The author of this paper – Roderick Russell – qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and

has served as Chief Financial Officer of a well-known Resort and Hotel Company, and as Group

Controller of a top 10 North American Commercial Property and Real Estate Development

Company based in Vancouver. Previously he headed up Financial Accounting & Reporting at

one of Canada’s then largest public companies. His background also includes starting-up and

running an Internal Audit function. Earlier in his career he wrote and presented various papers

on Financial Reporting issues and on Fraud. Married to a former school teacher, he has three

children and is a Canadian & British Citizen.

30th McMaster World Congress

Economic Crime Prevention

Corporate Terrorism, Whistle-Blowing, and Failure of Policing –

Criminal Intimidation & Threats.

From a victim’s perspective, how do you protect whistle-blowers when

intelligence services are involved and all police investigations stopped?

This paper includes a blueprint on the use of Zerzetsen techniques by the

MI*s and CSIS to break individuals and destroy families.

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Table of Contents

Pages

Introduction 3

Economic Crime and Whistleblowers 3 - 4

The Price of being a whistleblower 4 - 5

Some background on the company and its

Establishment relationships 5

Zerzetsen Threats** - The Criminal Process

in summary 6

Zerzetsen Threats - How strong is the proof

of criminal intimidation and threats 6 - 7

Supporting Articles – for more detailed facts 7

Zerzetsen Threats – Examples of major

threatening incidents. 8 - 10

Examples of lesser Zerzetsen threats – a thousand threats 10 - 11

The Cover-Up Conspiracy is criminal

Intimidation and provable 12 – 13

The 1st Zerzetsen - The Power of the Big Lie Technique 13 - 15

Proof that MI* intelligence services are

criminally involved (and CSIS?) 16 - 19

Aggressive telephone tapping – Further

Proof MI5, CSIS involved 18 - 19

Conclusion – Recommendations 19 - 21

** Zerzetsen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former

GDR secret police “the Stasi” to persecute dissidents – the purpose is to poison every

aspect of a person’s life. Today zerzetsen is used in the UK & Canada by corporate

criminals.

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Introduction

Serious economic crime can only be prevented if those who report it are protected. The

focus of this paper is on top corporate executive crime, which by definition is of a

conspiratorial nature. The thrust of this paper is to show that all too often whistle-blowers

and other perceived enemies of large organizations, far from being protected, are

persecuted and to discuss possible remedial solutions.

An actual case that relates to a very influential international company is drawn on for

reference, including examples of threats – this paper provides a detailed blueprint of

corporate terrorism from a victim’s perspective. Criminal defamation and criminal

intimidation are different sides of the same coin. Intimidation is a disgusting crime that

one normally associates with a failed justice system; it can be used on whistle-blowers

and its purpose is to make the price for whistle-blowing too high.

Economic Crime and Whistleblowers

The serious frauds that brought ENRON down, and Arthur Andersen, are well known

today. In the same time frame, other huge business organizations were also brought

down as a result of senior management fraud. This was economic crime in the Billions.

There was a Whistle-blower in Enron, yet she was not listened to until this company was

already bankrupted. In fact why were there not more Whistle-blowers?

Just this month we have observed a crisis in the banking system, so severe that some are

comparing it with 1929. It is too early to determine the factors that underlie the causes of

this crisis. It seems that poor decision-making, incompetence, and bad corporate

governance have played their part. But increasingly it is being suggested that one of the

causes was fraudulent decision-making in some elements of the sub-prime mortgage

market. And then there was Madoff, Stanford and the failure of so many regulatory

authorities. Economic crime in the Billions, once again – less than 10 years after Enron.

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Why were there no whistleblowers, or why were the whistleblowers not listened to?

Billion Dollar frauds are frauds of the very powerful! Powerful people have powerful

friends. Where conspiracies to commit crime exist, it can be extremely dangerous to be a

Whistle-blower if the company is influential enough.

