Many who have looked in depth as to what happened that night have asked the same questions over and over again:
- Why did Dodi use Henri Paul as a driver when his normal driver was available?
The answer is that, according to the MI6 file, Henri Paul was a person whom Dodi trusted and who could obtain
cocaine and remain silent. In return he was well rewarded.
Henri Paul was, in fact, a part-time recruited MI6 agent. Frenchmen are quite willing to work for Russian, American or
Chinese and other secret service agencies, but rarely do so for the British. Henri Paul was recruited in 1995, and his
role was simply to place intrusive surveillance devices in the properties owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, which included
the Ritz Hotel.
MI6 are always extremely interested in knowing all the latest gossip and details including extra-marital or same sex
relationships of the rich and famous. MI6 of course came up trumps when Dodi and Diana started a relationship.
The Diana file at MI6 contains all sorts of idle gossip regarding the intimate details of their relationship, how much
Dodi meant to Diana, whether they slept together all night and, more importantly, whether they had any thoughts
about getting married.
Of course none of the above in 1997 was truly a matter for the state, but the orders to “continue and pursue” such
came directly from the Head of State:- HM Queen Elizabeth.
One important factor in determining the events of August 1997 should be obvious. The fact so many high powered
elements of MI6 were in Paris remains odd. Even spies take their holidays the same month as most to ensure they
do not ‘give their profession away’.
The MI6 file on Henri Paul was relatively thin until the entries following July 1997. Prior to this, it contained only the
room numbers and guests that were subject to being ‘bugged’ normally via a small device at the back of a television
set in the room. How many people check the back of a TV in a hotel room?
But this night Henri Paul wanted Dodi out of the Imperial Suite just as much as Dodi sought cocaine to steady his
nerves.
The money found in cash in Henri Paul’s pocket, not his wallet, amounted to approximately £1,400 - more than
sufficient to acquire the much needed white powder Dodi craved.
But Henri Paul was not only working for MI6 but also for the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), the
MI6 counterpart. Each knew about the other. He also ‘freelanced’ on occasion if time permitted for the Directoire de
la Securite du Territoire, the MI5 counterpart. All three parties were aware of the others.
Unlike MI6, the DGSE had zero interest in the particulars between Dodi and Diana. A request from MI6 in July 1997
to the DGSE for certain information failed to even attract a reply.
The file maintained by both MI6 and the DGSE should of course have been made available to the French Inquest
and certainly the English Enquiry. The MI6 file contains all of Henri Paul’s contacts and shed some light on why so
many MI6 officers were in Paris during the crucial days. The DGSE file would invariably hold similar information.
The French President, together with the Minister of the Interior, ensured orders would be maintained, sealing such
under the strict French Presidential Security Directives:
1.The Henri Paul file at the DGSE was not to be disclosed to the Investigating Magistrate
2.The cocaine found in the wrecked Mercedes was hidden and the speed camera images were to disappear.
The last photographs taken that night show Diana's head turned to avoid what seems the ‘Dazzling White Light.’
Trevor Rees - Jones had lowered the sun visor, his right hand raised as though to avoid bright sunlight - the
reflection in the spectacles of Henri Paul clearly shows a dazzling light. Henri's eyes look wide and stunned.
Who took the photo of the Mercedes S280 (licence plate 688 LTV 75) carrying Diana, Dodi, Henri Paul and Trevor
Rees Jones? It was certainly not a speed-camera because the images are colour and clear.
Paul Henry was born on 3rd July 1956 in Lorient, Southern Brittany. His father had been in the army and then
worked for the local council. He was a more than reliable a student and graduated in maths and science. He was also
a talented classical pianist. In 1976 he did his National service at Rochfort airbase, where he worked in the security
department. He left the army as a commissioned officer.
Though single, Paul had lived with Laurence Pujol and her daughter, Samantha, for four years, until they moved out
of his apartment in 1992. Contact was kept until April 1995. About drink, she said of Paul: "Wine made him joyful,
he'd get very happy and do gags to make people laugh. Sometimes he would make you think he was really drunk
when he wasn't. He was a joker. He played around a lot, but never got incoherent on alcohol."
At the time of his death, Paul was in a relationship with a woman, with whom he dined regularly. No one had ever met
her nor had he introduced her to anybody. Two days after his death, a different, unknown woman delivered keys of
his apartment to his parents. The day following the visit by this unknown woman, police searched Paul's apartment
and, amongst other possessions, found a supply of wine, beer and a dozen bottles of spirits. They also found a gay
guide to Paris, but that aspect was also suppressed, although noted by MI6. He did, however, live above a gay club,
so that may well explain the guide. His favourite drinking haunt was a lesbian bar, yet he was heterosexual.
Both women worked for Mossad to whom Henri Paul on occasion would pass the odd tit-bit of information, but
nothing of true importance.
In 1985 he started employment at the Ritz Hotel as a security officer. He held a private pilot’s license from 27 June
1976, instruments rated, with 605 hours logged. As a pilot, he was well-regarded by George Bielek, a flying
instructor: "He was a good man. Now, we never had problem with him and - he was a very serious and a quiet and er,
he, he make you, his job very good in, in, in er, in flight. He was a good private pilot, serious, and er, he, he's looking
for progressing each time." Those words are recorded in the MI6 file on Henri Paul.
Just two days before the accident he completed a rigorous medical to renew his flying license. The medical found no
signs of alcoholism.
Henry Paul soon became deputy head of security at the Ritz but two years later was overlooked as head of security
by another employee. The reason he did not get the job was because he did not possess the necessary qualification
required by the French Authorities for rental cars. He had ample experience, was trusted by Dodi and his father, but
lacked a piece of paper necessary for his qualification.
He was in the group of people that spent Saturday afternoon August 30th 1997 at Le Bourget, and he drove the
Range Rover carrying the luggage to Villa Windsor. The head of security at Villa Windsor was (Rue) Ben Murrell and
he started the whispers that Henry Paul had been drinking.
Murrell told Rees Jones that Henry Paul had a “very good lunch”. That may include a quarter litre of wine or half a
litre of wine roughly two thirds of a bottle. But Henry Paul was back at the Ritz by 5pm and no one noticed anything
odd about him. He went off duty at 7.00pm.
In France, if one dines alone for lunch, generally 250ml pichet of wine. If one assumes, for the sake of argument,
Henry Paul had more, a 500ml pichet contains 6.50 units of alcohol.
Surveillance of Henry Paul shows he also drank two anisettes which are between 20%/40% alcohol depending on the
brand. Two shots would provide one to two units of alcohol. The Ritz bar receipts (copies) are in the MI6 file show
that they were ‘small shots’ of anisette. That would mean Henri Paul had anywhere from 6.50 to 9.75 at worst units of
alcohol at 3pm.
That would begin to metabolize immediately and once started one unit of alcohol would leave his bloodstream every
hour. By midnight there would be only one unit of alcohol left in his body topped up by the anisettes.
This would produce by far less than the 1.74 mgs blood alcohol reading found in his body. Whisky was a favourite
drink of Henri Paul. To produce the reading that supposedly was found at the time of death he would have had to
drink eleven to twelve tumblers of whisky as well.
If Henry Paul started drinking at 7.00pm when he went off duty, expecting to remain free that evening, then the
reading would make sense.
Henri Paul left the Ritz Hotel at 7pm and returned at 9.53pm. In 173 minutes Henri Paul could not truly have gone far.
MI6 surveillance shows that shortly after 7pm he was seen at the ‘lesbian bar’ opposite his flat. Josie, the owner of
the bar, was photographed waving to him.
He was also photographed in a nearby supermarket by MI6 officers, buying carrots, marmalade, lettuce, deodorant
and water.
If anything is certain it is that Henri Paul was certainly not drunk.
At the time of his death Henri Paul had over 3 million French Francs equal to at the time some £300,000. He held 13
separate bank accounts
• two accounts in a bank outside Paris, three accounts and a safety deposit box at BNP in the Place Vendome, three
bank accounts at Barclays on the avenue de l'Opera, one current and 4 deposit accounts at the Caisse d'Epargne,
near the Louvre. In the 8 months before the crash, 40,000 francs was paid into a Caisse d'Epargne account on five
occasions, each time in cash.
• The rumour was circulated that this money (and especially the 40,000 Francs) came from the security services of
various countries.
It is correct that at the time of his death a notebook found on his person contained many numbers for people from
the Directoire de la Securite du Territoire and even remarkably the telephone number of the French President
himself.
The money that was regularly paid into his bank account did not come from MI6 or the French security services. It
did not come from Mossad who were controlling him and had ‘planted’ a girlfriend to be close to him.
The money came from Dodi Al Fayed, because Henri Paul regularly acquired a quantity of cocaine for his boss and
kept quiet about it.
Until late 1983 if a body was returned to England for burial, the Coroner had an unfettered discretion as to whether
or not an Inquest should be held. The family of a nurse who fell to her death in Saudi Arabia would change all of that.
The law clearly states that, if a British citizen dies abroad under mysterious circumstances, there has to be an
Inquest. The Coroner no longer holds any discretion.
