Conspiracy Tales
One Step Beyond August 25, 2001


Diana Was The Target

"Diana Was Not The Target" is the title of a groundbreaking article by Rayelan Allan. [1] I was privileged to be associated with Rayelan during the days and months following the assassination of Diana, Princess of Wales, as we both dug into the event, trying to find the true story. Her blockbuster report, "Who Controls Diana, Controls The World," premiered on my web site, "Conspiracy Nation." [2]. Author Robert Anton Wilson so connected Rayelan's premiere report with my web site, that he mistakenly attributes authorship to "Conspiracy Nation" in his book, Everything Is Under Control. [3] Rayelan followed up on her premier report in her book, Diana, Queen of Heaven, which book I was honored to write the foreword to. As mentioned, Rayelan's article, "Diana Was Not The Target," broke further ground in the quest to get at what really happened, in Paris, on August 31, 1997. This issue of Conspiracy Tales goes "one step beyond" Rayelan Allan's latest sleuthing, and demonstrates a cover-up within the cover-up.





Motive

Part of the detective work in solving crimes is to show that there was (1) Motive, (2) Means, and (3) Opportunity.

Diana was not shy about speaking her mind on subjects such as the British Royal Family, land mines, and (so-called) AIDS. Her divorce from Prince Charles was acrimonious and there was a bitter, ongoing, "family feud." Diana was a defector from the British monarchy. She had been ushered into the halls of power, via her marriage to the Prince of Wales; but she had sufficient conscience to finally rebel against the allure of power. [4]. Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed further increased her political savvy. [4]. The popular princess went so far as to publicly refer to the British House of Windsor as "lizards" and "reptiles." "They're not human," she said. [5] Diana grew to believe that the British monarchy, with all its hidden power, were her enemies. [6]. In Great Britain, all members of MI5, MI6 (British intelligence agencies), members of Parliament, and military officers swear an oath of loyalty to the monarchy, not to the United Kingdom. [5] [6]. In the U.K., the monarchy is the state. By revealing royal family secrets, Diana may have been committing "treason."

Diana, nominated for a Nobel Prize, had become a "loose cannon" in the eyes of the Windsors. [6]. Her voice was heard internationally. And a new snag emerged: her romance with Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian and a Muslim. (According to the president of the American-Arab-Muslim Council, it was more than a romance; he claims that Dodi and Diana, before their deaths, had been secretly married, in Egypt. [7].) The Dodi/Diana romance was viewed by the state of Israel as a threat to its interests (national security). Any birth of an Anglo-Arab child to the internationally famous couple would promote world interest in Arab culture. [6]. There is speculation that Diana may have even secretly converted to Islam. [6] There was the dangerous (to Israel) potential that a Dodi/Diana union would be a powerful symbol to help unite the Arabs. (Ironically, Ariel Sharon is now also uniting the Arabs, though inadvertantly.) Suppose Dodi Fayed influenced Diana to denounce the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians? Her voice would have been heard.

Means

Ex-British intelligence agent Richard Tomlinson says that MI6 (British intelligence, similar to the CIA) had assassination mechanics already worked out whereby to murder "a Serb leader"; he says the plan "eerily mirrors" the "car accident" deaths of Dodi and Diana. [8].

The American CIA, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), and other U.S. intelligence agencies had been spying on Diana for several years. [9]. The CIA routinely "bugged" her phone calls. [8]. The NSA admits it has 39 NSA-originated and NSA-controlled documents -- 124 pages altogether -- of top-secret information on Diana. [9] These U.S. spy agencies, as a matter of procedure, forwarded the results of their spying to their British counterparts. [9]. It was not just the demonized "paparazzi" who were intensely interested in what Diana was up to.

Reportedly, Diana's true killers belonged to an international conglomerate of intelligence services, known as Defense Intelligence Services (a.k.a. "Group 26"), based in Bristol, England. [10]. When independent journalist Sherman Skolnick began delving into this connection, he was warned off the story by one of the alleged members of Group 26, Gunther Russbacher. (This editor listened to a tape-recording of Russbacher's polite warning to Skolnick; apparently unknown to Russbacher: Skolnick had taped the phone call.) Dodi's actual murderer may have been what the Globe "tabloid" described as "a shadowy figure from the French underworld" with ties to British intelligence. [11]. He may have been the one who, immediately after the car crash, "reached into the car, as if he was checking to see if Dodi was alive," and broke Dodi's neck. [1].

