[CTRL] Right to Know
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.pirg.org Via http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/may99/ MAY 12, 1999 1:50 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: US Public Interest Research Group Allison LaPlante (202) 546-9707 Paul Burns (617) 292-4800 Right-To-Know Data Show Significant Increases In Toxic waste; Industrial Pollution Prevention Efforts Failing WASHINGTON - May 13 - Increases in toxic wastes managed and chemicals released to the environment reported to in the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) demonstrate that pollution prevention is failing, according to U.S. PIRG. The EPAs Toxics Release Inventory data show that toxic wastes managed by industries increased by 11.7 percent between 1996 and 1997. This indicates that industries are failing to reduce the toxic wastes they manage and failing to reduce toxic pollution at the source. The data also show that toxic chemical releases to the environment have increased slightly. Releases to the air, land and water between 1996 and 1997 increased by 2.2 percent nationally. It is troubling to see a first-time increase in toxic chemical releases to the environment, but it is even more troubling that toxic wastes managed by industries continue to increase year after year, said Allison LaPlante, U.S. PIRG Environmental Advocate. This pattern indicates that pollution prevention in this country is not working. A nearly twelve percent increase in quantities of waste managed is the greatest increase weve seen in several years. The 1990 Pollution Prevention Act declared a national policy that pollution should be prevented or reduced at the source whenever feasible, but the TRI data indicate that these goals are not being met. The quantities of toxic wastes managed from year to year are currently the best indicators of industry trends in pollution prevention. Increases in quantities of waste managed show that industries may be shifting toxic hazards from one area of the environment to another, rather than avoiding creating the waste in the first place. States with Right to Know programs that go beyond the federal program and focus on how toxic chemicals are used show very different results. In Massachusetts, for example, manufacturers decreased their total toxic chemical use by 24 percent, their waste generation by 41percent and their total toxic chemical releases by 80 percent between 1990 and 1997. In contrast, TRI data show a national increase of eight percent in waste managed by industries between 1991 and 1997. The numbers from Massachusetts tell a better story about pollution prevention, said Paul Burns, MASSPIRGs Toxics Advocate. Since the 1990 Toxics Use Reduction Act has been in place, Massachusetts has been a leader in pollution prevention. Industries in Massachusetts are reducing their reliance on chemicals that may cause cancer, birth defects or other serious health problems. Although Massachusetts industries must continue to reduce toxic chemical use, this states program should be a national model, said Burns. The federal Right to Know program has provided the public with critical information and has led to significant decreases in toxic chemical pollution, but it is only a fraction of the real toxic picture. We are urging Congress to support legislation that would require industries to publicly report on their toxic chemical use, allowing the public to more accurately track pollution prevention progress and encouraging industries to reduce hazardous wastes and toxic chemical use, said LaPlante. Legislation is pending in Congress that would expand the federal Right to Know program to include toxic chemical use reporting, additional sources of toxic chemical pollution, and stricter reporting for extremely dangerous substances. The Childrens Environmental Protection and Right to Know Act of 1999, H.R. 1657, is modeled after successful state programs in Massachusetts and New Jersey. The bill was introduced last week by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Jim Saxton (R-NJ) with the support of 123 original cosponsors. The Waxman/Saxton Right to Know bill is being introduced as the EPA is also considering expanding the Right to Know program to include reporting on extremely dangerous substances that currently escape the publics view because of a loophole in the law. Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxins (PBTs) like dioxin, mercury and lead are extremely dangerous in small quantities, persist in the environment for long periods of time and build up in human and animal tissue. The public receives almost no information about the toxic chemicals that pose the greatest threat. These are the substances we should be working to eliminate. At a minimum, we have the right to know when they are being used and released in our communities, said LaPlante. We are calling on the EPA to require complete reporting of all persistent or bioaccumulative toxins. said LaPlante. ### From www.citizen.org (via commondreams.org) MAY 13, 1999 3:10 PM FOR
[CTRL] Kosovo Another Holocaust? HARDLY
-Caveat Lector- Some Bristle at Holocaust Parallel By DEB RIECHMANN .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton draws parallels between what Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is doing in Kosovo and what Adolf Hitler did in the Holocaust. But Jewish leaders bridle at the comparison: Nothing, they say, is like the mass exterminations during World War II. In a speech to 200 veterans of foreign wars, Clinton spoke of the two tragedies in the same breath. Although Milosevic's ``ethnic cleansing is not the same as the ethnic extermination at the Holocaust, the two are related -- both vicious, premeditated, systematic oppression fueled by religious and ethnic hatred,'' Clinton said Thursday. National security spokesman David Leavy says Clinton is not belittling Hitler's systematic annihilation of 6 million Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. He's only pointing out the similarities -- forced rapes, mass executions, erasing of people's identities, Leavy said. ``There is no comparison to the Holocaust in scale and scope,'' he said. ``(But) while it's not of the same magnitude, the Holocaust and what we're seeing today have similarities.'' Phil Baum, director of the American Jewish Congress, a New York-based human rights organization, says the crisis in Kosovo is a political conflict with a political solution. In World War II, there was nothing the Jews could do to save themselves from the German government's efforts to exterminate them, Baum said. ``I'm not offended, but it tends to trivialize the Holocaust. It denigrates the historical meaning of the Holocaust,'' Baum says of the comparison. ``It reduces it to a political conflict, and that is not what it was. It was an attempt to destroy the Jewish people.'' Comparing the two is a waste of time, says Hyman Bookbinder, a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council's Committee on Conscience. ``There are some people who feel it's not fair to the victims of the Holocaust to call it a Holocaust,'' Bookbinder said. ``Nothing is like the Holocaust, but the fact that it's not exactly like it doesn't matter. It's a major human rights violation. We must not let the Kosovo tragedy go unattended.'' Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace laureate and author who spoke last month at a White House lecture series hosted by Clinton, agrees. It's time to stop the conflict in Kosovo, not discuss whether the crisis is another Holocaust. Wiesel, who survived Hitler's death camps at Buchenwald and Auschwitz, said the comparisons began in the early 1990s during the war in Bosnia. ``Some reports referred to Auschwitz in Bosnia. I saw the prison camps at Banja Luka (in Bosnia); the conditions were deplorable and the prisoners terrified,'' Wiesel wrote recently in Newsweek magazine. ``But it was not Auschwitz. Auschwitz was an extermination camp, a black hole in history. Victims were taken there to be turned into ashes. Now we are witnessing a nightmare in Kosovo; it demands action, not comparison.'' Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., who has relatives who died at Auschwitz, said he too is appalled by what is happening to ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Still, it's not the Holocaust, says Lantos, who supports NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. ``At the end of the line when these poor Kosovo refugees enter Macedonia or Albania, waiting for them is not extermination ovens and gas chambers, but food, clothing, medical supplies and airplanes to take them to other parts of Europe or the United States,'' Lantos said. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] As If Throwing Money at Fools Made Them Wise ...