The bodies of Diana and Dodi arrived back on 31st August 1997. The Royal Coroner issued a statement four days
later confirming that, in accordance with the law, there would be an Inquest, and said it would be held in the normal
time frame.
Dodi Al Fayed lived in Surrey and the Surrey Coroner also said there would be an Inquest, and within the time frame.
The inquest was opened only to be adjourned, and not held until January 2004 - some seven years later. A number
of excuses were made. The first was that Mohamed Al Fayed quite appropriately sought both inquests to be joined
into a single inquest. He took the case to court and two years later lost. The second reason was that, since
proceedings had been instituted in France, those had to be completed first.
The Coroners Act of 1988 does not insist that all other proceedings must be complete prior to an Inquest
commencing. The Act says, in fact, that an inquest should be held “as soon as practical.” In 1997 both Coroners
considered it ‘practical’ to hold an inquest quickly, but the MI6 files show that both Coroners were placed under
pressure from HM Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to delay as long as possible.
The only proceedings in France since 1999 were malpractice allegations regarding the autopsy of Henri Paul, and Al
Fayed issued proceedings for invasion of privacy - a case he lost in 2003 - but those had nothing to do with the
deaths of Dodi and Diana.
The real reasons were that HM Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles were told that cocaine was found
in the car. Prince Charles was told at once and he told his parents.
An Inquest could not legitimately avoid evidence which shows that at least “one passenger had taken cocaine” and
had “some in their possession.” It could avoid asking why the speed camera had suddenly stopped working and
worse images ‘supressed.’ It could not avoid asking why Dodi’s treasured mobile phone had disappeared and worse
how that could have occurred.
Mohamed Al Fayed also had an interest in ensuring the cocaine found in the car should not be revealed. There had
been considerable press on Dodi and his relationship over the years with controlled substances.
It is interesting to note also the autopsy report on Dodi has never been made public. His mobile phone has never
resurfaced. It sits in a vault at Fort Monkton, at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire - an MI6
stronghold.
HM The Queen and Prince Philip, according to the MI6 file took the decision to “protect Prince William and Prince
Harry”. Had Diana been involved with controlled substances during her lifetime there is no doubt that Prince Charles
would have used that against her in the media war. Prince Philip never believed his son received fair press but he
also could not understand why Charles would want to leave Diana for Camilla.
The advice given to the Royal Family was “not to try and tarnish the reputation of Princess Diana now she is not
here to defend herself”.
The French Government and authorities, once they took the decision to suppress the finding of cocaine in the car
and in the pocket of Henri Paul and suppressing the speed camera, removing Dodi’s mobile phone and handing it to
an MI6 officer, could not afford to change the story.
Whilst Mohamed Al Fayed flew to Paris at once, and upon arrival was photographed by MI6 officers showing he was
not wearing his seatbelt, Prince Charles did not.
At 11 o’clock he went to church in Craithie with the rest of the Royal Family. MI5 agents were there recording
everything.
For six days the Royal Family remained in Scotland, almost causing a constitutional crisis. It was in fact Sir David
Spedding, the Director General of MI6, who convinced HM to return to London.
The callousness of the Royal Family can be found in a memo from an MI6 officer in Paris watching the news, writing
to David Spedding with the words “Are they for real? W & H attending services with their mother dead? Unreal.”
The Queen Mother had an idea of secretly moving Diana’s body in the middle of the night. Balmoral is not exempt
from NSA intercepts of which ‘some’ are redirected to MI6. The transcripts in the MI6 file show that Charles was more
than forceful, even shouting at one stage, that he would bring the body of Diana back with full honours and draped
in the colours of the Prince of Wales.
At 1pm Paul Burrell arrived in Paris. He was under constant surveillance from no less than three secret service
agencies.
Prince Charles arrived at 5pm together with Diana’s sisters. He was greeted by President Chirac.
Charles asked to be alone with the body for a few minutes and he was obliged. When he came out, amongst the
crowd was an MI6 officer who reported “It was obvious he (Charles) had been crying.”
He then went to meet the doctors to thank them for all they had done. It was then that the MI6 officer reported
Charles said something quite strange.
Charles looked at Dr. Riou and Dr. Pavie and exclaimed “FELICITATIONS.”
Translated into English it means “congratulations”. The doctors looked surprised that he should utter such a phrase.
A note in the MI6 file by a psychologist puts this phrase down to “stress breaking through the subconscious mind.
Having cried, seeing his wife dead, he was not thinking but feeling, and those feelings were feelings of truth”.
The doctors, having failed to help Diana live, made his most secret wishes come true and he was now free to love
the woman he had always loved. The note continues: “this is not to say Charles either wanted or planned the death
of Diana, but that word shows he was torn between two feelings. He was in tears, her death was tragic but he had to
say something, and out came the result.”
The decision taken by Spedding the Director General was to erase media coverage of the word Charles uttered.
Before Charles and his entourage left since security was ad hoc the British waited for the French to leave and the
French for the British. Charles sat in the car for three minutes before a woman came out of the hospital with a carrier
bag. Inside were the clothes Diana was wearing the night she died.
The MI6 report noted “clothes taken from B (Burrell) to be burnt.”
There has been much speculation about the Mercedes S280. One of the less known facts is that the car was stolen
only in April that year outside the Taillevent restaurant in Paris.
The Etoile Limousine Company was the owner of the vehicle and was a subsidiary company of the Ritz Hotel. When
the police recovered the car, its electronics and braking system had been ripped out. These individually have little
value, but nonetheless the car company sent the vehicle for repair.
Of course, no-one wanting to sabotage the vehicle could be certain that Dodi and Diana would ever use it. One
could tamper with the vehicle and the security services do indeed have a specialist department that covers auto, air
and marine intrusive manipulation. One could easily have used the theft of the vehicle (which was not widely if at all
reported) the installation of new electronics and braking system and set up new commands that would respond to
remote control.
Only eight months previously a Royal Protection Officer had murdered his wife in similar circumstances. It was not
reported until more than a year after the death of Diana.
MI6 technicians developed a ‘chip’ which starts to operate only when a pre-set command is sent on a particular
frequency and then when the chip is activated the driver no longer has control.
There was no such chip ‘found’ upon the examination of the vehicle but it is interesting that the Investigative Judge
ordered an extensive search and analysis. If it was found it was not noted.
Late on 30th August 1997, once Dodi had decided to leave the Ritz Hotel and move to his apartment and insisting on
Henri Paul as driver and only one bodyguard, it was solely in order as a decoy for Diana so she would not be aware
of his need for cocaine.
Whatever can be said about Diana she was more than a caring mother. Her relationship with Dr. Hasnat Khan had
ended because MI6 had ‘briefed’ her about his ‘occasional use for recreational purposes of a controlled substance.’
Diana was mortified but did not want her children even remotely exposed to anyone that held any connection with
drugs.
She was aware that Dodi had “in the past dabbled” but was certain he no longer took cocaine. At 11.30pm on the
30th August 1997 the Ritz Hotel asked Etoile Limousine to provide a second Mercedes that would act as a kind of
decoy.
This car was delivered to the Ritz by a driver known as Frederic Lucard. After 11.30pm Henri Paul walked out of the
Ritz Hotel five times to tell journalists and photographers to “get their cameras ready”.
But Henri Paul was not only there for that purpose. He had arranged to meet a person who would be amongst the
crowd and supply him with a small quantity of cocaine in a small plastic pouch.
The plan was that whilst Henri Paul would ‘tease’ the media, Dodi and Diana would leave by the back entrance in the
second Mercedes. The real reason was to take delivery of the cocaine and Dodi was becoming impatient. It was
almost one hour before Henri Paul took delivery and the move from the Ritz could commence.
The Mercedes Dodi and Diana were going to use had tinted windows. The second car had clear windows. Originally
the plan for delivery of the small quantity of cocaine had been that Henri Paul, with Dodi and Diana and one body-
guard, would meet the person, thus the need for tinted windows so the dealer would not necessarily recognise Dodi
or Diana. That changed when Henri Paul arranged for the dealer to ‘mix with the paparazzi’.
It was strange for the Ritz security that Dodi asked Henri Paul to drive when his driver was available, and for only one
bodyguard. Dodi had originally wanted to take delivery of the cocaine and for that he needed someone he could
trust. He certainly could trust Henri Paul who had been buying drugs for him for some time. Henri Paul would never
have told Mohamed Al Fayed.
Trevor Rees Jones was a junior security officer. With the original plan he would not have raised any questions
making a small detour. The more senior bodyguard, Kez Wingfield, would be driving the decoy car.
Diana is noted as not being nervous at all of the crowd of journalists. Two Australian ‘tourists,’ Chloe Papazahariakis
and Vlad Borovac, filmed Diana with the crowd of journalists that seemed polite.
At 12.14am on 31st August 1997, surveillance notes Diana leaving at the back entrance of the Ritz Hotel.
At 12.18am Diana leaves through the back entrance with Henri Paul and Trevor Rees Jones.
Henri Paul disappears for about a minute and then returns to Dodi, whispers something which Diana believes to be
the plan but which NSA intercepts record as “Je l’ai” meaning “I have it.”
