Corporate Terrorism, Torture & Government Cover-Up
This paper was presented in Jan 2009 at McMaster University to the 30th World Congress on Economic Crime Prevention. In the paper is a blueprint on the use of the Zerzetsen Torture Technique today by MI5, MI6 in the UK, and CSIS in Canada. Read this paper and you will know what Zerzetsen is and how the intelligence services do it. A more detailed overview of zerzetsen (including some documentary evidence for verification) and of this case is presented on a wiki whose URL is:http://zerzetzen.wikispaces.comZerzetsen is not the old fashioned medieval type of torture, but a more modern Orwellian 1984 equivalent that was developed by the former GDR secret police “The Stasi” to persecute dissidents. It combines character assassination and defamation, with criminal threats and intimidation – both different sides of the same Zerzetsen coin. Roderick Russell
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30th McMaster World Congress Economic Crime Prevention
Corporate Terrorism, Whistle-Blowing, and Failure of Policing – Criminal Intimidation & Threats. From a victim’s perspective, how do you protect whistle-blowers when intelligence services are involved and all police investigations stopped? This paper includes a blueprint on the use of Zerzetsen techniques by the MI*s and CSIS to break individuals and destroy families.
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The author of this paper – Roderick Russell – qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and has served as Chief Financial Officer of a well-known Resort and Hotel Company, and as Group Controller of a top 10 North American Commercial Property and Real Estate Development Company based in Vancouver. Previously he headed up Financial Accounting & Reporting at one of Canada’s then largest public companies. His background also includes starting-up and running an Internal Audit function. Earlier in his career he wrote and presented various papers on Financial Reporting issues and on Fraud. Married to a former school teacher, he has three children and is a Canadian & British Citizen.
Table of Contents
Pages Introduction Economic Crime and Whistleblowers The Price of being a whistleblower Some background on the company and its Establishment relationships Zerzetsen Threats** - The Criminal Process in summary Zerzetsen Threats - How strong is the proof of criminal intimidation and threats Supporting Articles – for more detailed facts Zerzetsen Threats – Examples of major threatening incidents. Examples of lesser Zerzetsen threats – a thousand threats The Cover-Up Conspiracy is criminal Intimidation and provable The 1st Zerzetsen - The Power of the Big Lie Technique Proof that MI* intelligence services are criminally involved (and CSIS?) Aggressive telephone tapping – Further Proof MI5, CSIS involved Conclusion – Recommendations 3 3-4 4-5
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** Zerzetsen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former GDR secret police “the Stasi” to persecute dissidents – the purpose is to poison every aspect of a person’s life. Today zerzetsen is used in the UK & Canada by corporate criminals.
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Introduction
Serious economic crime can only be prevented if those who report it are protected. The focus of this paper is on top corporate executive crime, which by definition is of a conspiratorial nature. The thrust of this paper is to show that all too often whistle-blowers and other perceived enemies of large organizations, far from being protected, are persecuted and to discuss possible remedial solutions.
An actual case that relates to a very influential international company is drawn on for reference, including examples of threats – this paper provides a detailed blueprint of corporate terrorism from a victim’s perspective. Criminal defamation and criminal
intimidation are different sides of the same coin. Intimidation is a disgusting crime that one normally associates with a failed justice system; it can be used on whistle-blowers and its purpose is to make the price for whistle-blowing too high.
Economic Crime and Whistleblowers
The serious frauds that brought ENRON down, and Arthur Andersen, are well known today. In the same time frame, other huge business organizations were also brought down as a result of senior management fraud. This was economic crime in the Billions. There was a Whistle-blower in Enron, yet she was not listened to until this company was already bankrupted. In fact why were there not more Whistle-blowers?
Just this month we have observed a crisis in the banking system, so severe that some are comparing it with 1929. It is too early to determine the factors that underlie the causes of this crisis. It seems that poor decision-making, incompetence, and bad corporate governance have played their part. But increasingly it is being suggested that one of the causes was fraudulent decision-making in some elements of the sub-prime mortgage market. And then there was Madoff, Stanford and the failure of so many regulatory authorities. Economic crime in the Billions, once again – less than 10 years after Enron. Roderick Russell 3
Why were there no whistleblowers, or why were the whistleblowers not listened to?
Billion Dollar frauds are frauds of the very powerful! Powerful people have powerful friends. Where conspiracies to commit crime exist, it can be extremely dangerous to be a Whistle-blower if the company is influential enough.
The Price of being a whistleblower
Shots fired, death threat calls, cars driven at him, property smashed, he is under surveillance, and he can’t find work as people are scared to hire him. His wife’s health permanently damaged; hardly surprising since she and her children have been threatened for 10 years.
This is a true story of what can happen when serious crime is reported. It is my story.
In an article published on 10 Oct 2004 in the prestigious Sunday Times headlined “Lies, Threats and Whistleblowers” journalist Liam Clarke reports how honest UK police officers were persecuted by UK intelligence using Zerzetsen tactics to keep them quiet.
Journalist Liam Clarke says in the same article “they are supposed to be protecting, but the government persecutes them”.
Zerzetsen tactics were developed by “The Stasi” (former East German Secret Police) to silence dissidents. Their purpose is to “undermine, subvert and corrode” their victim. They are also used to silence Whistle-blowers.
The UK’s MI5 / MI6 intelligence services are using Zerzetsen threats against this executive and his family in the UK and Canada today. The types of threats used are outlined in this paper.
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These threats were reported to four primary police services in the UK and Canada, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Crown Prosecutor. Three police services began to investigate. All police investigations were stopped, and a huge coverup conspiracy kicked into operation.
The matter was brought to former UK Prime Minister Blair’s attention by a Member of Parliament. The cover up conspiracy continued. It has recently been brought to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attention and the cover-up still continues. The threats also continue. There are many independent witnesses, recorded death threats, and evidence of property damage.
Some background on Grosvenor and its establishment relationships
There are few companies as well connected as Grosvenor. Grosvenor is one of the largest property companies in the world, and has been in business for over three hundred years. Its Trustees and Directors are a “who’s who” of the world’s high establishment and include a former Governor of The Bank of England. The Chairman of their Trustees is a former Deputy Chief of UK Defense Staff and is Prince Charles’ closest friend. The UK & US Press has reported that he has boasted about his close intelligence connections. An article in the prestigious “Daily Mail” dated 11/2/2007 and headlined “The Duke of Westminster: so rich and so very foolish” provides some background. The Chairman of their Board of Directors is also influential and is the titled heir of a former UK Prime Minister. A Prominent Lawyer has said “That organization you worked for in Vancouver has far too much power.”
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The Criminal Process in summary
• I was criminally defamed after I chose to leave Grosvenor International (in 1986). I had been Group Controller based in its then Head Office in Vancouver, Canada. The first Zerzetsen – its purpose to make me unemployable and impoverished. I was never employed in Canada again. An economic crime, since the defamation was done professionally, fraudulently concealed from me and is associated with criminal intimidation. I have no idea why I was defamed. I had done an excellent job. An HR consultant has suggested: they saw your choosing to leave them as rejection, and they decided to reject you. Other leavers from this company would also find derogatory comments circulating behind their backs. • Starting in 1999, 10 years of criminal offences followed to stop me complaining. In 2001 I fled to the UK and the threats got worse. In 2006 I returned to Canada and the threats continue. • • • ZERZETSEN threats were developed by the STASI to persecute dissidents. MI5 / MI6, CSIS are using Zerzetsen in UK & Canada. Government Ministers involved in a Cover-Up to protect the MI*s.
