It would be ironic if Shell, a company that was publicly exposed for engaging in spying, undercover activities and dirty tricks operations against its perceived enemies, such as Greenpeace and John Donovan, are exposed again, this time by government secret surveillance programs.
By Washington Observer
Over the last year or so there have been a number of revelations about the telecom data collection capabilities of the National Security Agency and how those capabilities have been used – see informative Washington Post article index facility: “NSA Secrets.”
We shall presume that given the treaty arrangements between the US and the UK (and Canada, New Zealand, and Australia) that the British Secret Service is also involved in similar activities and that there is a great deal of cooperation between the agencies.
For companies like Royal Dutch Shell this poses an interesting conundrum. Shell is notorious (as are other companies) for flaunting the law (within limits, of course) when they believe there is much to be gained financially, politically, etc. Most recently we have seen allegations that Shell has engaged for over a decade in a conspiracy to fix the international price of crude oil. BP, StatOil, JP Morgan and others were named as co-conspirators.
Reaching back into the relatively recent past, the US Dept. of Defense also confirmed that Shell was or had been under investigation for allegedly conspiring to violate US espionage laws by targeting classified technologies.
What is now clear however, is that any telecom conversations between US Shell Oil Co employees/management and their hirelings and co-conspirators were swept up by NSA and recorded. It would be a safe bet that they have been placed in some sort of permanent storage for retrieval as needed. It is also a safe bet that the email and telecom conversation of anyone ‘targeted’ by Shell and their co-conspirators were also probably monitored and recorded.
I am not a legal expert on the type of surreptitiously captured communications that may be used in any legal proceedings, but I would guess they could be used in the case involving the US Dept. of Defense.
In any event, it seems to me that it would be wise to presume that NSA’s diligent efforts at tracking down terrorists (and criminals) may mean that Royal Dutch Shell and others could have some serious legal trouble ahead of them in the future.
It would be ironic if Shell, a company that was publicly exposed for engaging in spying, undercover activities and dirty tricks operations against its perceived enemies, such as Greenpeace and John Donovan, are exposed again, this time by government secret surveillance programs.
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
