The Wall Street Journal: Shell to Name Cook A Managing Director
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
May 19, 2004
Royal Dutch/Shell Group said on Tuesday it would make Linda Cook, head of Shell Canada, a managing director from Aug. 1 to bolster a board depleted by recent sackings.
Ms. Cook, a veteran of more than 20 years with the company, will take on executive responsibility for gas and power from Malcolm Brinded. This will leave Mr. Brinded free to run the core oil-and-gas division, a task he took on after Walter van de Vijver was fired in March for his part in a scandal over overstated reserves.
Shell said it would seek approval for Ms. Cook’s appointment at the annual general shareholders’ meeting June 28.
Ms. Cook will join a severely depleted committee of managing directors, the top executive grouping in Shell’s twin-holding hierarchy.
Current members are Mr. Brinded, Jeroen van der Veer, chairman of the committee, and Rob Routs, head of refining and marketing and chemicals. Shell is 60% owned by Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., based in The Hague, and 40% by London-based Shell Transport & Trading Co.
Mr. Van de Vijver and two other members of the committee, ex-chairman Philip Watts and Chief Financial Officer Judy Boynton were fired this year after the revelation in January that Shell overstated its proved oil and gas reserves by more than 20%.
Ms. Cook, a U.S. citizen, joined Shell Oil Co. in Houston in 1980. In 2000 she was appointed chief executive for Shell Gas & Power in London. Ms. Cook is also on Boeing Co.’s board.
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.
