This was yesterday's Daily Express front page article. I've included a leaflet I wrote on the assassination of Diana and two revolutionary socialists in Manchester later in this message...
SPIES SABOTAGE DIANA INQUIRY
Secret services in plot to hide truth over her death
Daily Express
3 Apr 2006
3 Apr 2006
THE probe into Princess Diana’s death took a sinister twist last night as a top lawyer accused spies on both sides of the Channel of sabotage.
The claim will fuel
fears of a cover-up orchestrated by the British and French secret services.
The intelligence agencies were supposed to help answer a series of questions set out by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights.
But a legal source close to the case, speaking to the Daily Express on condition of strict anonymity, has exposed this “co-operation” as a sham.
The lawyer revealed: “The French judiciary and police have been bad enough, but security agencies in both Britain and France have done everything possible to hamper the inquiry. They have done absolutely nothing to help answer vital questions and have stalled the judicial process.
“The feeling is that they know exactly what happened on the night Diana died,
but do not want the truth to come out under any circumstances. The whole thing is extremely sinister.”
The intervention by the human rights court followed eight years during which the Paris authorities were accused of suppressing evidence and bungling vital forensic tests.
But the revelation that spies are still hampering the search for the truth is causing alarm.
The lawyer went on: “This has ranged from claiming that no spies were in Paris that
night – which is a complete lie – to interfering with vital evidence, and even with witnesses.”
The lawyer’s allegation has infuriated Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed, whose son Dodi died alongside Diana in the Paris car crash.
Mr Al Fayed said last night: “The French are very mistaken if they think I am leaving this
alone. There’s is a blatant attempt to delay the report to Strasbourg
“I will use the full force of European law to compel them to expose the role of MI6 in the murder of my son and Princess Diana.
“Once again everything I have said has come true. There was a cover-up at the time and these people have been trying to suppress the truth ever since.”
Investigators are certain that representatives of the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, were operating in Paris on the night of August 31, 1997, when Diana was killed.
They are also sure that France’s DGSE – their equivalent of MI6 – was out in force.
Chauffeur Henri Paul was known to be working for both intelligence services and is believed to have met one of his minders hours before the fateful crash.
There was around £2,000 worth of French francs in Paul’s jacket pocket on the night he died.
Investigators are trying to trace the source of the unexplained cash, which points to spymasters who may have been planning Diana’s death. Both agencies have been called upon to solve riddles, including why it took so long for Diana to reach hospital.
They have also been asked to explain why pathologists broke French law by allowing Diana’s body to be embalmed – so making pregnancy tests invalid – and why blood tests on her so-called “drunk driver” Henri Paul have never been verified independently.
Strasbourg had originally demanded that the French government answer a number of questions by February of this year.
The deadline was then put back to this Thursday. But even this deadline has now proved impossible to
meet.
Strasbourg hoped to allow outside agencies, and especially the families of those who died alongside the Princess, to demand answers about what really happened before, during and after the fatal car crash. Such was the seriousness with which the court viewed the case that it fast-tracked it through what is normally an incredibly protracted process.
The official French inquiry concluded in 1999 that driver Paul was drunk and speeding in a car he did not normally drive when he lost control entering the Alma tunnel.
But readings of carbon monoxide and alcohol in his body meant it would have been impossible for him to stand, let alone drive.
Mr Al Fayed has always claimed that his son and Diana were murdered.
Speculation was
fuelled by a letter in which Diana said she feared she would die in a car crash and the brakes would be tampered with.
Last year Mr Al Fayed petitioned the European Court under human rights legislation which guarantees everybody the right to life. Mr Al Fayed’s lawyers successfully Monday April 3 2006 argued that the deaths were mysterious and that relatives of the deceased had a legal right to a proper investigation.
The ruling calls on the French to answer all questions as “a matter of urgency”.
Scores of questions were presented, including which security agencies were operating in Paris on the night of Diana’s death and whether her car been tampered with.
And why did it take so long for the French emergency services to get her to a hospital where she could have received life-saving attention?
The
court also asked why potentially crucial CCTV film of the crash site has never been made available, and what information the authorities received from Henri Paul.
It also asked who was behind media leaks accusing Paul of being drunk and who exactly gave permission for Diana’s body to be embalmed.
The new evidence will be made available to British detectives currently taking part in the £4million inquiry into the death of Diana. Codenamed Operation Paget, it is being led by former Scotland Yard Commissioner Lord Stevens.
Detectives have always complained that co-operation from Paris has never been as good as they might expect.
The British police report into Diana’s death is expected to be completed by next year and the inquest will take place shortly afterwards.
The latest twist follows a series of allegations
about a dirty tricks campaign by British spies.
Lord Stevens and his 12-strong squad have investigated the activities of the two MI6 officers in Paris on the night of the tragedy.
One of them was interviewed over allegations that he and a colleague were ordered to block investigations into MI6 surveillance of Diana.
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Yesterday's Daily Express front page article has prompted me to resend the text of a leaflet I wrote about a year ago - and that I have put on the assassinations page of my website (www.socialiststeve.me.uk).
The Assassination of Princess Diana
and of Manchester Socialist Party members Nathalie Monier and Stuart Ward
Review of Diana: Death of a Goddess by David Cohen
What really happened in her last few hours
and the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
I bought the book on Princess Diana’s death from FOPP, a branch of the revolutionary socialist music/DVDs/book store, just off Market Street (by Tesco Metro) in Manchester City Centre. FOPP’s selection of political books is particularly good.
