Day 261 - 12 Jun 96 - Page 71


     
     1        be interested in helping with their correspondence and it
     2        was later suggested by one of the people there that at a
     3        later date it might be possible to have an office key cut
     4        for me."  So, "I said that I would be interested in helping
     5        with their correspondence", that was your idea and you
     6        volunteered to do it?
     7        A.  As far as I remember, yes.  I say I made that
     8        suggestion, but that is -- in looking back, that is in
     9        reference to the suggestion that was made to me at the
    10        Endsleigh Street meeting, that I was invited to arrive
    11        early and I could help them with the answering of the
    12        letters, with the mail.
    13
    14   Q.   As we went through, that was after you had expressed
    15        considerable interest in the group and sounded very keen in
    16        -----
    17        A.  Yes, it was after; I do not know whether it was as a
    18        result of -- I presume it probably was -- as a result, yes,
    19        but I do not know if it was.
    20
    21   Q.   OK.  You note that there were ten people in the offices.
    22        On the following page you say, "Client company was
    23        mentioned occasionally in conversation, but no reference
    24        was made to further specific action to be taken".  Then it
    25        goes on, "It was said that the group would probably go into
    26        a bit of lull now after the anti-McDonald's fair". You
    27        confirm that that was your recollection of what was said at
    28        the meeting, yes?
    29        A.  Yes.
    30
    31   Q.   You also refer to the group moving office.  You recollect
    32        that being a -- something that actually came up at quite a
    33        lot of meetings?
    34        A.  I recollect it was something that was mentioned from
    35        time to time.  I do not recall the reasons for it now, but
    36        I do remember it was something that came up.
    37
    38   Q.   Right.  Were you actually still involved with the group by
    39        the time the group did move office, do you remember?
    40        A.  No, no, not that I recall.  I do not recall any other
    41        office other than the .....
    42
    43   Q.   OK.  There was also a major campaign against the
    44        International Monetary Fund.  You go on to say, in the
    45        paragraph below that, that you noted "in one corner of the
    46        room was a filing cabinet.  The drawers on this were marked
    47        IMF, Muckdonalds and Unilever".  So, it appeared that the
    48        group already had an interest, or -- sorry, it appeared
    49        that those subjects were already something which the group
    50        was dealing with? 
    51        A.  Yes, yes.  Prior to my attending the group meetings 
    52        there was -- there were on-going projects, so far as I was 
    53        aware.
    54
    55   Q.   IMF, for example, was not something that suddenly -- the
    56        IMF campaign was not something that suddenly sprung up at
    57        this meeting when you referred to planning a major campaign
    58        against the IMF.  It was something that -----
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not think there is any dispute about

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