LETTER FAXED TO SHELL DIRECTOR, SIR MARK MOODY-STUART 7 JUNE 04

7 June 2004

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart                                    

Chairman, Anglo American plc                             

20 Carlton House Terrace                                  

London                                                             

SW1Y 5AN 

3 Pages by Fax Only To: 0207 698 8500  

Dear Sir Mark

SHELL/HAKLUYT MI6 SPY FIRM

I am writing to you in your continuing capacity as a director of Shell Transport and Trading Co plc. As you can see I am back living in the UK.

There have been some important developments which I would like to bring to your attention.  They are in relation to the undercover activity which preceded the SMART related High Court trial and to matters relating to Mr Justice Laddie, the Trial Judge for the SMART litigation.

I am aware that you are personally named in the pending multibillion dollar US Class Action law suits against Shell alleging fraud and misrepresentation.  I am also aware that the inaccurate reporting of Shell oil and gas reserves stretches back a number of years into the period that you were Group Chairman of the Royal Dutch Shell Group.

In this connection I have of course pointed out countless times over recent years the vast credibility gap between Shell management pledges of transparency and integrity, compared with actual working practices (which I have described as a corporate culture of deceit and cover-up). Unfortunately for your shareholders my assessment has been proven right. I have the documents which are evidence of my repeated warnings on the subject of trust and integrity which you and your colleagues ignored. 

Since I appreciate that you are a busy man I will briefly remind you of how deep the acrimony was between on the one side, your family and Shell, and on the other, my family and me:-

1. You reluctantly settled our first three High Courts Actions against Shell in our favour for a sum of £260,000 plus costs. The litigation was in respect of breach of confidence and breach of contract.
2. My son received an unsolicited letter of apology from Shell UK Chairman and Chief Executive Dr Chris Fay, for how we had been treated by Shell. This was before we found cause to sue Shell for a fourth time.

3. During the course of the original and latter litigation matters became so intense that Shell displayed posters at the Shell Centre making libellous comments about my family. I withdrew the subsequent libel action I brought against Shell only after Shell UK Chairman Dr Chris Fay personally offered my son and me a package worth £125,000.

4. You deemed it necessary as Chairman of Shell to later issue written threats against us in your letter dated 9 April 1998.

5. Your wife, Lady Judy Moody-Stuart, subsequently personally intervened in the SMART dispute without your knowledge or consent by writing directly to me. I engaged in correspondence with her which was supplied to the Trial Judge, Mr Justice Laddie.

6. In November 2002 you requested on behalf of your barrister son, Mr Tom Moody-Stuart, a copy of a manuscript I had written which included references to you, your wife, and your son (and his connection via the Law Chambers at 8 New Square with the trial Judge, Mr Justice Laddie). I have no reason to believe that your son is anything other than a man of the very highest integrity. I have only asked legitimate questions about any professional connection between him and the Judge at that time. If they did know each other, the Judge should have recused himself from hearing the trial.     

I readily admit that on our part, we conducted a multifaceted peaceful and entirely legal campaign against Shell, the likes of which Shell had never seen before. Hundreds of Shell retailers, suppliers and shareholders joined a pressure group which my son and I founded. Our members picketed Shell HQ buildings in London and overseas and distributed leaflets authored by me. We wanted Shell management to abide with Shell’s own Ethical Code pledging honesty, integrity and openness in all of Shell’s dealings. Instead we were faced with the exact opposite.

In response, Shell eventually hired undercover agents as part of a counter-offensive against us. Apparently we were put in the same category as other NGO’s campaigning against Shell. In all of the other cases, Nigeria, Greenpeace, The Body Shop etc Shell admitted after a Sunday Times investigation, that it used the services of Hakluyt in a series of covert missions by a serving German secret Service Agent.

What no one appears to have realised at the time, is that some of your fellow Shell Transport directors were as you were aware the spymasters of Hakluyt.

They were directors and shareholders in Shell while being at the same time directors and major shareholders in Hakluyt, the privatised version of MI6.

I strongly recommend that you read the recent communications published on my website (shell2004.com) including an email dated 14 April 2004 entitled “SHELL TRANSPORT & HAKLUYT MI6 SPY FIRM – ONE AND THE SAME?” and a letter to Lord Falconer, the Lord Chief Justice, dated 20 May 04.

In the run up to the trial neither Shell nor would Kendall Freeman disclose to our solicitor the brief issued to undercover agents or the scope of their activity. This was despite the serious nature of the criminal actions taken against us. 

One would have thought that Shell would have wished under the circumstances to make clear what actions were taken on Shell’s behalf, so that they could disassociate Shell from actions perhaps undertaken by individuals who overstepped a brief, or were purely coincidental criminal acts which had nothing to do with Shell. Instead Shell has never been willing to acknowledge to me that Hakluyt exists, even though it admitted to The Sunday Times that it had hired Hakluyt agents for covert operations against other parties during the period that we were campaigning against and suing Shell.

In view of current developments can you please let me know if you had knowledge of the undercover activities mounted against us? Were you involved in recruiting the services of Hakluyt or whoever the firm was that was hired by Shell? Did you know that your Shell Transport director colleagues were the spymasters of Hakluyt?  

Yours sincerely 

Alfred Donovan

Cc

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer

Mr Alistair Corbett, Clerk to the Intelligence and Security Committee

Mr Richard Wiseman, Shell Legal Director

Mr Malcolm Brinded, Group Managing Director, Royal Dutch Shell Group

Mr Jeroem van der Veer, Group Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell Group

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