-Caveat Lector- "Democrats rejected the argument that the Chinese Embassy bombing stemmed from underfunding of intelligence programs. "Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., questioned how the CIA could have erred in planning the bombing target when his own staff was able to pull down from the Internet the correct address of the Chinese Embassy." House Increases CIA Budget By JOHN DIAMOND .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Spending on intelligence gathering and analysis would increase under a plan passed by the House, although overall funding for intelligence would drop slightly. Lawmakers worried that tight budgets in the past have hurt U.S. intelligence operations. The House approved the largely classified spending plan for the CIA and 10 other intelligence-related agencies Thursday on a voice vote after overwhelmingly defeating a measure that would have frozen the intelligence budget at 1998 levels. The amount of the bill is classified. But Rep. Julian Dixon, D-Calif., ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the total amount is actually slightly less than this year's level. Based on previously released figures and interviews with knowledgeable U.S. officials, the amount sought for next year is believed to be about $27 billion. ``We have to reverse a very serious trend of decline and atrophy'' in intelligence spending, Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told colleagues. Later, in a telephone interview, Goss said that this year's spending on intelligence marked a sharp increase over 1998 and that the legislation authorizing money for next year calls for slightly lower spending levels, it largely sustains the increase. In addition, changes in which government accounts are included in the intelligence bill means that a lower total still could mean more spending on core intelligence priorities. The bill provides spending authority and policy guidance for the CIA, National Security Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, Defense Intelligence Agency and FBI, among other agencies. Much of the money in the bill goes to costly technical intelligence programs involving satellites and other hardware managed by the NRO and NSA. Despite some partisan questioning of President Clinton's commitment to improving intelligence, the measure adds less than 1 percent to the administration's request. Debate came amid congressional attention to alleged Chinese espionage at U.S. nuclear weapons labs and a high-profile CIA blunder that led to the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The bill, which awaits Senate consideration, adds money in several intelligence areas to address concern over these issues. The measure: Increases money for FBI counterintelligence investigations and training. Accepts Clinton's proposal to boost the Department of Energy's security and counterintelligence program. Adds money for computer security at military, intelligence and nuclear weapons centers. Boosts spending for foreign language training, a problem cited by a CIA review team looking at the national security implications of Chinese espionage. Includes a ``substantial increase'' for CIA analysis of foreign nuclear weapons programs, particularly in China and Russia. Decreases the space launch and hardware budget for the NRO while adding money on the analysis side of the intelligence community so that reams of raw intelligence -- from satellite data to the change in address of a foreign embassy -- can be better managed. Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del., said there is more spy satellite imagery flowing into U.S. intelligence centers than analysts can handle. More money is needed for technology to intercept foreign communications and electronic signals, he said. ``We are at risk of going deaf to the worldwide explosion of communications technology,'' Castle said. Democrats rejected the argument that the Chinese Embassy bombing stemmed from underfunding of intelligence programs. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., questioned how the CIA could have erred in planning the bombing target when his own staff was able to pull down from the Internet the correct address of the Chinese Embassy. A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that because the CIA was not looking for the Chinese Embassy but was trying to pinpoint a Yugoslav government facility, the error was not simply the result of out-of-date maps. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL
[CTRL] China: Say NO to the NWO
-Caveat Lector- China Urges Defiance of US Bullying By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN .c The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- While praising victims of NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade as heroes, China's president accused the United States on Thursday of seeking global dominance and urged nations worldwide to defy American bullying and create a new just order. The harsh words showed just how much the embassy bombing in Yugoslavia has damaged Chinese political will for smooth U.S. relations -- particularly since they came from President Jiang Zemin, who last year claimed credit for engineering a rapprochement with Washington. But in a sign China is willing to ease tensions, Jiang also agreed to speak to President Clinton for the first time since Saturday's embassy bombing. White House officials said they were working to arrange a telephone call between the two leaders, although it was not clear if it could take place by Friday. Jiang has so far avoided speaking to Clinton. But he conveyed his willingness to talk through the Chinese ambassador in Washington, who took a condolence book to the White House for Clinton to sign Thursday. At an emotional ceremony conferring the title of ``revolutionary martyr'' on the three victims of the bombing, Jiang outright called the United States a term China reserves for enemy countries -- ``hegemonist'' -- for the first time in three years of improving relations. Jiang said the United States was using its economic and technological superiority to aggressively expand its influence, pursue ``power politics and wantonly interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.'' Jiang, who also heads the Communist Party, hinted that public protests around the U.S. Embassy that ended Tuesday could renew if Chinese demands for redress were not met. The United States and NATO must make formal apologies, thoroughly investigate the bombing and punish those responsible, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted him as saying. ``Otherwise the Chinese people will never let the matter go.'' The state-sanctioned protests brought tens of thousands of Chinese into the streets in 20 cities, saw the U.S., British and Albanian embassies stoned and a U.S. consul's residence set on fire in the western city of Chengdu. In Beijing's embassy district, police removed road barriers Thursday, allowing cars and pedestrians to travel freely for the first time since the four-day protests began Saturday. Signs that guided the tens of thousands of protesters to the British and U.S. embassies were removed. Fearing further unrest, paramilitary police maintained a cordon around a two-block area near the U.S. Embassy, keeping foreign reporters and curious onlookers well away. The embassy itself was a mess after being pelted with rocks, bottles and paint bombs by the protesters. A day after the victims of last Friday's embassy bombing returned to Beijing, the communist leadership on Thursday honored the three killed, all journalists. ``The great People's Republic of China can never be bullied,'' Jiang said, with the rest of the leadership arrayed around him and relatives of the dead and wounded in the audience. The war in Yugoslavia and the embassy bombing made more countries aware of the United States' quest for dominance, Jiang said. He appealed to them to unite to create ``a just and rational new international order in the common struggle against hegemonism and power politics.'' Government support for the protests -- biased media coverage, party groups busing students in and police standing by as demonstrators rampaged -- have drawn criticism from U.S. officials. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao assailed suggestions of government connivance as ``unwarranted'' and called the protests acts of understandable outrage. ``This is natural, justifiable and brooks no questioning,'' Zhu told reporters. ``We do not condemn or condone those lawbreaking activities. I'm sure you have seen what we have done in recent days,'' Zhu said, referring to the tighter security imposed Tuesday. With the protests over, U.S. officials were reassessing security plans and beginning to repair damage to the embassy and also to the consulates in Chengdu and the northeastern city of Shenyang, embassy spokesman Tom Cooney said. To aid that effort, the embassy and the two consulates will remain closed until at least Monday and the issuing of visas for work travel or study in the United States will be suspended indefinitely at the embassy and all four U.S. consulates in China, Cooney said. U.S. consulates in Guangzhou and Shanghai, which were not badly damaged during similar protests there, will reopen Friday. The White House also announced its nominee to become the new ambassador to China, retired Adm. Joseph W. Prueher. If confirmed by the Senate, he would replace Ambassador James Sasser in Beijing. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting
[CTRL] Military Ambassador to China
