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On May 3rd 2007, 3 year old Madeleine McCann disappeared from her parent's holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz. Rather than add to an already excessive volume of speculation about who may and who may not be responsible, or who may or may not be to blame, this site will attempt to frame the investigation within the broader context of commercial and political profiteering, exploring instead the various motives of certain interest groups and individuals who have laid claim to the ‘abduction event’ over the past 18 months or so. The site offers no explanation for what might have occurred prior to the event, only for the Press, PR and lobbying activity that erupted in its wake. The intent is to dispel any notion of an elaborate conspiracy and to propose a more prosaic but no less compelling account of the Madeleine Franchise and how it came almost accidently into shape: a story of commercial and political improvisation.

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Author Blackwatch (of 31/08/2010 @ 14:14:24, in Cryptology, viewed 64 times)

The news of the msyerious death of Mi6 agent, Gareth Williams in the Pimlico area of London has jogged my memory a little.

A short while ago I researched the esoteric background behind JK Rowling's Harry Potter franchise and made reference to self-styled magick guru, Aleister Crowley - a favourite of Bond writer, Ian Fleming and reputed Mi6 agent (who similarly faked his own death in Portugal). So it comes as some surprise to learn that McCann PI Kevin Halligen and Crowley both had registered addresses on Jermyn Street in London: Halligen at 113A Jermyn Street (above Rowley's restaurant) and Crowley at 93 Jermyn Street.

As reported by The Times, Halligen spent much of his time drinking at the Heyjo cl ...

 

Whilst we can only speculate that it will be Mark Summers of the Cherie Blair-founded legal practice, Matrix Chambers who will be leading Kevin Halligen's fight against extradition to the United States on fraud and money laundering charges, it has been confirmed that Janes Solicitors will also be involved.

Those readers with an interest in previous fraud scandals may recall that Janes Solicitors were linked to the so-called Cheriegate aff ...

 

Here's a quick few suggestions I fired off to 'investigative' reporter Mark Hollingsworth in response to his Halligen report in the ES Magazine. Mark makes no mention of the fact that it was Tim Craig Harvey who founded Red Defence International with Kevin Halligen. Craig Harvey served as Director and Company Secretary until January 2009 (Halligen terminated his directorship in August 2008 only to be reappointed after Craig Harvey's resignation in January 2009 - just a few months before a warrant was issued for Halligen's arrest).


Mark suggests that Hallig ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 29/08/2010 @ 17:35:08, in Murat Family Background, viewed 29 times)

Here's an interesting bit of trvia: Sir Peter Leng was educated alongside Robert Murat's father at the prestigious military 'prep school' Bradfield College in Berkshire between the years 1938 and 1940. Leng went onto become a British Army General and Counter Terrorism Expert in Northern Ireland. He enlisted in the Scots Guards (regiment of Hewlett witness, Peter Verran) in 1944.

Leng's interest in so-called 'psyops' operations are alleged to have provided the basis for 'Operation Clockwork Orange', conceived of to destabilise the IRA and then extended to discredit senior Labour politicians (right-wing agents led an propaganda offensive that included claims that Harold Wilson was a ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 27/08/2010 @ 14:27:46, in Cryptology, viewed 33 times)

Did you know that Red Defence - the Private Investigation company set up by Tim Craig Harvey and McCann PI, Kevin Halligen was registered to an address shared by Sir Richard Ryder and Sir John Walker's Inkerman Group?

Red Defence, which later featured in the both Trafigura and General Abacha scandals, was registered to 1 Cornhill London EC ...

 

Thought this might be interesting as the report features an increasingly ubiquitous figure within on the fringes of the McCann lobby: Dame Pauline Neville Jones - one of the most quietly controversial figures in British Politics and security. Neville-Jones was head of Qinetiq when they employed Security Advisor Kevin Halligen (then at Inkerman) to work on British Defence project, The Minerva Programme between 2003 and 2004. Given that The Sartgeants Inn has devoted considerable blog time to Dame Neville Jones in the last five months and in view of the circumstances surrounding the extradition request of former McCann PI, Kevin Hallig ...

 

The Sargeants Inn explores the background of McCann investigator, Kevin Halligen, Andre Hollis, the Forenics Science Services, Van Scoyoc and Patton Boggs - Washington's leading Lobby Shops and considers whether Halligen had been deliberately recruited by figures close to Control Risks and the Shadow Government and then deliberately isolated by his intelligence partners. Is Halligen simply a fantasist or an unsuspecting scapegoat, a low-level lackey groomed and fastracked to the top of food chain - drawn into a bogus wedding - and then shamelessly hung out to dry?

