Originally Posted by Hugh

You may be confusing fiction (Andy McNab et al books) with reality, imho - when these people do stuff, it is authorised and logged somewhere; the logistics don't just happen by themselves.

Things do happen that we don't know about - but there has been a chain of command which authorised these things, and the more people involved in a secret, the more likely it is to leak.....

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There's a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories, in that most of them are created by governments to hide the real conspiracies.....

Originally Posted by Derek

The type of operation proposed for Diana's death would be fine for an African dictator or Eastern European criminal where if it doesn't work or evidence is left the government can shrug its shoulders and say "The security services do not kill people"

If the state were involved in the death of the mother of a future king can you imagine the storm that would occur if their involvement came to light?

They would need to have people in place to ensure there was no CCTV or photographs (of the most photographed woman on the planet), they would need people in place in the first responders or hospital to kill her in case the initial crash didn't do the job, they would need to ensure her bodyguard was killed as well to stop him talking, they would need to have access to the drivers body to tamper with the bloodwork in such a way that's undetectable and then keep the whole lot undercover for ever whilst manipulating official inquests in several different countries to keep them to the official story.

Then any records would need to redacted forevermore just in case the ex parents-in-law of a soldier decide to spill the beans

Or it could have been a drunk driver crashing his car at speed during a tricky part of the road.