-Caveat Lector- "In 1996, while he held the Pacific command, American warships were sent in to warn China not to use its war games to try and disrupt elections in Taiwan." Ex-Admiral To Become China Envoy By SONYA ROSS .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man chosen by President Clinton to be the next ambassador to China is no stranger to tensions in the Pacific -- or to strained relations with a country angered by deaths of its citizens at the hands of the U.S. military. The White House said Thursday that Clinton had picked retired Adm. Joseph W. Prueher to replace Ambassador James Sasser in Beijing. The nomination would be subject to Senate confirmation. Prueher, 56, was commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific during a particularly tense period in U.S.-Chinese relations, stepping down from that post in March. A spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Brian Cullen, said Prueher was ``honored to be considered'' but would not comment publicly until the nomination was formally announced. Prueher is being called just as U.S.-Chinese relations have turned confrontational over NATO's mistaken bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Three Chinese citizens were killed, and the incident triggered angry protests across China -- protests that kept Sasser and other staff members stuck in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing as demonstrators broke windows with rocks. Prueher is familiar with national resentment over U.S. actions. Earlier this year, he was selected by Defense Secretary William Cohen to co-chair a joint American-Italian committee that reviewed flight safety procedures for American aircraft operating from Italian bases. Those procedures came under close scrutiny after a low-flying Marine jet hit a ski gondola cable in the Italian Alps, sending 20 people to their deaths. Prueher succeeded in satisfying demands for more Italian control of air operations there but, according to U.S. officials, without compromising U.S. military readiness. The selection ends a months-long search in which several people were said to have declined the post, including other former military leaders and former members of Congress. Jonathan Pollack, senior Asia specialist at Rand Corp., said Prueher is the choice that Clinton should have made from the beginning, because of the skills he demonstrated in the Pacific command. ``It's a job that depends a lot on diplomatic skills,'' Pollack said. ``Even though we may be in something of a chill in our military-to-military relationship with China, that gives value to having Prueher there. He knows people in the (Chinese) armed forces, he knows the process.'' While nominating a career military leader to an ambassadorial post is unusual, it is not unprecedented. One of Prueher's predecessors at the Pacific Command, Adm. William Crowe, went on to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then ambassador to Britain. In February, Defense Secretary William Cohen described him as ``a man of principle, free of self-doubt,'' a wise man with a broad mind -- and a two handicap at golf. ``So long as Joe Prueher has been on the watch, there has never been a doubt about America's resolve and commitment to the Pacific region,'' Cohen said. While he held the Pacific command, Prueher worked on improving military ties with China. But it was also during his tenure that American warships were sent into the Straits of Taiwan in 1996 to warn China not to use war games to disrupt elections in Taiwan. Before leaving the Pacific post this year, Prueher said the United States was ``in for a little more difficult time'' with China regarding human rights concerns because China had been grappling with an unsteady economy. ``Their economic problems are creating a lot of stress,'' Prueher told the Los Angeles Times. ``When their leaders lose a bit of stability, or control over an issue, they worry a lot, and it bleeds over to the human rights issue, where we don't see eye to eye. Still, we must respect China's legitimate interests.'' Prueher, from Nashville, Tenn., commanded the Navy's 6th Fleet and was U.S. Naval Academy commandant from 1989 to 1991. He also has served as commander of NATO's Naval Striking and Support Forces in Southern Europe. While at the Naval Academy, Prueher came under scrutiny for his handling of a 1989 incident in which a female midshipman, Gwen M. Dwyer, was handcuffed to a urinal and taunted by several male midshipmen after a snowball fight on campus. Prueher was the chief disciplinary officer in the young woman's sexual harassment case, and her family said he did not punish the eight men involved severely enough. Several academy officials were punished harshly -- some were transferred out of the school. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and
[CTRL] World Court Alternative to World War ?
-Caveat Lector- "Representatives from more than 100 countries overwhelmingly approved a treaty to create a permanent war-crimes tribunal, despite strong U.S. opposition. (The U.S. demanded special veto power to prevent prosecution of any American "war criminal.".) World Court May Be Key to Peace By ANTHONY DEUTSCH .c The Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A permanent international criminal court created through a treaty last year should be set up as soon as possible, a global peace forum urged Thursday. The new court ``is the promise that one day something greater than force will prevail,'' Louise Arbour, chief prosecutor of the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, told delegates to The Hague Appeal for Peace. Despite strong U.S. opposition, representatives from more than 100 countries overwhelmingly approved a treaty in July to create the permanent criminal tribunal. The United States wanted the option to veto the prosecution of any American citizen. With U.S. troops deployed in hot spots around the world, Washington fears they could become targets of politically motivated charges. So far, only Senegal and Trinidad and Tobago have ratified the treaty setting up the court, which can be established in The Hague only after 60 countries ratify the pact. Arbour and others spoke of the shortcomings of the U.N. tribunals in The Hague and Tanzania, working to bring to justice those responsible for atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, respectively. ``The broader the reach of the international criminal court, the better it will overcome these shortcomings of ad hoc justice,'' Arbour said. Kosovo and NATO's bombing raids have been a focal point for debate among the more than 8,000 government representatives, Nobel Peace laureates, U.N. officials and voluntary groups in The Hague for the peace conference. Divisions over whether force should be used to end the Kosovo conflict have dashed hopes that the conference would produce a meaningful joint peace statement. Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor praised the drive to create the court. ``Its existence alone, with a powerful prosecutor, would be a tremendous deterrent'' to the killings of innocent people, he said Thursday. The Hague Appeal for Peace, which began Wednesday and runs through Saturday, is a follow-up to a similar 1899 conference. That gathering led to the creation of the International Court of Justice and the International Court of Arbitration, which also are based in The Hague. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Italy: Head of Central Bank Now President
-Caveat Lector- It's the economy, stupid. Banker Elected As Italy's President By ELLEN KNICKMEYER .c The Associated Press ROME (AP) -- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, an internationally respected banker-politician, won Italy's presidency Thursday with broad support from both left and right, leaving politicians themselves marveling at their rare show of unity. Ciampi, who had been the treasury minister, won after a single round of voting -- only the third time that has happened in postwar Italy. To many, the easy win suggested the center-right and center-left are ready to work together on reforming the nation's cumbersome political system. ``For once, politicians were able to reach accord on a name, giving the country a strong sign of responsibility in a difficult moment,'' said center-right opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, whose support was crucial in the quick decision. Reforms -- such as doing away with the awkward, indirect process of picking presidents -- could begin immediately, he said. ``In this climate, there's a chance to get reforms started again, without opposition,'' said Romano Prodi, a former premier and now president of the European Union's executive commission. ``I believe that today we can start a new period of important political collaboration.'' Italy's presidency is largely a ceremonial post, but it does wield some important powers. The president serves as a kind of referee in political crises by deciding whether to dissolve parliament and call new elections, and by designating candidates to form governments. The post is chosen in a secret ballot in the two houses of Parliament and by regional representatives. In the past, Italy's fractious political parties have required as many as 23 rounds to agree on a candidate. Ciampi made no immediate public comment, staying home during and after the vote while congratulations poured in from leaders of political parties, industry and labor. A longtime central bank governor and political independent, Ciampi, 78, won respect with his reputation as an economic straight arrow, single-mindedly overseeing Italy's surprise qualification for the debut of Europe's common currency, the euro. ``Diligence, accountability, discretion'' are his main qualities, the Corriere della Sera newspaper said before the vote. ``Except for chocolate, he has no known passions.'' Ciampi submitted his resignation as treasury minister late Thursday. The government nominated Giuliano Amato, a Socialist who led a 1992-93 austerity government, to succeed him. Ciampi had been treasury and budget minister since 1996. He served as Italy's central bank governor from 1979-93 and was premier from 1993-94. At least 674 votes -- two-thirds of the eligible electors -- were required for a candidate to become the next head of state. When the tally got near that number Thursday, most within the crowded Chamber of Deputies broke into a standing ovation for Ciampi, who went on to garner 707 votes. It took 10 days and 16 ballots in 1992 to elect the current president, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, whose seven-year term expires in two weeks. Thursday's election by lawmakers might be the nation's last, with the government and opposition pledging to work together to bring Italy more in line with the rest of Western Europe, including direct election of the head of state by citizens. Last month, Italian reformers attempted in a referendum to change electoral law and end decades of political instability that have given Italy 56 governments since World War II -- all based on shaky coalitions. Although 91 percent of those who cast ballots April 18 voted for the reforms, not enough people turned out to make the vote valid. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Chinese Propaganda
