There was widespread disbelief when former GCHQ Chinese-specialist Katherine Gun was acquitted earlier this week in the UK High Court of breaching the Official Secrets Act by leaking an email to the Observer newspaper which stated that UN member states had been spied on in the run up to the Iraq war:
Here's the background link from BBC News incase anyone missed the story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3489096.stmWhat has so far not emerged in the press is the actual reason why the UK law chief dropped the case. The press has quoted the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith as saying the prosecution could not offer up any evidence. End of story.
What has NOT been stated is that this email, processed by the UK's GCHQ listening station in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is the major centre for analysing intelligence mainly from the US, China, Israel and major Gulf Co Operations States like the UAE and Bahrain. And that Ms Gun, a Mandarin speaker and Chinese specialist, inadvertently stumbled on a UN counter-intelligence operation, designed to trace a criminal network linked to Opus Dei recruits in the Aldrich Ames and Bob Hanssen spying network. (Both Ames - ex CIA - and Hanssen - ex FBI - are serving life sentences for spying).
In late 1998, the UN Security Council launched a number of covert operations to trace the funding structures and finance channels that were backing the election of the next Pope following intelligence that drugs barons and vice operators were busy moving their covert staches around offshore tax havens.
Intelligence sources had data that showed that big hitters were lobbying for a Chinese Pope. Trying to replicate the Polish Pope/collapse of Communism in the Eastern bloc scenario no doubt when JP2 pops his clogs.
Monitoring of illicit drug payment channels linked to Nauru, the Dutch Antilles and the Cayman Islands showed that a number of criminal organisations were depositing sums of between $10 and $50 million in a series of dormant feeder accounts.
These were monitored and found to be linked to the illicit confiscation of funds, frozen in the late 1980s and early 1990s, from high profile film actors, musicians and entertainment industry people who had been caught in a series of paedophile raids. Many had been persuaded to do a plea bargain in exchange for hefty fines and confiscation of tax-haven funds they had stashed away to escape the clutches of the taxman. One such person to be busted was Australian musician Michael Hutchence, the INXS band member who allegedly committed suicide a few years ago.
The sex rings that operated paedophile services for these people were well established and based in Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Macao and small islands in the Australasian area. A series of raids also established the correlation between these service providers to a series of corrupt banks from the 1970s to the 1990s. Top of the list was Banco Ambrosiano - the Vatican Bank whose GM Roberto Calvi was murdered in 1982 when the bank collapsed owing $billions - and BCCI.
When Aldrich Ames and Bob Hanssen were busted, a series of covert US and UN ops led to the financial links between all the above organisations.
The biggest surprise, however, was that large scale donors to Margaret Thatcher's Thatcher Foundation were found to be connected to this criminal structure and were also financing Opus Dei. Further investigation showed that their objective was to lobby for and eventually bankroll the election of a Chinese Pope after JP2.
This story leaked and security/intelligence agencies were concerned that, given the huge sums of money involved, even bigger criminals would join the bandwagon. Like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian Yukos Chief now banged up in jail by Vladimir Putin. A great chum of UK banker Lord Rothschild.
A series of internet ops was initiated to monitor the circulation and distribution of intelligence on the black market.
One op was this counter-intelligence scenario of 'proof' that the US/UK was spying on UN member states in the run up to the Iraq war.
It was like monitoring a chain letter or one of those internet pyramid selling schemes where you send $1000 to the name on top of the list and are 'guaranteed' to receive up to $48,000 if you recruit 10 members who join the scam (remember Women Empowering Women???)
Upshot of the collapsed case is that Gun's defence team would have said in open court that if she was 'guilty' of a breach of the Official Secrets Act, then Thatcher should be prosecuted for her role in the bankrolling of this putative Chinese Pope scam.
Don't know if any UK Sunday papers will get through the morass of injunctions that are gagging any further discussion of this in the UK press. Expect Shrub's Poodle will continue to gag all mention of this conection.
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