The Price of being a whistleblower

Shots fired, death threat calls, cars driven at him, property smashed, he is under

surveillance, and he can’t find work as people are scared to hire him. His wife’s health

permanently damaged; hardly surprising since she and her children have been threatened

for 10 years.

This is a true story of what can happen when serious crime is reported. It is my story.

In an article published on 10 Oct 2004 in the prestigious Sunday Times headlined “Lies,

Threats and Whistleblowers” journalist Liam Clarke reports how honest UK police

officers were persecuted by UK intelligence using Zerzetsen tactics to keep them quiet.

Journalist Liam Clarke says in the same article “they are supposed to be protecting, but

the government persecutes them”.

Zerzetsen tactics were developed by “The Stasi” (former East German Secret Police) to

silence dissidents. Their purpose is to “undermine, subvert and corrode” their victim.

They are also used to silence Whistle-blowers.

The UK’s MI5 / MI6 intelligence services are using Zerzetsen threats against this

executive and his family in the UK and Canada today. The types of threats used are

outlined in this paper.

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These threats were reported to four primary police services in the UK and Canada, the

Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Crown Prosecutor. Three police

services began to investigate. All police investigations were stopped, and a huge cover-

up conspiracy kicked into operation.

The matter was brought to former UK Prime Minister Blair’s attention by a Member of

Parliament. The cover up conspiracy continued. It has recently been brought to Canadian

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attention and the cover-up still continues. The threats

also continue. There are many independent witnesses, recorded death threats, and

evidence of property damage.

Some background on Grosvenor and its establishment relationships

There are few companies as well connected as Grosvenor. Grosvenor is one of the largest

property companies in the world, and has been in business for over three hundred years.

Its Trustees and Directors are a “who’s who” of the world’s high establishment and

include a former Governor of The Bank of England. The Chairman of their Trustees is a

former Deputy Chief of UK Defense Staff and is Prince Charles’ closest friend. The UK

& US Press has reported that he has boasted about his close intelligence connections.

An article in the prestigious “Daily Mail” dated 11/2/2007 and headlined “The Duke of

Westminster: so rich and so very foolish” provides some background. The Chairman of

their Board of Directors is also influential and is the titled heir of a former UK Prime

Minister. A Prominent Lawyer has said “That organization you worked for in Vancouver

has far too much power.”

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The Criminal Process in summary

• I was criminally defamed after I chose to leave Grosvenor International (in 1986). I

had been Group Controller based in its then Head Office in Vancouver, Canada. The

first Zerzetsen – its purpose to make me unemployable and impoverished. I was never

employed in Canada again. An economic crime, since the defamation was done

professionally, fraudulently concealed from me and is associated with criminal

intimidation. I have no idea why I was defamed. I had done an excellent job. An HR

consultant has suggested: they saw your choosing to leave them as rejection, and they

decided to reject you. Other leavers from this company would also find derogatory

comments circulating behind their backs.

• Starting in 1999, 10 years of criminal offences followed to stop me complaining. In

2001 I fled to the UK and the threats got worse. In 2006 I returned to Canada and the

threats continue.

• ZERZETSEN threats were developed by the STASI to persecute dissidents.

• MI5 / MI6, CSIS are using Zerzetsen in UK & Canada.

• Government Ministers involved in a Cover-Up to protect the MI*s.

Zerzetsen - How strong is the proof of criminal intimidation and threats

• 3rd

party evidence (i.e. independent of family testimony) proves that 17 major

threatening incidents have happened. Include corroborative evidence from family

members for verification and about 50 threatening incidents are proven. See

examples on pages 8 to 10.

• The cover-up conspiracy is 100% provable from 3rd

party evidence. Cover-Up by

the State is as much criminal intimidation as it is cover-up. The message the

Authorities are sending with their cover-up conspiracy is - “The State is not going

to protect you or investigate. You are on your own”. Those who are covering it

up must know who the criminals they are protecting from justice are! See

comments on pages 12 to 13.