At 12.19am video surveillance shows Henri Paul leading the couple and Trevor Rees Jones down rue Cambon at the
back of the hotel, with the second Mercedes waiting.
Diana and Dodi got into the back of the car. They did not put on their safety belts, neither did Henri Paul. After a few
seconds, Trevor Rees Jones did.
Rue Cambon is a narrow street with a traffic light about one hundred metres from the Ritz Hotel.
Another set of lights can be found at the bottom of the street. There the Mercedes is noted in the MI6 file as having
“turned sharp right into rue de Rivoli.”
From there is it approximately 180 metres to the Place de la Concorde.
Mohammed Rehabouille, who saw the car, reported it was not going so fast and saw no motorbikes chasing the car.
No trace of him has been found since Christmas 1997.
The shortest route to Dodi’s apartment was along the Champ-Elysees, but at the Place de la Concorde the car
turned left instead of right. It then sped along the riverbank of the Seine and going “well away from MDAF {Mr Dodi Al
Fayed} flat” according to the MI6 log.
A few moments after the Mercedes drove away, the Ritz cameras trained on rue Cambon showed the last few frames
of a white Fiat Uno disappearing down the street.
At 12.23am Henry Paul reached the dip that curves right and leads to the Alma Tunnel. Why Henri Paul chose that
route has remained a mystery but the answer, as always, is found within the NSA intercepts even of a travelling
vehicle.
Dodi and Diana were simply having a good time. If one looks at the last photo taken obviously by a flash and a
frontal flash one can see clearly the faces. The driver Henri Paul looks normal and in fact is smiling. Trevor Rees
Jones is the only one that looks tense, maybe even a little afraid. Trevor Rees Jones is telling Henri Paul to slow
down but, in the back of the car, Dodi and Diana are heard ‘laughing and joking’ and happy.
On his own initiative Henri Paul, realising that Dodi and Diana were having fun, took the longer route allowing them
time to continue having fun.
The suggestion that Dodi and Diana were in a state of panic is simply not consistent with the NSA intercepts
contained within the MI6 file.
The flash that is evident is not the flash from a photographer but from the speed-camera that mysteriously
disappeared. The car was speeding and the flash activated. President Chirac was aware of this and did not want the
death of Diana blamed on the French government, thus the immediate orders for the camera to “marcher” or “walk”.
The problems the French government faced were the distortion of the truth. The first comment to the media involved
the speed-camera that was not working. Once they stated that, there was no turning back. On 15th September 1997,
a man who was driving only 12 minutes previous down the Alma Tunnel received a speeding ticket in the post.
The police saw the photograph by midday 31st August 1997, but a decision was taken to deny the existence of such
with the approval of MI6.
The traffic police found in the car a mobile phone and a small bag of cocaine in Diana’s handbag. Whilst Dodi had
been playing around with her laughing and joking, he had placed the small bag in her bag hoping to retrieve it later.
Intelligence sources showed that Diana often asked Dodi to empty his pockets in a joking way, but it was the manner
upon which she could be sure he did not use drugs.
Inside the passengers were identified, the DGSE were notified, who in turn called upon MI6. A decision was taken
immediately by Sir David Spedding and the French President himself that this information was not to be leaked.
The fact Diana was inadvertently carrying a small quantity of cocaine could easily have been used by the Royal
Family against her. To prove that she was an innocent bystander would require the NSA and GCHQ who regularly
‘spied’ on her to confirm certain intercepts.
HM The Queen was no supporter of Diana and disliked her by far more than Prince Philip. In the early hours of the
morning MI6 top agents were hard at work, David Spedding particularly. The Queen’s insistence on not returning to
London was based entirely upon the information that cocaine had been found in Diana’s bag. Whichever way one
would look at the whole saga HM The Queen felt “she (Diana) would turn it to her favour.”
Henri Paul was not drunk.
The car did not skid.
No bolt was fired at the vehicle.
The Mercedes bearing Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, their driver and bodyguard crashed into a concrete pillar in the
Alma tunnel. Henri Paul and Dodi were killed instantly. The bodyguard, sitting in the front right seat, suffered severe
facial injuries and a broken wrist, but was saved largely thanks to his seat belt and airbag. Princess Diana, was not
wearing a seat belt, also survived the initial crash but suffered major thoracic trauma, in addition to several
superficial cuts on the forehand, arm and thigh and a dislocated shoulder. The first witnesses on the scene found
her sitting on the floor with her legs on the backseat and her head wedged between the backs of the two front seats.
Her eyes were open and she mumbled several indistinct phrases. The bodyguard later said he remembered hearing
her call out Dodi Fayed’s name. Other heard her murmur “My God”.
Given the nature of the shock, a frontal crash into an immobile object at the speed of 100 km/hr or more, there was a
strong probability of a deceleration injury resulting in possible internal lesions. Yet none of the medical personnel
who initially treated her in the tunnel appear to have suspected internal haemorrhaging. Instead, they spent nearly
an hour doing onsite treatment of a symptom - falling blood pressure - rather than treating its cause - an internal
lesion.
The first doctor on the scene was a physician with the private medical service SOS Medicins. He happened to be
driving through the tunnel in the eastbound lane within a minute of the accident. He stopped his car and went to
attend to the passengers of the crashed Mercedes. He immediately observed that Fayed and a driver were dead.
The front seat passenger was already being attended to by an off-duty fireman, who also happened to be on the
scene. So he turned his attention to the blonde woman in the rear, whose identity was not immediately apparent to
him. His first impression, as he later told an interviewer, was that the woman was not in a hopeless condition, and
had a chance to survive. He admitted, however, that he did not know about her internal problems.
Without his equipment, there was little he could do except to place her head in a position that made it easier to
breathe and to administer an oxygen mask. He also used portable telephone to call the emergency medical service,
describe the location of the accident and the nature of the injuries. Other passers-by had also called for help within a
minute of the crash.
The first unit of the Sapeurs-Pompiers, a military emergency service, arrived within seven minutes and began to
administer treatment. At 12:40 a.m., 15 minutes after the accident, the first SAMU ambulance arrived with its on-
board physician. In a deposition given later to French investigators, the physician said Diana was agitated, crying
out, and did not seem to understand everything he said to reassure her. He added that she repeatedly moved her
left arm and right leg. He immediately started an IV drip.
Though she was apparently conscious when the SAMU arrived, he reported that Diana suffered a cardiac arrest
while he and his assistants where extracting her from the car. At that point, he said, he intubated the patient, put her
on a respirator and performed an external chest massage to re-establish a cardiac rhythm. He then installed her in
the SAMU ambulance, known as a “mobile hospital unit” because it is so well equipped, and proceeded to carry out
the more detailed examination and treatment.
Clearly, Diana was in serious condition, and the fact that she suffered a cardiac arrest obliged doctors to take
emergency measures on site. The question is: did they spent too long treating her on site and driving her to the
hospital, given that she was haemorrhaging and could only be saved by operating to repair her internal injuries?
The SAMU team spent nearly an hour, until 1:30am treating Diana in the tunnel. Then the ambulance drove her at a
snail’s pace to Piete-Salpetriere hospital, 6.15 kilometres away. At that time of night, it would normally take five or 10
minutes to drive along the riverfront expressway. But Diana’s driver, applying standard French emergency
procedures, drove extremely slowly so as not to subject the fragile patient to shocks and bumps. As a result, it took
them some 40 minutes to make the drive, and the ambulance stopped within a few hundred yards of the hospital to
treat a sharp drop in blood pressure.
By the time Diana reached the emergency room, it was nearly 1 hour 45 minutes after the crash. According to the
deposition of the duty doctor, who admitted her into the hospital, she arrived alive and with a cardiac rhythm. Though
she had no serious external injuries, X-rays indicated internal haemorrhaging that was compressing her right lung
and heart. Within ten minutes of her arrival, the patient again suffered a cardiac arrest, prompting the doctors to
inject large doses of epinephrine directly into the heart, and to perform an emergency thoracotomy.
According to testimony of the chief surgeon on duty that night, the operation revealed that the source of the
haemorrhaging was a single lesion, which he described as a partial rupture of the left pulmonary vein at the point of
contact with the left atrium. The tear was sutured and the haemorrhaging was stopped. But despite nearly two hours
of manual internal massage, and the application of electroshocks, it was impossible to re-establish a heartbeat. The
patient was declared death at 4am.
At a press conference one hour later, the doctors read a five sentence communiqué that cited an important wound
in the left pulmonary vein as the source of the internal bleeding that killed her. The communiqué made no specific
mention of other lesions. Nor did the French coroner’s report, which listed the cause of death as internal
haemorrhaging due to a major chest trauma and a phenomenon of deceleration which caused a rupture of the left
pulmonary vein.
From subsequent medical testimony given to French investigators, it is clear that there were no other significant
lesions. This flatly contradicts the assertion, made by the French Health Minister and other officials, that Diana
suffered multiple internal injuries that left her no chance of survival. This self-serving claim is simply not supported by
the facts.