Zerzetsen - How strong is the proof of criminal intimidation and threats
• 3rd party evidence (i.e. independent of family testimony) proves that 17 major threatening incidents have happened. Include corroborative evidence from family members for verification and about 50 threatening incidents are proven. See examples on pages 8 to 10. • The cover-up conspiracy is 100% provable from 3rd party evidence. Cover-Up by the State is as much criminal intimidation as it is cover-up. The message the Authorities are sending with their cover-up conspiracy is - “The State is not going to protect you or investigate. You are on your own”. Those who are covering it up must know who the criminals they are protecting from justice are! See comments on pages 12 to 13.
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Hundreds of lesser Zerzetsen threats – some verifiable by 3rd party independent evidence alone. See comments on pages 10 to 11.
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Clear proof of MI5, MI6 & CSIS using Zerzetsen threats in UK & Canada. See comments on pages 16 to 18.
Supporting Articles – for more detailed facts
This paper stands on its own. However, readers interested in more detail may chose to review the following web references. Those interested in a more cursory overview, should just ignore this section.
An article on the web dated 30 Apr. 2008 is “Lies, Threats & Government Cover-up” on the web as: http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2008/04/905423.shtml
It comes with attachments A through D that includes a small portion of the documentary evidence (letters from Cabinet Ministers, etc) that is available to support my comments in the article. There is 10 times more documentary evidence available than is on the internet; but it is all in the same vein, just proving cover-up again and again.
An earlier article dated 7 Dec. 2007 “It’s just as the Stasi treated dissidents in former East Germany, except this Human Rights Abuse is happening here today” is also on the web and comes in two parts; The second part which appears immediately under the article and is headed “Sources of Proof” and summarizes some of the supporting proof that is available. Viz: http://indymedia.org/en/2007/12/897755.shtml
If the web links have been interfered with by intelligence - just type the URLs in manually.
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Zerzetsen – Examples of major threatening incidents.
Just a selection of 6 of the many major threats showing that some have significant sources of 3rd party corroborative evidence for proof, whereas some can only be corroborated by family testimony.
1. Recorded death threats, vehicle smashed into property – on same day.
--23/3/05 – Cover-up documentation mysteriously disappears from The Guardian’s secure offices in Manchester – Letter from their editor confirms this. --1-2/4/05 – Eldest son in Birmingham receives multiple telephone death threats. They are recorded and in police hands. Also independently witnessed. Crime number 20/E2/3302/05 is issued by police. Police confirm threats made from stolen phone. (See Article 30 Apr. 08. Open Attachment C, document reference C2 – C3 for transcript of threats). --2/4/05 – My flat in Manchester smashed into by vehicle the next night. Massive 3rd party evidence available since it woke up the whole apartment block and there was considerable property damage for further verification (see Attachment C3-4). 4 family members in flat at the time and woken up – the crash was a hell of a bang, and the whole apartment shook like in an earthquake. --4 other incidents in this series of threats.
2. Shots fired, etc
--Nov 2007--Shots fired into the living room of my eldest son’s house in Birmingham. Reported to police. Reported to police (with spent shot handed in) by my son Roderick Russell (same name as self) and German National Jana Engelman who were joint complainants and witnesses. Witness further intimidated in this series of threats.
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--20/5/04 – Sent an email to a known Grosvenor contact in Mayfair, London asking for fair play. Email is available --21/5/04 – Severely damaging download sent to my computer. Computer can be made available. --22/5/04 – A high powered laser beam (possibly a strobe) was fired at me where I was working on the computer in my living room on the third floor. The beam lit the room up as if a flair had been set off inside, and made a huge noise as it came through the glass windowpane. My wife and I were present in the room as witnesses. Two other incidents in this series. The criminal may have turned up to orchestrate the fun in a new Rolls Royce that I had seen outside the building just before the incident - I suggested the police check to see if the nearby ducal estate or Grosvenor hotel in Chester had any record of using/hiring a Rolls on that date.
4. Raymond Incident
--28/5/04 – From Manchester called my daughter, Amy, then a student at Aberdeen University. In this private phone call told her about the laser incident and said a fool turned up in a Rolls Royce to watch the fun. -- 40 minutes later I received a telephone death threat from Raymond with my wife present. I called him back later with two witnesses on the line. He mentioned the security organization (could have been service). Police later confirmed Raymond was using a stolen phone. Also further proof that my phones were being tapped. --29/5/04—my daughter Amy was threatened in Aberdeen.
5. The Motorbike Incident
--13/6/01—accelerated a motorbike fast at me in London – I jumped, it swerved and missed me by about 3 inches. This happened close to a huge police station that is by Victoria Train Station. 15 minutes later walking along Turks Row (by York House) a car
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stopped beside me and the driver pointed out, in a threatening manner, how easy it would be to kill me. --Next few days—I was noticeably under surveillance around London.
6. Amy threatened by intelligence operative in Calgary
--My brother-in-law (a Canadian and Scots CA who is Chief Financial Officer of Pembina Corporation) in Calgary attempted to provide help to look into this issue. It became abundantly clear that the help was getting scared off. There is huge 3rd party evidence of this. --24/7/06 -- by email and phone call I asked my daughter Amy (now working in Calgary) to write down all that was happening to the help. --26/7/06 –Amy was accosted and physically manhandled on the street in Downtown Calgary as she crossed under the 8th. Street Bridge. The hood had followed her from her place of work. As he stopped her from moving and banged her on the shoulder, he said “Don’t do it. Just don’t do it” (i.e. don’t write the report that I had asked her to write.) The police booked a crime number. The officer said he could tell that from his modus operendi that Amy’s assailant had had intelligence operational training (MI5 or CSIS??).
The above is a small selection - There have been dozens of other major threats.
Examples of lesser Zerzetsen threats – a thousand threats
The crime of criminal intimidation is psychological torture and meant to be. A pattern of Psychological torture is as much torture as physical torture because it is designed to break people.
The philosophy that underlies the lesser zerzetsen threats was developed by the Stasi, and the UK press has reported that MI5 is using it today. Unlike the major threats, no direct verbal threat is ever made, yet by setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, the MI*s can poison every part of a person's life.
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. There follows a pattern of the lesser Zerzetsen threats that have happened to us. Police who have experience in these issues will recognize this sort of pattern. In West Vancouver in the 1st 18 months alone we received 500 plus telephone calls with nobody on the line. • 11 clear incidents of Street Theatre. Such as a man in Manchester pretending to have been stabbed, and a woman panicking beside him (all an act). Other
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incidents: Cars gyrating around me presenting false plates that sent the message rat/gag, and another car gyrating that had replaced a plate with a sign that just read “mafia”, etc. etc. • Strangers (many times) talking to me on the Street quite normally, and then introducing just a comment or a hint that shows that they know about the intimidation. E.g. in Manchester I was having a problem with hoods who were sending threats using false car number plates. A woman talked to me on the street quite casually. Suddenly she said she had a friend who used false plates and the police were scared of him. • Cars following me around many times. Several times they waited in my driveway then in West Vancouver for me to come out of the house and would drive off just as I came out the door – and I would see the same car wherever I went. • • Periodic appearance of being under surveillance so that you know it. A hood moved into my last apartment building in Calgary – all sorts of problems surfaced, and we got harassed out of it and moved. 3rd party evidence available. • • Constant aggressive phone tapping (MI5 & CSIS). Evidence to back it up. Mail post, email interfered with and email interference used to intimidate. Massive sophisticated computer downloads and spy programs used (and found). Computer can be made available. • Ongoing Bureaucratic Harassment – See my 30 Apr. 08 article. Lots of it in Calgary. I have huge 3rd party documentary proof to prove bureaucratic harassment designed to constantly cause me problems – a Zerzetsen tactic documented by the Stasi for their training programs.
