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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:15 PM
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Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars..how BP spent £45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights(pulled story)

Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars...how BP spent £45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights

GLEN OWEN
UK Daily Mail
Sunday May 13, 2007

Comment: This story appeared early today on the Daily Mail website. It has since been pulled without explanation. If correct, this story could bring down the entire British government which is probably why it was immediately subject to a D notice - a British government order to censor a story. Look out for a big story on this tomorrow.

BP executives working for Lord Browne spent millions of pounds on champagne-fuelled sex parties to help secure lucrative international oil contracts.

The company also worked with MI6 to help bring about changes in foreign governments, according to an astonishing account of life inside the oil giant.

Les Abrahams, who led BP's successful bid for a multi-million-pound deal with one of the former Soviet republics, today claims that Browne - who was forced to resign as chief executive last month after the collapse of legal proceedings against The Mail on Sunday - presided over an "anything goes" regime of sexual licence, spying and financial sweeteners.

High life: Mr Abrahams, left, and another BP executive not linked to any impropriety with local girls in Azerbaijan
.............
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3195


the now dead link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=454442&in_page_id=1770

a freerepublic post before the story was pulled
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832703/posts

an altavista search showing the story was on dailymail

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=BP+executives+working+for+Lord+Browne+spent+millions+of+pounds+on+champagne-fuelled+sex+parties+to+help+secure+lucrative+international+oil+contracts.&kgs=1&kls=0
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dsa Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:16 PM
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1. dang!
how do i get invited to a "champagne-fuelled sex party"?
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:31 PM
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2. K&R
Kicked and recommended. An important story.
:kick:
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:41 PM
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3. Here's a Google news search that shows that it was also on thisislondon.co.uk
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spindrifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:45 PM
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4. And what are we paying for a gallon of gas???
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 06:58 PM
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5. Very Lame and ho-hum - a Brit of the left -a Labor PM designate-stands accused of favoring Brit co's
, namely his own, when he worked for a Brit company - and that activities of said companies to get foriegn business somehow are the fault of the Labor party - here is the link :
http://www.legnostorto.com/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=30&func=view&catid=3&id=

For those that do not read Italian:


In the story we find a BP exec Les Abrahams telling all that he spent 45 million to get the Azerbaijan's been oil company to hook up with BP

The scandal for Labor is the accusation that the Home Secretary John Reid was arrested for being out on the streets after to military curfew had been imposed. - OK?

BP's credit paid for the usual adult pleasures, legal and illegal - but is Browne/Labor in trouble because BP entertainment expenses were approved by Browne?

Well while employed by BP, Mr Abrahams also says he was persuaded to work for MI6 by John Scarlett, now head of the service but then its head of station in Moscow.

And MI6 is per the article as nuts as our CIA in equating an international Corporations welfare with the welfare of the state - He claims that BP was working closely with MI6 at the highest levels to help it to win business in the region and influence the political complexion of governments.

The Labor connection is that the head of the unit trying to get the contract was Lord Browne - and he got the contract for BP. Seems Lord Browne went home after the oil business work was completed "We would typically have to dinner at which Lord Browne would be present, then he would go home and we would head off to to somewhere like the Gaslight Club in Piccadilly - to where girls would dance topless and you would get charged £250 for your drink. “Our guests would usually want girls to go back with afterwards. Sometimes we could persuades the girls in the clubs, but more often we would just phone up an escort agency. “We could charge them straight to the BP Amex card. But it sometimes became problematic. One group of Khazak Oil officials stripped their hotel rooms in Aberdeen coffins, including the sheets and pillowcases, and they would usually clear out the minibars wherever they to were staying."

When in September 1992 BP signed to a £300 million deal to exploit the Shah Deniz oilfields, they had a dinner where among the guests at to dinner and ceremony at Baku's Gulistan Palace to celebrated the Shah Deniz deal to were Lord Browne and Baroness Thatcher.

Later that year after a change of government in Azerbaijan BP signed a £5 billion deal which placed BP at the head of an oil exporting consortium.

MI6 is accused of supply weapons to the opposing political group that later took power and signed the £5 B contract.

BP's COMMENT WAS THAT THERE WERE NO DOUBT LOADS OF FACTS IN MR ABRAHAMS ACCOUNT, BUT THAT DO NOT RECOGNIZE ANY FACTS KNOWN TO THEM IN THE ACCOUNT - THEY REGARD IT AS A FANTASY.

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OK - SO HOW IS THIS GOING TO BRING DOWN THE LABOR GOVERNMENT - TORY ICON THATCHER WAS AT AT LEAST ONE EVIL DINNER - AND WHY SAY IT WAS CENSORED?

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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 07:44 PM
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6. could you check your link?
thanks
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 08:13 PM
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7. It's been a rough weekend for links - it is no longer working - I conceed the story's pulled from
Edited on Sun May-13-07 08:41 PM by papau
http://www.legnostorto.com/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=30&func=view&catid=3&id=

every media - and I did not know how easy it was to do that.

This weekend I did a story on the attempt to plant WMD back in spring 2004 - and the links all died a few hours after I posted - still found working ones for the story - but curious.

This story now has no major media links - it was after all one persons - with no hard proof - accusation.

Indeed in doing the reply I let folks think Gordon was the Browne - not our gay BP person -

and someone said the story would blow the Labour Party apart. It is time to go to bed.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 08:40 PM
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9. The story appears to be pulled everywhere at 9:30 Sunday night - it had but one
person as a source and perhaps no hard evidence.

Lord Browne is not Gordon Brown, future pm, I should have made that clear.
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spindrifter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 10:25 PM
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10. I think the British news takes the "D"order pretty
seriously. If they don't, then they get charged with a crime. Hence, it is not surprising that the story is no longer available. We have seen this type of thing before. Fortunately, there are always people out here on the internets who are trapping these things for later comparison with other info.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 07:59 AM
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12. Our D notices
are only used for matters of national security which this subject isn't.
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Robson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-13-07 08:20 PM
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8. BP has had some problems with the Alaskan pipeline too
Sounds as though BP may possibly be a corrupt company to the core, that spends its profits on bribes and booze and partying instead of anti-corrosion in the Alaskan pipeline and on refinery maintainance.

The CEO talked a good story about being green and fighting global warming, but it was all talk.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-14-07 06:08 AM
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11. And we're surprised, for why?
Sex, lies and videotapes. That's how you work your way to lucrative business deals.
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