-Caveat Lector- "Many Chinese believe that NATO's behavior in Yugoslavia has exposed American double standards: "The US attacks Serbia with missiles while fighting against missile proliferation by others; it demands that others respect human rights while blithely producing its own civilian casualties. "``Almost every issue makes people here feel America is HYPOCRITICAL. Look at what they DO -- the total opposite of what they SAY.' " Watch out, world -- these Chinese are apparently smarter than most Americans! Bombing Changes Chinese View of US By JOHN LEICESTER .c The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- In 1989, Chinese students enamored of democracy erected a Statue of Liberty look-alike in protests on Tiananmen Square. This week, as they laid siege to the U.S. Embassy, they screamed ``Down with the Yankees!'' For many Chinese, respect for America evaporated with the NATO bombing of China's embassy in Yugoslavia. To the disenchanted, the attack left the feeling that American talk of human rights and liberty for all is empty rhetoric. ``Through American films, we used to think of America as a just place,'' said one protester, an employee at an American-run Internet firm who gave his surname, Sun. ``Now, we are full of doubts.'' Protesters burned the Stars and Stripes, yelled profanities against President Clinton, rained rocks on U.S. Embassy buildings and burned a U.S. consul's home in southwest China. Like the students who protested on Tiananmen Square, they marched in ranks proudly waving their school flags, wore headbands scrawled with slogans and were cheered on by bystanders. In 1989, the student protests were aimed at the government. By contrast, during the four days of protests that erupted Saturday, protesters marched with government support. Yan Xuetong, a scholar of international relations, said many Chinese believe the air campaign in Yugoslavia has exposed American double-standards: The United States is attacking Yugoslavia with missiles while seeking to prevent missile proliferation, and promoting human rights while causing civilian casualties. ``Almost every issue makes people here feel America is so hypocritical. Look at what they are doing, it is totally opposite from what they are saying,'' said Yan of the China Institute for Contemporary International Relations. Necessity will likely force the U.S. and Chinese governments to mend fences. China wants American investment, technology and know-how to develop its economy and help provide badly needed jobs. The United States looks to China's cooperation in preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology, and its help in reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula. Both countries are economically tied, as well. The United States is China's second-largest trade partner, while China is the United States' fourth-largest. But the emotional damage could take longer to repair. Even before the embassy bombing, America's image was tarnished for some Chinese. While many recognize that Americans are freer than they are to say and do what they want, they have been bombarded for years by communist propaganda that says the price of such freedoms is school shootings, crime, drugs and other social ills. The Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal also was widely reported. Tensions over Taiwan in 1995 and 1996, when the United States dispatched aircraft carriers to waters off the island China claims as its own, also raised nationalist hackles and made some Chinese suspicious of Washington. Others already resented U.S. concerns over Tibet and China's human rights record as unwarranted meddling. The embassy bombing brought such emotions to a head. China's government supported protests because it had to. Public anger could have turned inward, against police, had they enforced their usual ban on demonstrations. But by giving protesters the green light and by fanning their anger with slanted state media reports, the government may also have wanted to distract people from domestic problems: unemployment, corruption and the crushing of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations 10 years ago on June 4. The bombing and nationally broadcast TV images of relatives grieving over the cremated remains of three Chinese reporters killed in the attack has also given the government ammunition against critics of its human rights record. ``For years, the U.S. and other Western powers have been lecturing us on human rights and other issues,'' reporter Xiong Lei wrote in the official China Daily newspaper. ``But the NATO bombing has smashed the rosy picture that the U.S. is a guardian of human rights.'' China's state-controlled media helped direct anger toward the United States by referring to the NATO campaign as ``U.S.-led,'' by ignoring U.S. apologies for the embassy attack for three days and by dismissing NATO explanations that it was a mistake. The media's strident criticism of the United States was ``primarily responsible
[CTRL] Blair Accepts NWO Award
-Caveat Lector- Note the imagery here: Charlemagne, the first modern Holy Roman Emperor; and Aachen, the Holy Roman Empire's first capital outside of Rome. This "Charlemagne Prize" originated in 1950, created by WHOM, I wonder? Blair Receives Europe Unity Award AACHEN, Germany (AP) -- Honored for his efforts toward peace in Northern Ireland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday accepted the prestigious Charlemagne Prize awarded for those who work for European unity. Speaking in the throne room of Aachen's historic 14th century town hall, Blair voiced strong support for NATO's war against Yugoslavia and appealed for a stronger European defense industry and a more competitive economy. He commented on the symbolism of Aachen, which was bombed during World War II, and of Germany's participation in NATO strikes alongside British planes. ``We cannot allow the values of Europe to be desecrated within one part of Europe while we live comfortably in our western corner of the continent,'' Blair said. During the ceremony about 100 anti-NATO protesters rallied outside, shouting and carrying signs that said ``No prize for war'' and ``Bombs don't bring peace.'' The prime minister responded: ``It would be nice if the Kosovo Albanians could protest like that.'' The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, named after the 8th century emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who ruled from that city, has been awarded annually since 1950 to people who have worked toward European unity. Past recipients of the bronze medal have included British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, French President Francois Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Drug War is Cynical, Truth can Solve the Problem
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 05/13/1999 10:47:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People do not take drugs because they want to get into violent or dishonest states of mind. They take them "to feel good". The government policies that make them criminals for doing so are based on the cynical belief that these substances produce negative behavior. But the negative behavior is really due to the enforcement of bad legal policies that make criminals out of folks who are doing something to their own bodies that they think makes them "feel good", doing something which they are not going to stop doing until they find something that works better for them. Let's face it, people take drugs because they are stupid, and the government loves it. I do not personally care who takes drugs or how much as long as they are not doing something that requires full capability. I'm really a cold person, and I don't care if they OD and do not survive. I figure it's their decision. If they take drugs that are expensive and habit forming, then it is even more obvious that they are stupid. It's bad enough in this ugly world to have needs for food, air and shelter. It gets even tougher if you voluntarily give yourself another need. That's really stupid. The government loves drugs. They use them to authorize confiscation of any property they want. They use them to keep any population they desire from having the right to vote. They make a lot of jobs for their friends in the myriad of government agencies that are "fighting the drug war." It's so good for the government to have all of this going on, that if people stopped using drugs all together, they would have to go out and start a campaign to encourage the use. In fact, perhaps they already have. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] As If Throwing Money at Fools Made Them Wise ...
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 5/14/99 12:42:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Democrats rejected the argument that the Chinese Embassy bombing stemmed from underfunding of intelligence programs. "Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., questioned how the CIA could have erred in planning the bombing target when his own staff was able to pull down from the Internet the correct address of the Chinese Embassy." Pete, RoadsEnd's congressperson and recipient of many missives, is decent and has some understanding, but he is one of few. . . Om K DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Site Referral-Highly Recommend a Visit! WOW!