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The Cover-Up Conspiracy is criminal intimidation and provable
The cover-up is 100% verifiable from independent 3rd party evidence alone. The coverup is as much a threat as running a motorbike at you since the State is saying you are on your own; your enemies (MI5, MI6) are above the law. There are over 100 examples of 3rd party verifiable evidence that proves cover-up. Just look at 2 of them:
1. Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears/Police & Home Office
Look on the web at my 30 Apr. 2008 article “Lies threats …..” Some of the evidence of cover-up from Hazel Blears is shown on Attachment A to this article (Reference A.2 to A11). Her written reasons for not investigating all contradict each other. Actually all her written excuses are provably untrue. Then look at the other evidentiary items on Attachment A and you will see more documentary evidence of cover-up.
Then look on the web at my 7 Dec 2007 article and go to “Sources of proof – in support of my article” that follows on immediately after the article itself. Look at Section B of “Sources of proof’ which is headed “Evidence of a centrally coordinated cover-up.” All the 3rd party letters, documents from Ministers, Police, Etc. that are marked ** are available. Cover-Up is 100% provable from available 3rd party documentation alone.
Investigations by four primary police departments and also by the IPCC, Manchester Police Internal Affairs, Home office, Crown Prosecutor were all stopped. At least 3 originally tried to investigate before being stopped.
The documentary evidence on the internet is just a smidgen of what is available. There is 10 times as much, but it is all in the same vein; just proving cover-up again and again.
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2. MI5 smear using a crooked Judge to provide their smear with a false show of credibility
Deputy District Judge Jones, Manchester County Court. Case # 6MAO2655; Appeal # M6X086
Look at my 7 Dec 2007 article on the web and go underneath it to “Sources of proof” and look at Section D. It speaks for itself, note the smear, and note all the evidence that can be provided – court approved transcript, detailed written submissions made to the court. This Judge deliberately assisted the MI*s with a smear campaign that he knew to be untrue. The appeal judge has not dealt with this issue – it is still being covered up.
How did this happen? There are about 50 junior Judges in Manchester – obviously MI5 ensured that the one they could corrupt was allocated to my case.
The 1st Zerzetsen - The Power of the Big Lie Technique
The other side of the Zerzetsen coin is The Big Lie Strategy - professionally done defamation and slander designed to impoverish their victims by rendering them unemployable, and designed to ostracize their victims from their professional associates – all done with lies, and untruthful rumors. It is the Big Lies that do the initial damage. In fact the threats are to keep the executive victim from complaining about the lies.
The big lie technique is based on this premise – That people will more readily believe a Big Lie, if it is big enough and if it is spread repeatedly, than they will believe the truth. The Daily Express disclosed that MI6 has a secret “dirty tricks” unit called IOPS that is used to smear the good names of individuals.
There were 4 big lies professionally spread that I know of. They all fit within the pattern of the big lie technique.
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Here are 3 of the big lies that were professionally spread to smear me –
1. The first Big Lie was a rumor spread (initially in Vancouver, Canada) that I was so incompetent at Grosvenor that I would damage any company that employed me. Apparently it came from all angles (i.e. professionally spread) so it had to be believed. Ironically not only had I done an excellent job, but am sitting on two good written references from my bosses at Grosvenor – their then Group Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive. Good references to my face and shafted behind my back. I still have these written references. In fact I have 18 excellent written references from senior executives I have worked with. Since I can prove the opposite this lie dropped years ago.
2. A second Big Lie that spread years later was that I had some sort of an association with an international drug dealer. Nothing specific; just a rumor initially told me by two London Head-hunters (possibly doing me a favor in telling me) who work for an offshoot of Egon Zhender. I went to the Police, asked them to talk to the head-hunters, and then trace the lie back to its source. The police did nothing, but this lie dropped.
3. The third Big Lie is that my complaints of intimidation are all a hoax, but that I genuinely believe them because I am a nut – and they used a crooked Judge to lend a false appearance of credibility to this smear. This particularly smear was a well known “Zerzetsen” technique used by the Stasi when their other lies ran out of steam. There is also precedent of the use of this smear by the MI*s against other innocent victims. Please note that there are numerous independent 3rd party witnesses to some of the threats, and that recordings of telephone death threats are in police hands. There is also considerable 3rd party documentary proof of the cover-up conspiracy – including the involvement of Hazel Blears, the UK Cabinet Minister then responsible for the MI5 Secret Police (Ref page12).
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What are the criteria for the Big Lie Strategy? My experience shows that there are 3 criteria that need to be met for this strategy of deception to be successful –
1. The big lie has to be colossal – literally a big lie. As Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, The Big Lie has to be so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”
2. The big lie has to be professionally spread (multi-sourced) – so that it comes from all angles and therefore has to be believed. Academic Stephen Dorril in his book “MI6” writes that MI6s IOPS section uses tactics they call “surfacing” (untruthful rumors) and “double sourcing” (i.e. multi-sourced rumors) so that damaging lies are spread about their target victim from all directions. Dorril says that the MI*s have covert agents working deep undercover as bank executives, in accounting firms, and the press to help spread their lies.
3. The big lie has to be confusing – like sticking jelly to a tree it must be difficult to get a handle on details and therefore difficult to disprove. Anna Funder in her book “Stasiland” reports that Zerzetsen includes “targeted spreading of rumors about particular persons” (i.e. multi-sourcing) and “creating confusion over facts”
But the psychology behind the smear side of the Zerzetsen coin is more complex than just the big lies themselves. It involves creating confusion over facts. Even if people know your story and believe it and want to help, they will always think if I take this guy on will I be subjected to intimidation as well, or simply peer pressure from establishment cronies connected to the MI*s.
They think: Where there is smoke, there must be fire – no one considers that the smoke is an entirely manufactured defamation job. If one takes each rumor by itself in detail, I can easily disprove the rumors; then if you take all the disproved rumors together they just show a pattern of orchestrated deceit, misinformation, and MI5, MI6 manufactured lies.
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Proof that MI* intelligence services are criminally involved (and CSIS?)
a. Continuous telephone tapping, and call interference that could only happen through use of MI5 (CSIS) interception centres in Manchester, Yarm, Calgary. SEE page 18 for clear evidence of MI5, CSIS aggressive tapping. b. The Smear campaigns. Using the Big Lie technique – a hallmark of the MI*s. Starting with the criminal defamation of 20 years ago, at least 4 lies have been professionally spread – all different, all completely untrue (ref page 13-15). Includes corrupting a junior judge to lend a false credibility to a smear (see point 2, page 13); Only the MI*s could do this. c. Proven cover-up by Minister Hazel Blears – her ministerial responsibilities were MI5 and Special Branch (see page 12 for proof). d. Threats to STOP me complaining to Hazel Blears on three occasions (she headed up MI5, Special Branch) – only she and her top officials knew about my complaints at the time the threats to stop me complaining were made. See 30 Apr. 2008 article Attachment A/5 to A/7 on the internet for proof. Clear evidence of MI5 involvement. e. Intimidation is too prolonged, sophisticated and costly for a crime gang acting alone. Estimated cost several million Dollars/Pounds – a hallmark of a taxpayer funded intelligence service. 10 years of Zerzetsen threats wherever I go -- threats in West Vancouver, Calgary, London, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester and Yarm. f. Calgary police identify Amy’s assailant as having had intelligence operational training. g. Death threat caller Raymond refers to the security organization (or service) – a known pseudonym for MI5. h. Numerous examples of highly sophisticated computer spying and computer intimidation that links to other incidents of intimidation. A hallmark of the MI*s. Yes, some private companies could do this, but they are all staffed by former MI*s and often subcontracted – close enough to be protected by the MI*s.
