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Subject: FW. Bradshaw letter

Dear All

You will have received a copy of Ben Bradshaw's letter to all Governors in your packs at the weekend, in which he
sought the Board's view on the senionty of Andrew Gilligan's source

The Chairman has today replied on behalf o` the whole Board The attached PDF file contains both Gavyn's reply and
Ben Bradshaw's original let:er for reference

Wine

Bradshaw Mr Ben
MP.pdf (70 KB) . . .

7ina Stowell
Heac' of Business Administration

- Room 2354 BrDadcasting House

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11 Jul 03 16 : . . .

HO~SE OF COMMONS
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Uavvn Davies OBE
Chair BBC Board of 3overnor
BBC
July 1'-th 2003

Dear Savy,i,

Afte " the governors' meeting on Sunday, yoJ agreec a statement defending the Today,
;rogramme's -s' a-ice on a sM- .1e anonyrnous source for cFe allegaven .hat Downing
Street inserted the 45 minute intel'igence into the I~aq wlv'D dossier, aga nst t,-e wisn es
of the inte!ligence services, proba'DI, knowing it was wrong, on the exceo:ronal grounf s
that the infonrat,on came from a "serior intelligence" source

You v.i!I know that Mr G'A,gan ~~,as rnac= c!ear that he had only one source ;or t.1s story,
and thatthe Foregn Affars Co-rtmr`:ee tourd these very grave and saecific allegacons
to
be untrue .

May I ask, given what has emergec s,rce Your ,^iee;:ng last Sunday, whetlFer vcu
persorally 'emarn confident that And ew Cil'igan's sojrce was irdeed a "senror
i^telligence" source, as yo~ had beer led to be ieve?

!am releasing this letter tc tnL press

VJi ;h very test w shes,

Ben Bradshaw MP

Ben Co nst]tuency Office Parliamentary Ofl Ice

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