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NSA Spied on Princess Diana

A new report says that the U.S. spied on Princess Diana just before she died. The report also indicates that her planned trip to the U.S. with her sons was canceled because of "security issues" and because she was traveling with princes she had to obey the order not to go. So she went on the Fayed's yacht and ended up dating Dodi Fayed, and later dying. The Guardian reports:

The American secret service was bugging Princess Diana's telephone conversations without the approval of the British security services on the night she died, according to the most comprehensive report on her death, to be published this week. Among extraordinary details due to emerge in the report by former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens is the revelation that the US security service was bugging her calls in the hours before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.

In a move that raises fresh questions over transatlantic agreements on intelligence-sharing, the surveillance arm of the US has admitted listening to her conversations as she stayed at the Ritz hotel, but failed to notify MI6. Stevens is understood to have been assured that the 39 classified documents detailing Diana's final conversations did not reveal anything sinister or contain material that might help explain her death.

The whole thing is just so odd. Why in the world was the NSA spying on Princess Diana? Other reports say that they were actually surveilling another person at the Ritz-Carlton in Paris who may have talked about the Princess. Which makes absolutely no sense. We weren't believing any of the conspiracy theories about her death -- until these facts turned up. Now, the whole thing looks fishy to us.

Posted on December 13, 2006

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