How the Government could cover up a Royal scandal....'The Bank Job' London 1971

[Cidersomerset]

I watched this movie a while back and when they said it was based on true events
about a robbery and stolen royal photos its something I wanted to post....

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Untold story of Baker Street bank robbery

Film uses informer's revelations on unsolved 1971 crime

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Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent

The Observer, Sunday 11 March 2007


Thirty-six years ago, one of the most remarkable and daring bank raids shocked Britain. The 'walkie-talkie bank job' saw £500,000 - worth £5m today - stolen from Lloyds in London's Baker Street and the crime was never solved.
Now the film industry is to attempt to explain why the robbery and its investigation have remained secret. The story, which will incriminate high-ranking police officers, the secret service, politicians and a prominent member of the royal family, is to be at the centre of The Bank Job, starring Saffron Burrows and Jason Statham as bank raiders. It was written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and results from co-operation with a 'deep throat' informer who was involved in the original investigation.

Reports of the raid were on the front pages of newspapers for a handful of days in September, 1971. Then, oddly, a government gagging order, or D Notice, was imposed to prevent further coverage. The raid had already attracted national attention because of apparent negligence by police who failed to act quickly following a fluke tip-off from a member of the public who overheard the robbers talking on two-way radio.

'This is an amazing, untold story of murder, sex and corruption. It's going to excite and entertain audiences everywhere, but it will also give them plenty to think about,' said the producer of the film, Charles Raven.

A radio ham, Robert Rowlands, heard the robbers as he randomly twisted the dial of his set before going to bed one night at his flat in Wimpole Street, central London. Two voices argued about whether some cutting work should stop or go on all night. The men were covertly working on a tunnel which, it turned out, led to the bank basement.

Excited and alarmed, Rowlands called the local police station in Marylebone and told an officer the police should search all the local banks. The officer simply told him to tape the conversation. The resulting tape, which was transcribed and broadcast on national radio at the time, gives a rare insight into the minds of a gang in the middle of a major crime. It also furnished Clement and La Frenais with authentic dialogue for a screenplay.

The writers, co-creators of The Likely Lads and Porridge, as well as authors of the recent animated Hollywood hit, Flushed Away, have been trying to bring their discoveries about the bank raid to the screen for at least seven years.

Their film, directed by Roger Donaldson and filmed in London and Australia over the past five months, will claim it was the contents of safety deposit boxes in the vault that caused the government to clamp down on reporting. Photographs and other evidence of illicit sexual encounters implicating influential public figures were held at the bank. As well as providing a dramatic plot, Clement and La Frenais were attracted by the picture the case outlines of class divisions and corruption in the Seventies. But it was the conversation recorded by Rowlands that sparked their interest.

'The gang had walkie-talkies and look-outs on the roof,' Clement explained this weekend. 'I read about the robbery at the time and the great remark that Ian and I remember was one of the lookouts saying: "I'm off home now, I'm cold and hungry." A gang member said: "You can't go now, we're almost there." And the reply was: "Money may be your god, but it's not mine and I'm ****ing off".'

When the robbery was discovered, Clement now believes MI5 moved in and issued the D Notice. The newspapers went quiet, but not before the Daily Mail had accused the police of ineptitude.

The public believed a police investigation was going on. In fact, the film will argue, the case had been handed over to the intelligence services because of the sensitive issues involved.

Mysteries remain, however: the people involved in infidelities are still unnamed and the writers have not yet revealed the identity of their 'deep throat'.

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The full movie is a good British gangster film well worth a watch !!
Keeping to the main facts of the scandel and how the establishment
hushed it up....strong language in parts obviously some artistic licence...

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It reminds me Why the elites are so worried about wikileaks and the web..
They were able to more or less keep the lid on the Diana murder to the mass
public by lies and dicrediting alternate theories ....But her son Harrys escapades
show that the web is the biggest threat to the elites and TNWO and thats why
they have declared cyber war on it !!


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Hi Jinks from one of the Lads...It happens everyday and is 'Nothing' imo but what if
we had the web as it is now, back in Dianas day imagine her on 'Twitter' or facebook !!
That would have had the establishment blushing ..LOL...

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David has done a much larger presentation and so have others on Dianas ritual murder..

[Ellisa]

Oh come on CS--- If Diana had been wearing her seat belt she would have been one of the 2 survivors of that crash, instead of one of the 3 casualties. She was too busy in the back seat attending to the conversation of her boy-friend. And it didn't help the driver was probably drunk and certainly was driving WAY too fast.

'The Bank Job' does not implicate royals does it--- though. on another tack, an old story by Conan Doyle with Sherlock Holmes, implying compromising photos of a royal as the plot caused a stir at publication-- so I suppose there is nothing new under the sun.

