Mirror Group Newspapers And Israeli Intelligence

EDM number 1284 in 1990-91, proposed by George Galloway on 21/10/1991.

That this House is deeply concerned by the allegations made by the senior American journalist Seymour Hersh in his new book The Samson Option, published by Faber and Faber, that Mr. Nicholas Davies, Foreign Editor of the Daily Mirror, has been involved in substantial arms sales of Israeli equipment to Iran and other countries over the last 10 years, is a longstanding and highly-paid Israeli Intelligence asset and that he betrayed the whereabouts in a hotel in London of Mordechai Vanunu to Mossad, whereupon Vanunu was lured out of Britain to Italy, was kidnapped, drugged and returned to Israel where he is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in solitary confinement; and therefore calls upon Mirror Group publisher Mr. Robert Maxwell immediately to appoint an independent tribunal to establish the truth or otherwise of the allegations and, if they are well founded, the extent of foreign intelligence penetration of Mirror Group newspapers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.