UPDATE, 11.30PM 2ND JANUARY 2008:
2 informed sources state
authoritatively that the official intention is to claim that
Paulson died of a heart attack. The way that he
died has been verified by intelligence, official,
diplomatic, military and personal sources. A separate
source close to the Paulson family has also confirmed
that Paulson died on 2nd January and that the cause was
precisely as stated in this report and Updates.
As is always the case in such circumstances, a tentative
operation is being mounted to claim that our report is
false. This is tantamount to asserting that the Editor is a
liar which (a) is fatuous given the record of these reports
and (b) will have serious consequences if so asserted.
There
is also the usual category of people who are still at the
elementary stage of not believing
anything unless it's in the 'mainstream' press.
These doubting Thomases ought to take the trouble to look up
Operation Mockingbird, the veteran CIA operation to
control the media in the United States.
And finally, when
reporting intelligence-related matters, constraints
applicable to what may be stated, do apply. We only report
what is in the public domain. By definition, if the
information were not made available to us, it could not be
reported. We would not report such information unless
verified by our sources. Journalists do not reveal their
sources when asked to do so. T