Diana climbed into an ambulance after the car crash and the ambulance drove off, presumably rushing the princess to a hospital. As the Mercedes was Dodi's death car (though not via the car crash), the ambulance was Diana's deathmobile. Details to follow later, in this issue of Conspiracy Tales.

Opportunity

The Mercedes carrying Dodi and Diana to their joint fate left the Paris Ritz shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997. Also in the car were the driver, Henri Paul, and a bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones. Contrary to reports, Henri Paul was not drunk when he drove the car away from the Ritz. Ritz Hotel surveillance videos do not show Mr. Paul as being obviously intoxicated. Two days prior to the car crash, Henri Paul took an extensive medical exam necessary for his airplane pilot's license: the results of the medical showed no alcohol-related problems. [6]. The bodyguard, Rees-Jones, who survived the crash, insists that Mr. Paul was not drunk. [6]. Somewhere between the Ritz and the Pont l'Alma crash, Mr. Paul was poisoned -- intoxicated (toxic means poison). [6]. An abnormally high level of carbon monoxide was subsequently found in Henri Paul's blood, during his autopsy. [6] Mr. Paul was not driving erratically when he drove away from the Ritz. [6].

All 17 close-circuit cameras on the route from the Ritz to the Pont l'Alma tunnel were not functioning. [5]. This system of video surveillance had never before malfunctioned all at the same time. [5]. Simultaneous to the camera system failure, all police communications frequencies in central Paris went down. [5]

As the Mercedes neared the area of the tunnel, an unknown motorcyclist blocked an off ramp, thereby forcing the car to enter the tunnel. [8] In the Pont l'Alma tunnel, a flash of light (NOT "paparazzi" camera flashbulbs) from an extremely powerful "anti-personnel device" momentarily blinded Henri Paul. [6]. The car, stolen earlier that year, had been tampered with [6] A momentarily blinded Mr. Paul, poisoned, lost control of the vehicle and it crashed into a pillar. Contrary to erroneous press reports which had the car going much faster upon impact, the Mercedes was going less than 60 mph. [6].

Diana Was Not The Target

Diana was still very much alive after the car crash. [11] She was also 3-months pregnant. [5] [6] [7]. (Likely, the father was Dodi Fayed.) Stunned, she exited the car and walked around [1]. An ambulance arrived and she was assisted into it. It took over one hour for the ambulance to get Princess Diana to a nearby hospital. [5]. Why the delay?

The ambulance carrying Diana parked itself on a side street. There, an abortion was performed. The 3-month foetus was taken from Diana's womb. [1]. According to Rayelan Allan, Diana died inadvertantly, due to blood loss and damage to internal organs. [1] "Diana was not the target," she says. Her death was, according to Allan, not part of the plan.

Ms. Allan deserves more recognition for her efforts at getting to the bottom of the Diana/Dodi mystery. Her scenario is almost correct, except that Diana WAS the target. Is it really believable that after witnessing the demise of her lover and then undergoing a forced abortion, that the outspoken Diana would have kept quiet about it? She was politically savvy. She furthermore had a powerful ally in Mohammed Fayed, Dodi's multi-millionaire father. Diana had to be eliminated permanently; it WAS part of the plan. But there was a cover-up within the cover-up: Diana's pregnancy had to be hidden from autopsy doctors. It was not a botched abortion which killed her; it was purposeful "botching" which ensured that the princess would be delivered to the hospital on the verge of death. That ambulance was Diana's deathmobile.

"Paparazzi" Scapegoats

The world immediately sensed that there was something fishy about Diana's sudden death. Its grief and fury was supplied with a "patsy" for the death in the form of photographers who were near the scene of the car crash. A new word came into common usage: "Paparazzi." They were depicted as low-life scum who'd harassed the princess to her death.

But many of these "paparazzi" were actually mainstream journalists. [12]. They were also key witnesses, present at the crash scene during its immediate aftermath. They took a lot of photographs which are crucial evidence. Unfortunately, swift action by French police resulted in the confiscation of most of these "paparazzi" photographs. [6] (Some of the pictures, however, had already been wired to a press agency in North London. [8].)

The "paparazzi" were detained by the authorities and held incommunicado for days. They were warned that publishing any of the confiscated photos could be a felony, "obstructing investigation." [6]. When these normally communicative journalists were finally released from custody, they had by then all "clammed up." They weren't saying much. Meanwhile, within 12 hours of some key photos having been wired to the North London press agency, that agency was burglarized and the photos stolen. [8].