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• Hundreds of lesser Zerzetsen threats – some verifiable by 3rd

party independent

evidence alone. See comments on pages 10 to 11.

• Clear proof of MI5, MI6 & CSIS using Zerzetsen threats in UK & Canada. See

comments on pages 16 to 18.

Supporting Articles – for more detailed facts

This paper stands on its own. However, readers interested in more detail may chose to

review the following web references. Those interested in a more cursory overview,

should just ignore this section.

An article on the web dated 30 Apr. 2008 is “Lies, Threats & Government Cover-up”

on the web as:

http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2008/04/905423.shtml

It comes with attachments A through D that includes a small portion of the documentary

evidence (letters from Cabinet Ministers, etc) that is available to support my comments in

the article. There is 10 times more documentary evidence available than is on the

internet; but it is all in the same vein, just proving cover-up again and again.

An earlier article dated 7 Dec. 2007 “It’s just as the Stasi treated dissidents in former

East Germany, except this Human Rights Abuse is happening here today” is also on

the web and comes in two parts; The second part which appears immediately under the

article and is headed “Sources of Proof” and summarizes some of the supporting proof

that is available. Viz:

http://indymedia.org/en/2007/12/897755.shtml

If the web links have been interfered with by intelligence - just type the URLs in

manually.

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Zerzetsen – Examples of major threatening incidents.

Just a selection of 6 of the many major threats showing that some have significant

sources of 3rd

party corroborative evidence for proof, whereas some can only be

corroborated by family testimony.

1. Recorded death threats, vehicle smashed into property – on same day.

--23/3/05 – Cover-up documentation mysteriously disappears from The Guardian’s

secure offices in Manchester – Letter from their editor confirms this.

--1-2/4/05 – Eldest son in Birmingham receives multiple telephone death threats. They

are recorded and in police hands. Also independently witnessed. Crime number

20/E2/3302/05 is issued by police. Police confirm threats made from stolen phone. (See

Article 30 Apr. 08. Open Attachment C, document reference C2 – C3 for transcript of

threats).

--2/4/05 – My flat in Manchester smashed into by vehicle the next night. Massive 3rd

party evidence available since it woke up the whole apartment block and there was

considerable property damage for further verification (see Attachment C3-4). 4 family

members in flat at the time and woken up – the crash was a hell of a bang, and the whole

apartment shook like in an earthquake.

--4 other incidents in this series of threats.

2. Shots fired, etc

--Nov 2007--Shots fired into the living room of my eldest son’s house in Birmingham.

Reported to police. Reported to police (with spent shot handed in) by my son Roderick

Russell (same name as self) and German National Jana Engelman who were joint

complainants and witnesses. Witness further intimidated in this series of threats.

3. Laser Incident

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--20/5/04 – Sent an email to a known Grosvenor contact in Mayfair, London asking for

fair play. Email is available

--21/5/04 – Severely damaging download sent to my computer. Computer can be made

available.

--22/5/04 – A high powered laser beam (possibly a strobe) was fired at me where I was

working on the computer in my living room on the third floor. The beam lit the room up

as if a flair had been set off inside, and made a huge noise as it came through the glass

windowpane. My wife and I were present in the room as witnesses. Two other incidents

in this series. The criminal may have turned up to orchestrate the fun in a new Rolls

Royce that I had seen outside the building just before the incident - I suggested the police

check to see if the nearby ducal estate or Grosvenor hotel in Chester had any record of

using/hiring a Rolls on that date.

4. Raymond Incident

--28/5/04 – From Manchester called my daughter, Amy, then a student at Aberdeen

University. In this private phone call told her about the laser incident and said a fool

turned up in a Rolls Royce to watch the fun.

-- 40 minutes later I received a telephone death threat from Raymond with my wife

present. I called him back later with two witnesses on the line. He mentioned the security

organization (could have been service). Police later confirmed Raymond was using a

stolen phone. Also further proof that my phones were being tapped.

--29/5/04—my daughter Amy was threatened in Aberdeen.