All in all three people died that night. Only Trevor Rees Jones survived. The state always seeks to protect itself. In
1968, the Serbian driver/bodyguard of famous film actor Alain Delon was killed when he was going to ‘blow the
whistle’ on sexual scandals involving show business personalities and the then President of the Republic, George
Pompidou. Stevan Markovic was found dead on the outskirts of Paris. The Markovic Affair still haunts the French
Government.
There are some similarities between the death of Diana and Princess Grace of Monaco. In September 1982 Grace
Kelly was 52 years of age. She had gained a little weight but for the first time since High Society in 1956 that she
made a film. She was hoping to convince her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco to allow her back on the big screen.
On 13th September 1982, whilst driving with her daughter Stephanie to Monaco from their home in Roc Agel on the
French side of the border, Princess Grace ‘suffered a stroke,’ which caused her to drive her Rover P6 off the
serpentine road down a mountainside. Grace was pulled alive from the wreckage, but had suffered serious injuries
and was unconscious but died the following day at the Monaco Hospital. Stephanie suffered only minor bruising,
although it later emerged that she had suffered a serious cervical fracture.
Reports say that Monaco Hospital (later renamed Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace - Princess Grace Hospital
Centre), where the injured survivors were taken, was not well equipped for these type injuries. Surgery was
performed on Grace’s lungs to stop the internal bleeding. Her other injuries included multiple fractures of the collar
bone, thigh, and ribs. A CAT scan supposedly revealed that shortly before the accident, Grace had suffered a stroke
which rendered her unable to control the vehicle. This of course was strange because at the time there was no CAT
scan machine at the Monaco Hospital. Fearing that the Princess may survive as a helpless invalid, the royal palace
attempted a cover up of the extent of her injuries.
Grace Kelly made all the headlines and there was the usual speculation as to the cause of the accident. Some said
Stephanie was driving and that there had been an argument because Stephanie was involved with yet another
unsuitable man.
There are remarkable few photos of the wreckage but comparing both the vehicle which Princess Grace died and
Princess Diana there are similarities.
What is known is that MI6 had planted a bug in the Rover P6. It was a favour for Prince Rainier who was deeply
suspicious of his wife. Although MI6 had indeed planted a bug Rainier had ordered a “trusted person within his
employ” to place a small device that could release a toxin when triggered from a distance. The toxin would produce
blurred vision and loss of the motor’s control.
The official explanation given was that Princess Grace had a very sudden stroke but Princess Stephanie remembers
only that her mother lost control suddenly.
The wreckage of the car landed on the property of a close friend of Prince Rainier. Since it was on French land it
would be the French Government that had control of the accident scene.
An MI6 officer was in Monte Carlo at the time staying at the Metropole Hotel. He reported back to Colin Figures the
then head of the Security Services that “The French ordered no-one to attend the site for at least two hours.” Dick
Franks, Director General the outgoing Director of MI6 was also in Monte Carlo staying at the Metropole Hotel. He
had retired and was enjoying what he thought was a break from it all. The MI6 agent asked Franks if they should
take matters further but the Rugby School educated Franks told him to ‘let sleeping dogs die.’
The car that was photographed killing Princess Grace was not the Rover P60 she was driving. The message from
Dick Franks to the MI6 agent in Monaco that day was clear.
At 10:30pm on 14th September 1982, Princess Grace was taken off her life-support equipment on the orders of
Prince Rainier, effectively condemning her to death. In this matter silence was required and eternal silence for
Princess Grace who for years had enjoyed numerous affairs with David Niven and Frank Sinatra.
Like Diana, all of Monaco was sad when Grace Kelly died, but relieved that a potential problem would not affect the
country.
Henri Paul was not drunk that night. He lived above a gay bar and surveillance showed him to have “homosexual
tendencies.” There is a suggestion contained in the MI6 file that he was ‘bisexual’, but this is not emphasized.
The mystery surrounding the death of Diana is similar to that of Princess Stephanie. The target was not Diana that
evening. Princess Stephanie survived, Diana did not.
Henri Paul fell in love with a Mossad ‘agent’ although he certainly was not aware she was working for the Israeli killer
agency. Many had seen him with a beautiful woman but, upon his death, it was another woman that handed the keys
back to his apartment.
Melinda was a 38 year old transvestite working for Mossad. On 30th August 1997 at 7.00pm, when Henry Paul went
off duty, he was seen at a supermarket and recorded by MI6 logs, and he went for a drink at a gay bar. The rest of
the time he was under intrusive surveillance by MI6 and presumably also Mossad. He was with Melinda and they
were seen flirting and kissing.
This was the moment that the order from Mossad came for Melinda to plant a tiny pin-like device on his clothes
without him being aware. The video from the Ritz Hotel shows Henri Paul parking his car at 9.53pm but entering the
Ritz Hotel at 10.08pm. For fifteen minutes his time is unaccounted for, save that MI6 had him under surveillance and
he was in his car with Melinda. After Henri Paul entered the Ritz Hotel, the Mossad agent Melinda left the car park at
10.15pm, never to be seen again.
The pin like device Henri Paul had clasped on his clothes was carrying a bubble-head with a small amount of nerve
agent VX. It is one of the deadliest chemical agents known. It was developed by MI6 scientists at Porton Down
Chemical Weapons Research Centre.
It wreaks havoc with the way brain cells communicate by impairing the synapses. If brain cells do not work or
communicate then one loses the ability to perceive and to act.
Once Henri Paul had been allocated to drive Dodi, the Mossad plan was simple. Melinda would hug Henri Paul and
fix the pin with the VX on his clothes. He would not even be aware of it. That is what Melinda did and in the car at 9.55
pm and told him she would meet him later.
All Mossad had to do was to post men in various locations and at the right time trigger the device. The VX made
Henri Paul lose control.
There are a number of reports of who saw what at the Alma Tunnel.
That night the target was not Princess Diana but Dodi Al Fayed.
MI6 did not murder Diana or Dodi directly. On 3rd September 1997 the MI6 Director General had scheduled a
meeting with HM The Queen to deliver the files of intelligence on the Al Fayed family and Princess Diana.
The MI6 covert agent in Parisain 1997 was the same agent that had been in Monaco in 1982 dealing with the after-
math of Princes Grace, and was more than experienced in covert surveillance. He was also the very same that was
sent to Serbia to cover the botched-up assassination plan of Serbian President Milosevic. He was the most
experienced operator in the field and knew all the players.
The mission between 27th August 1997 and 3rd September 1997 was to forewarn Princess Diana of the ‘regular and
consistent drug use of Dodi Al Fayed’ and the ‘real risks of exposure of such a person to Prince William and Harry.’
Princess Diana was to be warned about the perils of mixing with such a person and told that on 3rd September 1997
the files containing information would be delivered to HM The Queen.
It would then be left to Diana to decide what to do, but since she had hastily abandoned Dr Hasnat Khan to whom
she was by far more attached than Dodi on the pure mention of ‘occasional recreational drug use’, MI6 was sure
Diana would return to London leaving Dodi and the Al Fayed family for ever.
The MI6 agent arrived in Paris on 27th August 1997 and checked into the Ritz Hotel. He had befriended Mohamed Al
Fayed and had been married for a short period of time in 1989 to a ‘Diana look-alike’ who had previously dated
Dodi. The agent was thus aware first hand that Dodi was a regular user of cocaine.
MI6 had their agent right on the scene to perform the delicate task of telling Princess Diana the truth about Dodi from
first-hand experience. The agent was also known to Diana from a film screening that they had attended, but she was
not aware he was a top MI6 agent. She would surely believe what he had to say and ditch Dodi Al Fayed.
But on 30th August 1997 the agent, somewhat unusually, asked to leave Paris for one day, returning on 1st
September, because 31st August was his wife’s birthday and he wanted to be at home with her. Although he had
seen Diana arrive at the Ritz and saw Dodi leave to the Repossi shop he never had an opportunity of approaching
her. He decided that it would be best to deal with the approach on Monday, 1st September. The decision to leave
Paris in the evening was made and approval granted.
Under normal circumstances no approval would be required since the MI6 agent was one of the top and had been
with MI6 since 1972. The agent returned home just before midnight to celebrate his wife’s birthday, only to find that
at 3.00am his telephone was ringing constantly.
It was the message that told the agent Diana was dead, together with Dodi and Henri Paul. Mossad had not meant to
harm Diana, they cared nothing for Rees Jones or Henri Paul, but Diana was not a target.
The last words Melinda whispered to Henri Paul was “Drive slowly, drive carefully”. Henri Paul was not the target and
may have survived had he applied his safety belt.
Dodi was targeted by Mossad simply because he was an Arab and they did not want him mixing with Princess Diana.
It was a long-term vision that cost the life of a Princess. Mossad feared Dodi may marry Diana and, when William
became King, would influence his attitude towards Israel.
In the three days between 27th August 1997 and 31st August 1997 Mossad accumulated 256 pages of intelligence
on the movements of Dodi. It was an operation that had been planned for months.
It was not about business or drug use but safeguarding the future.
Throughout his life Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, better known as Dodi, never once gave an
interview to the press.
