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

[Caspar Bowden]

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

Just fancy that:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4151834,00.html
Mandelson ally's home swept for bugs
Police act after novelist who defended MP reports break-in
..
The police have made an anti-bugging sweep of the Berkshire home of Robert
Harris, the political novelist and friend of Peter Mandelson, following an
unexplained break-in after his campaign to defend the fallen Northern
Ireland secretary.

Mr Harris confirmed last night that thieves stole the hard drive from his
computer, but ignored more valuable items. "I was inclined to think it was a
coincidence, but Newbury CID thought otherwise," he said.
...
The novelist also revealed that his home telephones had been malfunctioning.
After calls from Mr Mandelson during the Hinduja passport affair it had been
difficult to get a line out.