 
Author Blackwatch (of 29/06/2010 @ 21:52:12, in Editorial Intelligence, viewed 854 times)

We're only making plans for Nigel. We only want whats best for him. We're only making plans for Nigel. Nigel just needs this helping hand.

Here's a novel take on disaster capitalism: the McCann Files needs your dosh. Why? I don't know, because the site is hosted on a Fasthosts server and Fasthosts offer basic website packages at little more than £7.99 per month (slashed down from a whopping £15.00 per month for the most 'gruelling' of packages - click here for Article Read in Full Comments Post/Comments (0) Archive Archive Print Print

 
Author Blackwatch (of 29/06/2010 @ 21:50:11, in News, viewed 175 times)

More crude attempts by people within the murky worlds of National and Private Security to refreeze an old cold war ahead of a disatrous pull-out of Afghanistan and the Middle East (yes, that's chuffs like Shrimpton, Titon International, Dame Neville-Jones and all their red-baiting US counterparts). More fake spies, more diabolical necons and more episodes of entrapment (featuring your average spy-wannbees). Sounds like they've all been stitched up a kipper:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10455185.stm

They performed much the same sting with ex-TA man Peter Hill in Skipton in the UK a few years ago. Same deal really: impressionable dreamer with ...

 

I've just been reading through the of Carlos Manuel Matos Costa - the man who accuses Murat of having sexual deviances and violent tendencies (see image above).

And reading through it, I've found curious as to why the translator left out the reference to Pat Pollard and Lyndon Pollard that appears in the original copy of the Police Statement below.

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Author Blackwatch (of 14/06/2010 @ 19:57:56, in Political Influences, viewed 842 times)

Colonel John Garrett - a defence lobbyist for Patton Boggs and frequent (unpaid) commentator for Fox News - Rupert Murdoch's US News Cahnnel - was Halligen's best man at his wedding to Maria Dybczak, a trade lawyer for the US Commerce Department. Garrett, the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of US Defense under Clinton, had been introduced to Halligen at a Special Forces Club in Knightsbridge, Central London. According to The Times Halligen's name was put forward by Major Donald Palmer, then chairman of entry into the Special Forces Club and Major General John Holmes, a former commander of the SAS and former director of special fo ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 14/06/2010 @ 10:08:33, in Three Arguidos, viewed 325 times)

Celebrated McCann 'hate-site' the Three Arguidos have announced they are to move to a new domain and new server. The domain registered for the third stage in their continuing disinformation strategy will be thepjfiles.prophpbb.com and has been moved to a server located in McLean Virginia, just outside Washington DC. Ironically, McLean is where several of Kevin Halligen's colleagues and Oakley partners are based. The Private Investigator hired by the McCanns is wanted by the FBI in connection with a series of money-laundering and fraud allegations. In June 2007 Halligen used his Patton Boggs address ( Article Read in Full Comments Post/Comments (0) Archive Archive Print Print

 

Were you aware there was a link between McCann PI Kevin Halligen and the Forensic Science Services in Birmingham? Or between Red Defense and the Nigerian Corruption Scandal? Or between Brian Kennedy and private defense company Qinetiq? It seems obvious now, but there had to a reason for all that plugging of Centralised DNA databases, increased profiling activities, high-tech cross border policing shananigans and EU-Wide Amber Alerts and the answer seems to lie in a bevvy of private defense and intelligence companies determined to push into the Police and Charity markets, probably in the event the market for war dried up. And there were Kate and Gerry pushed up front as store managers. Well not literally, perhaps. The event was like snipping the ribbon and openin ...

 



Oakley Strategic Services logo

We all know a little about Kevin Halligen's Oakley International - the Private Security company hired by Brian Kennedy to conduct investigations into the disappearence of Madeleine McCann and now of interest to the FBI in connection with money-laundering and fraud allegations, but what of the second company cited in court papers: Oakley Strategic Services LLC?

