LETTER TO THE INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY COMMITTEE 7 JUNE 04
7 June 2004
Mr Alistair Corbett
Clerk to the Intelligence
and Security Committee
70 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2AS
Dear Corbett
HAKLUYT
Hopefully you have already received my letter dated 5 June.
The intended recipient of the faxed letter sent by Hakluyt to the Church of England legal office was apparently Sir Anthony Hammond KCB QC. I have enclosed copies of an interesting exchange of emails with Mr Mike Webster, a Church of England solicitor. Sir Anthony is Standing Counsel to the General Synod of the Church of England. He is also a Director and shareholder in Hakluyt & Company Limited as confirmed on their Annual Accounts filed some months ago. I have obtained a full set of accounts from Companies House for Hakluyt & Company Limited and for The Hakluyt Foundation. I will happily supply them to the Committee on request.
I have written to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Her Majesty’s capacity as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. I have brought to Her Majesty’s attention the link between the Church and Hakluyt which is an evil organisation well versed in deception, trickery, betrayal, fabrication, fraud and infiltration by its undercover agents - indeed the full range of the black arts; not at all in keeping with the ethical policies of the Church of England. A copy of my letter is enclosed.
Two articles about the activities of the activities of Hakluyt are also enclosed – one published by The Sunday Times on 17 June 2001 and the other by The Scotsman on 20 January 2003. There are of course many other such articles including ones reporting the link between Hakluyt and Sir Anthony Hammond KCB QC. I would also happily supply my extensive Hakluyt files on request.
Having pondered on the situation over the weekend, I suspect that the Committee Chairman, the Rt. Hon. Ann Taylor MP, and I share similar grave concerns about Hakluyt.
Has the Secret Intelligence Service set up or encouraged the formation of a private intelligence organisation which escapes any regulatory oversight, yet retains close ties to MI6/MI5 and associated nationally owned intelligence agencies?
This unregulated nest of spies has engaged in operations not only against overseas targets, such as the poor and dispossessed in Nigeria (on behalf of Shell), but also UK NGO’s e.g. The Body Shop (and in all likelihood the Shell Shareholders Organisation and its founders, my son and I). Shell admitted hiring undercover agents on our case. Why would Shell management confide in any third party spy firm when they had what was effectively an in-house resource – Hakluyt? One Shell Transport director was the Chairman of Hakluyt and the other the President of the Hakluyt Foundation. Both were substantial shareholders in Shell and Hakluyt. A self-explanatory copy of a letter sent today to Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is enclosed.
According to documents in my possession, the Hakluyt Foundation was set up to serve as a supervisory body to deal with any possible reckless actions by the management/agents of Hakluyt & Company Limited. According to the report in The Scotsman, “The foundation was set up to provide ‘reassurance that we are not just a tearaway bunch of ex-governmental officials’ according to Mr James”. In other words, the Hakluyt Foundation was supposed to be the commercial equivalent to the Intelligence and Security Committee. That strikes me as being a laughable position given the close relationship/association between the Chairman of Hakluyt & Company Limited and the President of the Hakluyt Foundation, with both being major shareholders in Hakluyt. The mere fact that the founders of Hakluyt thought it appropriate to set up a sham oversight body speaks absolute volumes.
Hakluyt of course also provides a lucrative income for former MI6 agents where they can use the skills of their trade assisted by their former colleagues. That is of course assuming that Hakluyt agents are in fact former rather than current MI6 agents.
It is a murky scandalous situation which in my humble opinion should be a matter of great public interest. It needs investigating and regulating. At the moment Hakluyt seems to be a law unto itself.
Yours sincerely
Alfred Donovan
Encls:
Email exchange with Church of English Solicitor, 7 June 04
Letter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II dated 7 June 03.
The Sunday Times article dated 17 June 01 entitled “MI6 ‘Firm’ Spied on Green Groups”.
The Scotsman article dated 20 January 03 entitled “Intelligence firm with an air of mystery”.
Letter to Sir Mark Moody-Stuart dated 7 June 04.
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