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Originally Posted by andygrif
Having worked in the media for many years, I know the way that these things can work - journalists and governments do deals to leak this kind of stuff at the top level.
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but you have just reminded me on an interview I heard with Max Clifford years ago. Now, I don't trust the man (he gives me the creeps for some reason), but he did say one thing that interested me. Remember all the fuss about Antonia De Sanchez and David Mellor (Toe sucking/Chelsea strip etc)? Apparently he was hired to leak that by the Government. He was never told officially why, but unofficially, he heard a rumour that it was to throw the media off the scent of something else the Government was doing at the time.
Maybe that has happened here, although, like all good conspiracy theories, I doubt we will ever hear the truth if that's the case.