The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (79 page)

 
According to reports immediately after the crash, which as we have seen in many other instances, always provide a more accurate account of events, usually from both eye witnesses and footage, the SPHP made three possibly four, offers to protect Diana, each one refused by Fayed.
 
An officer of the SPHP actually told Dodi, “..if you will not use our car, we recommend that two police cars accompany you on your excursions around the city.”
 

This advice too was ignored and Diana and Dodi proceeded straight to the $6000 per night, 18th century Imperial Suite at the Ritz.
 
The couple booked a table at the Chez Benoit restaurant for 8.45pm and they intended to spend the night at Dodi’s apartment.
 
At 6.30 pm Dodi went across the Place Vendome to a jeweller, Repossi, to buy a diamond ring for Diana which was later delivered to the Ritz.
 
A little after 7 pm, the couple were driven in the Mercedes along the Champs Elysees to Dodi’s apartment on Rue Arsene-Houssaye close to the Arc de Triomphe.
 
Here they unpacked and prepared for dinner and again the back-up Range Rover was present as was another car carrying bodyguards for added protection.
 
Why was this level of security thought necessary in the evening, but not in the early hours of the morning at the time of the crash?

Dodi’s apartment was known as the ‘Etoile flat’, after the Place de l’Etoile, the Sun or the Star circle road around the Arc de Triomphe.
 
The route taken to the apartment was out of the Place Vendome onto the Rue de Rivoli and half-way around the Place de la Concorde they turned right into the Champs Elysees and drove straight along that famous avenue to Dodi’s apartment.

This is a straightforward journey; so why then in the early hours of the 31st August did they take the ludicrous detour to the Pont de l’Alma tunnel?
 
If the idea, as has been suggested, was to avoid the paparazzi, surely the shortest and fastest route is the answer and not a journey that provided the paparazzi with a good, sporting chance of finding and catching-up to them?

This route is critically important.
 
As the couple arrived at the apartment at 7.15 pm, bodyguards were seen to rush from their car to hold back six members of the paparazzi.
 
Diana and Dodi became concerned about eating at the unprotected Chez Benoit restaurant and so took the decision to head back to the Ritz to eat.
 
They took the same route back, down the Champs Elysees and around the Place de la Concorde. There is much more traffic in the early evening than in the early hours of the morning and so there were much better reasons to avoid this route at this point in time than in the early hours.
 
The couple, along with bodyguards Wingfield and Rees-Jones, walked into the Ritz captured by the now famous video pictures, at 9.47pm and also at this time the paparazzi were gathering in large numbers outside, amid rumours of an engagement announcement.
 

We know for a fact that Fayed himself was manipulating the press all that day and evening and it is therefore obvious to me that the huge congregation of press was exactly what he wanted and had planned all along.
 
Why?
 
I believe it was to fabricate the story of impending marriage in order to enable the Elite to create a diversion from the truth.
 
Did the Windsors actually believe that the nation loved them so much that it would seem reasonable to kill her to prevent a Muslim being ensconced in the heart of the establishment and therefore no big deal?
 
This of course was before they were confronted with the huge outpouring of grief all over the world for Diana, after the event.

What a shock to their arrogant, pampered systems it must have been when they realised the truth in the days following the event.
 
This more than anything else, terrified the Windsors and the Elite in general.
 
The so-called ‘Crown’ represented by Queen Elizabeth at its head is without doubt the number one enemy of humankind.

The Ritz Hotel security video also identified a number of people who had been outside amongst the onlookers for most of the day and were still there on the edge of the crowd and here is where the plot seriously thickens.
 
After speaking on the telephone with his father who was at home at his estate in Oxted, Surrey, Dodi Fayed announced a quite ludicrous plan.
 
To avoid the paparazzi, ‘he’ decided that the Mercedes that had been transporting them all that day together with the back-up Range Rover were to be taken around the front of the hotel and used as a decoy in an attempt to deceive the paparazzi. At the same time another Mercedes would be brought around the back entrance of the hotel to whisk the couple away to the apartment on the Champs Elysees.
 
Henry Paul, the 41 year old acting head of security at the Ritz, was called on his mobile phone by Dodi and told to report back to the hotel.
 
Paul had gone off-duty at 7pm and by the time he returned it was 10pm yet no-one has established where he was in those missing three hours.
 
Dodi said that his father, Mohamed Fayed, had personally authorised that Henri Paul should drive the Mercedes. There is little doubt that the whole of the new plan was passed-on to Dodi from his father and indeed those who know Fayed would be astonished if this was not the case.
 
Dodi did not think or act for himself, ever – father was always the one in control.
 
Now think upon this for a moment – Henry Paul was not a qualified chauffeur and had no authority to drive the hire car.
 
Why would he be chosen to drive the Mercedes through such a ravening pack of wolves as the paparazzi had apparently become that night.

 
“No one has to direct an assassination – it happens.
 
The active role is played secretly by permitting it to happen.
 
This is the greatest single clue.
 
Who has the power to call off or reduce the usual security precautions?”
 
L. Fletcher Prouty.

If we apply Prouty’s ‘rule’ to the ritual killing of Diana and ask who had the power and moreover actively used that power, to reduce the usual security precautions for Diana that night, we have a rather unsurprising answer: Mohamed Fayed.
 
Given these circumstances he must answer the obvious question:
  
Why was the security reduced?

 
When JFK was assassinated, there were no bodyguards standing on his car in contravention of the usual protocol, they were instead on the car immediately behind.
 
