorities was first posted on Global Research in October 2003. This testimony which was never made public, reveals certain circumstances pertaining to the death of the Princess of Wales ten years ago in late August 1997.

1 September 2007

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MI6 and the Princess of Wales

Sworn Testimony by former MI6 Agent Richard Tomlinson

Attached below is a sworn and testified statement that I have made on 12th May 1999 to the enquiry into the deaths of the Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul. I firmly believe that MI6 have information in their files that would assist Judge Stephan's enquiry. Why don't they yield up this information? They should not be entitled to use the Official Secrets Act to protect themselves from investigation into the deaths of three people, particularly in the case of an incident of this magnitude and historical importance.

I, Richard John Charles Tomlinson, former MI6 officer, of Geneva, Switzerland hereby declare:

I firmly believe that there exist documents held by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) that would yield important new evidence into the cause and circumstances leading to the deaths of the Princess of Wales, Mr Dodi Al Fayed, and M. Henri Paul in Paris in August 1997.
I was employed by MI6 between September 1991 and April 1995. During that time, I saw various documents that I believe would provide new evidence and new leads into the investigation into these deaths. I also heard various rumours – which though I was not able to see supporting documents – I am confident were based on solid fact.
In 1992, I was working in the Eastern European Controllerate of MI6 and I was peripherally involved in a large and complicated operation to smuggle advanced Soviet weaponry out of the then disintegrating and disorganised remnants of the Soviet Union. During 1992, I spent several days reading the substantial files on this operation. These files contain a wide miscellany of contact notes, telegrams, intelligence reports, photographs etc, from which it was possible to build up a detailed understanding of the operation. The operation involved a large cast of officers and agents of MI6. One more than one occasion, meetings between various figures in the operation took place at the Ritz Hotel, Place de Vendome, Paris. There were in the file several intelligence reports on these meetings, which had been written by one of the MI6 officers based in Paris at the time (identified in the file only by a coded designation). The source of the information was an informant in the Ritz Hotel, who again was identified in the files only by a code number. The MI6 officer paid the informant in cash for his information. I became curious to learn more about the identity of this particular informant, because his number cropped up several times and he seemed to have extremely good access to the goings on in the Ritz Hotel. I therefore ordered this informant’s personal file from MI6’s central file registry. When I read this new file, I was not at all surprised to learn that the informant was a security officer of the Ritz Hotel. Intelligence services always target the security officer’s of important hotels because they have such good access to intelligence. I remember, however, being mildly surprised that the nationality of this informant was French, and this stuck in my memory, because it is rare that MI6 succeeds in recruiting a French informer. I cannot claim that I remember from this reading of the file that the name of this person was Henri Paul, but I have no doubt with the benefit of hindsight that this was he. Although I did not subsequently come across Henri Paul again during my time in MI6, I am confident that the relationship between he and MI6 would have continued until his death, because MI6 would never willingly relinquish control over such a well placed informant. I am sure that the personal file of Henri Paul will therefore contain notes of meetings between him and his MI6 controlling officer right up until the point of his death. I firmly believe that these files will contain evidence of crucial importance to the circumstances and causes of the incident that killed M. Paul, together with the Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed.
The most senior undeclared officer in the local MI6 station would normally control an informant of M.Paul’s usefulness and seniority. Officers declared to the local counter-intelligence service (in this case the Directorate de Surveillance Territoire, or DST) would not be used to control such an informant, because it might lead to the identity of the informant becoming known to the local intelligence services. In Paris at the time of M. Paul’s death, there were two relatively experienced but undeclared MI6 officers. The first was Mr Nicholas John Andrew LANGMAN, born 1960. The second was Mr Richard David SPEARMAN, again born in 1960. I firmly believe that either one or both of these officers will be well acquainted with M Paul, and most probably also met M. Paul shortly before his death. I believe that either or both of these officers will have knowledge that will be of crucial importance in establishing the sequence of events leading up to the deaths of M.Paul, Dodi Al Fayed and the Princess of Wales. Mr Spearman in particular was an extremely well connected and influential officer, because he had been, prior to his appointment in Paris, the personal secretary to the Chief of MI6 Mr David SPEDDING. As such, he would have been privy to even the most confidential of MI6 operations. I believe that there may well be significance in the fact that Mr Spearman was posted to Paris in the month immediately before the deaths.
