FitzGerald turns to spookery
By Emiliya Mychasuk and Emiko Terazono
Published: September 23 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 23 2008 03:00
Tentacles of the spy group Hakluyt have spread as Thomson Reuters co-deputy chairman Niall FitzGerald takes over as chairman from Sir William “Willie” Purves , the former HSBC chairman who steps aside after nine years.
The Mayfair-based company, with a former Gurkha acting as sentinel on the door, has built its “focused business intelligence” under Sir William and chief Keith Craig , a former MI6 man who joined in 2000. It was founded in 1995 by two former MI6 officers, loftily naming it after the Welsh author and explorer. They have since departed.
Other non-executive directors on the small main board are Mark Getty , of the US oil family fame, golf-playing Robert Webb QC, the British Airways general counsel who also sits on the board of the London Stock Exchange, as well as former UN under-secretary general Sir Kieran Prendergast .
Under Mr FitzGerald, the group, whose clients have been revealed over the years as including the likes of defence group EADS, BP and Shell, will try to expand its international reach. It has recently added some foreign affairs experts to its sprawling advisory board chaired by Sir Ralph Robins , former chairman of Rolls-Royce. The newer members include former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer – who will be forever known in his country for wearing fishnet stockings after he let himself be photographed in them years ago – and Sir David Manning , a former foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair and ambassador to Washington. They join former British Airways boss Sir Rod Eddington , former Hochtief chiefHans-Peter Keitel , and one-time presidential candidate Bill Bradley . Previous advisory board members have included retired bigwigs such as former BP chairman Peter Cazalet and and Vodafone chief Sir Christopher Gent .
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
Comment added by John Donovan
Shell directors Sir William Purves and Sir Peter Holmes (deceased) were the ultimate spy-masters at Hakluyt and major shareholders in the company at the time it was carrying out undercover missions for Shell on an international basis against multiple targets, including Greenpeace and The Body Shop.
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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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