There is a video in existence which clearly shows obviously mystified and protesting security agents being ordered to withdraw from the president’s car as it turned into Deeley Plaza, seconds before Kennedy was shot.
 
When Martin Luther King was assassinated, the police officer In charge of security for King was sent home under protest, shortly before the shooting.

In addition, when Robert Kennedy was assassinated, the security arrangements were again tampered-with. He was actually scheduled to walk-off the stage and exit through the crowd, but one of his aides ushered him away via the kitchen where he was met by Sirhan Sirhan, who had been on a ‘Rosicrucian mind-expansion’ course in the weeks before the murder (probably a euphemism for a mind-control course in which he was the victim).
 
Frank Mankiewicz, the aide who guided RFK into the kitchen was a former public relations man for the Mossad front in America, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Interestingly this same character became head of publicity for the Oliver Stone movie JFK, which was supposed to be an exposé of the assassination of John F. Kennedy but was in reality just more obfuscation of the truth.
 

So we can see in these three examples how a similar modus operandus (Prouty’s ‘rule’) was also used in Diana’s case.

Regarding the way Diana’s security was handled, there were last-minute changes to the arrangements, a change of cars and removal of the Range Rover with no back-up support whatever and then a change to the route, all on the orders of Mohamed Fayed, a man obsessed with security – at least for himself.
 
Bob Loftus, the former head of security at Harrods, said “Compared with the protection that Al Fayed affords himself, which is very professional, of a very high standard; that which was afforded to the mother of the future King of England was a ‘Mickey Mouse’ operation.”

 
He added that “Fayed was absolutely paranoid about his personal protection.”
 
Even whilst walking around his own store, there would be three or four plain-clothes members of his personal protection team who travelled with him all the time, plus another four uniformed security who would act as ‘outriders’ to create two rings of security around him and that is even in his own store!
 
One could legitimately ask, is this paranoia or is it his involvement in the seedy cesspit of arms dealing and being part of the Elite in general, that prompts this security over-kill?
 
Of course, Fayed’s own delusions of grandeur must also be considered as a contributory factor.

 
Fayed always recruits former members of the SAS and the Parachute Regiment for his close security, which makes good sense apart from the fact that their loyalties are always to the Crown, even after retiring from the armed forces.
 
He uses the elite operation, Control Risks, to make recommendations on security issues.
 
Tom Bower tells in his book about Fayed of how armed guards at the Oxted estate hide behind bushes wearing full combat uniform and blacked out faces.

Whenever Fayed travelled in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes there was always a back-up Range Rover carrying emergency medical equipment and security staff, yet he strangely and significantly withdrew that protection from Diana and his son.
 
Even more significantly, a ‘new’ car was introduced for their final journey, another Mercedes which was dispatched to the rear entrance to the Ritz, supplied by a car-hire company by the name of Etoile Limousines.
 
Etoile Limousines is based at the Ritz and depends for its entire income on contracts with the hotel and its guests.
 
In other words, it is controlled entirely by Mohamed Fayed or rather the Sultan of Brunei, that great friend to the House of Windsor and the Bush family.

This new Mercedes was an S280 model, much less robust and lighter in weight than the S600 series that Fayed usually used and also minus the dark-tinted windows.
 
Other cars were available, but this one was chosen instead, for what are now obvious reasons.
 
A director of Etoile, Nils Siegel, told the inquiry into Diana’s death that he personally delivered the car to the rear entrance of the Ritz, but the Dispatches programme proved this to be a lie.
 
It was delivered by a driver by the name of Frederic Lucard and he can be clearly seen in the act of doing so on the Hotel security video.
 
Lucard said he found it was very strange that Etoile would allow Henry Paul, a man not qualified as a chauffeur, to drive one of their cars.
 
So why did they do it?
 
Brian Dodd, the former Head of Security for Fayed in the 1980s, gave his assessment of the situation to Dispatches:

“It’s a new car that has come into the system.
 
They wouldn’t have had time to check that car out.
 
It should have been checked out.
 
There could have been a bomb on that car, for instance.
 
It was a most stupid plan.
 
It shouldn’t have even been considered.
 
The back-up vehicle is there, not just to avert the paparazzi, but for instance, a motor-cyclist with a pillion rider to pull up and shoot, or put a magnetised bomb on top of the car.
 
God only knows why.
 
[I think we all know why – JH] I had probably six or eight men I would consider professional bodyguards who I would have had on that job and Trevor Rees-Jones and Kes Wingfield, after what I have seen happened, would not have been in Paris that night.”

The Mercedes S280 with Henry Paul at the wheel, sped-off from the rear entrance of the Ritz at 12.20 am with Paul telling the paparazzi not to bother following because they would never catch him.
 
Diana and Dodi were in the back seat and in the front was Trevor Rees-Jones, who said he disagreed with the change of plan.
 
He was not wearing a seat belt, which is normal practice in built-up areas because bodyguards need to be free to react quickly.
 
The car was driven at speed along the Rue Cambon and turned right along the Rue de Rivoli into the Place de la Concorde where it stopped briefly at the traffic lights.
 

The paparazzi photographer, Romuald Rat, on the back of the motorcycle drew-up alongside them here, but he says that Henry Paul jumped the lights on red and headed onto the dual carriageway along-side the river Seine, the Cours la Reine.
 
The car disappeared down one tunnel, came back to the surface and then almost immediately entered the short tunnel at the Pont de l’Alma.
 
As the whole world knows, here it went out of control and struck the 13th of a whole sequence of concrete pillars in the centre of the tunnel which are completely unprotected by crash barriers.
 
Henry Paul and Dodi Fayed died immediately.