-Caveat Lector- Folks, What is the Date of Inauguration Day in Year 2001? I want to start doing a Countdown to the day new Thugs takeover the federal protection racket. THE Source for Police and Crime News ... Recommend distribution far and wide! http://www.apbonline.com/index.html News on Domestic, SinCity and International Thugs! Best I've seen! "Thou Shall Not Steal!" because the Feds Don't Like the Competition! --- Anonymous -- (^) Bard (^) Passionate Charter Member of the International Society of Clinton-haters Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! "No blood for blow jobs" --a placard DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Quakes in Kansas ?
Rare Quake Rattles Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A small but rare earthquake shook a 40-block span of this city early Thursday, damaging a medical building with about 100 people inside. No injuries were reported. The quake, which registered a magnitude of 3.0, was considered weak but uncommon for a Midwestern state like Kansas. ``It's an unusual event but certainly nothing to be alarmed about,'' said Don Steeples, a professor in the Geology Department at the University of Kansas. John Minsch, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said he knew of just one other instance of an earthquake registered in the area. That quake registered 3.8 in 1931. About 100 health care workers and patients were evacuated from the Indian Springs Medical Building after the quake hit at about 9:20 a.m. Don Denney, spokesman for the Unified Government, said cracks were ``spread out all over'' the two-story building. A parking lot also was damaged near the building, where the pavement had buckled and dropped off about 8 feet.
[CTRL] Loral still working with Serbs
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Ah, yes, theatres of war, whose sides are the 'crew' on. Author, author. . . and who is the audience . . .and what's the view from the cheap seats . . . is there a moral? . . .and . . . Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:522882"Loral still working with Serbs /A - Subject: Loral still working with Serbs From: "David E. Powell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 4:39 AM Message-id: uhVv2agn#GA.307@cpmsnbbsa05 Remember those Loral folks, who helped the Chinese get that Satellite, Multiple Payload, and Missile Guidance technology? They're still at it, aiding the enemy with Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence capability in a real US/Foreign conflict! FROM http://www.msnbc.com/news/230178.asp Internet access at stake: Parts of Yugoslavia could lose Internet access because a U.S. satellite company might be ordered to stop transmitting there under a U.S. trade embargo. Loral Space and Communications Ltd. said it could be forced to cut transmissions from one of its satellites, which serves at least two of the countrys major Internet providers. Earlier this month, Clinton issued an executive order banning U.S. companies from selling or supplying to Yugoslavia any goods, software, technology or services. Were still not clear on this whole thing, a Loral Space spokesman said, adding that the company was seeking advice from the Treasury Department. It depends on the interpretation of the executive order. - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] UFO Cult seeks Musicians for End of the World
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:522755"UFO Cult seeks Musicians for End of the World /A - Subject: UFO Cult seeks Musicians for End of the World From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Modemac) Date: Thu, May 13, 1999 6:39 PM Message-id: 7hg2d9$[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Church of the SubGenius is preparing for the end of the world (again), when the Pleasure Saucers of the Sex Goddesses will arrive at the designated landing site on X-Day, July 5 at 7:00 AM! We'll be gathering once again at the designated landing site in Sherman, New York, from July 1 through July 5, and we'll be celebrating the end of the world with one big NON-STOP PARTY! Performers and musicians are encouraged to come and take part in the festivities! Those of you who've survived the X-Day celebrations of the past three years will know that this is the best damn festival of the year, BAR NONE. If you and your band want to get on stage and perform with a bunch of naked freaks, mutants, and weirdoes, then just pack up your gear and COME ON UP to New York for the action! This is your chance to get it on and cut loose! It's non-professional, so you won't be paid for it, BUT you'll be taking part in a five-day naked party with hundreds of participants. Audience participation is ENCOURAGED, nay, it is REQUIRED. Expect to spend three to five days (two to four nights) camping out: the site is an outdoor campground, and you have to provide your own camping gear. You can sleep in your van if you want. (The campground has running water and toilets, hot showers, a heated swimming pool, an outdoor cafe serving cooked food, a bar, and a hot tub. The main pavilion has a stage and electricity for your instruments and gear.) There is a registration fee of $60 per person for the entire five days (only $30 if you're an ordained SubGenius minister) plus a $10 per night camping fee (payable to the campsite, not us), but there are no other costs (unless you want to buy things). You can also bring your own stuff to sell. For information about X-Day, the end of the world, the Pleasure Saucers, and the Brushwood Folklore Center (where it all takes place), head to the Church of the SubGenius' Web site at http://www.subgenius.com/ -- and if you want to be listed as a performing band, just send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Day is an event with NO corporate sponsorship, NO so-called "professionals," and NO commercialism (except what you provide yourself). It's just five days of music, beautiful naked Sex Gods and Goddesses, and PURE SLACK. Fuck Woodstock 99. Fuck Lolla-pa-losers... ...and FUCK 'EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A JOKE! Praise "Bob!" P.S.: Don't shit in the hot tub. -- First Online Church of "Bob" http://www.modemac.com/ =Subject: Re: UFO Cult seeks Musicians for End of the World From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Tangent) Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 4:46 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 14 May 1999 02:39:37 GMT, with raygun in hand the aliens forced [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Modemac) to write: Praise "Bob!" Praise J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and all that is slack! Hallelujah, can I get a hymen?! -- Mr. Tangent [the binary police] "Not all people on AOL are idiots. But the ones that are compose a new breed of super-idiot. This is the future." - MT - Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Action by WH Criminals Too Late! [irreparable damage is done]
-Caveat Lector- (Folks, "Please" be more careful who you vote for in the Future. Please! You decide if this is worthy of distribution far and wide!) ENERGY DEPARTMENT TO REVAMP SECURITY New 'Czar' Will Report Directly to Secretary May 11, 1999 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stung by allegations of espionage at weapons research labs, Secretary Bill Richardson is consolidating Energy Department security operations under a "security czar" who will report directly to him, officials said. AP Energy Secretary Bill Richardson Richardson was to unveil details of the changes today. Under the plan, the department would still have a separate counterintelligence office, which Richardson previously beefed up, putting a veteran FBI official in charge. That office also reports directly to the secretary. The new consolidation, however, will put the department's $800 million physical security function at the DOE's nuclear weapons complex, including the national research labs, under a single security office, officials said. Retired general sought No one has yet been name to head the new office, but Richardson was said to be searching for a retired general to serve as the department's first security "czar" -- as Richardson has described the post. A DOE official, who asked not to be further identified, said Richardson also will announce new counterintelligence measures, separate from the consolidation of physical security programs. Related Stories: CHINESE ESPIONAGE: A GROWING SCANDAL RICHARDSON PLAYS DOWN CHINA SECURITY BREACHES The central security office also will be responsible for computer security, which has been the focus of attention in the alleged theft of nuclear secrets at weapons labs, especially the Los Alamos, N.M., lab. Currently, separate offices at DOE are responsible for classified and unclassified computer systems, and the physical security function is spread out across the $18 billion operation of the department and its contractors. Former CIA official hired Security at the DOE nuclear weapons facilities has been the subject of controversy at the department for years. In addition to the espionage scandal at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, questions were raised earlier this year about physical security and safety at the former warhead manufacturing plant at Rocky Flats in Colorado. But the apparent theft of nuclear secrets at Los Alamos -- in the 1980s, but possibly as recently as 1995 -- has put new pressure on Richardson to increase the department's security across the board. Earlier this year, Richardson beefed up the department's counterintelligence office and also directed that it report directly to him. He hired Ed Curran, a former CIA official and still one of the FBI's top counterintelligence experts, to head the office. Communications breakdowns blamed Congressional critics have assailed the department's security operation -- especially counterintelligence activities at the labs -- as lax and often ineffective. Richardson has acknowledged that communications breakdowns on security matters between the DOE headquarters and its field office and labs have caused problems in the past. For example, in 1997 it had been decided by senior FBI and DOE officials that a scientist under suspicion of espionage at Los Alamos could be removed from his sensitive job without jeopardizing the investigation. Yet he was left at his job for another 18 months because word never reached Los Alamos managers. http://www.apbonline.com/majorcases/china/1999/05/11/china0511_01.html "Thou Shall Not Steal!" because the Feds Don't Like the Competition! --- Anonymous (^) Bard (^) Passionate Charter Member of the International Society of Clinton-haters! Visit me at: The Center for Exposing Corruption in the Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.htm Federal Government defined: a benefit/subsidy protection racket! DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by