Later in 1992, as the civil war in the former Yugoslavia became increasingly topical, I started to work primarily on operations in Serbia. During this time, I became acquainted with Dr Nicholas Bernard Frank FISHWICK, born 1958, the MI6 officer who at the time was in charge of planning Balkan operations. During one meeting with Dr Fishwick, he casually showed to me a three-page document that on closer inspection turned out to be an outline plan to assassinate the Serbian leader President Slobodan Milosevic. The plan was fully typed, and attached to a yellow "minute board", signifying that this was a formal and accountable document. It will therefore still be in existence. Fishwick had annotated that the document be circulated to the following senior MI6 officers: Maurice KENDWRICK-PIERCEY, then head of Balkan operations, John RIDDE, then the security officer for Balkan operations, the SAS liaison officer to MI6 (designation MODA/SO, but I have forgotten his name), the head of the Eastern European Controllerate (then Richard FLETCHER) and finally Alan PETTY, the personal secretary to the then Chief of MI6, Colin McCOLL. This plan contained a political justification for the assassination of Milosevic, followed by three outline proposals on how to achieve this objective. I firmly believe that the third of these scenarios contained information that could be useful in establishing the causes of death of Henri Paul, the Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al Fayed. This third scenario suggested that Milosevic could be assassinated by causing his personal limousine to crash. Dr Fishwick proposed to arrange the crash in a tunnel, because the proximity of concrete close to the road would ensure that the crash would be sufficiently violent to cause death or serious injury, and would also reduce the possibility that there might be independent, casual witnesses. Dr Fishwick suggested that one way to cause the crash might be to disorientate the chauffeur using a strobe flash gun, a device which is occasionally deployed by special forces to, for example, disorientate helicopter pilots or terrorists, and about which MI6 officers are briefed about during their training. In short, this scenario bore remarkable similarities to the circumstances and witness accounts of the crash that killed the Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul. I firmly believe that this document should be yielded by MI6 to the Judge investigating these deaths, and would provide further leads that he could follow.
During my service in MI6, I also learnt unofficially and second-hand something of the links between MI6 and the Royal Household. MI6 are frequently and routinely asked by the Royal Household (usually via the Foreign Office) to provide intelligence on potential threats to members of the Royal Family whilst on overseas trips. This service would frequently extend to asking friendly intelligence services (such as the CIA) to place members of the Royal Family under discrete surveillance, ostensibly for their own protection. This was particularly the case for the Princess of Wales, who often insisted on doing without overt personal protection, even on overseas trips. Although contact between MI6 and the Royal Household was officially only via the Foreign Office, I learnt while in MI6 that there was unofficial direct contact between certain senior and influential MI6 officers and senior members of the Royal Household. I did not see any official papers on this subject, but I am confident that the information is correct. I firmly believe that MI6 documents would yield substantial leads on the nature of their links with the Royal Household, and would yield vital information about MI6 surveillance on the Princess of Wales in the days leading to her death.
I also learnt while in MI6 that one of the "paparazzi" photographers who routinely followed the Princess of Wales was a member of "UKN", a small corps of part-time MI6 agents who provide miscellaneous services to MI6 such as surveillance and photography expertise. I do not know the identity of this photographer, or whether he was one of the photographers present at the time of the fatal incident. However, I am confident that examination of UKN records would yield the identity of this photographer, and would enable the inquest to eliminate or further investigate that potential line of enquiry.
On Friday August 28 1998, I gave much of this information to Judge Hervé Stephan, the French investigative Judge in charge of the inquest into the accident. The lengths which MI6, the CIA and the DST have taken to deter me giving this evidence and subsequently to stop me talking about it, suggests that they have something to hide.
