Diana Stalked by U.S. National Security Agency “Because of the Company She Kept”
December 11th, 2006I was wondering if the British press was allowed to mention the U.S. National Security Agency??? I guess it’s ok as long as they don’t make it a proper noun. Are British reporters ignorant of simple grammar rules? They seem to get it right with MI5 and MI6.
Via: This is London:
American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana’s telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Evening Standard has learned.
She was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons in the US with tycoon Teddy Forstmann on advice from secret services, who passed on their concerns to their British counterparts.
Both US and British intelligence then forced Diana to change her plans to stay with Mr Forstmann in the summer of 1997, saying it was too “dangerous” to take her sons there.
Instead the princess took the fateful decision to take a summer break with Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed. This ultimately led to her going to Paris with his son Dodi, where they died in a car crash.
The revelation from independent inquiries by the Evening Standard comes as it emerged that Princess Diana’s phone was bugged by US intelligence agencies on the night she died without the permission of the British secret intelligence services.
Authoritative leaks say the extraordinary revelations will be published this week by Lord Stevens and is bound to raise fresh questions about conspiracy theories.
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The Evening Standard also understands that US secret services have a number of secret files on Diana and her closest associates that are held by the national security agency. The files, which include reports from foreign intelligence – thought to include MI5 and MI6 – come under both top secret and secret categories.The reports cannot be released because of “exceptionally grave damage to the national security”. The documents on the princess seem to have arisen because of the company she kept rather than through any attempt to target her.
I guess we can all work it out but no-one feels the need to spell it out