[CTRL] Today's Lesson From Richard Tomlinson
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/"The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe/A - Today's Lesson From Richard Tomlinson's Banned GeoCities Website by Richard Tomlinson I am a 36 year old British and New Zealand Citizen. I was educated at Cambridge University, England where I was awarded a first class honours degree in Engineering, and then did a Masters degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I was a Kennedy Memorial Scholar. In 1991, I was recruited as a fast-stream intelligence officer into the British Secret Intelligence Service, more commonly known as MI6. After completing the six month initial training course with the highest marks ever achieved, I was posted to the Eastern European department of MI6 to operate undercover against Russia and Serbia. In 1993 I was posted for six months to Bosnia as the sole MI6 officer on the ground during the Bosnian civil war. On my return to the UK I worked undercover against the Iranian intelligence service. In 1995, I was dismissed from MI6 without warning, and without reason. When I tried to take MI6 to an employment tribunal, my application was blocked by MI6 who claimed that a tribunal hearing would "damage national security" and "endanger the lives of agents". This was utter fantasy. There was nothing any more secret in my personnel records than in Donald Duck's. The real reason was because MI6 knew that they had no legal grounds for the dismissal, and so chose to cower behind the protection of the British Official Secrets Act rather than face an embarassing court defeat. I have been campaigning ever since against this - and other - abuses of power by MI6. In 1996 I wrote (but did not publish) a book about MI6. I showed a five page synopsis of this book to the commissioning editor of an Australian publisher (Shona Martyn of Transworld Publishers, 40 Yeo Street, Sydney). For this, in 1997, I was arrested and convicted of breaking the British Official Secrets Act. By taking me to court, MI6 brazenly exposed the dishonesty and hypocrisy of their earlier refusal to allow me to take them to court for unfair dismissal. If the High Court was good enough for them to take me to court, then why wasn't it good enough for me to take them to court? At my hearing, I was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in a maximum security jail. After my release from jail in 1998, I fled Britain as soon as I could, because I realised that MI6 were determined to re-arrest me for any reason they could find. When MI6 realised that I had escaped from their clutches, they embarked on a vindictive campaign of harassment against me using their influence with the intelligence services of other countries. They used false pretences to persuade the French intelligence service (the DST) to arrest and beat me in Paris in August 1998. I was detained for 38 hours, and my computer equipment was illegally taken from me. This equipment was not returned until six months later. After release, I decided to leave France and return to my native New Zealand, where I hoped that I would be left in peace. But a few days after my arrival, MI6 persuaded the New Zealand Intelligence Service to again detain and search me in Auckland. More computer equipment was confiscated from me, and again was not returned until six months later. I decided to leave New Zealand and go to Australia, where I have friends and family. But MI6 prevented this by persuading the Australian authorities to refuse me a visa, even though as a New Zealand citizen I would normally not require a visa for Australia. I therefore decided to move to Switzerland, knowing that the Swiss authorities, unlike the NZ, Australian, and French authorities, would not not harass me at the behest of MI6. But MI6 have continued to attempt to harass me at every opportunity they can. Indeed, after I gave evidence implicating MI6 to Judge Herve Stephan's inquest into the death of the Princess of Wales, Dodi Al Fayed, and Henri Paul, they have pursued me with seemingly increased vigour. In August 1998, I flew from Geneva to New York to give an interview to the NBC television chain. At JFK airport, I was detained by the US Immigration authority, fingerprinted, interviewed, chained to a chair for seven hours, then deported back to Switzerland. The US immigration authority openly admitted that they were deprorting me on the orders of the CIA, MI6's greatest ally. In January 1999, MI6 again persuaded French Intelligence to arrest me and deport me from France when I tried to cross the Swiss-French border. MI6 continue to carry out these actions despite the fact that the British Government have admitted that there is no arrest warrant out against me. Because MI6 are not legally accountable, I cannot take MI6 to court in the UK to test the legality of this harassment. MI6 claim that they cannot be accountable to the courts because this would not be secure and "would endanger agents lives". I have
[CTRL] Fwd: [A-M] Free Press
AUDREY'S MISSILES A newsletter dedicated to the peaceful reform of the United States government. FREE PRESS? There have been so many governments interested in silencing independent journalists who work around the world that organizations have been formed for the defense of the freedom of the members of the press. There is a "Journalists without Frontiers," a "Committee to Protect Journalists" (CPJ), the "International Freedom of the Press Exchange" (IFEX), the Vienna-based "International Press Institute" (IPI) , and others. These groups watch for oppression of individual journalists and call attention to abuses when reporters are murdered, jailed, or otherwise intimidated. Those Americans interested in freedom of the press will readily agree that these groups are badly needed and that they perform a very worthwhile service. In their May issue World Press Review quotes IPI: "two- thirds of the world's population are still living in countries where the fundamental principles of freedom of expression are not embraced." Several organizations agree that 24 journalists were murdered for their reporting last year with many other cases still under investigation. More than 470 journalists have been murdered worldwide during the last decade. WPI reported that 118 journalists were in prisons in 25 countries. Reuters reported (April, 1999) the sentencing of a journalist in Ethiopia to four and a half years in prison. There have been similar reports in Sudan, Sierra Leone, and other African countries. But such violations of the basic right to information also may be seen in Turkey, Yugoslavia, Iran, Singapore, and Peru. In places like North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Burma (Myanmar) the governments openly control the press, so in those places journalists do not get into difficulty because only pro-government journalists are hired and only pro-government information gets into print. Of all of the countries of the world Colombia is said to be the most dangerous in which to work as a reporter. Four journalists were murdered there last year, and there is a recent report that a Turkish reporter in that country was beaten to death last month. Forty-three journalists have been murdered in Colombia in the past 10 years where journalists have been targeted amid Colombia's widespread criminal violence. Is it a coincidence that the world's leading cocaine producer is also the most dangerous country for journalists? The world's leading heroin producer (Burma) might be on our list, but in that country the newspapers are owned by the state so there is not even the pretense of free, independent reporting. The United States falls into a group of countries where control of the press is much more subtle. Christopher Ruddy, the reporter who has written effectively about several Clinton scandals, is still alive even though he wrote about the probable murder of Ron Brown (the bullet hole in the top of his head) and the inconsistent "facts" in the "suicide" of Vince Foster. Partial control of the press in the United States has been accomplished by giant mergers, leaving the ownership of the mainstream media concentrated in the hands of a very few people. One of our independent newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News, published the Dark Alliance Series which dealt with CIA connections to the drug traffic. They later retracted the story, even though documents have since come to light substantiating that connection. The Ron Brown story, the problems with the Long Beach lease, the Chinese take over of the Panama Canal, Clinton scandals, and other major newsworthy events which would put the government in a bad light are not mentioned by CBS or MSNBC. (MSNBC tardily made an exception for the Juanita Broderick story only after their initial refusal was exposed in the Wall Street Journal.) Stories about drug smuggling that make the headlines in Toronto, in Reuters dispatches, and in Latin America are not reported in the U.S.Who controls the news on the tube? Is the press truly free in the United States? READ THIS NEWSLETTER AND THEN GIVE IT TO A FRIEND. No copyright on the content of AUDREY'S MISSILES is claimed since it is our hope that the information in this newsletter will be copied and distributed widely. Topics covered are those which are not adequately treated on TV or in the press. If you live in the 209 calling area end a request to 209 847-7588 for a free fax subscription. E-mail is free anywhere. Paid subscriptions are not accepted. Comments may be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] == [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an moderated maillist about government reform. To join or leave send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: -- (un)subscribe audreys-missiles Visit http://www.uwsa.com Support UWSA.COM at
[CTRL] MI6 UK spy list a cover story to remove DIANA document?
