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.
    12
    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.
    19
    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.
    48
    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?
    56
    57   MR. MORRIS:  It is the Brazilian beef.
    58
    59   MS. STEEL:   The ones about Brazilian beef.
    60

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