5. The Motorbike Incident

--13/6/01—accelerated a motorbike fast at me in London – I jumped, it swerved and

missed me by about 3 inches. This happened close to a huge police station that is by

Victoria Train Station. 15 minutes later walking along Turks Row (by York House) a car

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stopped beside me and the driver pointed out, in a threatening manner, how easy it would

be to kill me.

--Next few days—I was noticeably under surveillance around London.

6. Amy threatened by intelligence operative in Calgary

--My brother-in-law (a Canadian and Scots CA who is Chief Financial Officer of

Pembina Corporation) in Calgary attempted to provide help to look into this issue. It

became abundantly clear that the help was getting scared off. There is huge 3rd

party

evidence of this.

--24/7/06 -- by email and phone call I asked my daughter Amy (now working in Calgary)

to write down all that was happening to the help.

--26/7/06 –Amy was accosted and physically manhandled on the street in Downtown

Calgary as she crossed under the 8th.

Street Bridge. The hood had followed her from her

place of work. As he stopped her from moving and banged her on the shoulder, he said

“Don’t do it. Just don’t do it” (i.e. don’t write the report that I had asked her to write.)

The police booked a crime number. The officer said he could tell that from his modus

operendi that Amy’s assailant had had intelligence operational training (MI5 or CSIS??).

The above is a small selection - There have been dozens of other major threats.

Examples of lesser Zerzetsen threats – a thousand threats

The crime of criminal intimidation is psychological torture and meant to be. A pattern of

Psychological torture is as much torture as physical torture because it is designed to break

people.

The philosophy that underlies the lesser zerzetsen threats was developed by the Stasi, and

the UK press has reported that MI5 is using it today. Unlike the major threats, no direct

verbal threat is ever made, yet by setting up a situation that most people will think of as

fantasy, the MI*s can poison every part of a person's life.

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.

There follows a pattern of the lesser Zerzetsen threats that have happened to us. Police

who have experience in these issues will recognize this sort of pattern.

• In West Vancouver in the 1st 18 months alone we received 500 plus telephone

calls with nobody on the line.

• 11 clear incidents of Street Theatre. Such as a man in Manchester pretending to

have been stabbed, and a woman panicking beside him (all an act). Other

incidents: Cars gyrating around me presenting false plates that sent the message

rat/gag, and another car gyrating that had replaced a plate with a sign that just

read “mafia”, etc. etc.

• Strangers (many times) talking to me on the Street quite normally, and then

introducing just a comment or a hint that shows that they know about the

intimidation. E.g. in Manchester I was having a problem with hoods who were

sending threats using false car number plates. A woman talked to me on the street

quite casually. Suddenly she said she had a friend who used false plates and the

police were scared of him.

• Cars following me around many times. Several times they waited in my driveway

then in West Vancouver for me to come out of the house and would drive off just

as I came out the door – and I would see the same car wherever I went.

• Periodic appearance of being under surveillance so that you know it.

• A hood moved into my last apartment building in Calgary – all sorts of problems

surfaced, and we got harassed out of it and moved. 3rd

party evidence available.

• Constant aggressive phone tapping (MI5 & CSIS). Evidence to back it up.

• Mail post, email interfered with and email interference used to intimidate.

Massive sophisticated computer downloads and spy programs used (and found).

Computer can be made available.

• Ongoing Bureaucratic Harassment – See my 30 Apr. 08 article. Lots of it in

Calgary. I have huge 3rd

party documentary proof to prove bureaucratic

harassment designed to constantly cause me problems – a Zerzetsen tactic

documented by the Stasi for their training programs.

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The Cover-Up Conspiracy is criminal intimidation and provable

The cover-up is 100% verifiable from independent 3rd

party evidence alone. The cover-

up is as much a threat as running a motorbike at you since the State is saying you are on

your own; your enemies (MI5, MI6) are above the law.