- Why did Dodi use Henri Paul as a driver when his normal driver was available?
The answer is that, according to the MI6 file, Henri Paul was a person whom Dodi trusted and who could obtain
cocaine and remain silent. In return he was well rewarded.
Henri Paul was, in fact, a part-time recruited MI6 agent. Frenchmen are quite willing to work for Russian, American or
Chinese and other secret service agencies, but rarely do so for the British. Henri Paul was recruited in 1995, and his
role was simply to place intrusive surveillance devices in the properties owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, which included
the Ritz Hotel.
MI6 are always extremely interested in knowing all the latest gossip and details including extra-marital or same sex
relationships of the rich and famous. MI6 of course came up trumps when Dodi and Diana started a relationship.
The Diana file at MI6 contains all sorts of idle gossip regarding the intimate details of their relationship, how much
Dodi meant to Diana, whether they slept together all night and, more importantly, whether they had any thoughts
about getting married.
Of course none of the above in 1997 was truly a matter for the state, but the orders to “continue and pursue” such
came directly from the Head of State:- HM Queen Elizabeth.
One important factor in determining the events of August 1997 should be obvious. The fact so many high powered
elements of MI6 were in Paris remains odd. Even spies take their holidays the same month as most to ensure they
do not ‘give their profession away’.
The MI6 file on Henri Paul was relatively thin until the entries following July 1997. Prior to this, it contained only the
room numbers and guests that were subject to being ‘bugged’ normally via a small device at the back of a television
set in the room. How many people check the back of a TV in a hotel room?
But this night Henri Paul wanted Dodi out of the Imperial Suite just as much as Dodi sought cocaine to steady his
nerves.
The money found in cash in Henri Paul’s pocket, not his wallet, amounted to approximately £1,400 - more than
sufficient to acquire the much needed white powder Dodi craved.
But Henri Paul was not only working for MI6 but also for the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), the
MI6 counterpart. Each knew about the other. He also ‘freelanced’ on occasion if time permitted for the Directoire de
la Securite du Territoire, the MI5 counterpart. All three parties were aware of the others.
Unlike MI6, the DGSE had zero interest in the particulars between Dodi and Diana. A request from MI6 in July 1997
to the DGSE for certain information failed to even attract a reply.
The file maintained by both MI6 and the DGSE should of course have been made available to the French Inquest
and certainly the English Enquiry. The MI6 file contains all of Henri Paul’s contacts and shed some light on why so
many MI6 officers were in Paris during the crucial days. The DGSE file would invariably hold similar information.
The French President, together with the Minister of the Interior, ensured orders would be maintained, sealing such
under the strict French Presidential Security Directives:
1.The Henri Paul file at the DGSE was not to be disclosed to the Investigating Magistrate
2.The cocaine found in the wrecked Mercedes was hidden and the speed camera images were to disappear.
The last photographs taken that night show Diana's head turned to avoid what seems the ‘Dazzling White Light.’
Trevor Rees - Jones had lowered the sun visor, his right hand raised as though to avoid bright sunlight - the
reflection in the spectacles of Henri Paul clearly shows a dazzling light. Henri's eyes look wide and stunned.
Who took the photo of the Mercedes S280 (licence plate 688 LTV 75) carrying Diana, Dodi, Henri Paul and Trevor
Rees Jones? It was certainly not a speed-camera because the images are colour and clear.
Paul Henry was born on 3rd July 1956 in Lorient, Southern Brittany. His father had been in the army and then
worked for the local council. He was a more than reliable a student and graduated in maths and science. He was also
a talented classical pianist. In 1976 he did his National service at Rochfort airbase, where he worked in the security
department. He left the army as a commissioned officer.
Though single, Paul had lived with Laurence Pujol and her daughter, Samantha, for four years, until they moved out
of his apartment in 1992. Contact was kept until April 1995. About drink, she said of Paul: "Wine made him joyful,
he'd get very happy and do gags to make people laugh. Sometimes he would make you think he was really drunk
when he wasn't. He was a joker. He played around a lot, but never got incoherent on alcohol."
At the time of his death, Paul was in a relationship with a woman, with whom he dined regularly. No one had ever met
her nor had he introduced her to anybody. Two days after his death, a different, unknown woman delivered keys of
his apartment to his parents. The day following the visit by this unknown woman, police searched Paul's apartment
and, amongst other possessions, found a supply of wine, beer and a dozen bottles of spirits. They also found a gay
guide to Paris, but that aspect was also suppressed, although noted by MI6. He did, however, live above a gay club,
so that may well explain the guide. His favourite drinking haunt was a lesbian bar, yet he was heterosexual.
Both women worked for Mossad to whom Henri Paul on occasion would pass the odd tit-bit of information, but
nothing of true importance.
In 1985 he started employment at the Ritz Hotel as a security officer. He held a private pilot’s license from 27 June
1976, instruments rated, with 605 hours logged. As a pilot, he was well-regarded by George Bielek, a flying
instructor: "He was a good man. Now, we never had problem with him and - he was a very serious and a quiet and er,
he, he make you, his job very good in, in, in er, in flight. He was a good private pilot, serious, and er, he, he's looking
for progressing each time." Those words are recorded in the MI6 file on Henri Paul.
Just two days before the accident he completed a rigorous medical to renew his flying license. The medical found no
signs of alcoholism.
Henry Paul soon became deputy head of security at the Ritz but two years later was overlooked as head of security
by another employee. The reason he did not get the job was because he did not possess the necessary qualification
required by the French Authorities for rental cars. He had ample experience, was trusted by Dodi and his father, but
lacked a piece of paper necessary for his qualification.
He was in the group of people that spent Saturday afternoon August 30th 1997 at Le Bourget, and he drove the
Range Rover carrying the luggage to Villa Windsor. The head of security at Villa Windsor was (Rue) Ben Murrell and
he started the whispers that Henry Paul had been drinking.
Murrell told Rees Jones that Henry Paul had a “very good lunch”. That may include a quarter litre of wine or half a
litre of wine roughly two thirds of a bottle. But Henry Paul was back at the Ritz by 5pm and no one noticed anything
odd about him. He went off duty at 7.00pm.
In France, if one dines alone for lunch, generally 250ml pichet of wine. If one assumes, for the sake of argument,
Henry Paul had more, a 500ml pichet contains 6.50 units of alcohol.
Surveillance of Henry Paul shows he also drank two anisettes which are between 20%/40% alcohol depending on the
brand. Two shots would provide one to two units of alcohol. The Ritz bar receipts (copies) are in the MI6 file show
that they were ‘small shots’ of anisette. That would mean Henri Paul had anywhere from 6.50 to 9.75 at worst units of
alcohol at 3pm.
That would begin to metabolize immediately and once started one unit of alcohol would leave his bloodstream every
hour. By midnight there would be only one unit of alcohol left in his body topped up by the anisettes.
This would produce by far less than the 1.74 mgs blood alcohol reading found in his body. Whisky was a favourite
drink of Henri Paul. To produce the reading that supposedly was found at the time of death he would have had to
drink eleven to twelve tumblers of whisky as well.
If Henry Paul started drinking at 7.00pm when he went off duty, expecting to remain free that evening, then the
reading would make sense.
Henri Paul left the Ritz Hotel at 7pm and returned at 9.53pm. In 173 minutes Henri Paul could not truly have gone far.
MI6 surveillance shows that shortly after 7pm he was seen at the ‘lesbian bar’ opposite his flat. Josie, the owner of
the bar, was photographed waving to him.
He was also photographed in a nearby supermarket by MI6 officers, buying carrots, marmalade, lettuce, deodorant
and water.
If anything is certain it is that Henri Paul was certainly not drunk.
At the time of his death Henri Paul had over 3 million French Francs equal to at the time some £300,000. He held 13
separate bank accounts
• two accounts in a bank outside Paris, three accounts and a safety deposit box at BNP in the Place Vendome, three
bank accounts at Barclays on the avenue de l'Opera, one current and 4 deposit accounts at the Caisse d'Epargne,
near the Louvre. In the 8 months before the crash, 40,000 francs was paid into a Caisse d'Epargne account on five
occasions, each time in cash.
• The rumour was circulated that this money (and especially the 40,000 Francs) came from the security services of
various countries.
It is correct that at the time of his death a notebook found on his person contained many numbers for people from
the Directoire de la Securite du Territoire and even remarkably the telephone number of the French President
himself.
The money that was regularly paid into his bank account did not come from MI6 or the French security services. It
did not come from Mossad who were controlling him and had ‘planted’ a girlfriend to be close to him.
The money came from Dodi Al Fayed, because Henri Paul regularly acquired a quantity of cocaine for his boss and
kept quiet about it.
Until late 1983 if a body was returned to England for burial, the Coroner had an unfettered discretion as to whether
or not an Inquest should be held. The family of a nurse who fell to her death in Saudi Arabia would change all of that.
The law clearly states that, if a British citizen dies abroad under mysterious circumstances, there has to be an
Inquest. The Coroner no longer holds any discretion.
