Sir John Scarlett, continued

On 7 January 2008, I posted an excerpt from an article by Trowbridge Ford on the career of Sir John Scarlett, the current Director of SIS (see http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2008/01/sir-john-scarlett.html).

I have just received an e-mail from Professor Ford, which I am happy to reproduce here:

Dear Robert Black,

I see that you have posted part of my second article about SIS's director general Sir John Scarlett -one of four articles I am writing about the most misguided agent - but I notice that even in posting it, you left other parts of it which had caused him to cover up the assassination of Sweden's statsminister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986 here in Stockholm.

Instead of acting as if it were completely separated from the Lockerbie tragedy, you should have stressed it, including these other articles on mine:

http://www.skog.de/writers/e0408831.htm
http://codshit.blogspot.com/2004/02/nsc-s-lt-colonel-oliver-north-from-key.html
http://www.i-p-o.org/THFord-Lockerbie-why_only_silence-Sept05.htm

The Libyans were set up to take the fall for Palme's assassination, once it could not safely be pinned on the Soviets or any lone domestic nut, and once, the case against Gaddafi started to unravel, it was blamed on the South Africans.

Jan Bondeson recently revived SIS's original complaint against them in Blood on the Snow (pp. 171-3) - what ruined Patrick Haseldine's career after he had revived them when MI6 had gone belatedly to such trouble to hush them up in the first place.

In short, in dealing with Anglo-American conspiracies since Reagan stole the 1980 presidential election, one has to look at the whole, big picture rather than cutting it up into pieces which covert operators and academics can safely deal with.

Sincerely yours,

Trowbridge Ford