There are over 100 examples of 3rd

party verifiable evidence that proves cover-up. Just

look at 2 of them:

1. Cabinet Minister Hazel Blears/Police & Home Office

Look on the web at my 30 Apr. 2008 article “Lies threats …..” Some of the evidence of

cover-up from Hazel Blears is shown on Attachment A to this article (Reference A.2 to

A11). Her written reasons for not investigating all contradict each other. Actually all her

written excuses are provably untrue. Then look at the other evidentiary items on

Attachment A and you will see more documentary evidence of cover-up.

Then look on the web at my 7 Dec 2007 article and go to “Sources of proof – in support

of my article” that follows on immediately after the article itself. Look at Section B of

“Sources of proof’ which is headed “Evidence of a centrally coordinated cover-up.” All

the 3rd

party letters, documents from Ministers, Police, Etc. that are marked ** are

available. Cover-Up is 100% provable from available 3rd

party documentation alone.

Investigations by four primary police departments and also by the IPCC, Manchester

Police Internal Affairs, Home office, Crown Prosecutor were all stopped. At least 3

originally tried to investigate before being stopped.

The documentary evidence on the internet is just a smidgen of what is available. There is

10 times as much, but it is all in the same vein; just proving cover-up again and again.

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2. MI5 smear using a crooked Judge to provide their smear with a false show of

credibility

Deputy District Judge Jones, Manchester County Court. Case # 6MAO2655; Appeal #

M6X086

Look at my 7 Dec 2007 article on the web and go underneath it to “Sources of proof” and

look at Section D. It speaks for itself, note the smear, and note all the evidence that can

be provided – court approved transcript, detailed written submissions made to the court.

This Judge deliberately assisted the MI*s with a smear campaign that he knew to be

untrue. The appeal judge has not dealt with this issue – it is still being covered up.

How did this happen? There are about 50 junior Judges in Manchester – obviously MI5

ensured that the one they could corrupt was allocated to my case.

The 1st Zerzetsen - The Power of the Big Lie Technique

The other side of the Zerzetsen coin is The Big Lie Strategy - professionally done

defamation and slander designed to impoverish their victims by rendering them

unemployable, and designed to ostracize their victims from their professional associates –

all done with lies, and untruthful rumors. It is the Big Lies that do the initial damage. In

fact the threats are to keep the executive victim from complaining about the lies.

The big lie technique is based on this premise – That people will more readily believe a

Big Lie, if it is big enough and if it is spread repeatedly, than they will believe the truth.

The Daily Express disclosed that MI6 has a secret “dirty tricks” unit called IOPS that is

used to smear the good names of individuals.

There were 4 big lies professionally spread that I know of. They all fit within the pattern

of the big lie technique.

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Here are 3 of the big lies that were professionally spread to smear me –

1. The first Big Lie was a rumor spread (initially in Vancouver, Canada) that I was

so incompetent at Grosvenor that I would damage any company that employed

me. Apparently it came from all angles (i.e. professionally spread) so it had to be

believed. Ironically not only had I done an excellent job, but am sitting on two

good written references from my bosses at Grosvenor – their then Group Chief

Executive and Deputy Chief Executive. Good references to my face and shafted

behind my back. I still have these written references. In fact I have 18 excellent

written references from senior executives I have worked with. Since I can prove

the opposite this lie dropped years ago.

2. A second Big Lie that spread years later was that I had some sort of an association

with an international drug dealer. Nothing specific; just a rumor initially told me

by two London Head-hunters (possibly doing me a favor in telling me) who work

for an offshoot of Egon Zhender. I went to the Police, asked them to talk to the

head-hunters, and then trace the lie back to its source. The police did nothing, but

this lie dropped.