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i. A private eye confirms that MI5 has had a file on me for years, but don’t have details. Why? Since they know about my complaints they would have dealt with them if MI5 were innocent. The private eye was frightened off the case. j. Documentation proving cover-up mysteriously disappears from two secure offices – The Guardian, letter from editor confirms – A Judge’s papers, Judge confirms. Documentation disappearance is a hallmark of MI5. k. Precedent - Widely reported in UK press that MI5 have a history of using Stasi developed Zerzetsen tactics, with examples – exactly what has happened to us. Reported in UK press that MI6 have a history of character assassination for their friends – as happened to me. I know that Grosvenor used intelligence illegally to character assassinate at least one other who left their Vancouver office. I was there when it happened and protested internally. In 2007 reported in UK and US press that Duke of Westminster (Grosvenor Chairman) has boasted about his close connections to the MI*s (and CIA). l. Bureaucratic Harassment – massive 3rd party proof available. Shows that intelligence services interfering with bureaucratic processes and systems to make things go wrong for me. (By coincidence I happen to have expertise in large bureaucratic processes – which is why I was able to develop so much 3rd party proof). Recently four Government agencies and two large private companies in Alberta, Canada have been affected. This proves an intelligence operation. Are the MI*s doing it themselves, or subcontracting to CSIS? m. Investigations by four primary police departments and also by the IPCC, Manchester Police Internal Affairs, Home office, Crown Prosecutor were all stopped. At least 3 originally tried to investigate before being stopped. A Judge corrupted, and a Cabinet Minister. Home Office promised to investigate (in writing) and then was stopped. See Manchester Police report and my evidentiary comments (30 Apr 08 article – attachment D2 – D3) for provable evidence of wrongdoing by police authorities. This is the MI*s acting for the establishment since the politicians are scared of them (of being smeared for a start). n. Aggressive telephone tapping – MI5 in UK, CSIS in Canada (MI5 started up CSIS) – and ongoing interference with email and normal mail.
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Aggressive telephone tapping – Further proof MI5, CSIS involved
I made a call from Manchester to my daughter then in Aberdeen that was critical of Grosvenor and was immediately threatened as was she the following day. This had happened before. I had said things on the telephone and was harassed for doing so. So I knew my telephones were tapped at least in Yarm, Manchester, and Calgary – and possibly everywhere else. I also knew that my phones were also being used for harassment in real time and were being managed by the criminals. But I couldn’t understand how they could technically do it.
Two months ago Malcolm Kennedy sent me tapes of his experience. Everything he had experienced, I had experienced. They controlled his lines. (He got an interception centre employee to admit it on tape). His tape proves that calls were being routed through an MI5 interception centre where MI5 could control and interfere with incoming calls. This explained some of the odder things that have happened to me multiple times, which are:
1. Incoming voice messages I don’t get – Calls directed to my voicemail answered by a fax tone, or calls automatically answered that this line is not in service, or calls directed to voice mail and the caller hears nothing and can’t leave a message. Sometimes they do get through to my voice message tape but it’s a duplicate tape and I don’t get the message at all, or I do get the message but the message has been wiped clean or overlaid by interference so that though I know a message has come in I can’t decipher it. The techniques have varied. 2. Line interference or continuous clicking – after I have said something on the phone that MI5 doesn’t like – This is harassment in real time. 3. For a year now, my eldest son’s calls to me do ring and connect, but we can only hear each other after he has got through for the 3rd time – This is deliberate MI5 intimidation of both of us.
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Look at all the points together. Look at the pattern of abuse. The evidence is overwhelming. The MI*s and CSIS have no possibility of plausible deniability.
Multiple witnessed complaints made. No honest investigation. An honest police investigation would confirm the evidence that the MI*s / CSIS certainly don’t want confirmed. Ask yourself – Why the cover-up? Who is being protected from justice? What have the Authorities / State got to hide?
They are using zerzetsen tactics to persecute an innocent and decent family for high establishment interests, acting criminally. Zerzetsen, developed by the former GDR secret police “The Stasi” is a combination of criminal defamation and threats – two sides of the same coin.
It is difficult to rationalize the reasons for their behavior, because there is no rational reason. When the rich and powerful go wrong and throw their weight around, they go very wrong indeed. But that government politicians should seek to cover this up is symptomatic of a crisis in democracy.
In this example a powerful nut connected to the high establishment has corrupted the MI*s and government politicians are scared of their own intelligence services, perhaps of being publicly smeared; as the MI*s, CSIS know all the politicians’ personal secrets.
Conclusion – Recommendations
Top corporate-executive economic crime is a Billion Dollar industry. Fraud and criminal threats go hand in hand since executive criminals need protection from potential whistleblowers and other perceived enemies – Some of the information presented in this paper on corporate terrorism from a victim’s perspective will shock the readers.
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Corporate crime is committed by criminals who can be very well connected – Enron for example – sometimes even at top establishment and political levels. The criminals may be both well connected and well liked; the example presented in this paper is such a case.
The result is that whistle-blowers and other victims of corporate crime can be seen as nuisances – A form of cronyism can develop that protects the criminals from justice, and also persecutes the accuser. An “Orwellian Double Think” within law enforcement can develop; a belief that the victim or whistle-blower must be wrong, while being careful not to check the evidence for verification of the reported crimes.
Referring to the MI5s known use of zerzetsen, Journalist Liam Clarke says “they are supposed to be protecting, but the government persecutes them.” An article published in Lobster Magazine, referring to the persecution of my family in the UK and Canada is headlined “The Persecution of Roderick Russell”. According to Burrell it would seem that even the Queen may be aware that something is wrong – he is quoted as recalling her telling him in a private meeting “Be careful, Paul. There are forces at work in this country about which we have no knowledge. Do you understand?” So what is wrong with the politicians in the UK and Canada that they are scared to enforce rule of law? Nobody should be above the law.
That they can persecute a decent family, using the intelligence services as a private secret police, and scare governments in two countries into a cover-up conspiracy is symptomatic of a crisis in democracy.
Criminal defamation and threats are just two different sides of the same Zerzetsen coin. Zerzetsen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former GDR secret police “the Stasi” to persecute dissidents – the purpose is to poison every aspect of a person’s life. Today zerzetsen is used in the UK & Canada by corporate criminals.
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Four recommendations:
1. Rule of Law must be enforced at all times. Sounds obvious; but sadly – where executive economic criminals are well-connected and powerful – this is not always the case, as the example of cover-up presented in this paper shows.
2. Whistle-blowers need to be better protected and appreciated; they perform a public service, often at personal risk. Consider a reward system – without whistleblowers, executive economic crime is unlikely to be detected in its early stages.
3. A detailed study should be made to recommend better regulation and oversight of the powerful intelligence industry. As this paper proves, some public and private components of this industry have crossed the line between legitimate intelligence work and private sector crime.
4. Law enforcement needs to be educated on the “Zerzetsen” approach used to intimidate and threaten individuals. Police are largely ignorant on this subject. Zerzetsen was developed by the former GDR secret police “The Stasi” to break individuals and destroy families. Actual examples of the criminal use of Zerzetsen in Canada & UK today are presented in this paper.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy” – Thomas Jefferson.
