Day 259 - 10 Jun 96 - Page 23
1 referring to?
2 A. I have no idea.
3
4 Q. Did you not ask him?
5 A. No.
6
7 Q. This was addressed to you?
8 A. Of course, it was.
9
10 Q. When you replied?
11 A. I did not reply.
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13 Q. You did not reply?
14 A. No. I filed it away.
15
16 Q. And forgot about it?
17 A. Probably. It is the kind of leaflet I got from all
18 over the place.
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20 Q. The reality is that you had plenty of information from all
21 sorts of sources about who was involved in
22 London Greenpeace and what was going on, and you did not
23 need to hire inquiry agents to spend well over a year, if
24 not nigh on two, infiltrating the group?
25 A. I had very, very little information on
26 London Greenpeace. I had plenty of information as to
27 leaflets they were producing, but I knew nothing about
28 London Greenpeace; and, in order to stop the circulation of
29 the leaflet, I needed to find out.
30
31 Q. The photographs we looked at this morning identified who
32 the Company or solicitors working on its behalf considered
33 to be the key people involved with London Greenpeace and
34 distribution of anti-McDonald's literature. Your argument,
35 or the argument currently advanced on your behalf, is that
36 by being involved with the group, you are responsible for
37 distribution of the London Greenpeace fact sheet and for
38 the campaign, you could have mounted an action on that
39 basis immediately, could you not, straight in 1989, without
40 any need to infiltrate the group?
41 A. No. My advice from counsel in 1989 was that in order
42 to take action against London Greenpeace, I would have to
43 identify the individuals involved. London Greenpeace was
44 an unincorporated organisation, and that precluded me from
45 taking action against the group. So, I had to identify the
46 individuals involved. The only way I could do that was to
47 put private inquiry agents into it.
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49 MS. STEEL: I do not know where they are, but I wanted to refer
50 to documents that were disclosed in the third supplementary
51 list at tab 57, which are the handwritten notes of the
52 meetings about legal action against the BBC. I think they
53 might be in the World Wildlife file.
54
55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can anyone help about where they are?
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57 MR. MORRIS: It is the Brazilian beef.
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59 MS. STEEL: The ones about Brazilian beef.
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