3. The third Big Lie is that my complaints of intimidation are all a hoax, but that I

genuinely believe them because I am a nut – and they used a crooked Judge to

lend a false appearance of credibility to this smear. This particularly smear was a

well known “Zerzetsen” technique used by the Stasi when their other lies ran out

of steam. There is also precedent of the use of this smear by the MI*s against

other innocent victims. Please note that there are numerous independent 3rd

party

witnesses to some of the threats, and that recordings of telephone death threats are

in police hands. There is also considerable 3rd

party documentary proof of the

cover-up conspiracy – including the involvement of Hazel Blears, the UK Cabinet

Minister then responsible for the MI5 Secret Police (Ref page12).

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What are the criteria for the Big Lie Strategy? My experience shows that there are 3

criteria that need to be met for this strategy of deception to be successful –

1. The big lie has to be colossal – literally a big lie. As Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf,

The Big Lie has to be so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone

"could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”

2. The big lie has to be professionally spread (multi-sourced) – so that it comes

from all angles and therefore has to be believed. Academic Stephen Dorril in his

book “MI6” writes that MI6s IOPS section uses tactics they call “surfacing”

(untruthful rumors) and “double sourcing” (i.e. multi-sourced rumors) so that

damaging lies are spread about their target victim from all directions. Dorril says

that the MI*s have covert agents working deep undercover as bank executives, in

accounting firms, and the press to help spread their lies.

3. The big lie has to be confusing – like sticking jelly to a tree it must be difficult to

get a handle on details and therefore difficult to disprove. Anna Funder in her

book “Stasiland” reports that Zerzetsen includes “targeted spreading of rumors

about particular persons” (i.e. multi-sourcing) and “creating confusion over facts”

But the psychology behind the smear side of the Zerzetsen coin is more complex than just

the big lies themselves. It involves creating confusion over facts. Even if people know

your story and believe it and want to help, they will always think if I take this guy on will

I be subjected to intimidation as well, or simply peer pressure from establishment cronies

connected to the MI*s.

They think: Where there is smoke, there must be fire – no one considers that the smoke is

an entirely manufactured defamation job. If one takes each rumor by itself in detail, I can

easily disprove the rumors; then if you take all the disproved rumors together they just

show a pattern of orchestrated deceit, misinformation, and MI5, MI6 manufactured lies.

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Proof that MI* intelligence services are criminally involved (and CSIS?)

a. Continuous telephone tapping, and call interference that could only happen

through use of MI5 (CSIS) interception centres in Manchester, Yarm, Calgary.

SEE page 18 for clear evidence of MI5, CSIS aggressive tapping.

b. The Smear campaigns. Using the Big Lie technique – a hallmark of the MI*s.

Starting with the criminal defamation of 20 years ago, at least 4 lies have been

professionally spread – all different, all completely untrue (ref page 13-15).

Includes corrupting a junior judge to lend a false credibility to a smear (see point

2, page 13); Only the MI*s could do this.

c. Proven cover-up by Minister Hazel Blears – her ministerial responsibilities were

MI5 and Special Branch (see page 12 for proof).

d. Threats to STOP me complaining to Hazel Blears on three occasions (she headed

up MI5, Special Branch) – only she and her top officials knew about my

complaints at the time the threats to stop me complaining were made. See 30 Apr.

2008 article Attachment A/5 to A/7 on the internet for proof. Clear evidence of

MI5 involvement.

e. Intimidation is too prolonged, sophisticated and costly for a crime gang acting

alone. Estimated cost several million Dollars/Pounds – a hallmark of a taxpayer

funded intelligence service. 10 years of Zerzetsen threats wherever I go -- threats

in West Vancouver, Calgary, London, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester and

Yarm.

f. Calgary police identify Amy’s assailant as having had intelligence operational

training.

g. Death threat caller Raymond refers to the security organization (or service) – a

known pseudonym for MI5.

h. Numerous examples of highly sophisticated computer spying and computer

intimidation that links to other incidents of intimidation. A hallmark of the MI*s.

Yes, some private companies could do this, but they are all staffed by former

MI*s and often subcontracted – close enough to be protected by the MI*s.

