Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 45
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Point the witness at that particular ----
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4 MS. STEEL: How did you do that, Mr. Preston?
5 A. How did I do the setting?
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7 Q. Trying to find out who you felt was responsible for the
8 leaflet?
9 A. I discussed with Sid Nicholson the need to attend these
10 public meetings you spoke of in your documents. I told him
11 that people should be attending those meetings, whatever
12 these people do, whatever they can find out, should be
13 conducted in a proper, legal, constructive manner, but
14 I fully intended to stop the further publication of this
15 document.
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17 Q. And telling them they should attend meetings, did you also
18 tell them that they should copy any letters that were sent
19 to the group for your files?
20 A. I gave one instruction, and one instruction alone:
21 Make anything and everything the people do totally legal.
22 That was it.
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24 Q. But you did not bother to check up on whether everything
25 they were doing was legal?
26 A. I believe it was. If Mr. Nicholson's project was that,
27 then I am sure he looked after it.
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29 Q. You did not ask Mr. Nicholson about whether or not the
30 infiltrators that had been attending meetings had been
31 stealing letters that were sent to the group?
32 A. Ms. Steel, I left the project with Mr. Nicholson. He
33 was given his instruction by me to do it in a correct,
34 proper and legal manner and I left it at that.
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36 Q. You did not check up on what he was doing and what the
37 private investigators were doing?
38 A. No, I did not.
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40 Q. If you could get out Publication Bundle 2, yellow 2.
41 A. OK.
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43 Q. Could you turn to tab 5, please, which is the statement of
44 Alan Clare who is one of the private investigators hired on
45 your behalf.
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47 If you turn to page 70, this is the tale end of notes from
48 1st March 1990, a meeting of London Greenpeace at 5
49 Caledonian Road and on this page, it says:
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51 "Meeting:: Went through all the post. Lots of letters
52 from all over the world regarding anti-McDonald's. They
53 all want more information and updated info re
54 anti-McDonald's" -- and then in brackets he has written
55 "(letters taken to be copied for reference)".
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57 Have you seen that before?
58 A. No.
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60 Q. Does it concern you that a private investigator hired on
