Phone-hacking scandal: Jonathan Rees obtained information using dark arts
Freemason set up network of corrupt police, customs officials, taxmen and bank staff to gain valuable information
Nick Davies - 8 June 2011
Years ago, Jonathan Rees became a freemason. According to journalists and investigators who worked with him, he then exploited his link with the lodges to meet masonic police officers who illegally sold him information which he peddled to Fleet Street.
As one of Britain’s most prolific merchants of secrets, Rees expanded his network of sources by recruiting as his business partner Sid Fillery, a detective sergeant from the Metropolitan Police. Fillery added more officers to their network. Rees also boasted of recruiting corrupt Customs officers, a corrupt VAT inspector and two corrupt bank employees.
Other police contacts are said to have been blackmailed into providing confidential information. One of Rees’s former associates claims that Rees had compromising photographs of serving officers, including one who was caught in a drunken state with a couple of prostitutes and with a toilet seat around his neck.
It is this network of corruption which lies at the heart of yesterday’s claim in the House of Commons by Labour MP Tom Watson that Rees was targeting politicians, members of the royal family and even terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch’s News International. The Guardian’s own inquiries suggest that Watson knows what he is talking about.
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June 22nd, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Is this the same Rees who had Information Digest and worked with Western Goals? Ironic if it is, given the fact that many floor-level JBS members are opposed to Freemasonry.
After Rees got into it with Linda Guell for the heart and soul of Western Goals. He ended up leaving and Western Goals ceased to be a private intelligence-gathering organ. It was his efforts in the realm of intelligence that made Western Goals an domestic intel outfit. Without his expertise, it no longer acted in that capacity.
Again, if this Rees and Western Goals’ Rees are one in the same, that would be very significant when looking at Freemasonry’s role in the privatization of intelligence (long denied by proponents of Freemasonry, good and bad.)
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I have no idea. I suppose they could be the same person. Western Goals had a UK branch as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Goals_(UK)