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from PrisonPlanet.com
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Spy chiefs face revelations over deaths of princess, lover Gen. Michael Hayden, the new head of the CIA and the former chief of the National
Security Agency who is due in London at the end of the month for a meet-and-greet
visit with Britain's intelligence chiefs, will face some tough questions from
Lord Stevens, the former head of Scotland Yard. Known as "The Grand Inquisitor," Stevens is leading the long-running
investigation into the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover, Dodi al-Fayed.
Stevens already has conducted lengthy interviews with Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller,
head of MI5; Sir John Scarlett, director-general of MI6; and his predecessor,
Sir Richard Dearlove. They have all handed over secret files on the deaths.
But intelligence sources in London and Washington have confirmed it is the potentially
explosive evidence that NSA holds which could send the Stevens inquiry deep
into what one source called "where Royal glitz met the underbelly of intelligence."
The NSA has admitted it holds 1,050 documents – transcripts
of its satellite surveillance on Diana during the last weeks of her life. Until
now NSA has insisted it cannot release the transcripts because "they raise
issues of national security." A year before her death, Diana publicly claimed on BBC television she
was "under surveillance by the intelligence world." She insisted this was because of her campaign against landmines – which
had aroused opposition in Britain and America from armaments manufacturers.
All produce large quantities of landmines. NSA director and America's most senior intelligence officer, Hayden, had ordered
the documents must remain secretly stored in the sprawling Fort George Meade
complex outside Washington. But when he comes to London, Hayden will not have the protection of diplomatic
immunity – his job does not carry such protection. A source close to the Stevens inquiry team said: "He can be questioned
like any relevant witness." The NSA tapes have been rumoured to finally confirm – or deny –
that Diana was pregnant by Dodi al-Fayed when she died. Ari Ben-Menashe, a former adviser on national security to the Israeli government,
has claimed the NSA transcripts "contain answers to show what happened
in the days before Diana died. They will confirm what Prince Charles has been
told – that he should expect shocking revelations about her death."
Ben-Menashe also confirmed that Mossad, the intelligence service once "tasked
for delicate missions," has files on Diana and Dodi's deaths. Now a political consultant in Montreal, Canada, Ben-Menashe claimed he tried
to "broker a deal" with Dodi's father, Mohammed al-Fayed, the millionaire
head of Harrods. "We couldn't agree on my fees for investigating what the documents contained,"
said Ben-Menashe. His clients have included Robert Mugabe, the president of
Zimbabwe. While no formal request to provide its files has been received from the Stevens
inquiry, a senior Mossad officer close to its own director, Meir Dagan, said:
"Our interest was not in Diana but in Henri Paul. We knew he was already
working for French intelligence in his capacity as head of security of the Ritz
Hotel in Paris. We knew the hotel, owned by Dodi's father, was being widely
used by arms dealers supplying weapons to attack Israel. We were still trying
to persuade Henri Paul to work with us when he died." ___________________________ 8 May 2006 DIANA EXCLUSIVE: CAR PARTS DESTROYED EXCLUSIVE Car parts that could hold clues to Diana's death lost for
ever CLUES that could hold the key to Princess Diana's car death have been destroyed. They include the right front wing and right front door of the car she was in when it crashed in Paris - said to have been hit seconds before by a mystery Fiat Uno. The door was reduced to twisted scrap in a fire in a secure attic storeroom in the Palais de Justice in Paris in 1999. Its loss with other evidence from the French investigation was kept quiet by French authorities. The car wing was destroyed - possibly crushed - on the orders of a judge in June 2003 after criminal proceedings against nine photographers were ended by France's highest court. The decision was again not made public. After a six-month investigation by the Mirror, a French judge last week insisted the fire was an accident and the destruction of the wing was routine once all legal moves in a case were exhausted. But it will fuel conspiracy theories, which have been supported by Harrods owner Mohamed al Fayed, that the princess was murdered and the plot covered up. Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed, Mr al Fayed's son, died when their Mercedes, driven by Henri Paul, crashed in a tunnel on August 31, 1997. The wing and door bore traces of a sideswipe with a white Fiat Uno. Fragments of a rear light cluster from a Fiat Uno are said to have been found at the scene. Police failed to trace the car. Royal coroner Michael Burgess announced his own inquiry, headed by former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Stevens, in January 2004. Mr Burgess had the wrecked Merc shipped to England last July so crash experts could carry out tests. The fact it was incomplete, meaning they could not re-create the crash, was not revealed. Scotland Yard, which speaks for Stevens's team, would not answer our questions. A spokesman said: "We refuse to discuss it. That's not even not confirming or denying. We don't want to talk about it." French authorities stress they have done everything possible to aid the British probe. They said Stevens's team were given their test results on the paintwork and full 6,800-page report into Diana's death. Deputy Public Prosecutor Sylvie Petit-Leclair, the senior judge in the Justice Ministry liaising with the Stevens team, told the Mirror: "The door was destroyed in a fire on May 26, 1999. "A number of other items were also destroyed in the fire. It includes the right hand sill of the car and a hubcap from the left side and traces of paint from pillars and the pavement at the scene." But they had been examined by forensic scientists and "the reports are in the dossier sent to the UK. "The destruction of the right front wing was ordered by a judge carried out on June 17, 2003. "French procedure permits the destruction of objects once all legal actions have terminated. "It is open to anyone to apply for restitution of evidence before it is destroyed. Mr al Fayed could have asked for restitution of the parts. We have no record of a request. "At this time we had heard nothing from the British on an inquiry. The first notification and request for assistance came from Mr Burgess on August 22, 2003." By then she had halted destruction of the rest of the wreck after a civil servant happened to read in a magazine about a British probe. "We have done everything possible to help our colleagues in Britain. The whole file, all the evidence, was given to them." Lord Stevens is expected to deal with the loss of evidence in his provisional report to Mr Burgess this month. The coroner will decide whether he needs further investigation before calling an inquest. r.chaytor@mirror.co.uk _________________________ Read from Looking Glass News Diana driver was secret informer Diana Death Investigation Confirms Evidence Of Cover-up DIANA CRASH "CAUSED BY LASER BEAM" |
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