What do the "paparazzi" know? Why aren't they talking? Maybe they're afraid of "car accidents." Some "paparazzi" witnesses complain of being "stalked" and of having their homes and offices burglarized. [11]. Another, James Andanson, was found dead in a burned up car. "His mysterious death has never been explained." [11]

The LeWinter Affair

Oswald LeWinter was recruited into the CIA during the Vietnam War. He grew disgusted with the Agency and eventually turned renegade. [6] (By "renegade" is meant, sort of like Diana herself: "a loose cannon.")

John McNamara, Mohamed Al-Fayed's chief of security, says that in April 1998 his boss was contacted by high-power attorney Keith Fleer. Fleer arranged for McNamara and Al-Fayed to meet Oswald LeWinter in Austria. LeWinter claimed he had secret CIA files on Diana and Dodi; he'd sell them for $20 million. [8].LeWinter claimed that Mercedes driver Henri Paul had been poisoned and that the car had been tampered with; LeWinter produced documents supporting his claims. [6] But on April 22nd, LeWinter was pounced on by FBI agents. (FBI nabs him in Austria?) [5]. They said he was -- get this -- selling phony documents. LeWinter was arrested and charged with fraud. (FBI goes to Austria to nab someone selling phony documents?)

The LeWinter documents were not phony. LeWinter was offered a deal by the authorities: "Play ball with us; say that, 'Yes, the documents are fake,' and you'll get a simple fraud charge. Otherwise, you'll face charges of high treason (for stealing and disseminating classified information) in the United States." [1]

One of the supposedly fraudulent documents was published: first, in a Vienna newspaper; later in the London Mirror. Here is what it said:

DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION

Foreign Intelligence Information Report

Directorate of Intelligence

WARNING NOTICE -- INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED. FURTHER DISSEMINATION AND USE OF THE INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CONTROLS STATED AT BEGINNING AND END OF REPORT. REPORT CLASS: TOP SECRET. REPORT NO. 00.D 831/173466-97 COUNTRY: France DATE DISTR: 17 June 1997. SUBJECT: File overview: Diana Princess of Wales - Dodi. REFERENCES DCI Case 64376. SOURCE: CASParis/CASLondon/COSGeneva/CASKingston/ UK citizen Ken Etheridge.

1. Relationship initiated between Diana POW and Dodi aF according to reliable intel sources in November 1996. Intimacy begins shortly after they meet. (Report filed)

2. Reliable source reports Palace seriously disturbed by liaison. PM considers any al Fayed relationship politically disastrous. Edinburgh sees serious threat to dynasty should relationship endure. Quote reported: "Such an affair is racially and morally repugnant and no son of a bedouin camel trader is fit for the mother of a future king." Edinburgh. (Report filed)

3. Request from highest circles to DEA attache UK for 6 on Dodi re: Cocaine. See file forwarded to UK embassy DC. (Copy filed)

4. U.S. liaison to MI6 requested by David Spedding for assistance in providing permanent solution to Dodi problem. Blessing of Palace secured (Twiz filed)

5. WHuse [White House] denies Spedding request. Harrison authorized only to arrange meeting for MI-6 representative with K-Team Geneva. (Twiz on file)

6. Meeting in Geneva reportedly successful (Report filed)

7. Al Fayed Mercedes limo stolen and returned with electronics missing. Reliable intel source confirms K-team involved. Source reports car rebuilt to respond to external radio controls. (Report filed) [1]

Diana Was The Target

Eliminating only Dodi Fayed would not solve the Diana problem, nor would eliminating both Dodi and the unborn child. Diana had to be silenced. Diana was the target.

Many reputable professionals agree: it was not an accident that Diana died; she was murdered. [6] [11] Governments kill thousands of people each day, in the name of "national security." What difference would 3-and-a-half more bodies make to them? "The State is the coldest of all cold monsters." [Nietzche]

Diana divorced Prince Charles on August 28, 1996. Almost exactly to the day, one year later, Diana was killed. Both Diana and the actress Marilyn Monroe were born on the first of the month. Both died, at age 36, in August. (The "loose cannon" Monroe's murderers restrained her and inserted a specially doctored Nembutal suppository into her anus; see Double-Cross by Sam and Chuck Giancana. ISBN: 0-446-36412-6.) Monroe, the Queen of Diamonds, and Diana, the Queen of Hearts, were the subjects of the Elton John song, "Candle in the Wind," which Mr. John sang at Diana's funeral.