Music Zone is a socialist but not revolutionary chain, and HMV is a big business chain. Since Richard Branson is regarded as a good capitalist (and probably is), a lot of genuine working class young people work in Virgin Megastores in order to promote good albums (by ordering lots of copies or putting them in the sales); the store in Market Street was becoming a hive of revolution, which forced conspiratorial organisations on the side of big business to shut it down, leaving the big HMV as the only store in Manchester with a large selection of CDs. Music Zone’s books are not particularly good, so I’d suggest Waterstones (which has a very big branch on Deansgate and a smaller one on St. Ann’s Square) as an alternative source of books, including those by the most significant science fiction author of all time, Isaac Asimov. Avoid Amazon on the internet since I bought at least one book supposedly written by Isaac, called Magic, which clearly
wasn’t written by him; I suspect that they produce different versions of particularly important books.
Isaac’s most important literature is the Foundation series that explains a lot about how the world works outcome in a story about the replacement of a crumbling empire by a new one over a period of 1,000 years (a galactic revolution). The main character Hari Seldon invents “psychohistory”, which entails building a model of the past and present on a computer in order to predict the future and decide what needs to be done in order to achieve a desired outcome. This is what the brain does all the time with all sorts of sub-tasks, but which is applied in the novels to achieving a galactic revolution; on the Earth, computer modelling is carried out by conspiratorial organisations on the side of the working class to ensure a world socialist revolution succeeds – and by conspiratorial organisations on the side of big
business to try to stop us. I have developed a simulation language called SDML that is used for this task. For more information, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/strictly-declarative-modelling-language. Two “Foundations” were set up by Hari at opposite ends of the galaxy, one to become the nucleus of a new empire and the Second Foundation (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/second-foundation) whose members used mind reading/control powers ensure that the “Seldon plan” for the revolution was adhered to. Mind control was revealed as fact and number one in a list of “The World’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories” (with over 500,000 websites devoted to it) in a Channel 5 TV programme on the Thursday before Christmas. Foundation’s Edge and Foundation and Earth have a very left-wing ending (called “Galaxia”, which I am therefore
using as the name for a new revolutionary socialist band – see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/galaxiamusic) and it is best to read them first; the original trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation) had right-wing plots to get round the censors in the 1950s.
The British state certainly had motives for assassinating Diana. She was the world’s greatest anti-war campaigner, due to her hugely successful campaign against landmines, and was going out with a Muslim. Imagine if she was alive two years ago – Blair would not have got away with supporting Bush’s war for oil on Iraq! Also, Diana was a huge embarrassment for the Royal Family, which would have been compounded if she had married Dodi Fayed or perhaps even had a baby with Dodi out of wedlock. There
were rumours that Diana had a foetus in her stomach when she died, but the French state did not permit a proper autopsy or inquest, as David Cohen reveals in his book (based on a documentary he produced for Channel 5). There were many other cover-ups, including the fact that the French state cleaned the tunnel and opened it up to the public in a matter of hours, removing what could have been vital evidence!
I knew that Diana was assassinated when I first heard the news, since the most serious love of my life, Nathalie Monier, in Manchester Socialist Party, was assassinated in equally suspicious circumstances alongside Stuart Ward (an agent of big business and ex-squaddie who was also in the Socialist Party and Militant Tendency as it was known beforehand – Militant led the 18 million-strong mass non-payment campaign that defeated the poll tax and brought down Margaret Thatcher – see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/militant-tendency), called Stuart Ward, while waiting in Whalley Range – by a very fast car hired by two drug dealers, who of course are easy to manipulate by the “security services”, driving at over 100mph past cars waiting at a bus stop and mowing them down at a bus stop (waiting to go to a meeting I was at) on the other side of the road. After Diana’s butler Paul Burrell revealed that she had written him a note saying that there was a plot to tamper with the brakes of her car in the Daily Mirror, over 90% of people in an opinion poll thought that she had been murdered! However, in Diana: Death of a Goddess, David Cohen rules that out as the method of her death.
David came up with a lot of evidence for the most likely explanation of Diana’s death – VX5 nerve
gas squirted into driver Henri Paul’s face when the Mercedes entered the Alma Tunnel, to give him blurred vision, so that he would hit a white Fiat Uno driven by James Andanson that was zigzagging slowly in the tunnel. Pieces of the Uno’s tail light were later found in the tunnel. Andanson had links with both the British and French “security services” and the Order of the Solar Temple. Many members of that Order died in suspicious circumstances – including Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco), who paid $8 million to join but refused to pay an additional £12 million that the Order subsequently demanded from her. She died on a road adjacent to land owned by the Order; it seems that they detonated a device emitting VX nerve gas by remote control so that Grace’s car would crash. Andanson himself later died in suspicious circumstances – supposedly committing suicide by setting fire to himself many miles from anywhere. Diana’s ambulance took an extraordinary length of time to
reach a hospital, and someone was paid $540,000 to bump her off.
The only flaw in David’s excellent book is the final chapter, where he suggests that there was a conspiracy but that it didn’t work and he resorts to psychological reasoning (clearly in order to get published). He supposedly rules out the conspiracy succeeding because it couldn’t be modelled (but it, as well as Nathalie and Stuart’s assassination, could be using SDML fully in advance).
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