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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is the former Washington correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph.  He is most famous for leading the exposure of President Bill Clinton's involvement in the Arkansas "Whitewater" affair; and for authoring the acclaimed USA-published book: The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.
    After being contacted by J B Hunt in January 1998 Ambrose examined scores of documents unearthed by Hunt & Keith-Hill (see Section Three of this website).  Ambrose agreed that these proved that The Guardian's journalists had conspired with Mohamed Al Fayed and others to pervert Sir Gordon Downey's parliamentary inquiry into the paper's corruption allegations against Conservative MP Neil Hamilton.
    Subsequently Ambrose penned two articles for The Daily Telegraph about Hunt & Keith-Hill's work, but these were censored by his editor, Charles Moore.

    Charles Moore has not given any cogent explanation for his suppression of news about The Guardian's conspiracy.  In 2001 J B Hunt discovered that the Telegraph's financial viability hangs on its lucrative long-term printing contracts with The Guardian in London & Manchester (see Section Four of this website).

Paul Johnson is best known in the UK for his columns in The Daily Mail and The Spectator.  In the USA and elsewhere Paul is recognised chiefly as the author of works such as A History of the American People; A History of Christianity; A History of the Jews; and Modern Times: the world from the Twenties to the Nineties. 
    After being contacted by Hunt in October 1997, Paul took an interest in Hunt & Keith-Hill's work.  After examining a file of documents prepared by Hunt, he agreed that they showed that The Guardian had lied and presented false documents to Sir Gordon Downey's Parliamentary inquiry as part of a major cover-up. 
    Following the publication of Hunt's book Trial by Conspiracy in October 1998, Paul penned a provocative article for The Spectator, championing Hunt & Keith-Hill's work and challenging The Guardian to carry out its threats to sue Hunt for libel (Paul Johnson's article is reproduced in Section Seven of this website.)

During his time as the editor of The Spectator, Frank Johnson gave his columnists Stephen Glover, Taki Theadocupoulos, and Paul Johnson (no relation) free rein to write what they liked about The Guardian's various malfeasances.  Frank also published several letters submitted by J B Hunt discussing aspects of his research. 
    Following the publication of several such articles and letters, in mid-April 1998 Frank received a threatening letter from The Guardian, marked "confidential", suggesting that The Spectator should stop its attacks.  However Frank immediately rebuffed this crude intimidation publicly in a leading article entitled: "Help! The Guardian's Head of Press and Corporate Affairs has got physical with me".
    After he published further articles critical of The Guardian, including several airing Hunt & Keith-Hill's investigation, on 29 July 1999 Frank was sacked by Daniel Colson and Conrad Black, of The Spectator's owners, The Daily Telegraph.

In the four years that he had been at the Spectator's helm Frank Johnson had helped raise its circulation from 54,000 to 58,000.  Frank also enjoyed enormous popularity among his staff.  As neither Daniel Colson nor Conrad Black offered any reason to explain why they dismissed him, and as The Daily Telegraph has continually resisted all temptation to air Hunt & Keith-Hill's evidence exposing The Guardian's cover-up (such as that discussed in Section Three of this website) it can be safely assumed that Frank Johnson was moved out of the editor's chair for the same reason that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's articles on Hunt & Keith-Hill's investigation were censored - to protect the Telegraph's highly profitable printing contracts with The Guardian.

James Heartfield is a university lecturer and radical journalist of unimpeachable integrity and intellect.  Hunt first contacted James in late 1997 following an interest in the Hamilton affair taken by LM magazine (formerly Living Marxism), to which James was a principal contributor. 
    Over the following months James became increasingly intrigued by the anomalies in The Guardian's submissions to Sir Gordon Downey's parliamentary inquiry, which Hunt & Keith-Hill had highlighted in their interim report of October 1997. 
    Subsequently James undertook some research of his own, prior to writing a major article for LM magazine, entitled 'Cash, Questions, and Answers' (this is reproduced in Section Seven).  This was the very first article airing Hunt & Keith-Hill's research.  When it was published in March 1998 it reportedly caused pandemonium at The Guardian's London headquarters.

Best known as a leading commentator for the conservative Daily Mail, Stephen Glover has written about Hunt & Keith-Hill's investigation on numerous occasions, albeit in his other capacity as the media columnist for The Spectator magazine.
    However, up to time of writing (August 2002) Stephen has not discussed the evidence that Hunt & Keith-Hill unearthed proving that two Guardian editors & several journalists had lied and supplied false documents to Sir Gordon Downey's parliamentary inquiry (see Section Three).  In his various writings Stephen has instead opted only to discuss Hunt & Keith-Hill's research obliquely.
    Nevertheless, in his Spectator columns of 24 & 31 October 1998 Stephen played a crucial service by exposing The Guardian's attempt to smear Hunt & his colleague.  Likewise, in his column of 9 February 2002 Stephen commented on J B Hunt's first round High Court victory over the ITC, highlighting the British media's news blackout on Hunt & Keith-Hill's work (see www.coverup.net).

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