26 Sept. 2008, with pages 13 to 15 updated Feb 2009
The author of this paper – Roderick Russell – qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and has served as Chief Financial Officer of a well-known Resort and Hotel Company, and as Group Controller of a top 10 North American Commercial Property Investment and Development Company based in Vancouver. His background also includes starting-up and running an Internal Audit function. Earlier in his career he wrote and presented various papers on Financial Reporting issues and on Fraud. Married to a former school teacher, he has three children and is a Canadian & British Citizen.
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Corporate Terrorism, Whistle-Blowing, and Failure of Policing – Criminal Intimidation & Threats. From a victim’s perspective, how do you protect whistle-blowers when intelligence services are involved and all police investigations stopped? This paper includes a blueprint on the use of Zerzetsen techniques by the MI*s and CSIS to break individuals and destroy families.
Roderick Russell 304 - 2204 1 Street SW Calgary, AB T2S 1P4 Canada Word Count: 5,924 Tel: 403.229.0864
The author of this paper – Roderick Russell – qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and has served as Chief Financial Officer of a well-known Resort and Hotel Company, and as Group Controller of a top 10 North American Commercial Property and Real Estate Development Company based in Vancouver. Previously he headed up Financial Accounting & Reporting at one of Canada’s then largest public companies. His background also includes starting-up and running an Internal Audit function. Earlier in his career he wrote and presented various papers on Financial Reporting issues and on Fraud. Married to a former school teacher, he has three children and is a Canadian & British Citizen.
Table of Contents
Pages Introduction Economic Crime and Whistleblowers The Price of being a whistleblower Some background on the company and its Establishment relationships Zerzetsen Threats** - The Criminal Process in summary Zerzetsen Threats - How strong is the proof of criminal intimidation and threats Supporting Articles – for more detailed facts Zerzetsen Threats – Examples of major threatening incidents. Examples of lesser Zerzetsen threats – a thousand threats The Cover-Up Conspiracy is criminal Intimidation and provable The 1st Zerzetsen - The Power of the Big Lie Technique Proof that MI* intelligence services are criminally involved (and CSIS?) Aggressive telephone tapping – Further Proof MI5, CSIS involved Conclusion – Recommendations 3 3-4 4-5
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Introduction
Serious economic crime can only be prevented if those who report it are protected. The focus of this paper is on top corporate executive crime, which by definition is of a conspiratorial nature. The thrust of this paper is to show that all too often whistle-blowers and other perceived enemies of large organizations, far from being protected, are persecuted and to discuss possible remedial solutions.
An actual case that relates to a very influential international company is drawn on for reference, including examples of threats – this paper provides a detailed blueprint of corporate terrorism from a victim’s perspective. Criminal defamation and criminal
intimidation are different sides of the same coin. Intimidation is a disgusting crime that one normally associates with a failed justice system; it can be used on whistle-blowers and its purpose is to make the price for whistle-blowing too high.
Economic Crime and Whistleblowers
The serious frauds that brought ENRON down, and Arthur Andersen, are well known today. In the same time frame, other huge business organizations were also brought down as a result of senior management fraud. This was economic crime in the Billions. There was a Whistle-blower in Enron, yet she was not listened to until this company was already bankrupted. In fact why were there not more Whistle-blowers?
Just this month we have observed a crisis in the banking system, so severe that some are comparing it with 1929. It is too early to determine the factors that underlie the causes of this crisis. It seems that poor decision-making, incompetence, and bad corporate governance have played their part. But increasingly it is being suggested that one of the causes was fraudulent decision-making in some elements of the sub-prime mortgage market. And then there was Madoff, Stanford and the failure of so many regulatory authorities. Economic crime in the Billions, once again – less than 10 years after Enron. Roderick Russell 3
Why were there no whistleblowers, or why were the whistleblowers not listened to?
Billion Dollar frauds are frauds of the very powerful! Powerful people have powerful friends. Where conspiracies to commit crime exist, it can be extremely dangerous to be a Whistle-blower if the company is influential enough.
The Price of being a whistleblower
Shots fired, death threat calls, cars driven at him, property smashed, he is under surveillance, and he can’t find work as people are scared to hire him. His wife’s health permanently damaged; hardly surprising since she and her children have been threatened for 10 years.
This is a true story of what can happen when serious crime is reported. It is my story.
In an article published on 10 Oct 2004 in the prestigious Sunday Times headlined “Lies, Threats and Whistleblowers” journalist Liam Clarke reports how honest UK police officers were persecuted by UK intelligence using Zerzetsen tactics to keep them quiet.
Journalist Liam Clarke says in the same article “they are supposed to be protecting, but the government persecutes them”.
Zerzetsen tactics were developed by “The Stasi” (former East German Secret Police) to silence dissidents. Their purpose is to “undermine, subvert and corrode” their victim. They are also used to silence Whistle-blowers.
The UK’s MI5 / MI6 intelligence services are using Zerzetsen threats against this executive and his family in the UK and Canada today. The types of threats used are outlined in this paper.
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These threats were reported to four primary police services in the UK and Canada, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Crown Prosecutor. Three police services began to investigate. All police investigations were stopped, and a huge coverup conspiracy kicked into operation.
The matter was brought to former UK Prime Minister Blair’s attention by a Member of Parliament. The cover up conspiracy continued. It has recently been brought to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attention and the cover-up still continues. The threats also continue. There are many independent witnesses, recorded death threats, and evidence of property damage.
Some background on Grosvenor and its establishment relationships
There are few companies as well connected as Grosvenor. Grosvenor is one of the largest property companies in the world, and has been in business for over three hundred years. Its Trustees and Directors are a “who’s who” of the world’s high establishment and include a former Governor of The Bank of England. The Chairman of their Trustees is a former Deputy Chief of UK Defense Staff and is Prince Charles’ closest friend. The UK & US Press has reported that he has boasted about his close intelligence connections. An article in the prestigious “Daily Mail” dated 11/2/2007 and headlined “The Duke of Westminster: so rich and so very foolish” provides some background. The Chairman of their Board of Directors is also influential and is the titled heir of a former UK Prime Minister. A Prominent Lawyer has said “That organization you worked for in Vancouver has far too much power.”
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The Criminal Process in summary
• I was criminally defamed after I chose to leave Grosvenor International (in 1986). I had been Group Controller based in its then Head Office in Vancouver, Canada. The first Zerzetsen – its purpose to make me unemployable and impoverished. I was never employed in Canada again. An economic crime, since the defamation was done professionally, fraudulently concealed from me and is associated with criminal intimidation. I have no idea why I was defamed. I had done an excellent job. An HR consultant has suggested: they saw your choosing to leave them as rejection, and they decided to reject you. Other leavers from this company would also find derogatory comments circulating behind their backs. • Starting in 1999, 10 years of criminal offences followed to stop me complaining. In 2001 I fled to the UK and the threats got worse. In 2006 I returned to Canada and the threats continue. • • • ZERZETSEN threats were developed by the STASI to persecute dissidents. MI5 / MI6, CSIS are using Zerzetsen in UK & Canada. Government Ministers involved in a Cover-Up to protect the MI*s.
Zerzetsen - How strong is the proof of criminal intimidation and threats
• 3rd party evidence (i.e. independent of family testimony) proves that 17 major threatening incidents have happened. Include corroborative evidence from family members for verification and about 50 threatening incidents are proven. See examples on pages 8 to 10. • The cover-up conspiracy is 100% provable from 3rd party evidence. Cover-Up by the State is as much criminal intimidation as it is cover-up. The message the Authorities are sending with their cover-up conspiracy is - “The State is not going to protect you or investigate. You are on your own”. Those who are covering it up must know who the criminals they are protecting from justice are! See comments on pages 12 to 13.