*** I am adding this to say that I did not read your post carefully, and yes, there is a Royal connection. However seeing the Baker Street allusion and knowing the story 'Scandal in Bohemia" well I wonder if 'The Bank Job' was inspired by it and not so much by actual recent events. Certainly it caused a stir when C.D. published it! Maybe that is when it was based on fact.

Poor Harry. He's rich, he's young, he's on leave for a few days from a stressful job--- he's having such a good time he forgets that people sometimes forget to be his friend. It must be a lonely life. I wonder if having all those palaces and courtiers and "yes" people make up for being unable to remove your underwear without checking for cameras.

[Cidersomerset]

Oh come on CS--- If Diana had been wearing her seat belt she would have been one of the 2 survivors of that crash, instead of one of the 3 casualties. She was too busy in the back seat attending to the conversation of her boy-friend. And it didn't help the driver was probably drunk and certainly was driving WAY too fast.

Yes I agree Ellisa she should of had a seat belt on, but she survived for a relitively long time after the crash and was not taken to the nearest hospital and there are loads of reasons to suspect foul play !

One very big one from the ind mil complex point of view.." Land mines"....

She was also due to go to Palastine to highlite their plight....
This discussion on sky news highlights those who think that
the intelligence agencies are capable of setting this up, and
those who cannot see past the official line and all else is
conspiricy nonesence.....

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'The Bank Job' does not implicate royals does it--- though. on another tack, an old story by Conan Doyle with Sherlock Holmes, implying compromising photos of a royal as the plot caused a stir at publication-- so I suppose there is nothing new under the sun.

Yes it does and its a true story and a great movie, watch it when you get the chance
you will enjoy it if nothing else for the acting and story .....




Poor Harry. He's rich, he's young, he's on leave for a few days from a stressful job--- he's having such a good time he forgets that people sometimes forget to be his friend. It must be a lonely life. I wonder if having all those palaces and courtiers and "yes" people make up for being unable to remove your underwear without checking for cameras.



I have no problem with Harry being one of the lads .....Being one myselfe and doing
equally stupid things with my mates under the influence of a fermented apple juice
or two ..LOL..

But the point I am making with the web/social media its hard for the establishment
to keep the lid on things as they used to be able. Thats why governments with things
to hide and rich people are pannicking.....

The hacking scandel highlights the other extreme of the new tech by tapping peoples
personal calls and that is illegal and unexceptable the other way.The web is still new
and it will settle into the social framework of society. But it can also be abused by
censorship or over zelous intelligence gathering all things the public should be made
aware of imo...

[Jenci]

I have no problem with Harry being one of the lads .....Being one myselfe and doing
equally stupid things with my mates under the influence ..LOL..

But the point I am making with the web/social media its hard for the establishment
to keep the lid on things as they used to be able. Thats why governments with things
to hide and rich people are pannicking.....


There is another way to look at this. Maybe they are happy with the Harry scandal hitting the press and the internet as it has. Maybe they were even responsible for it.

All this attention on a young man who had a few drinks with some pretty women and took his clothes off. It's not unusual behaviour but it's made out to be a huge scandal because it is a Royal behaving badly.

Which in turn just reinforces the idea in people's heads that usually the Royals behave very well and these scandals that the young ones get up to......well they are just blips and can be forgiven.

So while all this is going on, what is the real story with regards the Royal family and their behaviour which we are being distracted from?


Jeanette

[Cidersomerset]

Now I have just watched for a refresher, just as well post it....possible scenario researched by David...interresting...

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Of course it could all be a coincidence, but there was an awfull lot of them !!

[Cidersomerset]

If you scroll down about a third of the page on the attached link there is a recording of
robbers having a conversation taped at the time.....cannot find u/tube..

http://blackcablondon.wordpress.com/tag/london/

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Roert Rowlands who taped the gang.....

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[Cidersomerset]

How MI5 raided a bank to get pictures of Princess Margaret

by BETH HALE

Last updated at 07:55 21 May 2007


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In the heady days of the 1960s and 70s, the Caribbean island of Mustique was the exotic playground where Princess Margaret held court.

It was on its shores that she was famously pictured with her lover Roddy Llewellyn.

And, it seems, it could also have been the scene of an even more intriguing photographic scandal, kept firmly under wraps.

A film purporting to be based on fact will suggest that sexually compromising photographs of the princess taken on the island were at the centre of a bank robbery in 1971.

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It will claim that the £500,000 raid on Lloyds Bank in Baker Street, London, was, in fact, aimed at securing the steamy snaps.

The Bank Job, clips of which were shown at the Cannes Festival last week, has the photographs being placed in the bank for safe-keeping by Michael X, a well-known criminal originally from the Caribbean.