The press have painted Article Read in Full Comments Post/Comments (0) Archive Archive Print Print

 
Author Blackwatch (of 07/06/2010 @ 12:23:19, in Murat Family Background, viewed 1749 times)

The British and Portuguese Press depicted Robert Murat as an ordinary British ex-pat caught-up in the headlights of an aggressive media offensive. He was represented as an awkward and slow-witted mother's boy, a little too eager to please perhaps, but ultimately a victim of his own desperate need to feel wanted and the media's determination to find a scapegoat. Murat was, the press alleged, a 'loser', a 'creepy oddball', a bit of a 'fantasist' and the initial reports of the flash Norfolk boy driving to school in his sports car and crashing his motor-bike into a brick-wall soon gave way to reports of his gauche and slightly clumsy efforts to 'help-out'. What the press failed to mention is that Murat was a privileged child from a very well educated Portu ...

 

There's a lot of information here, no doubt about it – some of it might be relevant, but it’s inevitable that some of it won’t be. This site isn’t the blog equivalent of the US National Security Agency or the ECHELON spy-system. Or maybe in the strictest sense of the word it is. No attempt has been made to manufacture some overarching narrative from all of this – it’s not intended to be a theory but a representation of some of the noise thrown up by some of the various business and legal circles associated with the couple. It’s not a branch of analysis associated with human intelligence but with recording This is just a collection of facts associated with some of the fringe players; slivers of plans, plo ...

 

Between September and October 2008 I asked crime-reporter Dominic Kennedy 1 of The Times if he was aware that Madeleine McCann Investigators, Oakley International were shadowing a complex counter-terrorism operation taking place between Belgium, Morocco and Holland. Members of the cell included TV journalists, businessmen, police commanders and politicians. Attacks had been planned against Jewish targets in Morocco and on EU Parliament buildings in Belgium. The alleged leader of the group was ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 24/05/2010 @ 09:42:48, in Cryptology, viewed 240 times)

On May 25th 2007, Paul Tuohy relaunched the charity, 'Missing Persons' (previously known as the National Missing Persons). It was alleged to have been instigated at the behest of the European Commission, spearheaded by former EC Vice-President and self-appointed 'Guardian Angel of Children', Franco Frattini. In the aftermath of Madeleine's disappearence, Article Read in Full Comments Post/Comments (0) Archive Archive Print Print

 
Author Blackwatch (of 17/05/2010 @ 11:51:59, in Editorial Intelligence, viewed 473 times)

Little bit confused by the revival of Gail Cooper's witness testimony (Daily Express, Sunday, May 16 2010, 'Madeleine McCann: Is This The Man Who Snatched Her?'). The photo released by Cooper and the Express clearly bears no resemblance at all to the 'George Harrison' E-Fit mocked-up by the Find Madeleine team based on Cooper's earlier account (the man in the photo having short not long hair and a receding hairline rather than a fringe - see photo below ...

 

There's one name - not mentioned a great deal - that keeps coming back to me: Melinda Libby. Like Esther McVey, the ex-Tory delegate and one time bright young thing of the post-Major Conservatives, Libby was one of the first people to experience the Mark Warner takeover at the Ocean Club. In March 2007, just weeks before Madeleine McCann went missing, Melinda was duly dispatched to the resort by The Daily Telegraph. It wasn't the first freebie she'd enjoyed by any means. She and her family had also scooped up a P&O Cruise Holiday in November 2005 - on a holiday that took in visits to Portugal (Lisbon), Spain (Vigo) and Madeira (her inte ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 11/05/2010 @ 19:30:24, in Current Affairs, viewed 4454 times)

Quantum McCannics and Schrödinger's Cat

For all those who don't know, Schrödinger's Cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. The experiment ended with a cat simultaneously alive and dead and then either dead or alive.

Has anybody come across Schrödinger's Cat before? I ask this not because I have any particular fondness for our feline friends, but because Madeleine's fate is not unlike that of Schrödinger's famous pussy.

Schrödinger's Cat is a thought experiment devised by Erwin Schrödinger and reimagined some years later by Hugh Everet ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 10/05/2010 @ 12:54:55, in Kevin Halligen, viewed 795 times)

What a surprise. Remember McCann Investigator Kevin Halligen of Oakley International? Wanted by the FBI in relation to charges of money laundering and fraud? And how he was being represented by Mark Summers of the Cherie Blair ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 07/05/2010 @ 15:34:59, in News, viewed 209 times)

One might expect her to take a position within the new cabinet too. Esther is an active member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship - founded at Exeter University in 1990.