Foucault's Pendulum

In other news, Umberto Eco's book, Foucault's Pendulum, is a magnum opus conspiracy tale. The connecting thread throughout Eco's 600-plus page book is the mysterious medieval order of warrior/monks, the Knights Templar. (See June 15, 2001 issue of "Conspiracy Tales" -- "Knights Templar Pay No Taxes" -- for background on the Knights Templar.)

The actual pendulum (Foucault's pendulum) hangs from a single point in a museum in Paris. >From that one point in the museum's roof -- the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable -- a wire stretches 67 meters to the 28 kilo sphere hanging below. That sphere sways back and forth with "isochronal majesty." But dullards, "trained on textbooks" that blunt the "capacity for wonder," do not see that the point from which hangs the sphere (globe) is "the only stable place in the cosmos."

Like that single point from which hangs the sphere (globe) is the Torah. But the visible Torah is only one of the possible permutations of the eternal Torah. Behind all those permutations, somewhere, the eternal Torah perhaps can be discovered? Maybe, but the really important thing is not so much the discovery, it is the seeking. Getting there is all the fun.

"God is dead." -- Nietzche

"Nietzche is dead." -- God

Humberto Eco quotes Karl Popper: "The conspiracy theory of society comes from abandoning God and then asking: 'Who is in his place?'" This concept is suggested implicitly by Robert Anton Wilson in the title of his encyclopedia of conspiracy "theories", Everything Is Under Control. Since God is (supposedly) dead, a situation arises where there is a longing for the "absent parent." God's demise leaves a vacuum into which "theories" of an omnipotent cabal rush. But behind all those permutations, somewhere, the eternal Torah perhaps can be discovered?

Saint Bernard, with the economic support of the counts of Champagne, built an order in the Holy Land that was in contact with Arab and Jewish secret sects. That order, the Knights of the Temple of Solomon (Knights Templar), benefited from an unknown directorate which ran the Crusades in an effort to keep the order going, and not the other way around. The Knights Templar were not for the benefit of the Crusades, says Eco; the Crusades were for the benefit of the Knights Templar.

In the eleventh century, Provins, France, was the seat of the Comte de Champagne. That area has a vast network of tunnels, dating from prehistoric times. These catacombs were a labyrinth tailor-made for any persecuted group. On Friday, October 13, 1307, there was, throughout France, a mass arrest of Knights Templar. (Ever since, any Friday the Thirteenth has been considered unlucky.) The French king's men came to Provins to arrest the Templars there, but the Templars fled underground, into the catacombs. From their underground base in Provins, the Order of Knights Templar lived on, argues Eco.

The Middle Ages is "middle" in the sense of "central." The invisible empire of the Knights Templar would someday once more become visible. This, according to the argument, is not some fantasy of a dead, romantic past, but a simple truth for those still legitimately alive in our current, "modern," dark age. Or at least, it's one of the permutations.

Every earthly object, since God's widespread dethronement, acquires increased significance; they become hieroglyphs pointing to the unmentionable.. "If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." (Voltaire). Since God is "dead," groups form which go looking for Him. The search for the Ultimate Secret is the glue which holds these groups together. But since the really important thing is the seeking, and not the discovery, the seeking itself is the discovery? Or behind the permutations, somewhere, the eternal Torah perhaps can be discovered?



Please, Please, Go Shopping

Japan was the miracle economy of the 1980s. U.S. businesses emulated Japanese techniques, for example holding employee "rallies," in hopes that somehow that would help our economy. But Japan's "miracle economy" was really just an economic bubble based on inflated real estate values. The Japanese economy crashed and has been stagnant for years.

Economic observers are beginning to compare the current scarey-looking U.S. economy to Japan's 11-year stock slide. Some similarities to Japan:

Following the NASDAQ crash in spring, 2000, the 1990s boom mindset began to evaporate. The prevailing trend in the 1990s was conspicuous consumption; for example, don't just buy a shirt, buy a shirt with a Tommy Hilfiger label, thereby demonstrating that you are so well off that you can afford to pay an extra $30 dollars for nothing more than the words "Tommy Hilfiger." (This is why people mow their lawns, by the way; it shows they're so well off that they can afford to let their land lie fallow.) It wasn't just a stock market bubble, it was also a lifestyle bubble.

