The long-awaited report of Lord Stevens into the death of Princess Diana will be released this week. It's already known that the report dismisses all the conspiracy theories and places the blame squarely on the drunk chauffeur.
An interesting sidelight to emerge, however, has nothing to do with the accident. In the course of his enquiries, Lord Stevens has received an acknowledgement that Diana's phone was bugged - by the Americans:
"Reports last night claimed that the US secret service was bugging the Princess's telephone conversations right up to the night she died. The Observer says that the US has admitted in the Stevens report that it listened to Diana's phone calls. Lord Stevens is understood to have been assured that the 39 documents detailing the conversations did not contain any information that might explain her death. No explanation for the alleged bugging was offered.
"Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, said: 'There have been rumours that Princess Diana was being bugged by the Americans, so I am not entirely surprised. But it is a major constitutional issue. The question is whether the Americans were doing it themselves or the British government had outsourced it to the Americans to achieve deniability.'"
As for the report itself:
"Lord Stevens' detectives have interviewed hundreds of witnesses and as in the case of Mr Paul's blood samples new techniques have been applied to existing evidence. The inquiry shipped the car in which Diana died, a Mercedes S, to London to carry out exhaustive tests, recreating the incident on a computer model. The only credible explanation was the same reached by the 8,000-word French inquiry that Mr Paul lost control of his car after it hit the 13th pillar of the underpass, with tragic consequences."
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