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i. A private eye confirms that MI5 has had a file on me for years, but don’t have

details. Why? Since they know about my complaints they would have dealt with

them if MI5 were innocent. The private eye was frightened off the case.

j. Documentation proving cover-up mysteriously disappears from two secure offices

– The Guardian, letter from editor confirms – A Judge’s papers, Judge confirms.

Documentation disappearance is a hallmark of MI5.

k. Precedent - Widely reported in UK press that MI5 have a history of using Stasi

developed Zerzetsen tactics, with examples – exactly what has happened to us.

Reported in UK press that MI6 have a history of character assassination for their

friends – as happened to me. I know that Grosvenor used intelligence illegally to

character assassinate at least one other who left their Vancouver office. I was

there when it happened and protested internally. In 2007 reported in UK and US

press that Duke of Westminster (Grosvenor Chairman) has boasted about his

close connections to the MI*s (and CIA).

l. Bureaucratic Harassment – massive 3rd

party proof available. Shows that

intelligence services interfering with bureaucratic processes and systems to make

things go wrong for me. (By coincidence I happen to have expertise in large

bureaucratic processes – which is why I was able to develop so much 3rd

party

proof). Recently four Government agencies and two large private companies in

Alberta, Canada have been affected. This proves an intelligence operation. Are

the MI*s doing it themselves, or subcontracting to CSIS?

m. Investigations by four primary police departments and also by the IPCC,

Manchester Police Internal Affairs, Home office, Crown Prosecutor were all

stopped. At least 3 originally tried to investigate before being stopped. A Judge

corrupted, and a Cabinet Minister. Home Office promised to investigate (in

writing) and then was stopped. See Manchester Police report and my evidentiary

comments (30 Apr 08 article – attachment D2 – D3) for provable evidence of

wrongdoing by police authorities. This is the MI*s acting for the establishment

since the politicians are scared of them (of being smeared for a start).

n. Aggressive telephone tapping – MI5 in UK, CSIS in Canada (MI5 started up

CSIS) – and ongoing interference with email and normal mail.

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Aggressive telephone tapping – Further proof MI5, CSIS involved

I made a call from Manchester to my daughter then in Aberdeen that was critical of

Grosvenor and was immediately threatened as was she the following day. This had

happened before. I had said things on the telephone and was harassed for doing so. So I

knew my telephones were tapped at least in Yarm, Manchester, and Calgary – and

possibly everywhere else. I also knew that my phones were also being used for

harassment in real time and were being managed by the criminals. But I couldn’t

understand how they could technically do it.

Two months ago Malcolm Kennedy sent me tapes of his experience. Everything he had

experienced, I had experienced. They controlled his lines. (He got an interception centre

employee to admit it on tape). His tape proves that calls were being routed through an

MI5 interception centre where MI5 could control and interfere with incoming calls.

This explained some of the odder things that have happened to me multiple times, which

are:

1. Incoming voice messages I don’t get – Calls directed to my voicemail answered

by a fax tone, or calls automatically answered that this line is not in service, or

calls directed to voice mail and the caller hears nothing and can’t leave a message.

Sometimes they do get through to my voice message tape but it’s a duplicate tape

and I don’t get the message at all, or I do get the message but the message has

been wiped clean or overlaid by interference so that though I know a message has

come in I can’t decipher it. The techniques have varied.

2. Line interference or continuous clicking – after I have said something on the

phone that MI5 doesn’t like – This is harassment in real time.

3. For a year now, my eldest son’s calls to me do ring and connect, but we can only

hear each other after he has got through for the 3rd

time – This is deliberate MI5

intimidation of both of us.

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Look at all the points together. Look at the pattern of abuse. The evidence is

overwhelming. The MI*s and CSIS have no possibility of plausible deniability.

Multiple witnessed complaints made. No honest investigation. An honest police

investigation would confirm the evidence that the MI*s / CSIS certainly don’t want

confirmed. Ask yourself – Why the cover-up? Who is being protected from justice? What

have the Authorities / State got to hide?

