From: steuart@btinternet.com   
      
   "The second piece of   
   evidence which I showed to them--again, I've seen documents and evidence   
   to support this--was that Henri Paul, the chauffeur at the time in the   
   accident, was in the employment of MI6 in 1992. He was a paid informant   
   for MI6 in 1992, and, again, I had seen evidence of that."   
      
   MATT LAUER Interview with Richard Tomlinson interview, 31 August 1998.   
      
   Richard Tomlinson, the ex-MI6 agent, is important to Diana conspiracy for a   
   number of reasons, most importantly his claim that HP was an informant for   
   MI6. It is due to Tomlinsons testimony alone, that conspiracy theorists have   
   unquestioning faith, in the belief that HP was working for British   
   intelligence.   
      
   Yet any reasonable person, who has looked closely at what Tomlinson actually   
   said, especially his notorious affidavit, should have adopted extreme   
   caution, without the conclusions of Paget. I have persistently posted about   
   this in the NG over the years.   
      
   Paget has only now allowed the British public a glimpse of what Tomlinson   
   actually told the French investigation, instead of the various sound bites   
   and media clippings surrounding it. More importantly, Tomlinson has now   
   retreated from his former position, effectively destroying any evidence that   
   linked HP to MI6.   
      
   We should remind ourselves again, what Tomlison said in that infamous   
   affidavit,   
      
   'I cannot claim that I remember from reading this file that the name of the   
   person was Henri Paul, but I have no doubt with the benefit of hindsight   
   that this was   
   he.'   
      
   If Tomilson had gone before Stephan with this testimony, the French Judge   
   would have thought it of low evidential value. But he didn't and, thanks to   
   Paget, we now know what he actually told the investigation in France,   
      
   'I cannot say for sure that it was Henri Paul but I am positive that it   
   was a Frenchman working in the security department of the Ritz Hotel.'   
      
   A Frenchman working in a hotel in Paris, compelling testimony indeed. It is   
   no wonder that the French Investigation was more than a little cynical about   
   the connection between HP and MI6. But Paget went further and identified the   
   file to which Tomlinson was referring and found that "The file contains no   
   reference to an informant based at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in any capacity."   
      
   After confronting him this evidence,   
      
   "Richard Tomlinson accepted that some of this detail may be knowledge he has   
   subsequently obtained from the media that he has mixed with his own   
   recollection. Richard Tomlinson now states only that he believes Henri   
   Paul would have been working for some intelligence or security agency,   
   because of his position at   
   such a hotel, but he cannot state that this was the SIS."   
      
   Bang goes another myth which has lingered for the past 8 years.   
      
   Geoff.   
      
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