Sherard Cowper-Coles knighted for Diana assassination role?

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More from John Morgan's new book,
It was the MI6 Paris station chief Sherard Cowper-Coles who Morgan names as the 'Project Manager' of the Diana assassination.
A nasty job MI6 Paris chief Eugene Curley had refused to do it, so he was replaced (unofficially).
Sherard Cowper-Coles had just earned his spurs helping the now BBC Trustees Chairman & failed Tory Bath MP Chris Patten to hand Hong Kong over to the Chinese with the minimum of democratic freedoms in place.

Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1478298898/


Diplomat Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles marries his French lover Jasmine Zerinini
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles has married his French lover, Jasmine Zerinini, six months after he divorced his devoted first wife, Bridget.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles met Zerinini while he was working in Kabul as http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9238976/Dip lomat-Sir-Sherard-Cowper-Coles-marries-his-French-lover-Jasmine-Zerini ni.html
By Tim Walker - 7:30AM BST 02 May 2012

Six months after Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles divorced his devoted wife, Bridget, the former diplomat has married the woman from the French ministry of foreign affairs who gave birth to his child.

Jasmine Zerinini became Lady Cowper-Coles in a wedding ceremony on Saturday, but Sir Sherard declines to discuss the happy event.

Zerinini who is on leave from the French foreign ministry for “personal reasons”, gave birth to their child, Louise, in January.

It is not known if Sir Sherard’s four sons and a daughter from his first marriage attended the wedding. He met Zerinini while he was working in Kabul as Britain’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. For security reasons, Bridget was not allowed to accompany him to the region.

He prompted much speculation when he went on extended leave of absence in June 2010, shortly before a major international conference was held in Kabul.He resigned in September that year.

Bridget, who remains Lady Cowper-Coles until she remarries, spoke to Mandrake in January about the pain that her husband of 30 years had put her through by abandoning her for another woman.

“It has been a very upsetting 18 months for me and my five children,” she said. “I know nothing, nor do I wish to know, how or where their relationship started. We are all coming to terms with the situation.”

She is, however, looking forward to the wedding of her daughter, Minna, in August at her new house in France. “Sherard will be attending,” Bridget told me in March. “It’s going to draw a line under the past. Because it’s a wedding, it will be fine.”

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Revolving doors in the world of 'blowing fuzzie-wuzzies' heads off.

BAE Systems hires Britain's former envoy to Saudi Arabia
Tim Webb - guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 February 2011 18.04 GMT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/18/envoy-saudi-bae-systems


Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles had three key meetings with the director of the Serious Fraud Office over the al-Yamamah deal. Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images

The senior British diplomat who played a central role in pressuring the Serious Fraud Office to drop its investigation into BAE Systems over the al-Yamamah Saudi arms deal has been hired by the defence group, the Guardian has learned.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, who left the Foreign Office last October, will become BAE's international business development director, focusing on the Middle East and south-east Asia. He starts his new, full-time role next week.
The move is likely to cause uproar among anti-corruption campaigners. It will also raise further questions over the close relationship between the government and BAE, and the circumstances in which the SFO investigation was controversially dropped in 2006.
Cowper-Coles' appointment has been cleared by the prime minister's advisory committee on business appointments, which vets new jobs for former civil servants who have worked for the crown in the past two years. One of the conditions set is that Cowper-Coles must not lobby ministers or civil servants on behalf of BAE for the next two years.
The committee said: "Given that it has been four years since he had any involvement with BAE Systems as HM ambassador to Riyadh, and that the appointment will be four months since his last day of service, the appointment was approved subject to the condition that, for two years from his last day of service, he should not become personally involved in lobbying UK government ministers or crown servants, including special advisers, on behalf of his new employer."
It is understood that William Hague, the foreign secretary, has also cleared the appointment.
A fluent speaker of Arabic, Hebrew and French, Cowper-Coles was ambassador to Saudi Arabia between 2003 and 2006; he had three significant meetings in London in late 2006 with Robert Wardle, then director of the SFO. Cowper-Coles told Wardle that Britain's national security was at risk if the BAE investigation continued, as Saudi princes were threatening to withdraw co-operation in fighting terrorism. Two days after the last meeting, Wardle ended the investigation, attracting condemnation in Britain and abroad. Tony Blair, then prime minister, and Lord Goldsmith, attorney general, both cited national security concerns in supporting the move. Under Britain's anti-corruption laws, the government can intervene in an investigation only on such grounds and not for commercial or diplomatic reasons.
In February 2008, one of Britain's most senior judges accused the government of "holding a gun to the head" of Wardle. BAE had been lobbying the government intensively for some time.
Cowper-Coles has always defended his role, insisting that he would do the same again in similar circumstances.
It is understood that when he left the Foreign Office last year, Cowper-Coles wrote to BAE, Europe's largest defence contractor, to ask about opportunities with the group, and was surprised to be offered a full-time job.
BAE is being hit as the US and UK governments squeeze their defence budgets. The company warned on Thursday that sales from armaments and armoured vehicles – generated mostly in the US – would be lower than it had previously anticipated this year, having fallen 25% year on year. Sales are growing fastest in its international business, covering Australia, India and Saudi Arabia.
BAE said: "Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles has joined BAE Systems as business development director, international. He brings a wealth of international experience and will provide valuable advice and support for business-winning campaigns, particularly in the Middle East. It is, of course, normal business practice for global companies who supply products and services to national governments and the armed forces to employ personnel who can help them understand, meet and exceed their customers' needs."

