By Adam Smallman
Last update: 7:32 p.m. EST Dec. 30, 2007
LONDON (MarketWatch) — Royal Dutch Shell is to shed thousands of jobs to cut costs and simplify its structure, and one of the largest-ever outsourcing deals may be struck in the next couple of months, the Daily Telegraph reported late Saturday, citing information published on an anti-Shell Web site.
The biggest change will be in the information technology division, where around 3,600 staff may be affected by a plan to farm out operations to Electronic Data Systems Corp. , U.S.-based wireless telecom services firm AT&T Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) unit T-Systems.
At a board meeting thought to have taken place shortly before Christmas, Shell decided to outsource virtually the whole of its IT function. Starting Jan. 8, Shell is planning a series of what it calls Facing Change meetings with staff to outline further details, which will include plans to reorganize other departments, including finance operations.
Dow Jones Newswires, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported on Dec. 24 that Chief Financial Officer Peter Voser told staff he wants “a leaner and meaner” finance function and has started to tighten control of business lines by his department. Shell confirmed then that it was “in discussions to outsource a substantial part of its (information technology) infrastructure to three suppliers,” without naming them.
Shell declined to discuss the number of staff involved, the Telegraph reported, though in an email written by Goh Swee Chen, vice president of Information Technology Infrastructure, the outsourcing plan presented to the board is described as “substantial” and likely to create “uncertainty”. The email was confirmed by Shell as authentic.
Negotiations are continuing, but Shell wants the new IT arrangements up and running by July 1, the newspaper reported.
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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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