Oddbean

Did Princess D die because she was against weapon manufacturers ? I've been reading about Mossad this week. Mossad is to Israel what CIA is to the US, and M16 is to British. They are one of the strongest intelligence unit in the world My knowledge on Mossad was limited to Ziva David of NCIS and other random reads, hence I picked up this book called ‘Gideon Spies : The Secret History of the Mossad’ by Gordon Thomas, a Welsh author. His dad was once in charge of M16. According to Britannica, Mossad was setup in Dec 1949 as a successor to Haganah who was a violent Jewish military force in Palestine (Britain separated Israel and Palestine on 15 May 1948) This book Gideon’s spies has been a slow read as there are many cross references - but it starts off with Mossad trying to recruit an informer none other than Henri Paul, in the Ritz hotel in Paris. Henri Paul was the Head of Security in this hotel and had access to every security detail. He was also the trusted driver for very high end celebrities. On the side he had a wild life drinking, partying, hooking up with prostitutes, popping pills etc. And on the other side, he was getting paid by paparazzi for a tip off on celebrities that showed up. Mossad’s psychologist intelligence who studied Henri Paul’s behaviors suggested monetary influence as a way to lure him, yet as the days came close to sealing the detail, Henri Paul was quick to discern that it was for an intelligence service. It was later disclosed that he was also secretly working as an informant for M16 and probably the French Intelligence On August 31, 1997, Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were found dead, alongside their driver - Henri Paul. I remember hearing my mom saying “they killed her, they killed her” when the news broke out globally. She wasn’t the only one who thought so. Mohammad Al Fayed, the Egyptian conglomerate owner of Ritz and Harrods and father of Dodi Al Fayed was certain the establishment (Royal family) killed her. According to him, Diana was 2 months pregnant, and Diana and Dodi were going to announce their engagement. The establishment however and Diana ‘s brother Spencer did not like her dating a Muslim. Nor were they ok with the next King of England William having a Muslim step father. Mohammed Al Fayed was obsessed on finding out who killed Diana and Dodi and did not believe it was the paparazzi. He recruited people to get the information he needed. One of them was a former agent Tomlinson who exposed the dirty secrets of M16 and prisoned for 2 years for it. Tomlinson went on to expose all the M16 agents including 12 who were working on Diana and Dodi Al Fayed’s case. And it gets deeper. Mohammad Al Fayed also heard from this book’s author Gordon Thomas that the US’s NSA was closely monitoring Diana and has 1050 pages of the couple. How closely ? All their conversations however intimate was gathered by the NSA’s ECHELON satellite The NSA system also shares these information with other intelligence like M16 in real time. So why were so many intelligence agencies after them? Other than M16, the rest surely couldn't care less about the monarch. Right after her divorce from Charles, Diana aggressively launched a campaign to abolish land mines. Neither Clinton’s administration nor London and other European capitals were happy about it. She was seen as a meddler, and someone who did not understand what she was talking about. (Except that we know, she knew exactly what she was talking about) According to this book author's source from Washington “The reality was that the land mine manufacturing industry provided thousands of jobs. No one wanted to see the mines used—but no one wanted people put out of work because Diana had a bee in her bonnet,” The irony of the Diana’s car accident remains puzzling at large. Diana was still alive during the accident. It took the ambulance almost 2 hours to get her to the hospital. All her internal organs were removed and she was turned into a mummy according to Mohammad Al Fayed. The paparazzi’s photographs that detailed the accident were mostly MIA. The traffic cameras on the highways were also malfunctioning. What are the odds of all information pertaining to the investigation disappearing? There were many other possible causes of the accident. Either Henri Paul was over stressed, strung on drugs, or a laser beam was flashed onto the driver’s eyes to temporarily blind him. According to the former M16 agent, being blinded while driving through the underpass by a high-powered flash was a common assassination technique used by the M16. According to the author, from the NSA's Echelon tapes, the couple were talking about marriage and were very much in love. The British spies were able to access these communications. Henri Paul also installed a bugging device in the Imperial Suite at the Ritz Hotel and had obtained tapes of the “last intimate moments” of Diana and Dodi and became the subject of a hunt by MI6 to locate them. There were various intelligence agents that were hovering the area 2 weeks prior to their death.. A Mossad report revealed that around August 14/15 1997, a CIA team also arrived in the city. The team had been tracking Diana for some time, keeping tabs on her attacks on land mine manufacturers, many of which are U.S.-based. According to the Mossad report “a white Fiat Uno passed the top of the street.” The Mossad report states that in the car were two intelligence officers from the French security service, DST. But this was wiped out of record elsewhere. The Mossad investigation details how the various intelligence services hurriedly left Paris after the deaths of Diana and Dodi. While Mohammad Al Fayed went to his grave never uncovering what really happened behind the deaths of Diana and Dodi, something surely seems off that night. Likely we will never know what really happened. On a last note, as I was reading through, the author said this : “The first lesson I learned during a quarter of a century of writing about secret intelligence is that deception and disinformation are its stock-in- trade, along with subversion, corruption, blackmail, and, sometimes, assassination. Agents are trained to lie and to use and abuse friendships. They are the very opposite of the dictum that gentlemen do not read each other’s mail” Not the kinda friends you want to get mixed up with I guess https://m.primal.net/ICxx.jpg