By John Donovan
We have been reporting for some time about Shell skullduggery in Nigeria, including:
- Shell’s sinister commercial relationship with militant leaders carrying out attacks against Shell employees and pipelines
- arming Nigerian police spies
- embedding Shell spies throughout the Nigerian government
- engaging in massive corruption
Our sources have included Wiki-leaks, a senior manager inside Shell Nigeria and a senior member of Shell Global Security.
Some related articles reporting on Shell’s shameful track record in Nigeria:
*ROYAL DUTCH SHELL NIGERIAN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
*WIKILEAKS: SHELL EMBEDDED SPIES IN NIGERIAN GOV
*Shell embedded spies in governments of Nigeria, Dubai and Iraq
*PDF ORIGINAL ARTICLE SHELL EMBEDDED SPIES IN NIGERIA
*SHELL SETTLES CLAIM FOR MURDER & TORTURE IN NIGERIA
*SHELL COMPLICITY IN NIGERIAN MURDER OF CIVILIANS
*UNLOVEABLE SHELL, THE GODDESS OF OIL
*CLEAN-UP FOR NIGER DELTA AND SHELL’S REPUTATION
*SHELL PAYS $10 MILLION CORRUPTION FINE TO NIGERIANS
*SHELL ACCEPTS LIABILITY FOR TWO OIL SPILLS IN NIGERIA
A recent Guardian article confirmed from its own sources our long standing allegation that Shell has fuelled violence in Nigeria by paying rival militant gangs.
It is interesting in the light of this confirmation to reflect on past events.
For example, an article published by Bloomberg in November 2008 under the headline:
“Nigerian Oil Pipe Fire Extinguished, 6 Workers Died, Shell Says“
The article mentions that “Nigerian oil production rate has suffered this year from militant attacks and oil theft“, thereby implying that the fire – the cause of which was unknown – may have resulted from sabotage by militants.
If this was the case, were the militants paid by Shell, bearing in mind that militant attacks were driving up the global price of oil, fortuitously generating billions of dollars in extra revenue for Shell?
Was Shell responsible for the deaths of its own employees?
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.
