Day 277 - 10 Jul 96 - Page 15
1 A. The antiborders campaign.
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3 Q. The antiborders campaign. Do you know what that stemmed
4 from?
5 A. I was aware that you had been to Poland and met up with
6 people there who were having -- they weren't able to travel
7 out of Poland, from what I remember, because of
8 restrictions on people getting passports and getting out of
9 the country, and that was something that you were
10 particularly concerned about.
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12 Q. Was that a campaign launched jointly with groups in Poland?
13 A. That was my understanding of it, yes.
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15 Q. And I was the person who?
16 A. Initiated that, yes.
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18 Q. Right, and that stemmed from my personal contacts that I
19 had made?
20 A. Well, that was how it appeared to me, yes.
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22 Q. Do you remember there were some protests and work done on
23 this borders campaign in August 1989?
24 A. I remember a picket of the passport office and also
25 going to Heathrow Airport to distribute leaflets.
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27 Q. Right, and that would have been August 1989?
28 A. I remember it was August.
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30 Q. Right?
31 A. I think there were pickets at the passport office a
32 couple of years running actually, '88 and '89.
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34 Q. Right. Do you recall me doing anything, any activity,
35 being involved in organising any activity at all, in London
36 Greenpeace after that protest?
37 A. No.
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39 Q. And the concern and campaign around state borders and
40 border controls, did that continue in London Greenpeace?
41 A. Well, letters would come in from time to time and there
42 was still a leaflet available. But, I mean, there were
43 other people in the group that were interested in it. Me
44 for one.
45
46 Q. Pardon?
47 A. I said me for one.
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49 Q. As a result of my personal involvement and initiating of
50 that campaign, might I have received letters addressed to
51 me personally but sent to London Greenpeace after August
52 1989?
53 A. It was not uncommon for people, individuals within the
54 group, to receive mail personally addressed to them. I
55 think, actually, it is referred to in Mr. Clare's -- they
56 are in the statement or the notes, where he refers to a
57 letters tray which was for letters for Helen, Paul,
58 Jonathan, and I can't remember who else. But in actual
59 fact that letters tray was just for any mail that came in
60 addressed to any individual, and it would be left in that