The bodies of Diana and Dodi arrived back on 31st August 1997. The Royal Coroner issued a statement four days
later confirming that, in accordance with the law, there would be an Inquest, and said it would be held in the normal
time frame.
Dodi Al Fayed lived in Surrey and the Surrey Coroner also said there would be an Inquest, and within the time frame.
The inquest was opened only to be adjourned, and not held until January 2004 - some seven years later. A number
of excuses were made. The first was that Mohamed Al Fayed quite appropriately sought both inquests to be joined
into a single inquest. He took the case to court and two years later lost. The second reason was that, since
proceedings had been instituted in France, those had to be completed first.
The Coroners Act of 1988 does not insist that all other proceedings must be complete prior to an Inquest
commencing. The Act says, in fact, that an inquest should be held “as soon as practical.” In 1997 both Coroners
considered it ‘practical’ to hold an inquest quickly, but the MI6 files show that both Coroners were placed under
pressure from HM Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to delay as long as possible.
The only proceedings in France since 1999 were malpractice allegations regarding the autopsy of Henri Paul, and Al
Fayed issued proceedings for invasion of privacy - a case he lost in 2003 - but those had nothing to do with the
deaths of Dodi and Diana.
The real reasons were that HM Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles were told that cocaine was found
in the car. Prince Charles was told at once and he told his parents.
An Inquest could not legitimately avoid evidence which shows that at least “one passenger had taken cocaine” and
had “some in their possession.” It could avoid asking why the speed camera had suddenly stopped working and
worse images ‘supressed.’ It could not avoid asking why Dodi’s treasured mobile phone had disappeared and worse
how that could have occurred.
Mohamed Al Fayed also had an interest in ensuring the cocaine found in the car should not be revealed. There had
been considerable press on Dodi and his relationship over the years with controlled substances.
It is interesting to note also the autopsy report on Dodi has never been made public. His mobile phone has never
resurfaced. It sits in a vault at Fort Monkton, at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire - an MI6
stronghold.
HM The Queen and Prince Philip, according to the MI6 file took the decision to “protect Prince William and Prince
Harry”. Had Diana been involved with controlled substances during her lifetime there is no doubt that Prince Charles
would have used that against her in the media war. Prince Philip never believed his son received fair press but he
also could not understand why Charles would want to leave Diana for Camilla.
The advice given to the Royal Family was “not to try and tarnish the reputation of Princess Diana now she is not
here to defend herself”.
The French Government and authorities, once they took the decision to suppress the finding of cocaine in the car
and in the pocket of Henri Paul and suppressing the speed camera, removing Dodi’s mobile phone and handing it to
an MI6 officer, could not afford to change the story.
Whilst Mohamed Al Fayed flew to Paris at once, and upon arrival was photographed by MI6 officers showing he was
not wearing his seatbelt, Prince Charles did not.
At 11 o’clock he went to church in Craithie with the rest of the Royal Family. MI5 agents were there recording
everything.
For six days the Royal Family remained in Scotland, almost causing a constitutional crisis. It was in fact Sir David
Spedding, the Director General of MI6, who convinced HM to return to London.
The callousness of the Royal Family can be found in a memo from an MI6 officer in Paris watching the news, writing
to David Spedding with the words “Are they for real? W & H attending services with their mother dead? Unreal.”
The Queen Mother had an idea of secretly moving Diana’s body in the middle of the night. Balmoral is not exempt
from NSA intercepts of which ‘some’ are redirected to MI6. The transcripts in the MI6 file show that Charles was more
than forceful, even shouting at one stage, that he would bring the body of Diana back with full honours and draped
in the colours of the Prince of Wales.
At 1pm Paul Burrell arrived in Paris. He was under constant surveillance from no less than three secret service
agencies.
Prince Charles arrived at 5pm together with Diana’s sisters. He was greeted by President Chirac.
Charles asked to be alone with the body for a few minutes and he was obliged. When he came out, amongst the
crowd was an MI6 officer who reported “It was obvious he (Charles) had been crying.”
He then went to meet the doctors to thank them for all they had done. It was then that the MI6 officer reported
Charles said something quite strange.
Charles looked at Dr. Riou and Dr. Pavie and exclaimed “FELICITATIONS.”
Translated into English it means “congratulations”. The doctors looked surprised that he should utter such a phrase.
A note in the MI6 file by a psychologist puts this phrase down to “stress breaking through the subconscious mind.
Having cried, seeing his wife dead, he was not thinking but feeling, and those feelings were feelings of truth”.
The doctors, having failed to help Diana live, made his most secret wishes come true and he was now free to love
the woman he had always loved. The note continues: “this is not to say Charles either wanted or planned the death
of Diana, but that word shows he was torn between two feelings. He was in tears, her death was tragic but he had to
say something, and out came the result.”
The decision taken by Spedding the Director General was to erase media coverage of the word Charles uttered.
Before Charles and his entourage left since security was ad hoc the British waited for the French to leave and the
French for the British. Charles sat in the car for three minutes before a woman came out of the hospital with a carrier
bag. Inside were the clothes Diana was wearing the night she died.
The MI6 report noted “clothes taken from B (Burrell) to be burnt.”
There has been much speculation about the Mercedes S280. One of the less known facts is that the car was stolen
only in April that year outside the Taillevent restaurant in Paris.
The Etoile Limousine Company was the owner of the vehicle and was a subsidiary company of the Ritz Hotel. When
the police recovered the car, its electronics and braking system had been ripped out. These individually have little
value, but nonetheless the car company sent the vehicle for repair.
Of course, no-one wanting to sabotage the vehicle could be certain that Dodi and Diana would ever use it. One
could tamper with the vehicle and the security services do indeed have a specialist department that covers auto, air
and marine intrusive manipulation. One could easily have used the theft of the vehicle (which was not widely if at all
reported) the installation of new electronics and braking system and set up new commands that would respond to
remote control.
Only eight months previously a Royal Protection Officer had murdered his wife in similar circumstances. It was not
reported until more than a year after the death of Diana.
MI6 technicians developed a ‘chip’ which starts to operate only when a pre-set command is sent on a particular
frequency and then when the chip is activated the driver no longer has control.
There was no such chip ‘found’ upon the examination of the vehicle but it is interesting that the Investigative Judge
ordered an extensive search and analysis. If it was found it was not noted.
Late on 30th August 1997, once Dodi had decided to leave the Ritz Hotel and move to his apartment and insisting on
Henri Paul as driver and only one bodyguard, it was solely in order as a decoy for Diana so she would not be aware
of his need for cocaine.
Whatever can be said about Diana she was more than a caring mother. Her relationship with Dr. Hasnat Khan had
ended because MI6 had ‘briefed’ her about his ‘occasional use for recreational purposes of a controlled substance.’
Diana was mortified but did not want her children even remotely exposed to anyone that held any connection with
drugs.
She was aware that Dodi had “in the past dabbled” but was certain he no longer took cocaine. At 11.30pm on the
30th August 1997 the Ritz Hotel asked Etoile Limousine to provide a second Mercedes that would act as a kind of
decoy.
This car was delivered to the Ritz by a driver known as Frederic Lucard. After 11.30pm Henri Paul walked out of the
Ritz Hotel five times to tell journalists and photographers to “get their cameras ready”.
But Henri Paul was not only there for that purpose. He had arranged to meet a person who would be amongst the
crowd and supply him with a small quantity of cocaine in a small plastic pouch.
The plan was that whilst Henri Paul would ‘tease’ the media, Dodi and Diana would leave by the back entrance in the
second Mercedes. The real reason was to take delivery of the cocaine and Dodi was becoming impatient. It was
almost one hour before Henri Paul took delivery and the move from the Ritz could commence.
The Mercedes Dodi and Diana were going to use had tinted windows. The second car had clear windows. Originally
the plan for delivery of the small quantity of cocaine had been that Henri Paul, with Dodi and Diana and one body-
guard, would meet the person, thus the need for tinted windows so the dealer would not necessarily recognise Dodi
or Diana. That changed when Henri Paul arranged for the dealer to ‘mix with the paparazzi’.
It was strange for the Ritz security that Dodi asked Henri Paul to drive when his driver was available, and for only one
bodyguard. Dodi had originally wanted to take delivery of the cocaine and for that he needed someone he could
trust. He certainly could trust Henri Paul who had been buying drugs for him for some time. Henri Paul would never
have told Mohamed Al Fayed.
Trevor Rees Jones was a junior security officer. With the original plan he would not have raised any questions
making a small detour. The more senior bodyguard, Kez Wingfield, would be driving the decoy car.
Diana is noted as not being nervous at all of the crowd of journalists. Two Australian ‘tourists,’ Chloe Papazahariakis
and Vlad Borovac, filmed Diana with the crowd of journalists that seemed polite.
At 12.14am on 31st August 1997, surveillance notes Diana leaving at the back entrance of the Ritz Hotel.
At 12.18am Diana leaves through the back entrance with Henri Paul and Trevor Rees Jones.
Henri Paul disappears for about a minute and then returns to Dodi, whispers something which Diana believes to be
the plan but which NSA intercepts record as “Je l’ai” meaning “I have it.”