On Friday 31 July 1998, shortly before my appointment with Judge Hervé Stephan, the DST arrested me in my Paris hotel room. Although I have no record of violent conduct I was arrested with such ferocity and at gunpoint that I received a broken rib. I was taken to the headquarters of the DST, and interrogated for 38 hours. Despite my repeated requests, I was never given any justification for the arrest and was not shown the arrest warrant. Even though I was released without charge, the DST confiscated from me my laptop computer and Psion organiser. They illegally gave these to MI6 who took them back to the UK. They were not returned for six months, which is illegal and caused me great inconvenience and financial cost.
On Friday 7th August 1998 I boarded a Qantas flight at Auckland International airport, New Zealand, for a flight to Sydney, Australia where I was due to give a television interview to the Australian Channel Nine television company. I was in my seat, awaiting take off, when an official boarded the plane and told me to get off. At the airbridge, he told me that the airline had received a fax "from Canberra" saying that there was a problem with my travel papers. I immediately asked to see the fax, but I was told that "it was not possible". I believe that this is because it didn't exist. This action was a ploy to keep me in New Zealand so that the New Zealand police could take further action against me. I had been back in my Auckland hotel room for about half an hour when the New Zealand police and NZSIS, the New Zealand Secret Intelligence Service, raided me. After being detained and searched for about three hours, they eventually confiscated from me all my remaining computer equipment that the French DST had not succeeded in taking from me. Again, I didn't get some of these items back until six months later.
Moreover, shortly after I had given this evidence to Judge Stephan, I was invited to talk about this evidence in a live television interview on America’s NBC television channel. I flew from Geneva to JFK airport on Sunday 30 August to give the interview in New York on the following Monday morning. Shortly after arrival at John F Kennedy airport, the captain of the Swiss Air flight told all passengers to return to their seats. Four US Immigration authority officers entered the plane, came straight to my seat, asked for my passport as identity, and then frogmarched me off the plane. I was taken to the immigration detention centre, photographed, fingerprinted, manacled by my ankle to a chair for seven hours, served with deportation papers (exhibit 1) and then returned on the next available plane to Geneva. I was not allowed to make any telephone calls to the representatives of NBC awaiting me in the airport. The US Immigration Officers - who were all openly sympathetic to my situation and apologised for treating me so badly - openly admitted that they were acting under instructions from the CIA.
In January of this year, I booked a chalet in the village of Samoens in the French Alps for a ten day snowboarding holiday with my parents. I picked up my parents from Geneva airport in a hire car on the evening of January 8, and set off for the French border. At the French customs post, our car was stopped and I was detained. Four officers from the DST held me for four hours. At the end of this interview, I was served with the deportation papers below (exhibit 2), and ordered to return to Switzerland. Note that in the papers, my supposed destination has been changed from "Chamonix" to "Samoens". This is because when first questioned by a junior DST officer, I told him that my destination was "Chamonix". When a senior officer arrived an hour or so later, he crossed out the word and changed it to "Samoens", without ever even asking or confirming this with me. I believe this is because MI6 had told them of my true destination, having learnt the information through surveillance on my parent's telephone in the UK. My banning from France is entirely illegal under European law. I have a British passport and am entitled to travel freely within the European Union. MI6 have "done a deal" with the DST to have me banned, and have not used any recognised legal mechanism to deny my rights to freedom of travel. I believe that the DST and MI6 have banned me from France because they wanted to prevent me from giving further evidence to Judge Stephan’s inquest, which at the time, I was planning to do.
Whatever MI6’s role in the events leading to the death of the Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed and Henri Paul, I am absolutely certain that there is substantial evidence in their files that would provide crucial evidence in establishing the exact causes of this tragedy. I believe that they have gone to considerable lengths to obstruct the course of justice by interfering with my freedom of speech and travel, and this in my view confirms my belief that they have something to hide. I believe that the protection given to MI6 files under the Official Secrets Act should be set aside in the public interest in uncovering once and for all the truth behind these dramatic and historically momentous events.

SWORN at )

this day of )

1998, before me:- )

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A Notary Public

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© Copyright R Tomlinnson, 1999.


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