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:522904"MI6 UK spy list a cover story to remove DIANA document? /A - Subject: MI6 UK spy list a cover story to remove DIANA document? From: 888 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 7:20 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The website of the UK spy Richard Tomlinson had no spy list on it as the media is reporting according to a site that has published the Geocities site. BUT, the site taken down did have a controversial document about DIANA. Henri Paul the driver the night of the crash was an MI6 agent!!! That is what the UK SS don't want out. NOT THE SPY LIST which wasn't even on the US site! Here's the story http://www.1underground.com/Features/features253tomlinson.shtml = from: http://www.1underground.com/Features/features253tomlinson.shtml A HREF="http://www.1underground.com/Features/features253tomlinson.shtml"Richard Tomlinson ex UK MI6 Spy website taken d /A - Richard Tomlinson puts MI6 spys names on Net! Ex UK MI6 Spy puts names of MI6 spys on Net! By JP Essene Editor of Thee Under Ground Net 5/13/99 Can you say DISINFORMATION Watching this story unfold today, I HAVE TO LAUGH. All I can say is that it was a text book case of DISINFORMATION Yes, we have the alleged website here of Ex MI6 UK Spy Richard Tomlinson. The website of the ex UK MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson was TAKEN DOWN because it endangered the lives of UK's spys still IN THE FIELD, according to the major media outlets. Even that homosexual in California Matt Drudge reported that LIE or piece of DISINFORMATION! Pssst... HERE'S THE BIG SECRET that the MAJOR MEDIA is keeping from you. The ex spys website was hosted at Geocities (THEY SUCK IMHO) So, when you see Dan Rather mention this story tonight on THE NEWS, you will hear him say "A CALIFORNIA ISP", since the Whitehouse is requesting at the beheast of the UK to keep the sites name SECRET! Oh, the site at Geocities was indeed taken down. url of site: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin/8767/MI6dir.htm And I GUARANTEE you, that you will hear Dan Rather and the rest of the DISINFORMATION crew state that the SPYS SITE was taken down, at the UNNAMED CALIFORNIA ISP, because it had the names of MI6 Spys on it. Can you say BULLSHIT Every spys name that was on the Geocities site of Ex MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson was already KNOWN on the net to be key players in MI6. Names like Speeding, the HEAD of MI6. Now that's a SECRET! HA HA HA Can you imagine, the secret service of the UK aka MI6 doesn't even want you to know the name of Geocities! But again, that is part of their DISINFORMATION plan. They want YOU to think that something which is FANTASY is REAL. Now, this is THE REAL STORY of the SPY LIST of Richard Tomlinson. IT WAS NEVER ON GEOCITIES! But, an EMBARRASSING DOCUMENT about Diana's DEATH in FRANCE and the connection of her DEAD LIMO DRIVER Henri Paul to MI6 was on the Geocities site. Yes, a SWORN AFFIDAVIT was on GEOCITIES site from Richard Tomlinson! It states that HENRI PAUL, the infamous drunk of the DIANACRASH, was indeed MI6. (All documents referred to in this article are linked to below) That is the real reason why the UK's MI6 had the Geocities site of Tomlinson pulled! Without a US Court order I will add. The DISINFORMATION of this story you will hear in the media in the next couple of days, is that the site had around 100 names of UK MI6 agents. BULLSHIT THE FACT IS The alleged page about the NAMES OF MI6 SPYS was there. It also had a note from Tomlinson that he CAN'T display THE NAMES because of an INJUNCTION in Sweden, where he allegedly first displayed his MI6 site. So, when you hear Dan Rather and crew state DISINFORMATION about the Geocities site being pulled for having THE LIST of spy names, YOU TOO CAN SAY BULLSHIT That exact page about the NAMES of MI6 Spys from Geocities and about 90% of the site is linked to below. We are missing only a couple of things, like the fart.wav and rasberry.wav Tomlinson had on the site. And the theme song from Monty Python that was the background music for the site. I loved looking at the html of the pages from his site, what a sense of humor. A SPOOK with a funny sense of humor. He even used FRONT PAGE from Microsoft to design it. Can you say JOKE! HA HA HA YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF The page from Tomlinson allegedly with 100 names says SORRY I CAN'T GIVE THEM TO YOU Yet, the DISINFORMATION crew will say THAT WAS THE REASON the site was taken down! Oh, I do have THE LIST allegedly from Sweden... Now, before you look at the site of Tomlinson, here are some REAL FACTS about DIANA and the MI6 that will shock you. A stolen CIA document about how MI6 was involved in the DEATH of DIANA is on our site. An ex NSA spook from the US is still in prision for trying to sell it to Al Fayed the father of Dodi! We also have a $100,000.00 GUARANTEE to anyone that can
[CTRL] The Eastern Problem - part of the Balkan time-bomb
-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy - As always, Caveat Lector. Om K - A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:522908"The Eastern Problem - part of the Balkan time-bomb /A - Subject: The Eastern Problem - part of the Balkan time-bomb From: AKG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 7:32 AM Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Path: tor-nn1.netcom.ca!tor-nx1.netcom.ca!scrappy.visi.com!chippy.visi.com!news-out. visi.com!hub1.ispnews.com!news-master.service.talkway.com!c01read02-admin.serv ice.talkway.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "w.c.tudor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian X-Client-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.214.175.151/216.214.175.151 Followup-To: soc.culture.romanian X-TWRN-Tag: 926629611182 Message-ID: Z9H_2.3181$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:07:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.200.3.203 X-Trace: c01read02-admin.service.talkway.com 926629625 216.200.3.203 (Thu, 13 May 1999 14:07:05 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:07:05 PDT Organization: Talkway, Inc. Xref: tor-nx1.netcom.ca soc.culture.romanian:111923 " Every nation's homeland is sacred. If you destroy one, you mutilate the entire human race." These words were spoken on the pulpit of the Notre Dame Cathedral, some 80 years ago, by Father Gratry. He was talking about the Trianon Treaty, which dismembered the 1000 years old kingdom of Hungary. During the last 80 years, the Hungarians did not forget the loss of their homeland, and never will, just as the Jews did not forget the loss of theirs for some 2000 years. Just as Nazism was not born in Germany but in Versailles, so the tragedy of the Balkans can all be traced back to Trianon, where from the fragments of Hungary, the successor states of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and greater Romania were created. These artificial formations forced Albanian Muslims to live with Serbs and compelled Czechs to live with Slovaks. It takes time for historic events to reveal their consequences. It took nearly 80 years for these creations of Trianon, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, to self-destruct and as a result, to de-stabilize Central Europe. That process is not nearing it's end, it is only beginning! Trianon cut mercilessly into the flesh of compact Hungarian populations. Hundreds of towns were separated from their suburbs; villages were split in two; communities were deprived of their parish churches or cemeteries; townships were cut off from their railroad stations and their water supplies. A 1000-year-old European country was made into an invalid. In the process, 35% of all Hungarians were turned into foreigners within the towns, which were