Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 35
1 anti-McDonald's literature". Answer "No"?
2 A. That is right.
3
4 Q. Simply because it was not a whole filing cabinet?
5 A. Well, it was not a whole filing cabinet, it was one
6 drawer. Not only that, it was not just devoted to
7 anti-McDonald's literature, there was various of McDonald's
8 own literature in there. It was just a general reference
9 drawer for McDonald's stuff.
10
11 Q. Can you turn then, please, to interrogatory 19?
12 A. Yes.
13
14 Q. "Did not London Greenpeace in 1989 and/or 1990 receive
15 correspondence at its said offices from members of the
16 public from England and abroad relating to its
17 anti-McDonald's campaign." Answer by you, "I think so"?
18 A. Yes.
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20 Q. Well, that is not an honest answer is it?
21 A. It was at the time I answered the interrogatories. I
22 did recollect that letters had come in about the
23 anti-McDonald's campaign, or about other people's
24 anti-McDonald's activities. I could not remember
25 specifically whether or not that was 1989, 1990, so that
26 was why I put "I think so". Having read all the private
27 investigators notes, where they refer to all the various
28 letters being read out it is quite obvious that it was
29 1989/1990.
30
31 Q. Your memory of 1993 must have been much better than it is
32 now?
33 A. Well, my memory in 1993 had not been prompted by all
34 the references to various letters that appear in the spy's
35 notes and in the letters which were disclosed when we asked
36 for all the letters that the spies had stolen to be
37 disclosed to us.
38
39 Q. But you were at literally dozens of these meetings in 1989
40 and 1990. I don't know how many in 1989 in total, but I
41 mean we must be talking about 60 or 70 meetings from the
42 beginning of 1989 through to September 1990, and you say
43 you could not, in March 1993, honestly answer "Yes, of
44 course these letters were answered"?
45 A. I have put "I think so". And I would point out that I
46 had been, as we have been through, I had been involved in
47 the group since 1988 and I do not stop being involved in
48 the group in 1990. I can't specifically remember which
49 year letters were received, and I thought that they
50 probably had been received. So that is why I put "I think
51 so" in those years.
52
53 Q. Can I ask you to look at your answers to interrogatories 5
54 and 7, please? 5 says: "Did you not in 1989 and/or 1990
55 take part in and/or become involved in and/or participate
56 in the said campaign" -- that is the McDonald's campaign.
57 And you put "sometimes"?
58 A. Yes.
59
60 Q. Is that an honest answer?
