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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 18:08 GMT
- From: Richard Cox <mandarin@cix.clink.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Monitoring of Royal Telephone Calls
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- Laurence Chiu writes:
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- >> the current scandal is the publication of recording of intimate phone
- >> conversations between Princess Diana and some unidentified "friend" in
- >> which the subject matter is embarrassing to say the least.
-
- >> The tapes were made by someone who was apparently just idly scanning the
- >> airwaves with his scanner and happened to pick up the cell-phone
- >> frequencies. The last news report I saw indicated that the UK
- >> authorities had decided not to take any action against him.
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- If we are to believe what the British papers tell us, two separate
- people "just happened" to buy a scanner, and recorded separate parts
- of that conversations [not last week but some considerable time ago]
- and then by coincidence the transcripts appear in the press, followed
- almost immediately by the official statement that the persons making
- and publishing the contents of the recordings would not be prosecuted.
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- It would be most surprising if those papers had carried that material
- without some form of advance guarantee that no action would be taken
- against them. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.
-
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- Richard Cox
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