The Independent: Shell moves to plug holes in management board
By Michael Harrison
19 May 2004
Royal Dutch/Shell, the crisis-torn oil major, moved yesterday to strengthen its board by appointing the head of its Canadian operations to its committee of managing directors.
Linda Cook, the president and chief executive of Shell Canada, will join the board at the beginning of August, assuming responsibility for Shell’s gas and power operations.
She is the first new appointment to Shell’s committee of managing directors since the chairman Sir Philip Watts, the head of exploration and production Walter van de Vijver and the finance director Judy Boynton were sacked over the reserves misbooking scandal.
Ms Cook, 46, is American and has spent all her working life at Shell, joining the company in 1980 after graduating from the University of Kansas. Her career has included stints in Houston, California, The Hague and London, where she was chief executive of Shell gas and power for three years from 2000 until leaving to head the Canadian operations.
She is also a board director of the US defence and aerospace group Boeing, which suffered its own corporate scandal last year over the hiring of ex-Pentagon staff and the theft of confidential information.
Her appointment increases the membership of the committee of managing directors to four. Prior to the reserves scandal there were six members. Malcolm Brinded, who temporarily took on responsibility on the committee for gas and power, will now concentrate on exploration and production.
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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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