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From : Donald Gnffiths

Sent: 11 July 2003 16~35
To : Gavyn Davies, Gavyn Daves & PA-Internet
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Subject : Ben Bradshaw letter to Gavyn Davies

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HOUSE Or COMMONS
LONDON SW1A OAA

uavyn Davies OBE

Chair 83C Board of Governor
BBC
July .11th 2003

Dear Gavyn,

After the governors' meeting on Sunday, you ag~eed a statement defending the Today
programme's reliance on a single anonynous source for the allegabon that Downing
Street iiserted the 45 minute intelligence into the Iraq WMD dossier, agalns : tne wisnes
of the intelligence services, probably knowing it was wrong, on the exceptiona' grou nds
that the information came from a "senior intelligence" source .

You will know that Mr Gill,gan has made clear that he had only one source for tnis story,
a,) d that the Foreign Affairs Committee found these very grave and specific allegauo ns to
be untrue .

May I ask, glven what has emerged since your meeting last Sunday, whether you
personally remain confident that Andrew Gdhgan's source was indeed a "senior
intelligence" source, as you had been led to believe?

I am releasing this letter to the press.

With very best wishes .

Ben Bradshaw NIP

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