Newspapers in London reveal today that Princess Diana was under surveillance by American intelligence services in the months leading up to her death:
American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana’s telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Evening Standard has learned.
She was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons in the US with tycoon Teddy Forstmann on advice from secret services, who passed on their concerns to their British counterparts.
Both US and British intelligence then forced Diana to change her plans to stay with Mr Forstmann in the summer of 1997, saying it was too “dangerous” to take her sons there.
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The Evening Standard also understands that US secret services have a number of secret files on Diana and her closest associates that are held by the national security agency. The files, which include reports from foreign intelligence - thought to include MI5 and MI6 - come under both top secret and secret categories.The reports cannot be released because of “exceptionally grave damage to the national security”. The documents on the princess seem to have arisen because of the company she kept rather than through any attempt to target her.
Okay, so I’m waiting for a good explanation of why we were wasting intelligence assets on someone who was principally famous for who she married rather than concentrating on real threats like Osama bin Laden.