They are using zerzetsen tactics to persecute an innocent and decent family for high

establishment interests, acting criminally. Zerzetsen, developed by the former GDR

secret police “The Stasi” is a combination of criminal defamation and threats – two sides

of the same coin.

It is difficult to rationalize the reasons for their behavior, because there is no rational

reason. When the rich and powerful go wrong and throw their weight around, they go

very wrong indeed. But that government politicians should seek to cover this up is

symptomatic of a crisis in democracy.

In this example a powerful nut connected to the high establishment has corrupted the

MI*s and government politicians are scared of their own intelligence services, perhaps of

being publicly smeared; as the MI*s, CSIS know all the politicians’ personal secrets.

Conclusion – Recommendations

Top corporate-executive economic crime is a Billion Dollar industry. Fraud and criminal

threats go hand in hand since executive criminals need protection from potential whistle-

blowers and other perceived enemies – Some of the information presented in this paper

on corporate terrorism from a victim’s perspective will shock the readers.

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Corporate crime is committed by criminals who can be very well connected – Enron for

example – sometimes even at top establishment and political levels. The criminals may

be both well connected and well liked; the example presented in this paper is such a case.

The result is that whistle-blowers and other victims of corporate crime can be seen as

nuisances – A form of cronyism can develop that protects the criminals from justice, and

also persecutes the accuser. An “Orwellian Double Think” within law enforcement can

develop; a belief that the victim or whistle-blower must be wrong, while being careful not

to check the evidence for verification of the reported crimes.

Referring to the MI5s known use of zerzetsen, Journalist Liam Clarke says “they are

supposed to be protecting, but the government persecutes them.” An article published in

Lobster Magazine, referring to the persecution of my family in the UK and Canada is

headlined “The Persecution of Roderick Russell”. According to Burrell it would seem

that even the Queen may be aware that something is wrong – he is quoted as recalling her

telling him in a private meeting “Be careful, Paul. There are forces at work in this country

about which we have no knowledge. Do you understand?” So what is wrong with the

politicians in the UK and Canada that they are scared to enforce rule of law? Nobody

should be above the law.

That they can persecute a decent family, using the intelligence services as a private secret

police, and scare governments in two countries into a cover-up conspiracy is

symptomatic of a crisis in democracy.

Criminal defamation and threats are just two different sides of the same Zerzetsen

coin.

Zerzetsen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former

GDR secret police “the Stasi” to persecute dissidents – the purpose is to poison every

aspect of a person’s life. Today zerzetsen is used in the UK & Canada by corporate

criminals.

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Four recommendations:

1. Rule of Law must be enforced at all times. Sounds obvious; but sadly – where

executive economic criminals are well-connected and powerful – this is not

always the case, as the example of cover-up presented in this paper shows.

2. Whistle-blowers need to be better protected and appreciated; they perform a

public service, often at personal risk. Consider a reward system – without whistle-

blowers, executive economic crime is unlikely to be detected in its early stages.

3. A detailed study should be made to recommend better regulation and oversight of

the powerful intelligence industry. As this paper proves, some public and private

components of this industry have crossed the line between legitimate intelligence

work and private sector crime.

4. Law enforcement needs to be educated on the “Zerzetsen” approach used to

intimidate and threaten individuals. Police are largely ignorant on this subject.

Zerzetsen was developed by the former GDR secret police “The Stasi” to break

individuals and destroy families. Actual examples of the criminal use of Zerzetsen

in Canada & UK today are presented in this paper.

“Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy” – Thomas Jefferson.

26 Sept. 2008, with pages 13 to 15 updated Feb 2009

The author of this paper – Roderick Russell – qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 and

has served as Chief Financial Officer of a well-known Resort and Hotel Company, and as Group

Controller of a top 10 North American Commercial Property Investment and Development

Company based in Vancouver. His background also includes starting-up and running an Internal

Audit function. Earlier in his career he wrote and presented various papers on Financial

Reporting issues and on Fraud. Married to a former school teacher, he has three children and is

a Canadian & British Citizen.