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Hundreds of lesser Zerzetsen threats – some verifiable by 3rd party independent evidence alone. See comments on pages 10 to 11.
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Clear proof of MI5, MI6 & CSIS using Zerzetsen threats in UK & Canada. See comments on pages 16 to 18.
Supporting Articles – for more detailed facts
This paper stands on its own. However, readers interested in more detail may chose to review the following web references. Those interested in a more cursory overview, should just ignore this section.
An article on the web dated 30 Apr. 2008 is “Lies, Threats & Government Cover-up” on the web as: http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2008/04/905423.shtml
It comes with attachments A through D that includes a small portion of the documentary evidence (letters from Cabinet Ministers, etc) that is available to support my comments in the article. There is 10 times more documentary evidence available than is on the internet; but it is all in the same vein, just proving cover-up again and again.
An earlier article dated 7 Dec. 2007 “It’s just as the Stasi treated dissidents in former East Germany, except this Human Rights Abuse is happening here today” is also on the web and comes in two parts; The second part which appears immediately under the article and is headed “Sources of Proof” and summarizes some of the supporting proof that is available. Viz: http://indymedia.org/en/2007/12/897755.shtml
If the web links have been interfered with by intelligence - just type the URLs in manually.
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Zerzetsen – Examples of major threatening incidents.
Just a selection of 6 of the many major threats showing that some have significant sources of 3rd party corroborative evidence for proof, whereas some can only be corroborated by family testimony.
1. Recorded death threats, vehicle smashed into property – on same day.
--23/3/05 – Cover-up documentation mysteriously disappears from The Guardian’s secure offices in Manchester – Letter from their editor confirms this. --1-2/4/05 – Eldest son in Birmingham receives multiple telephone death threats. They are recorded and in police hands. Also independently witnessed. Crime number 20/E2/3302/05 is issued by police. Police confirm threats made from stolen phone. (See Article 30 Apr. 08. Open Attachment C, document reference C2 – C3 for transcript of threats). --2/4/05 – My flat in Manchester smashed into by vehicle the next night. Massive 3rd party evidence available since it woke up the whole apartment block and there was considerable property damage for further verification (see Attachment C3-4). 4 family members in flat at the time and woken up – the crash was a hell of a bang, and the whole apartment shook like in an earthquake. --4 other incidents in this series of threats.
2. Shots fired, etc
--Nov 2007--Shots fired into the living room of my eldest son’s house in Birmingham. Reported to police. Reported to police (with spent shot handed in) by my son Roderick Russell (same name as self) and German National Jana Engelman who were joint complainants and witnesses. Witness further intimidated in this series of threats.
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--20/5/04 – Sent an email to a known Grosvenor contact in Mayfair, London asking for fair play. Email is available --21/5/04 – Severely damaging download sent to my computer. Computer can be made available. --22/5/04 – A high powered laser beam (possibly a strobe) was fired at me where I was working on the computer in my living room on the third floor. The beam lit the room up as if a flair had been set off inside, and made a huge noise as it came through the glass windowpane. My wife and I were present in the room as witnesses. Two other incidents in this series. The criminal may have turned up to orchestrate the fun in a new Rolls Royce that I had seen outside the building just before the incident - I suggested the police check to see if the nearby ducal estate or Grosvenor hotel in Chester had any record of using/hiring a Rolls on that date.
4. Raymond Incident
--28/5/04 – From Manchester called my daughter, Amy, then a student at Aberdeen University. In this private phone call told her about the laser incident and said a fool turned up in a Rolls Royce to watch the fun. -- 40 minutes later I received a telephone death threat from Raymond with my wife present. I called him back later with two witnesses on the line. He mentioned the security organization (could have been service). Police later confirmed Raymond was using a stolen phone. Also further proof that my phones were being tapped. --29/5/04—my daughter Amy was threatened in Aberdeen.
5. The Motorbike Incident
--13/6/01—accelerated a motorbike fast at me in London – I jumped, it swerved and missed me by about 3 inches. This happened close to a huge police station that is by Victoria Train Station. 15 minutes later walking along Turks Row (by York House) a car
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stopped beside me and the driver pointed out, in a threatening manner, how easy it would be to kill me. --Next few days—I was noticeably under surveillance around London.
6. Amy threatened by intelligence operative in Calgary
--My brother-in-law (a Canadian and Scots CA who is Chief Financial Officer of Pembina Corporation) in Calgary attempted to provide help to look into this issue. It became abundantly clear that the help was getting scared off. There is huge 3rd party evidence of this. --24/7/06 -- by email and phone call I asked my daughter Amy (now working in Calgary) to write down all that was happening to the help. --26/7/06 –Amy was accosted and physically manhandled on the street in Downtown Calgary as she crossed under the 8th. Street Bridge. The hood had followed her from her place of work. As he stopped her from moving and banged her on the shoulder, he said “Don’t do it. Just don’t do it” (i.e. don’t write the report that I had asked her to write.) The police booked a crime number. The officer said he could tell that from his modus operendi that Amy’s assailant had had intelligence operational training (MI5 or CSIS??).
The above is a small selection - There have been dozens of other major threats.
Examples of lesser Zerzetsen threats – a thousand threats
The crime of criminal intimidation is psychological torture and meant to be. A pattern of Psychological torture is as much torture as physical torture because it is designed to break people.
The philosophy that underlies the lesser zerzetsen threats was developed by the Stasi, and the UK press has reported that MI5 is using it today. Unlike the major threats, no direct verbal threat is ever made, yet by setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, the MI*s can poison every part of a person's life.
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. There follows a pattern of the lesser Zerzetsen threats that have happened to us. Police who have experience in these issues will recognize this sort of pattern. In West Vancouver in the 1st 18 months alone we received 500 plus telephone calls with nobody on the line. • 11 clear incidents of Street Theatre. Such as a man in Manchester pretending to have been stabbed, and a woman panicking beside him (all an act). Other
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incidents: Cars gyrating around me presenting false plates that sent the message rat/gag, and another car gyrating that had replaced a plate with a sign that just read “mafia”, etc. etc. • Strangers (many times) talking to me on the Street quite normally, and then introducing just a comment or a hint that shows that they know about the intimidation. E.g. in Manchester I was having a problem with hoods who were sending threats using false car number plates. A woman talked to me on the street quite casually. Suddenly she said she had a friend who used false plates and the police were scared of him. • Cars following me around many times. Several times they waited in my driveway then in West Vancouver for me to come out of the house and would drive off just as I came out the door – and I would see the same car wherever I went. • • Periodic appearance of being under surveillance so that you know it. A hood moved into my last apartment building in Calgary – all sorts of problems surfaced, and we got harassed out of it and moved. 3rd party evidence available. • • Constant aggressive phone tapping (MI5 & CSIS). Evidence to back it up. Mail post, email interfered with and email interference used to intimidate. Massive sophisticated computer downloads and spy programs used (and found). Computer can be made available. • Ongoing Bureaucratic Harassment – See my 30 Apr. 08 article. Lots of it in Calgary. I have huge 3rd party documentary proof to prove bureaucratic harassment designed to constantly cause me problems – a Zerzetsen tactic documented by the Stasi for their training programs.
