Daily Mail: American woman for Shell board
19 May 2004,
TROUBLED oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell has opted to beef up its board with a company veteran rather than go outside for fresh blood.
American Linda Cook, 45, head of Shell Canada, becomes one of four managing directors at the company, bolstering a hierarchy depleted by the recent sackings of ex-chairman Sir Phil Watts, finance chief Judy Boynton and exploration boss Walter van de Vijver over the reserves debacle.
Cook, born in Kansas, joined Shell in 1980. She takes on her new job from 1 August. Her appointment will leave fellow managing director Malcolm Brinded free to run the core oil and gas division, at the centre of the scandal about overstated reserves.
Shell UK chairman Clive Mather will succeed Cook in charge of Shell Canada.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