This conspicuous consumption trend is dying. In the retail sector, the big winners now are the low-price chains such as Wal-Mart; the losers are the upscale stores such as Saks and Neiman Marcus. [AP, 8/9/01] It's a new decade. Conspicuous consumption is too 90s.

Consumer spending is now the last prop holding off financial disaster. The only thing that has kept the nation out of recession has been the willingness of consumers to keep on shopping. But that spending is fueled by an ever-increasing use of credit (debt). [Reuters. "Chartists see months of discontent on Wall Street"] And consumers have long been spending billions of dollars more than they've earned -- the so-called "negative savings rate."

Currently, wary consumers are cutting back shopping. Generally, retail sales are sluggish. "American Consumers Are Drowning in Debt" screams the cover of Newsweek magazine [8/27/01]. The consumer is saturated. He isn't spending at a pace likely to recharge the U.S. economy. [AP, "Market flat after retail sales report."]

"An unusually pervasive global slowdown is making things worse." [USA Today, 8/22/01] So where's it all heading? "Brace yourself for an autumn of discontent and a winter of woe on Wall Street." [Reuters] That's what some pessimists are saying. Others are "whistling past the graveyard," perennially upbeat, like Herbert Hoover after the 1929 market crash. But Craig Harris, president of Harris Capital Management, is grimmer than the pessimists: "The U.S. is in for a dose of what Japan has had to deal with in the past couple of decades," he says. And super-wealthy Warren Buffett whispers to a select few, "Brace yourselves for EIGHT MORE YEARS of U.S. economic stagnation." [Emphasis added; from recent issue of Business Week magazine]

Where I work, in an upscale department store chain, with headquarters in a major American city, the reaction to the current bleak economic situation is akin to that of an army in retreat. In panic, they are mindlessly discarding equipment ("cutbacks") as they flee the horde of barbarian profit loss. That's what an army in retreat does: they throw things away. Retreat can be good, sometimes, if it's strategic, preparative to a counter-attack. But this department store chain's retreat is a blind panic, showing no innovation; like a dumb beast, it gnaws its leg to stave off hunger. To innovate means to MAKE anew, to reinvent. Instead they are locked into a bygone era, peddling oh-so-90s conspicuous consumption. Corporate headquarters in a major American city determines what is sold and at what price, throughout the chain. When their outmoded retailing fails and fails and fails, all they know is to "get tough" and gnaw their leg. Further panic is evinced by store managers whose creativity is severely clamped by the almighty, distant, corporate HQ; all the creativity the local managers are allowed is to move around the store's fixtures (e.g. the racks and tables which hold the merchandise.) So the store managers are into a frenzy of fixture moving, as if getting the fixture into just the right place will at last boost sales substantially.







Notes

Below are sources for the Diana story:



[1] Allan, Rayelan. "Diana Was Not The Target." Paranoia magazine. #24, Fall 2000. See also www.paranoiamagazine.com

[2] Conspiracy Nation.

Www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html

[3] Wilson, Robert Anton. Everything Is Under Control. ISBN: 0-06-273417-2

[4] Allan, Rayelan. Diana, Queen of Heaven. ISBN: 0-9670060-0-7

[5] Icke, David. The Biggest Secret. ISBN: 0-9526147-6-6

[6] Hounam, Peter & McAdam, Derek. Who Killed Diana? ISBN: 1-883319-87-0

[7] Redman, Brian. "Princesses In Peril." Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 11 Num. 14. (Should be at Conspiracy Nation web site, URL listed in #2, above.)

[8] Jones, Barbara. "Princess Must Die." Star. March 9, 1999.

[9] Smith, Bob. "CIA Kept Top-Secret Files on Di." Star. Dec. 22, 1998.

[10] Allan, Rayelan. "October Surprise and the Murder of Princess Diana." Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 11 Num. 82. See web site URL in #2, above.

[11] "Crash Investigation." Globe. June 26, 2001.

[12] Redman, Brian. Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 10 Num. 96. See web site URL in #2, above.





This issue by Brian Redman. Address any correspondence to 314 S. Prairie (#101), Champaign, IL 61820





Acknowledgements: Thanks to Rayelan Allan of Rumor Mill News for her very leading edge stories. Visit Rumor Mill News at www.rumormillnews.com

Thanks to Sherman Skolnick for his guidance. Visit his web site for the latest insider news at www.skolnicksreport.com