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The Cover-Up Conspiracy is criminal intimidation and provable
The cover-up is 100% verifiable from independent 3rd party evidence alone. The coverup is as much a threat as running a motorbike at you since the State is saying you are on your own; your enemies (MI5, MI6) are above the law. There are over 100 examples of 3rd party verifiable evidence that proves cover-up. Just look at 2 of them:
1. Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears/Police & Home Office
Look on the web at my 30 Apr. 2008 article “Lies threats …..” Some of the evidence of cover-up from Hazel Blears is shown on Attachment A to this article (Reference A.2 to A11). Her written reasons for not investigating all contradict each other. Actually all her written excuses are provably untrue. Then look at the other evidentiary items on Attachment A and you will see more documentary evidence of cover-up.
Then look on the web at my 7 Dec 2007 article and go to “Sources of proof – in support of my article” that follows on immediately after the article itself. Look at Section B of “Sources of proof’ which is headed “Evidence of a centrally coordinated cover-up.” All the 3rd party letters, documents from Ministers, Police, Etc. that are marked ** are available. Cover-Up is 100% provable from available 3rd party documentation alone.
Investigations by four primary police departments and also by the IPCC, Manchester Police Internal Affairs, Home office, Crown Prosecutor were all stopped. At least 3 originally tried to investigate before being stopped.
The documentary evidence on the internet is just a smidgen of what is available. There is 10 times as much, but it is all in the same vein; just proving cover-up again and again.
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2. MI5 smear using a crooked Judge to provide their smear with a false show of credibility
Deputy District Judge Jones, Manchester County Court. Case # 6MAO2655; Appeal # M6X086
Look at my 7 Dec 2007 article on the web and go underneath it to “Sources of proof” and look at Section D. It speaks for itself, note the smear, and note all the evidence that can be provided – court approved transcript, detailed written submissions made to the court. This Judge deliberately assisted the MI*s with a smear campaign that he knew to be untrue. The appeal judge has not dealt with this issue – it is still being covered up.
How did this happen? There are about 50 junior Judges in Manchester – obviously MI5 ensured that the one they could corrupt was allocated to my case.
The 1st Zerzetsen - The Power of the Big Lie Technique
The other side of the Zerzetsen coin is The Big Lie Strategy - professionally done defamation and slander designed to impoverish their victims by rendering them unemployable, and designed to ostracize their victims from their professional associates – all done with lies, and untruthful rumors. It is the Big Lies that do the initial damage. In fact the threats are to keep the executive victim from complaining about the lies.
The big lie technique is based on this premise – That people will more readily believe a Big Lie, if it is big enough and if it is spread repeatedly, than they will believe the truth. The Daily Express disclosed that MI6 has a secret “dirty tricks” unit called IOPS that is used to smear the good names of individuals.
There were 4 big lies professionally spread that I know of. They all fit within the pattern of the big lie technique.
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Here are 3 of the big lies that were professionally spread to smear me –
1. The first Big Lie was a rumor spread (initially in Vancouver, Canada) that I was so incompetent at Grosvenor that I would damage any company that employed me. Apparently it came from all angles (i.e. professionally spread) so it had to be believed. Ironically not only had I done an excellent job, but am sitting on two good written references from my bosses at Grosvenor – their then Group Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive. Good references to my face and shafted behind my back. I still have these written references. In fact I have 18 excellent written references from senior executives I have worked with. Since I can prove the opposite this lie dropped years ago.
2. A second Big Lie that spread years later was that I had some sort of an association with an international drug dealer. Nothing specific; just a rumor initially told me by two London Head-hunters (possibly doing me a favor in telling me) who work for an offshoot of Egon Zhender. I went to the Police, asked them to talk to the head-hunters, and then trace the lie back to its source. The police did nothing, but this lie dropped.
3. The third Big Lie is that my complaints of intimidation are all a hoax, but that I genuinely believe them because I am a nut – and they used a crooked Judge to lend a false appearance of credibility to this smear. This particularly smear was a well known “Zerzetsen” technique used by the Stasi when their other lies ran out of steam. There is also precedent of the use of this smear by the MI*s against other innocent victims. Please note that there are numerous independent 3rd party witnesses to some of the threats, and that recordings of telephone death threats are in police hands. There is also considerable 3rd party documentary proof of the cover-up conspiracy – including the involvement of Hazel Blears, the UK Cabinet Minister then responsible for the MI5 Secret Police (Ref page12).
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What are the criteria for the Big Lie Strategy? My experience shows that there are 3 criteria that need to be met for this strategy of deception to be successful –
1. The big lie has to be colossal – literally a big lie. As Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, The Big Lie has to be so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”
2. The big lie has to be professionally spread (multi-sourced) – so that it comes from all angles and therefore has to be believed. Academic Stephen Dorril in his book “MI6” writes that MI6s IOPS section uses tactics they call “surfacing” (untruthful rumors) and “double sourcing” (i.e. multi-sourced rumors) so that damaging lies are spread about their target victim from all directions. Dorril says that the MI*s have covert agents working deep undercover as bank executives, in accounting firms, and the press to help spread their lies.
3. The big lie has to be confusing – like sticking jelly to a tree it must be difficult to get a handle on details and therefore difficult to disprove. Anna Funder in her book “Stasiland” reports that Zerzetsen includes “targeted spreading of rumors about particular persons” (i.e. multi-sourcing) and “creating confusion over facts”
But the psychology behind the smear side of the Zerzetsen coin is more complex than just the big lies themselves. It involves creating confusion over facts. Even if people know your story and believe it and want to help, they will always think if I take this guy on will I be subjected to intimidation as well, or simply peer pressure from establishment cronies connected to the MI*s.
They think: Where there is smoke, there must be fire – no one considers that the smoke is an entirely manufactured defamation job. If one takes each rumor by itself in detail, I can easily disprove the rumors; then if you take all the disproved rumors together they just show a pattern of orchestrated deceit, misinformation, and MI5, MI6 manufactured lies.
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Proof that MI* intelligence services are criminally involved (and CSIS?)
a. Continuous telephone tapping, and call interference that could only happen through use of MI5 (CSIS) interception centres in Manchester, Yarm, Calgary. SEE page 18 for clear evidence of MI5, CSIS aggressive tapping. b. The Smear campaigns. Using the Big Lie technique – a hallmark of the MI*s. Starting with the criminal defamation of 20 years ago, at least 4 lies have been professionally spread – all different, all completely untrue (ref page 13-15). Includes corrupting a junior judge to lend a false credibility to a smear (see point 2, page 13); Only the MI*s could do this. c. Proven cover-up by Minister Hazel Blears – her ministerial responsibilities were MI5 and Special Branch (see page 12 for proof). d. Threats to STOP me complaining to Hazel Blears on three occasions (she headed up MI5, Special Branch) – only she and her top officials knew about my complaints at the time the threats to stop me complaining were made. See 30 Apr. 2008 article Attachment A/5 to A/7 on the internet for proof. Clear evidence of MI5 involvement. e. Intimidation is too prolonged, sophisticated and costly for a crime gang acting alone. Estimated cost several million Dollars/Pounds – a hallmark of a taxpayer funded intelligence service. 10 years of Zerzetsen threats wherever I go -- threats in West Vancouver, Calgary, London, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester and Yarm. f. Calgary police identify Amy’s assailant as having had intelligence operational training. g. Death threat caller Raymond refers to the security organization (or service) – a known pseudonym for MI5. h. Numerous examples of highly sophisticated computer spying and computer intimidation that links to other incidents of intimidation. A hallmark of the MI*s. Yes, some private companies could do this, but they are all staffed by former MI*s and often subcontracted – close enough to be protected by the MI*s.
