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1 group, I had indicated, and other times I was not involved
2 with the group?
3 A. I presume that is what you meant.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is what you were saying to him.
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7 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I thought that was particularly significant,
8 but you did not write it down.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not want you to assume that he is
11 agreeing that you had been involved with the group on and
12 off. All he is agreeing is that that is what you said.
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14 MR. MORRIS: That is what I said. Yes. It seems pretty
15 accurate to me.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There was no hidden agenda -- which is a
18 phrase you use.
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20 MR. MORRIS: No. Just a general question about the office and
21 the meeting room. You say the meeting room, the public
22 meetings were held in Endsleigh Street which, if you look
23 at the bottom of the very first paragraph in that
24 statement -- "The room had much literature around the walls
25 relating to the Peace Movement." It was a Peace Movement
26 building, was it not?
27 A. I do not know who owned the building.
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29 Q. If anyone is interested, it is owned by the Peace Pledge
30 Union, the building. That is the building where
31 London Greenpeace used to meet regularly, before they
32 started meeting regularly at the Caledonian Road. You
33 remember, in the previous notes, you said that?
34 A. I cannot answer that. Someone had said that to me.
35 I am not aware, I had no involvement with the group prior
36 to that.
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38 Q. Are you aware that the Caledonian Road offices are also a
39 Peace Movement building, owned by Peace News Limited?
40 A. No, I am not. Well, I am now.
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42 Q. At that meeting, you have recorded me as saying that --
43 well, I presume it is, yes -- on page 2 of those notes, in
44 the middle, you say: "The speakers from London Greenpeace,
45 the most vocal member was a man called Dave."
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47 Then in the first paragraph, you say: "Then a speaker from
48 London Greenpeace spoke. He spoke in very general terms
49 about how worldwide oppression of any kind must be
50 combatted by a struggle of individuals from within and that
51 it could not be combatted by any government action, because
52 government of any kind was part of the oppressive system
53 that must be combatted."
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55 So, is that your recollection, that I gave a general view
56 about, if you like, of the ethos, the Greenpeace ethos, or
57 whatever?
58 A. If you are the speaker I was referring to.
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60 Q. In general terms?