At 12.19am video surveillance shows Henri Paul leading the couple and Trevor Rees Jones down rue Cambon at the
back of the hotel, with the second Mercedes waiting.
Diana and Dodi got into the back of the car. They did not put on their safety belts, neither did Henri Paul. After a few
seconds, Trevor Rees Jones did.
Rue Cambon is a narrow street with a traffic light about one hundred metres from the Ritz Hotel.
Another set of lights can be found at the bottom of the street. There the Mercedes is noted in the MI6 file as having
“turned sharp right into rue de Rivoli.”
From there is it approximately 180 metres to the Place de la Concorde.
Mohammed Rehabouille, who saw the car, reported it was not going so fast and saw no motorbikes chasing the car.
No trace of him has been found since Christmas 1997.
The shortest route to Dodi’s apartment was along the Champ-Elysees, but at the Place de la Concorde the car
turned left instead of right. It then sped along the riverbank of the Seine and going “well away from MDAF {Mr Dodi Al
Fayed} flat” according to the MI6 log.
A few moments after the Mercedes drove away, the Ritz cameras trained on rue Cambon showed the last few frames
of a white Fiat Uno disappearing down the street.
At 12.23am Henry Paul reached the dip that curves right and leads to the Alma Tunnel. Why Henri Paul chose that
route has remained a mystery but the answer, as always, is found within the NSA intercepts even of a travelling
vehicle.
Dodi and Diana were simply having a good time. If one looks at the last photo taken obviously by a flash and a
frontal flash one can see clearly the faces. The driver Henri Paul looks normal and in fact is smiling. Trevor Rees
Jones is the only one that looks tense, maybe even a little afraid. Trevor Rees Jones is telling Henri Paul to slow
down but, in the back of the car, Dodi and Diana are heard ‘laughing and joking’ and happy.
On his own initiative Henri Paul, realising that Dodi and Diana were having fun, took the longer route allowing them
time to continue having fun.
The suggestion that Dodi and Diana were in a state of panic is simply not consistent with the NSA intercepts
contained within the MI6 file.
The flash that is evident is not the flash from a photographer but from the speed-camera that mysteriously
disappeared. The car was speeding and the flash activated. President Chirac was aware of this and did not want the
death of Diana blamed on the French government, thus the immediate orders for the camera to “marcher” or “walk”.
The problems the French government faced were the distortion of the truth. The first comment to the media involved
the speed-camera that was not working. Once they stated that, there was no turning back. On 15th September 1997,
a man who was driving only 12 minutes previous down the Alma Tunnel received a speeding ticket in the post.
The police saw the photograph by midday 31st August 1997, but a decision was taken to deny the existence of such
with the approval of MI6.
The traffic police found in the car a mobile phone and a small bag of cocaine in Diana’s handbag. Whilst Dodi had
been playing around with her laughing and joking, he had placed the small bag in her bag hoping to retrieve it later.
Intelligence sources showed that Diana often asked Dodi to empty his pockets in a joking way, but it was the manner
upon which she could be sure he did not use drugs.
Inside the passengers were identified, the DGSE were notified, who in turn called upon MI6. A decision was taken
immediately by Sir David Spedding and the French President himself that this information was not to be leaked.
The fact Diana was inadvertently carrying a small quantity of cocaine could easily have been used by the Royal
Family against her. To prove that she was an innocent bystander would require the NSA and GCHQ who regularly
‘spied’ on her to confirm certain intercepts.
HM The Queen was no supporter of Diana and disliked her by far more than Prince Philip. In the early hours of the
morning MI6 top agents were hard at work, David Spedding particularly. The Queen’s insistence on not returning to
London was based entirely upon the information that cocaine had been found in Diana’s bag. Whichever way one
would look at the whole saga HM The Queen felt “she (Diana) would turn it to her favour.”
Henri Paul was not drunk.
The car did not skid.
No bolt was fired at the vehicle.
The Mercedes bearing Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, their driver and bodyguard crashed into a concrete pillar in the
Alma tunnel. Henri Paul and Dodi were killed instantly. The bodyguard, sitting in the front right seat, suffered severe
facial injuries and a broken wrist, but was saved largely thanks to his seat belt and airbag. Princess Diana, was not
wearing a seat belt, also survived the initial crash but suffered major thoracic trauma, in addition to several
superficial cuts on the forehand, arm and thigh and a dislocated shoulder. The first witnesses on the scene found
her sitting on the floor with her legs on the backseat and her head wedged between the backs of the two front seats.
Her eyes were open and she mumbled several indistinct phrases. The bodyguard later said he remembered hearing
her call out Dodi Fayed’s name. Other heard her murmur “My God”.
Given the nature of the shock, a frontal crash into an immobile object at the speed of 100 km/hr or more, there was a
strong probability of a deceleration injury resulting in possible internal lesions. Yet none of the medical personnel
who initially treated her in the tunnel appear to have suspected internal haemorrhaging. Instead, they spent nearly
an hour doing onsite treatment of a symptom - falling blood pressure - rather than treating its cause - an internal
lesion.
The first doctor on the scene was a physician with the private medical service SOS Medicins. He happened to be
driving through the tunnel in the eastbound lane within a minute of the accident. He stopped his car and went to
attend to the passengers of the crashed Mercedes. He immediately observed that Fayed and a driver were dead.
The front seat passenger was already being attended to by an off-duty fireman, who also happened to be on the
scene. So he turned his attention to the blonde woman in the rear, whose identity was not immediately apparent to
him. His first impression, as he later told an interviewer, was that the woman was not in a hopeless condition, and
had a chance to survive. He admitted, however, that he did not know about her internal problems.
Without his equipment, there was little he could do except to place her head in a position that made it easier to
breathe and to administer an oxygen mask. He also used portable telephone to call the emergency medical service,
describe the location of the accident and the nature of the injuries. Other passers-by had also called for help within a
minute of the crash.
The first unit of the Sapeurs-Pompiers, a military emergency service, arrived within seven minutes and began to
administer treatment. At 12:40 a.m., 15 minutes after the accident, the first SAMU ambulance arrived with its on-
board physician. In a deposition given later to French investigators, the physician said Diana was agitated, crying
out, and did not seem to understand everything he said to reassure her. He added that she repeatedly moved her
left arm and right leg. He immediately started an IV drip.
Though she was apparently conscious when the SAMU arrived, he reported that Diana suffered a cardiac arrest
while he and his assistants where extracting her from the car. At that point, he said, he intubated the patient, put her
on a respirator and performed an external chest massage to re-establish a cardiac rhythm. He then installed her in
the SAMU ambulance, known as a “mobile hospital unit” because it is so well equipped, and proceeded to carry out
the more detailed examination and treatment.
Clearly, Diana was in serious condition, and the fact that she suffered a cardiac arrest obliged doctors to take
emergency measures on site. The question is: did they spent too long treating her on site and driving her to the
hospital, given that she was haemorrhaging and could only be saved by operating to repair her internal injuries?
The SAMU team spent nearly an hour, until 1:30am treating Diana in the tunnel. Then the ambulance drove her at a
snail’s pace to Piete-Salpetriere hospital, 6.15 kilometres away. At that time of night, it would normally take five or 10
minutes to drive along the riverfront expressway. But Diana’s driver, applying standard French emergency
procedures, drove extremely slowly so as not to subject the fragile patient to shocks and bumps. As a result, it took
them some 40 minutes to make the drive, and the ambulance stopped within a few hundred yards of the hospital to
treat a sharp drop in blood pressure.
By the time Diana reached the emergency room, it was nearly 1 hour 45 minutes after the crash. According to the
deposition of the duty doctor, who admitted her into the hospital, she arrived alive and with a cardiac rhythm. Though
she had no serious external injuries, X-rays indicated internal haemorrhaging that was compressing her right lung
and heart. Within ten minutes of her arrival, the patient again suffered a cardiac arrest, prompting the doctors to
inject large doses of epinephrine directly into the heart, and to perform an emergency thoracotomy.
According to testimony of the chief surgeon on duty that night, the operation revealed that the source of the
haemorrhaging was a single lesion, which he described as a partial rupture of the left pulmonary vein at the point of
contact with the left atrium. The tear was sutured and the haemorrhaging was stopped. But despite nearly two hours
of manual internal massage, and the application of electroshocks, it was impossible to re-establish a heartbeat. The
patient was declared death at 4am.
At a press conference one hour later, the doctors read a five sentence communiqué that cited an important wound
in the left pulmonary vein as the source of the internal bleeding that killed her. The communiqué made no specific
mention of other lesions. Nor did the French coroner’s report, which listed the cause of death as internal
haemorrhaging due to a major chest trauma and a phenomenon of deceleration which caused a rupture of the left
pulmonary vein.
From subsequent medical testimony given to French investigators, it is clear that there were no other significant
lesions. This flatly contradicts the assertion, made by the French Health Minister and other officials, that Diana
suffered multiple internal injuries that left her no chance of survival. This self-serving claim is simply not supported by
the facts.