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i. A private eye confirms that MI5 has had a file on me for years, but don’t have details. Why? Since they know about my complaints they would have dealt with them if MI5 were innocent. The private eye was frightened off the case. j. Documentation proving cover-up mysteriously disappears from two secure offices – The Guardian, letter from editor confirms – A Judge’s papers, Judge confirms. Documentation disappearance is a hallmark of MI5. k. Precedent - Widely reported in UK press that MI5 have a history of using Stasi developed Zerzetsen tactics, with examples – exactly what has happened to us. Reported in UK press that MI6 have a history of character assassination for their friends – as happened to me. I know that Grosvenor used intelligence illegally to character assassinate at least one other who left their Vancouver office. I was there when it happened and protested internally. In 2007 reported in UK and US press that Duke of Westminster (Grosvenor Chairman) has boasted about his close connections to the MI*s (and CIA). l. Bureaucratic Harassment – massive 3rd party proof available. Shows that intelligence services interfering with bureaucratic processes and systems to make things go wrong for me. (By coincidence I happen to have expertise in large bureaucratic processes – which is why I was able to develop so much 3rd party proof). Recently four Government agencies and two large private companies in Alberta, Canada have been affected. This proves an intelligence operation. Are the MI*s doing it themselves, or subcontracting to CSIS? m. Investigations by four primary police departments and also by the IPCC, Manchester Police Internal Affairs, Home office, Crown Prosecutor were all stopped. At least 3 originally tried to investigate before being stopped. A Judge corrupted, and a Cabinet Minister. Home Office promised to investigate (in writing) and then was stopped. See Manchester Police report and my evidentiary comments (30 Apr 08 article – attachment D2 – D3) for provable evidence of wrongdoing by police authorities. This is the MI*s acting for the establishment since the politicians are scared of them (of being smeared for a start). n. Aggressive telephone tapping – MI5 in UK, CSIS in Canada (MI5 started up CSIS) – and ongoing interference with email and normal mail.
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Aggressive telephone tapping – Further proof MI5, CSIS involved
I made a call from Manchester to my daughter then in Aberdeen that was critical of Grosvenor and was immediately threatened as was she the following day. This had happened before. I had said things on the telephone and was harassed for doing so. So I knew my telephones were tapped at least in Yarm, Manchester, and Calgary – and possibly everywhere else. I also knew that my phones were also being used for harassment in real time and were being managed by the criminals. But I couldn’t understand how they could technically do it.
Two months ago Malcolm Kennedy sent me tapes of his experience. Everything he had experienced, I had experienced. They controlled his lines. (He got an interception centre employee to admit it on tape). His tape proves that calls were being routed through an MI5 interception centre where MI5 could control and interfere with incoming calls. This explained some of the odder things that have happened to me multiple times, which are:
1. Incoming voice messages I don’t get – Calls directed to my voicemail answered by a fax tone, or calls automatically answered that this line is not in service, or calls directed to voice mail and the caller hears nothing and can’t leave a message. Sometimes they do get through to my voice message tape but it’s a duplicate tape and I don’t get the message at all, or I do get the message but the message has been wiped clean or overlaid by interference so that though I know a message has come in I can’t decipher it. The techniques have varied. 2. Line interference or continuous clicking – after I have said something on the phone that MI5 doesn’t like – This is harassment in real time. 3. For a year now, my eldest son’s calls to me do ring and connect, but we can only hear each other after he has got through for the 3rd time – This is deliberate MI5 intimidation of both of us.
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Look at all the points together. Look at the pattern of abuse. The evidence is overwhelming. The MI*s and CSIS have no possibility of plausible deniability.
Multiple witnessed complaints made. No honest investigation. An honest police investigation would confirm the evidence that the MI*s / CSIS certainly don’t want confirmed. Ask yourself – Why the cover-up? Who is being protected from justice? What have the Authorities / State got to hide?
They are using zerzetsen tactics to persecute an innocent and decent family for high establishment interests, acting criminally. Zerzetsen, developed by the former GDR secret police “The Stasi” is a combination of criminal defamation and threats – two sides of the same coin.
It is difficult to rationalize the reasons for their behavior, because there is no rational reason. When the rich and powerful go wrong and throw their weight around, they go very wrong indeed. But that government politicians should seek to cover this up is symptomatic of a crisis in democracy.
In this example a powerful nut connected to the high establishment has corrupted the MI*s and government politicians are scared of their own intelligence services, perhaps of being publicly smeared; as the MI*s, CSIS know all the politicians’ personal secrets.
Conclusion – Recommendations
Top corporate-executive economic crime is a Billion Dollar industry. Fraud and criminal threats go hand in hand since executive criminals need protection from potential whistleblowers and other perceived enemies – Some of the information presented in this paper on corporate terrorism from a victim’s perspective will shock the readers.
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Corporate crime is committed by criminals who can be very well connected – Enron for example – sometimes even at top establishment and political levels. The criminals may be both well connected and well liked; the example presented in this paper is such a case.
The result is that whistle-blowers and other victims of corporate crime can be seen as nuisances – A form of cronyism can develop that protects the criminals from justice, and also persecutes the accuser. An “Orwellian Double Think” within law enforcement can develop; a belief that the victim or whistle-blower must be wrong, while being careful not to check the evidence for verification of the reported crimes.
Referring to the MI5s known use of zerzetsen, Journalist Liam Clarke says “they are supposed to be protecting, but the government persecutes them.” An article published in Lobster Magazine, referring to the persecution of my family in the UK and Canada is headlined “The Persecution of Roderick Russell”. According to Burrell it would seem that even the Queen may be aware that something is wrong – he is quoted as recalling her telling him in a private meeting “Be careful, Paul. There are forces at work in this country about which we have no knowledge. Do you understand?” So what is wrong with the politicians in the UK and Canada that they are scared to enforce rule of law? Nobody should be above the law.
That they can persecute a decent family, using the intelligence services as a private secret police, and scare governments in two countries into a cover-up conspiracy is symptomatic of a crisis in democracy.
Criminal defamation and threats are just two different sides of the same Zerzetsen coin. Zerzetsen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former GDR secret police “the Stasi” to persecute dissidents – the purpose is to poison every aspect of a person’s life. Today zerzetsen is used in the UK & Canada by corporate criminals.
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Four recommendations:
1. Rule of Law must be enforced at all times. Sounds obvious; but sadly – where executive economic criminals are well-connected and powerful – this is not always the case, as the example of cover-up presented in this paper shows.
2. Whistle-blowers need to be better protected and appreciated; they perform a public service, often at personal risk. Consider a reward system – without whistleblowers, executive economic crime is unlikely to be detected in its early stages.
3. A detailed study should be made to recommend better regulation and oversight of the powerful intelligence industry. As this paper proves, some public and private components of this industry have crossed the line between legitimate intelligence work and private sector crime.
4. Law enforcement needs to be educated on the “Zerzetsen” approach used to intimidate and threaten individuals. Police are largely ignorant on this subject. Zerzetsen was developed by the former GDR secret police “The Stasi” to break individuals and destroy families. Actual examples of the criminal use of Zerzetsen in Canada & UK today are presented in this paper.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy” – Thomas Jefferson.
26 Sept. 2008, with pages 13 to 15 updated Feb 2009
The author of this paper – Roderick Russell – qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and has served as Chief Financial Officer of a well-known Resort and Hotel Company, and as Group Controller of a top 10 North American Commercial Property Investment and Development Company based in Vancouver. His background also includes starting-up and running an Internal Audit function. Earlier in his career he wrote and presented various papers on Financial Reporting issues and on Fraud. Married to a former school teacher, he has three children and is a Canadian & British Citizen.
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