built by their fathers. Hungarians became Europe's largest minority and in the "free for all" even Austria obtained some parts of the old kingdom. The new borders were not drawn on the basis of plebiscites. By ignoring the ethnographic borders, the dismemberment of the 48 million Austro-Hungarian empire resulted in the creation of 16 million ethnic minorities. These minorities were not emigrants who voluntarily left their old country, but people who never moved from their home towns and became foreigners, because the borders were redrawn around them. President Wilson asked for a Danubian Confederation to replace the Monarchy and wanted to draw the internal borders within it, on the basis of self-determination through plebiscites, but his views were disregarded. On March 31, 1919, he called the proposed dismemberment of Hungary absurd, but was overruled by the French. As a result, the United States Congress refused to approve the Treaty of Trianon, but the treaty was implemented (mostly by the French) anyway. When the Wends and Slovenes of the Muraköz protested their separation from Hungary, when the Ruthenians expressed their desire to remain part of the kingdom which they shared for a thousand years, when the Swabians of the Banat protested their annexation into Romania, their requests been all denied. There was only a single instance where self-determination prevailed: The city of Sopron was allowed to hold a plebiscite and voted to remain part of Hungary. In any society, the acid test of civilization is the respect for minority rights. The successor states, which were created, validated the words of Tacitus: "We hate whom we hurt." They attempted to solve their minority problems, through denationalization, ethnic cleansing, deportations, expulsions, transfers, dispersions and many other forms of uprooting. Hungarians had to choose between their nationality and their property. Because of intimidation and coercion, 350,000 Hungarians decided to leave all their possessions behind and flee to rump Hungary. (This number exceeds the number of Serb refugees who have been driven out of Kraina by the Croatian army.) The possessions of Hungarian communities were also targeted. In Romania alone, Hungarians lost 1,665 schools and universities, including the world famous János Bolyay University. After 1956, when the
[CTRL] Klintoon/Algore-China Theft of Crown Jewels (a must)
For distribution far and wide! This is much more serious than the "war pork"; see text attachment. This is what happens when thugs are elected by the Pro-Choice sluts and recipients of federal dole. http://www.apbonline.com/majorcases/china/1999/05/13/china0513_01.html SECRETS STOLEN, BUT WHICH ONES AND HOW MANY? Conflicting Views of U.S. Security Losses May 13, 1999 By Jim Krane NEW YORK (APBNews.com) -- As the smoke clears from nuclear spying allegations against China, intelligence analysts are forwarding dueling theories about any resulting gains in China's military development. At the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore nuclear laboratory, a visiting delegation of Chinese scientists posed with Edward Teller, father of the U.S. hydrogen bomb, in 1994. Congressional statements about the damage to U.S. security -- echoed in media reports -- suggest the United States' nuclear deterrent has suffered greatly at the hands of the Chinese. The United States lost "the crown jewels of our nuclear arsenal," said Rep. Christopher Cox last month. Cox is chairman of a select committee on Chinese espionage, whose yet-to-be-declassified report is due to be released this month. And The New York Times reported last month that computer codes copied from an Energy Department weapons laboratory "may have compromised the U.S. nuclear arsenal." But the CIA's assessment of the damage to U.S. security sounds decidedly milder. "To date, the aggressive Chinese collection effort has not resulted in any apparent modernization of their deployed strategic force or any new nuclear weapons development," states a CIA report outlining key findings from its analysis of technology transfers to China. Related Document: CIA Assessment of Damage to U.S. Security Translating knowledge into weaponry The CIA stresses that, while inroads were made into classified Department of Energy computers, that doesn't mean the Chinese gained vital U.S. defense secrets. And if Chinese scientists did manage to purloin weapons technology, they haven't yet been able to translate the knowledge into modern weaponry. The CIA report credits the Chinese with obtaining at least basic design information on U.S. nuclear warheads, chiefly the ultra-compact W-88. Espionage has allowed China to focus and accelerate its weapons programs, the CIA report states. A lack of evidence At the Federation of American Scientists, Steven Aftergood, director of the association's Project on Government Secrecy, sides with the CIA's analysis. Americans don't yet know exactly what's been lost, stolen or copied, Aftergood said. "The reporting on these allegations has far exceeded the available evidence," he said. "Certain information on the W-88 warhead and other weapons definitely were stolen. But exactly what was stolen on those weapons, we're not sure." Aftergood said the Chinese -- or anyone else -- can obtain basic information on the W-88 and other nuclear weapons from open sources such as scholarly journals and unclassified reports. Knocking CIA's accuracy But another China watcher, Bill Triplett, former Republican counsel for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the CIA's recent record in estimating a nation's weapons-producing capabilities is far from accurate. "That [CIA report] is written by the same people who predicted the North Koreans would never have a two-stage rocket," said Triplett, citing the recent North Korean test-firing of a two-stage rocket over the Sea of Japan. Aftergood said much of the espionage now coming to light took place a decade ago or more. To date, no corresponding modernization of China's weapons arsenal has taken place. "So if they stole it, they haven't done anything with it," said Aftergood. Truth is hard to find But U.S. intelligence gatherers may not know exactly what weapons the Chinese have produced or are close to producing. Triplett said Chinese counterintelligence officials might be pursuing a deliberate agenda of deceit. "We think the Chinese are engaged in a big 'development and deception' program," said Triplett. "They have more weapons and
[CTRL] What Happened to Freedom of Speech
-Caveat Lector- Did anyone besides me notice the l4 year old girl in Pennsylvania who was suspended for two weeks because she voiced her opinion that people could get so fed up they would snap and do something like what happened in Columbine. The opinion was given during a classroom discussion led by her teacher. Apparently this country now is adhering to the "CORPORATE DOCTRINE" that to speak one's mind is punishable by dismissal or death. Oh well, we never needed that Constitution anyway. Prudy DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] MI6 and the Princess of Wales
-Caveat Lector- The Diana Document http://www.1underground.com/Features/features253tomlinson.shtml MI6 and the Princess of Wales 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: 1.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. 2.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. 3.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 informants personal file from MI6s 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 officers 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. 4.The most senior undeclared officer in the local MI6 station would normally control an informant of M.Pauls 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. Pauls 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