Jubilant Esther McVey wins Wirral West for the Conservatives
May 7 2010 by Lorna Hughes, Liverpool Echo

A JUBILANT Esther McVey spoke of her long journey to Westminster after sweeping to victory for the Conservatives in Wirral West.

The former television presenter won 16,726 votes, giving her a majority of 2,436 in the key election battleground.

In 2005 she narrowly lost to Labour's Stephen Hesford by just 1,097 votes but the party's candidate this time around, Wirral Councillor, Phil Davies, polled just 14,290 votes.

He w ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 06/05/2010 @ 10:08:56, in Election 2010, viewed 234 times)

".. Its 1983 ...almost dinner time ...I'm having hoops .. alphabet hoops ... "

A recent picture of Madeleine McCann released to the Press. Blue-eye shadow? Pink ribbons? How very 1980s. Fire up the Quattro.

With Clarence Mitchell in charge at Conservative Press HQ - should we really have expected anything different?

Whereas most journos might have referred to the release of the new pictures as Madeleine wearing 'make-up' both the BBC website and Sky News (as well as several other websites and news titles for that matter) make explicit mention of the blue-eye shadow:

"On Sunda ...

 

A recent picture of Madeleine McCann released to the Press. Make-up by Stardusts Make Up Hair and Nails Blue-eye shadow? How very 1980s. Fire up the quattro.

I have just had a look at the Terence Blacker column in the Independent which talks about the new picture of Madeleine McCann released to the press and have to say he summed up pretty much what I was thinking; that as innocent as the photograph and activity was when it was taken, it still seems a self-defeating and slightly misguided ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 01/05/2010 @ 18:53:29, in Current Affairs, viewed 172 times)

Prince Charles charity's ex-official in fraud arrest

Prince Charles founded the charity in 1993

A former official at a charity founded by the Prince of Wales has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and money laundering, it has emerged. The 40-year-old man, believed to have worked at the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, was arrested on Monday along with a 54-year-old woman. Police said the arrests were linked to a complaint about fraud at the charity. A foundation spokesman directed calls to the Met Police and Clarence House also declined to comment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8646466.stm

Interesting. This is not an isolated event by any means. C ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 28/04/2010 @ 10:21:02, in News, viewed 726 times)

Why do we keep getting the same kinds of people and areas of business keep cropping up?

Susan Menez founder of Missing Madeleine McCann forum - based in Gibraltar - an Estate Agent selling properties in Southern Spain (Ace Homes) - but having first trained in Law (Balms & Cruz Morocco). Director of a Trust Company? Business Management? (Goff Corporation, Ringwood, Hampshire, S ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 27/04/2010 @ 07:28:49, in News, viewed 665 times)

Kate and Gerry McCann will be the GMTV Couch with Lorraine Kelly tomorrow in what promises to be an intriguing, pre-election publicity move. Why not next week on the 3rd anniversary of the child's disappearence in Praia da Luz? It's hard to be certain. One possibility is that ITV were reluctant to broadcast such a controversial domestic issue so close to polling day, yet felt compelled to offer airtime least the couple's team of PR professionals accused them of abandoning the search for Madeleine. On the otherhand, it may simply be that the issue is no longer attracts the viewing figures it has in previous years and the couple found themselves compe ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 23/04/2010 @ 11:37:21, in Editorial Intelligence, viewed 592 times)

If you've ever had the mishap to visit Three Arguidos spin-off site, Chaos Raptors you might notice that after a little prodding from yours truly they have removed their BNP friendly navigation picture for something a little more neutral (and they now change it almost daily to give the impression they frequently rotate random images and that the dover one was just a fluke).

The proud, patriotic picture of the 'White Cliffs of Dover' (above) stamped previously on Andy Griffin's Chaos website has been replaced with something a little more neutral. Readers may of course be aware that The White Cliffs of Dover became the centre of a legal tussle between

 
Author Blackwatch (of 21/04/2010 @ 15:01:11, in News, viewed 466 times)

Thought this was an interesting report in light of other developments over the last few years. Whilst Algarve separatists, F.A.L.A. (Frente Anarquica e Libertária do Algarve) may or may not have been responsible for the two separate attacks on Malinka's car (one would probably have more reason to suspect local crime-figures or corrupt coppers) the Separatist actvity occurring in Portugal over the last few years does provide an interesting backdrop to the case. First we had the failed ETA bomb plot in Huelva the day prior to Ger ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 20/04/2010 @ 10:37:15, in Info Requests, viewed 273 times)

Was wondering if Alison Crosland - Director at Control Risks Group (employed by the McCanns in May 2007) - was any relation to George Robin Crosland (born in Darlington) co-owner and MD at the Ocean Club at the time of Madeleine's disappearence?

