Evidence in this section should be viewed in the light of the earlier section in Part 2: Fears of and Threats to Other People.
Trevor Rees-Jones & Moira Johnston, The Bodyguard’s Story, 2000, pages 356-7
Trevor Rees-Jones’ Paris lawyer.
Trevor Rees-Jones & Moira Johnston, The Bodyguard’s Story, 2000, page 356
See section on Fears Of and Threats To Other People.
This was Gooroovadoo’s second statement – his first was taken at 2.30 a.m.
British police officer.
Driver of the white Fiat Uno – see Part 1.
The denials from the NSA and CIA have been addressed in the Intelligence Agencies section of the Surveillance chapter in Part 2. The statements from the French agencies, DGSE and DST, are also included in the section on Links to Intelligence Agencies in the first chapter of Part 1. This section should be viewed in the light of the material included in those other volumes.
See Parts 1 to 4.
Interview with Richard Tomlinson conducted by Paul Sparks at Arles, France on 5 April 2009
In his book Tomlinson relates a situation where DST did work in the 1980s on behalf of MI6: Nahoum Manbar, Nice-based chemical weapons suspect, “was denied entry to Britain [and] put on the first plane back to Nice and MI6 asked the DST … to keep an eye on him. Through telephone intercepts on Manbar’s home and information from other sources the DST established that in 1988 Manbar obtained the plans for a mustard gas plant which he sold at handsome profit to … a senior Iranian intelligence officer…. The DST picked up Manbar’s increasingly frequent telephone conversations with [Joyce] Kiddie [a British businesswoman] and tipped off MI6.”: The Big Breach, pp180-1.
In the section on the Gaddafi assassination plot.
This actually occurred a day after Tomlinson’s first DST arrest – Tomlinson was on July 31 and Shayler on August 1, 1998.
Tomlinson was never posted to the Paris embassy. This appears to be evidence of cooperation between MI6 officers based outside France and French intelligence.
Richard Tomlinson, The Big Breach, 2001, page 191
Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, 2001, page 89
Bearing in mind the CIA was only officially created in September 1947, the post-war period of intelligence sharing between the UK and US appeared to provide a strong base for later cooperation. Dorril describes the nature of various MI6/CIA joint operations and intelligence sharing during the 1950s: telephone tapping in Vienna (p131); atomic intelligence (p155); the set-up of a centre in Frankfurt to exploit the assets of the Russian National Labour Council, the NTS (p422); establishment of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in Europe (p475). : MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations.
Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, 2001, page 475
Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, 2001, page 710
British intelligence writer.
Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, 2001, page 710
Stephen Dorril, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations, 2001, page 736
This operation is not to be confused with the 1996 assassination attempt – see earlier – that did not directly involve the CIA. This 1970 plot took place soon after Gaddafi came to power in September 1969 – it was a planned overthrow, not an assassination plot.
Clinton Backs Diana on Mine Ban, Daily Mail, 19 August 1997
US Agrees to Soften Stance on Land-mine Ban, CNN, September 15 1997
Worldwide Ban on Landmines Approved, Without US, CNN, September 17 1997
Clinton Rejects Landmine Treaty, Mail On Sunday, 30 November 1997
Jon King & John Beveridge, Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence, 2001, pages 54-55
Jon King & John Beveridge, Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence, 2001, page 56
William Blum, Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, 1995, p453
The CIA was set up in 1947.
The 19 page document was declassified and approved for release in July 1995. An ebook version by sokol can be viewed at www.whale.to/b/ciaass1.html A Study of Assassination states: “No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded…. No report may be made, but usually the act will be properly covered by normal news services, whose output is available to all concerned…. Killing a political leader whose burgeoning career is a clear and present danger to the cause of freedom may be held necessary…. The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject…. Death must be absolutely certain. The attempt on Hitler‘s life failed because the conspiracy did not give this matter proper attention…. Arson can cause accidental death if the subject is drugged and left in a burning building. Reliability is not satisfactory unless the building is isolated and highly combustible.”
In France and the UK.
“Automobile accidents are a less satisfactory means of assassination.”
Supported by other media articles shown above.
The treaty was concluded in Oslo in September and signed in Ottawa in December 1997.