EMAIL TO SHELL LEGAL DIRECTOR RICHARD WISEMAN

28 April 2004

Dear Mr Wiseman

You seem tetchy again. No "Dear Mr Donovan". No signoff, “regards” or anything else.

What you seem to be saying is that I should allow YOU – the impartial Shell in-house lawyer, to select extracts from YOUR communications to me. In this connection I note that you have ignored my offer to publish the relevant letters in full.

In respect of the ONLY point you did raise, I printed the exact words – every one of them – confirmed by you. If you had asked for further extracts, I would have happily complied.

The basic problem you have is that as much as you might regret it, you cannot change what you have previously put into writing. That applies to threats and admissions by you and your former solicitor, Colin Joseph, regarding Shell undercover spies, and in relation to the unheeded, meaningless SGBP which are not worth the paper they are written on.

I can understand why this is upsetting and has caused you to focus on the SGBP issue but the plain fact is that if Shell senior management had abided by its own guaranteed core principles of honesty, transparency and integrity in all of Shell’s dealings, as enshrined in the SGBP, it would not be in the unbelievable derided and condemned state it is in today. Even you cannot argue with that conclusion.

Who would have ever thought that the media could get away with describing Shell and its recent management in the scornful terms we now see used almost every day – cover-up, deception, lies etc. But of course you cannot sue any of them because what they say about Shell is true. What a pity that everyone at Shell including you ignored my analysis of Shell management expressed repeatedly and widely over recent years. That mistake will cost Shell Shareholders countless billions.

Yours sincerely
Alfred Donovan
 

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