'Brilliant career'
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, 56, went on "extended leave" from the Foreign Office last June. The straight-talking veteran diplomat had served as UK ambassador to Afghanistan, and was appointed special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in February 2009, but fell out with the Foreign Office under William Hague after clashing with senior Nato and US officials.
He had insisted that the military-driven counter-insurgency effort in Afghanistan was heading for failure, and that talks with the Taliban should be prioritised. A month after he formally left the Foreign Office in October, he accused the British army of submitting "misleadingly optimistic" reports on the state of the war.
Cowper-Coles joined the Foreign Office in 1977 with an Oxford double first in classics. He studied Arabic at the "school for spies" at Shemlan in Lebanon, using what his friend and fellow ex-ambassador Chris Wilton calls "a brain the size of a small planet", before being sent to Cairo.
Friends say that he was not interested on leaving government after more than 40 years in taking up a "portfolio" career made up of several private sector jobs, and did not want to work for a bank or an oil company.

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WOW! After the Diana assassination Gerard Cowper-Coles diplomatic career took off like a ballistic missile =>

1994–1997 - Head of the Hong Kong Department of the FCO
1997–1999 - Political Counsellor in Paris
1999–2001 - Principal Private Secretary to Robin Cook, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

2001 to 2003 - in Tel Aviv as the British Ambassador to Israel

2003 - 2006 - British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in Riyadh

15 May 2007 until April 2009 - British Ambassador to Afghanistan in Kabul.

February 2009 - announced that he would be taking up a new role as special representative of the UK Foreign Secretary to Afghanistan and Pakistan

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The Globe a rather dotty paper just published this on the Diana book

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And Cowper-Coles an attendee, representing massive arms manufacturers BAe Systems - at Bilderberg 2013

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Bilderberger SC-C
From John Morgan


Bilderberger Sherard Cowper-Coles BAe, HSBC & Bar
By John Morgan - Australia - June 2014
Sherard Cowper-Coles was the most senior infusion into the political and economic departments of the Paris embassy in 1997. He came in as the political counsellor, which means that he immediately became the head of that department.
The 2007-8 Diana inquest was told by Michael Jay, British ambassador to France, that Cowper-Coles arrived to take up his post about 12 hours after the crash. The previous head of MI6 in France, Eugene Curley, declared under oath that he was still in office at the time of the crash but was on holiday in La Rochelle, 470 km from Paris.
Other evidence revealed in my book Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana? indicates that these men were both lying and that Cowper-Coles took over from Curley at some point around two weeks before the crash took place.
Cowper-Coles was not heard from at the inquest despite the above admission that he was in Paris within 12 hours of the deaths.
In his 2011 official FCO biography interview Cowper-Coles failed to mention Princess Diana once, despite admitting the next year that the death of Princess Diana would “dominate much of the Embassy’s work for years to come”.
In March 2012 I published Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana? which included details of Cowper-Coles’ involvement in the assassination of the princess. Seven months later Cowper-Coles published his memoirs, Ever The Diplomat, in which he made his first public admission of his role in events following Princess Diana’s death.

Who killed Diana - detailed book on Paris events
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diana-Inquest-Who-Killed-Princess/dp/147510341 7/

Summary of it all - quicker and easier to read on context too
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paris-London-Connection-Assassination-Princess -Diana/dp/0980740754/