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Research Tips Hakluyt & Company Limited is a British private intelligence agency, "...staffed almost entirely by ex-intelligence [services] staff", according to a
Financial Crisis 2006 report in The Times.[1]
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The company was founded in April 1995.[2]
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Recent changes 3 Courting a Journalist
4 Current and former members of staff
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About SourceWatch In 2001 the Sunday Times revealed that Hakluyt had been hired to spy on Greenpeace:
About PRWatch "...German-born Manfred Schlickenrieder, was hired by Hakluyt, an agency that operates from offices in London's West End. Schlickenrieder
About the Center for was known by the code name Camus and had worked for the German foreign intelligence service gathering information about terrorist groups,
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including the Red Army Faction..."
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"One of his assignments from Hakluyt was to gather information about the movements of the motor vessel Greenpeace in the north Atlantic...
How To Both BP and Shell admit hiring Hakluyt, but say they were unaware of the tactics used. Shell said it had wanted to protect its employees
Contact us against possible attack."[3]
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Hakluyt's use of Schlickenrieder appears at odds with statements made to the Financial Times in 2000 by Hakluyt's Christopher James:
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Correct errors "The foundation has a vital role. In the words of Mr James, it provides 'reassurance that we are not just a tearaway bunch of ex-government
Find answers to officials'. It ensures Hakluyt abides by a code of practice, which has an absolute ban on doing anything illegal, any dirty tricks. Asked if this
FAQs might disappoint some clients, Mr James is firm: 'We just don't do it.' Nor does Hakluyt operate by tip-fees for information. Mr Maclay adds:
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'We talk to the high-ups, not the hard-ups.' Hakluyt, like the services, regards paid-for information as less reliable than information given
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freely."[2]
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Hakluyt to Enron: "All our work is unattributable."
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In May 2001, Christopher James of Hakluyt wrote to Enron's Jeff Skilling:
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"Following Phil Carroll's letter to you of April 16 I would be delighted to call on you to tell you more about Hakluyt. While we have already
Toolbox done some work for Enron (Scott Tholan), virtually all our work for our clients is at a strategic level where our coverage of issues is of greatest
What links here value. With your challenging international objectives I am confident we could be of value to you. If you would find it useful to meet I will contact
Related changes your office to arrange a suitable time."[4]
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Printable version In an apparent follow-up email in August of that year, James expanded on what Hakluyt could offer:
Permanent link "Your office has asked me to outline Hakluyt's services. Rather than fall back on the usual corporate information that we have sent to your
people previously, I would say simply this; Hakluyt is what you make of it - it places an unparalleled private intelligence network at the
Be a SourceWatcher! personal disposal of senior commercial figures."
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address to get the "The range of deployments we have completed for core clients is wide. In all cases we guarantee complete confidentiality. And, although we
Center for Media and work for divisional directors on tactical issues, we have found our most rewarding work in personal dealings with CEOs who wish - for
Democracy's free weekly whatever reason - to have a confidential agency at their own disposal. It was this, which prompted Phil Carroll to write to you about us in April
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as he has found our work of considerable value to him personally. We look at people and the issues, which often drive them to make the
decisions or act as they do. All our work is unattributable... We also have an association with Kissinger/McLarty Associates for although our
Submit E-mail work is very different the services we both provide can be complementary. Our US client base is increasing well but at the same time we wish
to remain small and discreet."[5]

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Degree January 2006, Carroll was quoted by the Houston Chronicle as a friend of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay:
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"Despite the burdens of his high-profile indictment, Lay hasn't lost his warm demeanor, according to his friends. 'Ken is always extremely
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degree online at pleasant,' said Phil Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil Co. who served as the Bush administration's first energy czar in Iraq."
American Military "Carroll lives a floor below Lay in the Huntingdon high-rise in River Oaks. He often sees Lay in the elevator and occasionally Carroll and his
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www.apus.edu/intellige wife, Linda, dine with the Lays. Carroll wouldn't provide specifics, other than to say the trial does not dominate the dining room chatter. 'I'm
sure he must be concerned about the situation he finds himself in, but there's no whining or wringing of the hands or anything like that,' he
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Waiting Huge Melissa Sweet, a freelance Australian health journalist, reports that she recently received an email from a staffer with Hakluyt. In it she was asked
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if she would like to become part of a "network of well-placed individuals around the world who are able to provide us, very discreetly, with
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Real.com intelligence on specific commercial or political issues that may arise." In particular, they were seeking her assistance for an anonymous "financial
institution" client on "a new project on the new Australian government's healthcare policy -- how realistic their reform ambitions really are", "the
Mi5 Security - role of the private sector" and other matters. Sweet responded by pointing out that she was a journalist not a consultant. Undeterred, the Hakluyt
Innovation staffer wrote back explaining that as a journalist she was likely to have "dozens of well-placed sources in the field and that the company already
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has "a number of quality, usually specialist journalists that we deal with". In 2001 Hakluyt was outed for infiltrating Greenpeace in Europe.[7]
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Name Job title Email Ref
tenure
christopher.james AT
Christopher James Founder, Director April 1995-2004 [2]
hakluyt.co.uk
Christopher Wilkins Founder April 1995-1996 [2]

Mike Reynolds Director 1995-? [2]

Jeremy Connell Director 1995-? [2]

Michael Maclay  ? 1997-? [2]

Carl Bildt  ? 1997-? [2]

Anna Youens  ? 2001 anna.youens AT hakluyt.co.uk [5]

Daisy Bidwell  ? 2005 daisy.bidwell AT hakluyt.co.uk [8]

Sir Anthony Hammond

Legal counsel  ?-2006  ? [9]
QC
Non-executive director and legal
Robert Webb (UK) QC 2006  ? [9]
counsel

Contact details
Hakluyt & Company Limited,
34 Upper Brook Street,
London W1K 7QS.
Tel: +44 20 7491 7091
Fax: +44 20 7491 1844
[10]
Web: http://www.hakluyt.co.uk/

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Enron
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Kissinger McLarty Associates
Philip Carroll
Shell

References
1. ↑ Liz Chong, "Ex-MI6 man spies opening as head of GPW ", The Times, April 10, 2006.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Stephen Overell, "Masters of the great game turn to business: Globalisation and cross-border mergers are
increasing demand for Hakluyt s brand of intelligence, says Stephen Overell ", Financial Times, March 23, 2000.
3. ↑ Maurice Chittenden and Nicholas Rufford, "MI6 'Firm' Spied on Green Groups ", Sunday Times, June 17, 2001. Via
commondreams.org.
4. ↑ "Email from Christopher James to Jeff Skilling, Craig Keith, and Anna Youens ", May 24, 2001. Accessed via Enron Explorer website,
July 1, 2007.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Email from Anna Youens (on behalf of Christopher James) to Jeff Skilling ", August 7, 2001. Accessed via Enron Explorer
website, July 1, 2007.
6. ↑ John C. Roper, "Ken Lay eager to reclaim his reputation ", Houston Chronicle, January 25, 2006.
7. ↑ Melissa Sweet, "Turning journalists into spooks?" , Crikey,July 31, 2008. (Sub req'd).
8. ↑ "Spencer Cricket Club - Officers ", May 23, 2005.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "LegalMoves - Business Development Support for Lawyers " (PDF), Volume 2, Issue 1, January 15, 2006.
10. ↑ Hakluyt website . Undated, accessed July 1, 2007.

External links
Melissa Sweet, "Turning journalists into spooks?" , Crikey, July 31, 2008. (Sub req'd)

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