In 2008, Ocean Club property owner, Robin Crosland told the Portugal News Online that the Praia da Luz Ocean Club resort apartments have seen values grow to 20 times their original 1982 p ...

 

A few weeks ago Tony Bennett mailed me a draft copy of an article he was writing on Robert Murat. The article itself was quite defamatory towards Murat, often intimating that Murat may have been complicit in whatever activity was going on during that first week in May 2007. I replied to the draft pointing out the numerous errors Bennett had made in his first draft and made a number of recommendations on how best to present his work. For several weeks we corresponded, and I fed through several other corrections (Bennett's biggest error was in suggesting that Mitchell and Dodd were dispatched to Praia da Luz on May 7th. They weren't. According to his own formal Police statement, Mitchell arrived in Praia da Luz in the last week of May (22nd) after being Article Read in Full Comments Post/Comments (0) Archive Archive Print Print

 
Author Blackwatch (of 18/04/2010 @ 14:48:43, in Kevin Halligen, viewed 540 times)

People keeping up with developments in the Madeleine Investigation may find it worthwhile acquainting themselves with the story of Colin Wallace - former British soldier and psychological warfare operative based in Lisburn in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. Born in Northern Ireland, Wallace had served in a special Ministry of Defence press unit in Ulster which dealt in 'psychological operations' and was responsible for circulating antiterrorist propaganda.

Stories they are alleged to have spun to the press ranged from falsely linking the Provisionals to a deadly loyalist pub bombing to others involving

 

I didn't know that Tony Bennett's sidekick Helene Davies-Green was educated in Exeter? Although now standing for the UKIP in South Cambridgeshire (the right-wing, anti-Europe party Michael Shrimpton has been doing no end of quiet canvassing for in recent years) it transpires that she was educated at Exeter College of Art.

Elizabeth Cook, the SKY and BBC Court Artist also honed her art skills in Exeter. She lives in Exeter with her hus ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 12/04/2010 @ 09:59:26, in News, viewed 191 times)

Interesting that Jim Gamble - head of CEOPS - and the man alleged to have been appointed by the Home Office to write a preliminary review of the Madeleine McCann Investigation should be in Washington DC today (Monday 12th April) as this is where Kevin Halligen and his business partners Andre Hollis and Ken Irish were residing until his run in with the FBI (in fact, this is where Halligen was building his home).

According to Press Reports he is meeting with Facebook Officials to discuss 252 messages of concern that remain unanswered and ...

 

Not sure what planet Tony Bennett is on today. Only two days ago Bennett was asking me to put my name to a rather defamatory 50-page article he had written about Robert Murat, acknowledging many of the alleged inconsistencies in his and Michaela Walczuch's statements to the Police. Now he is saying that Jim Gamble and his men had Murat 'framed'.

The new Madeleine McCann Re-Investigation: Jim Gamble doesn’t bring clean hands to it

Needless to say I refused any attempt to reference me in his work, given the liklihood that any input I gave wa ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 11/04/2010 @ 12:05:15, in News, viewed 292 times)

Have to admit that Jim Gamble's report to Ministers on the disappearence of Madeleine McCann doesn't fill me with confidence. If we were to expect a fresh and impartial study of the evidence we could do better than have yet another senior British Officer from Nothern Ireland's Special Branch to take the lead (Dave Edgar was enough). How valid the story is though is another matter, coming as it does from the News of The World. In fact you really have to wonder if this the first shot of the silly-season or if the story is being used to assess the reaction of the British Public and guage the weight the i ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 10/04/2010 @ 19:12:20, in Cryptology, viewed 102 times)

Whether it is a macabre coincidence or not I don't know, but for the last few days I've been recording visits from IP 10.216.12.63 which resolves to Lot Polish Airlines (last one yesterday at 0710 hours).

I haven't recorded any visits from this IP prior to this week, but there's been a number of visits registered over the last few days. I know I have been blogging regularly in recent weeks about UK/US Private Intelligence and Security interests in Russia and have recorded a sudden burst of IP activity from the Ukraine and Russia region prior to last week's suicide bombibgs in Moscow (a day prior to the bombings I posted the OP 'The Final Countdown: I ...