The £500,000 raid - worth £5million in today's money - made the headlines in September 1971.

It became known as the 'walkie-talkie bank job' because of a fluke tip-off from a member of the public who overheard the robbers talking on a two-way radio.

But then mysteriously a government gagging order, a D notice, was imposed to prevent further coverage.

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John Bindon with girlfriend Vicki Hodge

Four men were jailed in 1973 for the raid and Michael X was hanged for murder in Trinidad in 1975.

The film, written by Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais, will claim it was the non-monetary contents of the safety deposit boxes which spurred the raid.

"What happens in the film is that the raid on Lloyds is set up by MI5," said producer Steven Chasman.

"They knew that a box owned by Michael X with those photographs was inside the bank vaults," he told the Sunday Times.

Figures from the security services are said to have called on minor gangland contacts to initiate the raid, who in turn tipped off criminals who knew the bank would be easy to break into.

The writers of the film claim to have spoken to figures who were directly involved with the robbery, who separately claimed that it was aimed at getting hold of the photographs.

And while the film does not detail what is exactly in the pictures and Princess Margaret is not referred to directly, Mr Chasman said: "We are pretty clear who we are talking about."

Whether there ever were 'incriminating' photographs of the princess is of course open to conjecture.

Margaret adored Mustique, the sub-tropical paradise where she could let her hair down away from prying eyes and cameras.

Her love affair with the island began in 1960 when she was given a plot of land as a wedding present by her former escort Colin Tennant, later Lord Glenconner.

By the time of the raid, her marriage to Lord Snowdon was in its final rocky stages and she retreated to the island with Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior. The wild parties on the island, also home to Margaret's photographer cousin, Lord Lichfield were the stuff of legend.

Story has it that once Llewellyn, Colin Tennant and Nicholas Courtney all stripped naked on the beach to be photographed by Margaret. As for whether she allowed risque pictures to be taken of herself, it is unclear.

Asked whether he thought pictures might have existed, Lord Snowdon said: "I would have thought it unlikely."

He added he had never heard of the bank robbery-MI5 'plot'.

Rumours about Margaret's 'colourful' life have long abounded. She was rumoured to have had affairs with lovers including Peter Sellers and, more improbably, Dusty Springfield.

It has also been suggested she had an affair with late tough-guy actor and gangster John Bindon, boyfriend of baronet's daughter Vicki Hodge, an actress and model.

He was a favourite of the princess and once boasted that he impressed her with his party trick of balancing five half-pint beer mugs on his manhood.

One recent book suggested that they conducted a six-month affair which had the authorities so concerned that MI5 was brought in to keep it under wraps.

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Hatton Garden ringleader ‘found photos of Tory MP abusing children during Baker Street
raid and left them for police to discover – but they took no action’

By David Icke on 18th January 2016

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The ringleader of the £14million Hatton Garden heist reportedly found pictures of a Tory MP
abusing children 45 years ago and left them for the police to discover.

After discovering the shocking images in a safe at the bank, the career criminal left them for
police to find.


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Hatton Garden heist leader found sick pictures of Tory child abuser in deposit box on earlier job

07:19, 18 Jan 2016
Updated 12:48, 18 Jan 2016
By Tom Pettifor , Nick Sommerlad


Brian Reader, known as The Guv’nor, and his gang left the pictures on the floor for police to find
– only for the Tory Cabinet minister’s crimes to be hushed up.Hatton Gardens heist boss Brian
Reader was horrified when his gang broke into a bank vault and found sickening photos of a
leading politician abusing children.But the notorious crook was shocked further when the thieves
left the pictures for police to find – only for the Tory Cabinet minister’s crimes to be hushed up.
Reader, known as The Guv’nor, is facing jail for planning last year’s £14million Hatton Garden
raid and claims about his previous high-profile break-in can now be revealed for the first time.

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Mirrorpix Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London where the
vault of the bank holding safe deposit boxes was broken into on the night of 11 September 1971
Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London where the vault of the
bank holding safe deposit boxes was broken into on the night of 11 September 1971


The images are said to have been found stashed in a safety deposit box in 1971 when the gang
tunnelled into a branch of Lloyds in Baker Street, Central London, and escaped with a £3million haul.
A close confidant of 76-year-old career criminal Reader said: “It was a shock for them when they
found photographs of a famous ­politician abusing children.

“The gang were disgusted and left them lying on the floor of the vault for the police to find but nothing was ever done.”

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Dave (Daniel Mays) and Terry (Jason Statham) in Tunnel
Daniel Mays Jason Statham in 2008 movie The Bank Job, which was based on the 1971 raid


Read more: Hatton Garden ringleader ‘found photos of Tory MP abusing children during Baker Street
raid and left them for police to discover – but they took no action’

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