All in all three people died that night. Only Trevor Rees Jones survived. The state always seeks to protect itself. In
1968, the Serbian driver/bodyguard of famous film actor Alain Delon was killed when he was going to ‘blow the
whistle’ on sexual scandals involving show business personalities and the then President of the Republic, George
Pompidou. Stevan Markovic was found dead on the outskirts of Paris. The Markovic Affair still haunts the French
Government.
There are some similarities between the death of Diana and Princess Grace of Monaco. In September 1982 Grace
Kelly was 52 years of age. She had gained a little weight but for the first time since High Society in 1956 that she
made a film. She was hoping to convince her husband Prince Rainier of Monaco to allow her back on the big screen.
On 13th September 1982, whilst driving with her daughter Stephanie to Monaco from their home in Roc Agel on the
French side of the border, Princess Grace ‘suffered a stroke,’ which caused her to drive her Rover P6 off the
serpentine road down a mountainside. Grace was pulled alive from the wreckage, but had suffered serious injuries
and was unconscious but died the following day at the Monaco Hospital. Stephanie suffered only minor bruising,
although it later emerged that she had suffered a serious cervical fracture.
Reports say that Monaco Hospital (later renamed Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace - Princess Grace Hospital
Centre), where the injured survivors were taken, was not well equipped for these type injuries. Surgery was
performed on Grace’s lungs to stop the internal bleeding. Her other injuries included multiple fractures of the collar
bone, thigh, and ribs. A CAT scan supposedly revealed that shortly before the accident, Grace had suffered a stroke
which rendered her unable to control the vehicle. This of course was strange because at the time there was no CAT
scan machine at the Monaco Hospital. Fearing that the Princess may survive as a helpless invalid, the royal palace
attempted a cover up of the extent of her injuries.
Grace Kelly made all the headlines and there was the usual speculation as to the cause of the accident. Some said
Stephanie was driving and that there had been an argument because Stephanie was involved with yet another
unsuitable man.
There are remarkable few photos of the wreckage but comparing both the vehicle which Princess Grace died and
Princess Diana there are similarities.
What is known is that MI6 had planted a bug in the Rover P6. It was a favour for Prince Rainier who was deeply
suspicious of his wife. Although MI6 had indeed planted a bug Rainier had ordered a “trusted person within his
employ” to place a small device that could release a toxin when triggered from a distance. The toxin would produce
blurred vision and loss of the motor’s control.
The official explanation given was that Princess Grace had a very sudden stroke but Princess Stephanie remembers
only that her mother lost control suddenly.
The wreckage of the car landed on the property of a close friend of Prince Rainier. Since it was on French land it
would be the French Government that had control of the accident scene.
An MI6 officer was in Monte Carlo at the time staying at the Metropole Hotel. He reported back to Colin Figures the
then head of the Security Services that “The French ordered no-one to attend the site for at least two hours.” Dick
Franks, Director General the outgoing Director of MI6 was also in Monte Carlo staying at the Metropole Hotel. He
had retired and was enjoying what he thought was a break from it all. The MI6 agent asked Franks if they should
take matters further but the Rugby School educated Franks told him to ‘let sleeping dogs die.’
The car that was photographed killing Princess Grace was not the Rover P60 she was driving. The message from
Dick Franks to the MI6 agent in Monaco that day was clear.
At 10:30pm on 14th September 1982, Princess Grace was taken off her life-support equipment on the orders of
Prince Rainier, effectively condemning her to death. In this matter silence was required and eternal silence for
Princess Grace who for years had enjoyed numerous affairs with David Niven and Frank Sinatra.
Like Diana, all of Monaco was sad when Grace Kelly died, but relieved that a potential problem would not affect the
country.
Henri Paul was not drunk that night. He lived above a gay bar and surveillance showed him to have “homosexual
tendencies.” There is a suggestion contained in the MI6 file that he was ‘bisexual’, but this is not emphasized.
The mystery surrounding the death of Diana is similar to that of Princess Stephanie. The target was not Diana that
evening. Princess Stephanie survived, Diana did not.
Henri Paul fell in love with a Mossad ‘agent’ although he certainly was not aware she was working for the Israeli killer
agency. Many had seen him with a beautiful woman but, upon his death, it was another woman that handed the keys
back to his apartment.
Melinda was a 38 year old transvestite working for Mossad. On 30th August 1997 at 7.00pm, when Henry Paul went
off duty, he was seen at a supermarket and recorded by MI6 logs, and he went for a drink at a gay bar. The rest of
the time he was under intrusive surveillance by MI6 and presumably also Mossad. He was with Melinda and they
were seen flirting and kissing.
This was the moment that the order from Mossad came for Melinda to plant a tiny pin-like device on his clothes
without him being aware. The video from the Ritz Hotel shows Henri Paul parking his car at 9.53pm but entering the
Ritz Hotel at 10.08pm. For fifteen minutes his time is unaccounted for, save that MI6 had him under surveillance and
he was in his car with Melinda. After Henri Paul entered the Ritz Hotel, the Mossad agent Melinda left the car park at
10.15pm, never to be seen again.
The pin like device Henri Paul had clasped on his clothes was carrying a bubble-head with a small amount of nerve
agent VX. It is one of the deadliest chemical agents known. It was developed by MI6 scientists at Porton Down
Chemical Weapons Research Centre.
It wreaks havoc with the way brain cells communicate by impairing the synapses. If brain cells do not work or
communicate then one loses the ability to perceive and to act.
Once Henri Paul had been allocated to drive Dodi, the Mossad plan was simple. Melinda would hug Henri Paul and
fix the pin with the VX on his clothes. He would not even be aware of it. That is what Melinda did and in the car at 9.55
pm and told him she would meet him later.
All Mossad had to do was to post men in various locations and at the right time trigger the device. The VX made
Henri Paul lose control.
There are a number of reports of who saw what at the Alma Tunnel.
That night the target was not Princess Diana but Dodi Al Fayed.
MI6 did not murder Diana or Dodi directly. On 3rd September 1997 the MI6 Director General had scheduled a
meeting with HM The Queen to deliver the files of intelligence on the Al Fayed family and Princess Diana.
The MI6 covert agent in Parisain 1997 was the same agent that had been in Monaco in 1982 dealing with the after-
math of Princes Grace, and was more than experienced in covert surveillance. He was also the very same that was
sent to Serbia to cover the botched-up assassination plan of Serbian President Milosevic. He was the most
experienced operator in the field and knew all the players.
The mission between 27th August 1997 and 3rd September 1997 was to forewarn Princess Diana of the ‘regular and
consistent drug use of Dodi Al Fayed’ and the ‘real risks of exposure of such a person to Prince William and Harry.’
Princess Diana was to be warned about the perils of mixing with such a person and told that on 3rd September 1997
the files containing information would be delivered to HM The Queen.
It would then be left to Diana to decide what to do, but since she had hastily abandoned Dr Hasnat Khan to whom
she was by far more attached than Dodi on the pure mention of ‘occasional recreational drug use’, MI6 was sure
Diana would return to London leaving Dodi and the Al Fayed family for ever.
The MI6 agent arrived in Paris on 27th August 1997 and checked into the Ritz Hotel. He had befriended Mohamed Al
Fayed and had been married for a short period of time in 1989 to a ‘Diana look-alike’ who had previously dated
Dodi. The agent was thus aware first hand that Dodi was a regular user of cocaine.
MI6 had their agent right on the scene to perform the delicate task of telling Princess Diana the truth about Dodi from
first-hand experience. The agent was also known to Diana from a film screening that they had attended, but she was
not aware he was a top MI6 agent. She would surely believe what he had to say and ditch Dodi Al Fayed.
But on 30th August 1997 the agent, somewhat unusually, asked to leave Paris for one day, returning on 1st
September, because 31st August was his wife’s birthday and he wanted to be at home with her. Although he had
seen Diana arrive at the Ritz and saw Dodi leave to the Repossi shop he never had an opportunity of approaching
her. He decided that it would be best to deal with the approach on Monday, 1st September. The decision to leave
Paris in the evening was made and approval granted.
Under normal circumstances no approval would be required since the MI6 agent was one of the top and had been
with MI6 since 1972. The agent returned home just before midnight to celebrate his wife’s birthday, only to find that
at 3.00am his telephone was ringing constantly.
It was the message that told the agent Diana was dead, together with Dodi and Henri Paul. Mossad had not meant to
harm Diana, they cared nothing for Rees Jones or Henri Paul, but Diana was not a target.
The last words Melinda whispered to Henri Paul was “Drive slowly, drive carefully”. Henri Paul was not the target and
may have survived had he applied his safety belt.
Dodi was targeted by Mossad simply because he was an Arab and they did not want him mixing with Princess Diana.
It was a long-term vision that cost the life of a Princess. Mossad feared Dodi may marry Diana and, when William
became King, would influence his attitude towards Israel.
In the three days between 27th August 1997 and 31st August 1997 Mossad accumulated 256 pages of intelligence
on the movements of Dodi. It was an operation that had been planned for months.
It was not about business or drug use but safeguarding the future.
Throughout his life Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, better known as Dodi, never once gave an
interview to the press.