 

Not sure what to make of the latest announcement concerning the 'new nationwide Alert System'. A system like this was first introduced in the UK as early as 2002. At the time the mother of murdered schoolgirl, Sarah Payne welcomed the scheme and gave it her full support. The April 2010 newsfeed offered by the Press Association emphasises that this is an 'upgraded' alert scheme and will be compatible with other European countries for the first time. It is the modification of an existing system rather than a radical new programme, so my guess is that any ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 05/04/2010 @ 11:27:34, in Cryptology, viewed 165 times)

It would be interesting to know what disgraced US 'superlobbyist' (and super neocon) Jack Abramoff is thinking about the murder of South African White Supremacist Eugene Terreblanche.

Abramoff was reguarly dismissed as little more than a front for South African interests in the US. Even the International Freedom Foundation that he founded was believed to have been funded by the South African National Party. He was also rumoured to have collaborated with the South African M ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 02/04/2010 @ 17:24:22, in Kevin Halligen, viewed 132 times)

As far as the McCanns, Kevin Halligen and Trafigura go - the same names keep cropping up time and time again in relation to one corruption scandal or another. You may recall me mentioning that Watchwood Resources Limited (the company Halligen is alleged to have sub-contracted his Trafigura work to) also made an appearence in the notorious Nigerian money laundering scandal featuring Mohammed Abacha - son of the former military dictator. Well that same scandal also featured a law firm called 'James & Sarch', whose junior partner, Jeremy Summers was called in to represent the interests of another Swiss co ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 30/03/2010 @ 18:04:22, in Kevin Halligen, viewed 406 times)

Interest has been spreading online about the relevance of Dutch Private Investigations firm, Strongwood in all of this. Like Kevin Halligen, Strongwood International were involved in an early (but frankly bizarre) Madeleine investigation that took them to Portugal with a) a clairvoyant and b) a specialist in children with disorders. Like Halligen, they also featured in the Trafigura investigations.

Whilst my own feeling is that they did little more than figure in a broad and far-reaching disinformation campai ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 28/03/2010 @ 13:21:44, in Cryptology, viewed 189 times)

Over the last few days I have talking about Kevin Halligen and the rather frightening hard-right neocon security and intelligence network he seems to have ingratiated himself with in Washington DC and Boston.

This got me talking about Michael Shrimpton - the author of the dubious 'German DVD and Belgian Paedophile Report' and how his circle of friends in Washington and Massachusetts was virtually identical to that of

 
Author Blackwatch (of 28/03/2010 @ 11:42:53, in News, viewed 167 times)

March 26, 2010

HALLIGEN: PRIVATE DETECTIVE UNABLE TO AFFORD BARRISTER

OXFORD; A private detective accused of conning the McCann family of £300,000 to find their missing daughter Maddie could not afford to be represented in court today (fri). Security consultant Kevin Halligen, 48, is fighting extradition to the United States over claims he cheated Dutch company Trafigura out of £1.3million by offering to secure the release of their employees from an Ivory Coast jail.

*****

Joana Morais rightly asks: what happened to Mark Summers of Matrix Chambers?

Perhaps word got round abo ...

 

Is it just me, or does anybody else get the impression that Tony Bennett has done more to promote the Shrimpton Report than he has to actually challenge it?

He might take the occasional, half-hearted swipe at the report - but he seems to be one of only a handful of people online who keeps reviving the pitiful thing.

In some ways the report reminds me of those infernal Toffee Pennies you get at the bottom of the Quality Street tin at Christmas. You pass the tin around and people might pick 'em up, perhaps even have a sniff at 'em - but back in the tin they go. And ever ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 21/03/2010 @ 19:34:11, in Kevin Halligen, viewed 483 times)

Death Knoll sounds on Halligen ...

Seems John Taylor, the US Homeland Security specialist likely to be giving evidence against his former business colleague, Kevin Halligen has several things in common with Halligen's extradition lawyer, Mark Summers of Matrix Chambers - lawyer of choice for politically sensitive cases and complex cross-border and jurisdictional issues. Both men worked as advisors in the aftermath of the 2001 US Anthrax Bioterrorism Attacks and the extradition of Pentagon hacker,

 
Author Blackwatch (of 21/03/2010 @ 12:04:07, in Current Affairs, viewed 119 times)

Kevin Halligen, the Private Investigator hired by the McCanns had several links to the Intelligence Summit in Washington. The forum made up of past and present members of and advisors to the intelligences services including Mossad, the CIA, mi5 and Mi6 and was founded by Robert Katz and John Loftus.

