Hindujagate ? Was there a tape/transcript of mystery O'Brien/Mandelson call ?

[Caspar Bowden]

Moreover, from Robert Harris (Mandy's friend), today...

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Caspar Bowden               Tel: +44(0)20 7354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
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Sunday Times 11/3/2001: "A triumph for Flypaper Pete against
the nastiest of odds"

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/03/11/stifocnws01002.html
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It is worth remembering just what we were told at the beginning of this
business, back in January. Then, according to some press reports, the
alleged telephone call had been tape-recorded and there was a full
transcript. After a couple of days the "transcript" became an "official
minute". By the weekend the "official minute" had dwindled to a three-word
scrawled note. Then that, too, vanished in a puff of smoke.

In the end it transpires that there is no written evidence of that telephone
call. Nor were there any first-hand witnesses to it, apart from O'Brien.

No civil servant in the Cabinet Office could remember Mandelson originating
it; no civil servant in the Home Office could remember putting it through. A
whitewash? Hardly. In the end, there was simply no case to answer.