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Let me summarize what I think we know.

1. SlimVirgin is Linda Mack who studied philosophy at King's College, lost a close friend on PanAm 103, and worked for Pierre Salinger at ABC News, London from about 1989-1991 on the PanAm 103 investigation.

2. She pursued various PanAm 103 conspiracy theories, but once the two Libyans were indicted, she seemed to steer the investigation in the direction of the government's case against Libya, according to John K. Cooley, who along with Pierre Salinger, was responsible for hiring her at ABC.

3. Pierre Salinger interviewed the two Libyans in Tripoli, and believed, along with quite a few independent investigators, that they were either completely innocent, or only peripherally involved, perhaps unwittingly.

4. Syria's support in the Gulf War was important to the West. The leading theory until such time that the finger was pointed at Libya, was that Syria was involved, perhaps with Iran bankrolling them, in retaliation for the Iranian airliner that the U.S. shot down.

5. Scotland Yard raided ABC and made off with videotapes and documents. ABC fought in court, and after an expensive battle, lost the case.

6. Salinger came to believe that Linda Mack was working for MI5, and had been all along. He locked her out of her office.

7. Michael S. Morris, a former BOSS (South Africa) agent who investigated PanAm 103, has named Linda Mack as an "agent."

8. For at least two or three years after this, Linda Mack worked on the case as a freelancer. She started a petition drive against Allan Francovich's film, The Maltese Double-Cross: Lockerbie. This film promoted a conspiracy theory that was at odds with the government's case against Libya.

9. Linda Mack next shows up in Canada in 2002, registering the domain slimvirgin.com, using the name S. McEwan and a PO box in Swalwell, Alberta, Canada. Patrick Byrne, who knew Linda Mack at Cambridge, says she was half Canadian, and she switched on an English accent suddenly one day at Cambridge, and continued to use it from that point forward.

10. The email address on the slimvirgin.com domain registration was slimvirgin1@yahoo.com. The email address for Linda Mack on the alumni list at King's College, Cambridge was also slimvirgin1@yahoo.com. This mailing list was purged of Linda Mack's name several months ago. Similarly, the domain registration became a private registration within the last year.

11. One "Sarah McEwan, Canada" wrote comments or sent a letter to telegraph.co.uk in Britain in support of animal rights in 2004.

12. SlimVirgin signs her name as "Sarah" on the Wikipedia mailing list.

13. Daniel Brandt emailed slimvirgin AT gmail.com in late October, 2005, using a pseudonym, and asked if she would be interested in selling the slimvirgin.com domain. Twice she denied that she was the owner of that domain.

14. SlimVirgin's IP address geolocates to Shaw Communications in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, but the accuracy of this is disputed and she could be living in either Alberta or Saskatchewan.

15. SlimVirgin indicated a very early interest in the PanAm 103 article when she started editing Wikipedia sometime on or before November 5, 2004. At least one edit that was oversighted suggests inside knowledge of the Pierre Salinger investigation.

16. Jimmy Wales has admitted that articles have been oversighted to protect the identity of SlimVirgin and others.

17. Today almost no one with knowledge about the investigation, including Robert Baer, the CIA official who was close to the CIA's investigation at the time, pretends that the Libyans were guilty.

18. SlimVirgin has made a comment on a Talk page suggesting that the Libyan in prison is not guilty.

19. After Daniel Brandt emailed John K. Cooley in Athens, Greece to ask about Linda Mack, she called Cooley to ask him not to talk to Brandt. She had read on Wikipedia Review that Brandt had located Cooley, and was hoping to hear from him. But Brandt had already received Cooley's response shortly before Linda Mack made this call.

20. Various articles that are politically significant, in addition to the PanAm 103 articles, suffer from excessive ownership by SlimVirgin in that they are seriously skewed in directions that she has promoted and protected. These include articles about Lyndon LaRouche. Moreover, several months before SlimVirgin started the stub on Daniel Brandt, she declared that Brandt was an unreliable source on the topic of one Chip Berlet.
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Mills appears British:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22david+mi...lient=firefox-a

Perhaps contacting him immediately is in order before Linda can get to him.
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QUOTE(Infoboy @ Fri 3rd August 2007, 3:34pm) *

Mills appears British:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22david+mi...lient=firefox-a

Perhaps contacting him immediately is in order before Linda can get to him.

Yes, he's British, but not everything is a Google click away. Here are 1,147 David Mills and I don't think he's on there.

It's possible he's the one mentioned here and here but it's a long shot. In fact, this one suggests it isn't him. But he might know where we can look. Go ahead and ask him.
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QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Fri 3rd August 2007, 11:52pm) *

QUOTE(Infoboy @ Fri 3rd August 2007, 3:34pm) *

Mills appears British:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22david+mi...lient=firefox-a

Perhaps contacting him immediately is in order before Linda can get to him.

Yes, he's British, but not everything is a Google click away. Here are 1,147 David Mills and I don't think he's on there.

It's possible he's the one mentioned here and here but it's a long shot. In fact, this one suggests it isn't him. But he might know where we can look. Go ahead and ask him.


There's also another 'David Mills' evidently involved in high politics, a British lawyer who is mentioned in the ongoing case against Berlusconi in Italy: "Berlusconi is accused of having given 600,000 dollars (380,000 euros) to his British lawyer David Mills in exchange for false testimony in two cases dating back to the 1990s."

This woud fit Dr Debug's profile of a well-connected individual in terms of the intelligence community.

Myself, I think he sounds very nice and there is absolutely nothing bad about him to be inferred from this post!

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QUOTE(flash @ Sun 22nd June 2008, 11:55am) *

There's also another 'David Mills' evidently involved in high politics

Yes, that's the most preposterous allegation. David is the husband of Labour politician Tessa Jowell and is a tremendously fine chap.
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the fieryangel   Let me summarize what I think we know. Perfect...  
Infoboy   Archive of that SlimVirgin diff: Anything we dr...  
LamontStormstar   Archive of that SlimVirgin diff: Ah when you ...  
Nathan   Webcite'd here (be patient, you might not see ...  
anthony   Webcite'd here (be patient, you might not see...  
jdrand   Very interesting, thanks Mr Brandt. Sounds like so...  
blissyu2   That denial blog is particularly stupid, given tha...  
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jdrand   A NameBase entry for Linda Mack can be found at: h...  
blissyu2   A NameBase entry for Linda Mack can be found at: ...  
Daniel Brandt   This was indexed in NameBase shortly after the boo...  
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Moulton   The title of the thread should be: What Daniel Br...  
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gomi   So, on the one hand, it is not an official finding...  
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Aloft   And Cooley's response was? http://wikipediarev...  
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