Loftus is President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and a former Intelligence Officer for President Reagan's Justice Department. He was also a Nazi War Criminals Prosecutor and author of 'The Belarus Secret' and 'Unholy Trinity' - both of which accused the US and the Vatican of helping Nazi War criminals re ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 20/03/2010 @ 11:00:31, in Cryptology, viewed 165 times)

Ever wondered why so many people could be duped into supporting some of the most outrageous theories about the disappearence of Madeleine McCann - from Crazy Calpol ones to Crazy Wig & Arab ones? Well spare twenty minutes having a look at Stephen Milgram's theories of obedience, revived by a bogus French reality show called, 'Le Jeu de la Mort' (the Game of Death).

The show, screened recently, followed 80 contestants who believed they were taking part in a pilot for a new reality TV show, La Zone Xtrême. They were urged by a baying studio audience and a well-known TV hostess to give electric shocks, up to fatal levels, to an unseen, screaming contestant if he gave the wrong answer to a question. According to press reports, sixty-four of them ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 18/03/2010 @ 16:15:19, in Political Lobbying, viewed 206 times)

Just been looking at Halligen's Oakley Strategic Services in a little more detail. In 2008 the company was one of several National Security specialists to contribute to a workshop entitled, 'Shariah, Law and ‘Financial Jihad’: How Should America Respond?'. The workshop was co-sponsored by The McCormick Foundation and The Center for Security Policy - a robustly neoconservative think-tank.

Attending the series of workshops were Oakley's Article Read in Full Comments Post/Comments (0) Archive Archive Print Print

 
It was announced just a few short weeks ago that West Yorkshire's Homicide and Major Enquiry Team was inviting applications from amateurs to help detectives investigating 'some of worst' crimes.

Now we learn that they are heading up a review of the McCann case.

I wonder if either Dave Edgar, Kevin Halligen or Francico Marco will be applying?

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/ ...
 

When it comes to misinforming the public, it doesn't matter what form the information takes, just so long as it is not the information that might otherwise inform them. It's not an indication they may know the truth, but rather an indication of potential risks the truth might pose: in short, it's more about self-preservation when the smoke poses as great a risk as the fire.

I noticed recently that Paulo Reis had posted a new article in which he talks about his experiences as Deputy Director of Press at the Gabinete de Communic ...

 

Interesting Reuters news report doing the rounds - and I think it may be reasonable to draw some parallels between this and the activities of Control Risks Group and McCann detective, Kevin Halligen. I wonder just how often this kind of thing really goes on. At this rate, everybody from Clarence Mitchell, The Three Arguidos, Gerry's Blogs and the Daily Merlin are likely to be revealed as repositories of 'open source' intelligence and crafty, hidden payloads. Perhaps it's the only way these scruffy little 'Axis Powers' can communicate (the alternative is that they're all just talking bollocks - but I digress). Before we all start chaffing and winnowing, here's the Reuters report:

WASHINGTON Mon Mar 15, ...

 
Author Blackwatch (of 14/03/2010 @ 16:49:16, in Cryptology, viewed 127 times)

More Quantum McCannics. Two Pollards as witnesses (in Praia da Luz and Morocco), a handful of Murats, military training schools and JK Rowling's obsession wit the Nazis and Spanish Civil War. Is it a case of synchronicity or has there been a deliberate effort to tailor Madeleine's disappearence to an existing design?

In light of today's news about the arrests of suspected ETA members in Lisbon and London I thought it may be worth flagging up (the site has also experienced an increase in IPs resolving to South America of late, and several to the Ukraine).

 
Author Blackwatch (of 14/03/2010 @ 14:01:14, in Political Lobbying, viewed 330 times)

“[the McCanns] will become a leading force in the world to get rid of the hidden evil in our society, and to out those who try to cover up for the tragedies these criminals can cause”.

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There are clearly many strands to the story - and I sincerely doubt that tugging one strand in particular will see the whole thing unravel - but the supporting role played by the McCanns in the efforts of the European Commission to centralise the Criminal Justice System in Europe, surely has to rank as one of the more fascinating of the threads. There's lobbies and there's 'super-lobbies'.

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