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7/7 was an MI5 plot, Holocaust denier claims in BBC film
Robert Mendick and Jonny Paul, Evening Standard
10.06.08
The BBC paid expenses to a disgraced academic who has pestered
families bereaved by the 7/7 bombs, claiming the attacks were an
intelligence agency plot.
Nicholas Kollerstrom was paid by the cor****ation for his part in
Conspiracy Files, a do***entary about theories surrounding the
terrorist outrage.
He has admitted he phoned the father of one victim to tell him how he
believed the man's daughter's body had been planted at the site of the
Tavistock Square bus bombing. The victim's family has described the
phone call and subsequent claims posted on a website as "very
upsetting".
He has also been accused of pestering relatives of victims and
survivors of 7/7.
Dr Kollerstrom believes the four bombers who murdered 52 people almost
three years ago were "innocent patsies", set up by a combination of
the British, US and Israeli secret services.
Dr Kollerstrom was last month stripped of an honorary research
fellow****p at University College London after it emerged he had
written a paper entitled The Auschwitz "Gas Chamber" Illusion on a far-
Right website - claiming it was like a holiday camp where inmates
sunned themselves by an "elegant" swimming pool and listened to
orchestras.
Sean Cassidy, 60, whose 22-year-old son Ciaran was killed in the blast
at Russell Square Tube, said today: "It is appalling the BBC are
paying this man's expenses. They should not be giving him a platform.
"This programme is disgraceful and we can do without it. The families
are aware of this man but have been trying to avoid him. He has caused
a lot of upset."
John Taylor, whose daughter Carrie died at Aldgate, said: "For the BBC
to actually fund somebody like this is totally disgraceful. One or two
families have been sent nasty videos of conspiracy theories and it is
not very nice. He is helping the terrorists more than anything and I
am not happy with the BBC giving him a platform."
The BBC has paid an undisclosed sum in expenses to Dr Kollerstrom, who
is believed to have a PhD in astronomy, for his part in the BBC 2
programme. A spokesman for the cor****ation confirmed Dr Kollerstrom
had been paid expenses for such things as rail travel but not a fee
and added: "The BBC's Conspiracy Files series investigates whether
there is any truth to the many conspiracy theories which have grown up
around terrorist attacks. Nicholas Kollerstrom has advanced a number
of theories about these attacks which will be investigated in detail
by the BBC."
Dr Kollerstrom, 61, from Belsize Park, said the cor****ation had paid
his expenses for trips to Leeds, where he attempted to meet the family
of the 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan and relatives of the other
bombers.
Dr Kollerstrom took flowers to the parents of Aldgate bomber Shehzad
Tanweer but they refused to see him.
Dr Kollerstrom denied he was harassing the bombers' victims but
admitted he was wrong to phone the father of one victim who died at
Tavi-stock Square, to explore his theory that the victim may not have
been on the No 30 bus at all.
The ex-academic said: "It was wrong to do that but somebody urged me
to do it because they said it was vital information. I raised the
question 'was she on the bus?' and the family were very upset because
they are convinced she was on the bus... I just don't know.
"It is a possibility this victim was not on the bus and her body was
placed besides the wreckage at a later time."
Dr Kollerstrom stood by his claims of a conspiracy surrounding the
attacks and said: "I have always felt these four lads were very non-
violent by nature and didn't want to harm anybody and I am not
convinced they did it."
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