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Anya Dettman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">EAST TIMOR STUDIES MAILING LIST</pre>
<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Times New Roman">Jill Jolliffe has
reported on East Timor since the invasion of then Portuguese Timor by
Indonesia in 1975. She is the author of a number of highly respected
works, including “Cover-Up: The Inside Story of the Balibo 5” <br>
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Those interested in or still researching the Balibo incident should be
aware that Andrew McNaughtan wrote a long critique of Ms, Jolliffes's
book "Cover Up". His document runs for some 80 pages. It's very
"technical" and deals with the finer details about witnesses discussed
in Ms Jolliffe's book. The information he lays out is from his
correspondence, research notes and travels to Portugal to interview
witnesses. I've copied the intro. from the document below.
McNaughtan wrote this dissertation with the intention of putting it in
the public domain, to clear his name so to speak from certain innuendos
about his professionalism and integrity made by Ms Jolliffe in her
book. He was deeply offended by the book and wished to set the record
straight, but never got around to publishing it before he died in
December 2003. Those interested in a copy for genuine research
purposes may write to the undersigned. <br>
.<br>
Regards, <br>
<br>
-- Geoff McKee<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
"IN RESPONSE TO THE BOOK ‘COVER UP’ BY JILL JOLLIFFE"<br>
<br>
INTRODUCTION<br>
<br>
This piece is written in several parts to clarify a number of matters
in response to representations in the book ‘Cover Up’ written by Jill
Jolliffe. There are three sections to what follows.<br>
<br>
Part 1 is Andrew McNaughtan’s defence against allegations by Jill
Jolliffe in the book ‘Cover Up’ of ‘trickery’ and ‘falsification’. <br>
<br>
Part 2 outlines important matters concerning the credibility or
otherwise of key witnesses whose testimony appears to have been
misrepresented by Jolliffe. The (false) testimony of one of these
witnesses had a significant impact on investigations of Balibo. I
(Andrew McNaughtan) believe there is a need to balance the record about
the background and testimony of these two significant witnesses who
gave evidence to Tom Sherman and with whom Jolliffe and I were both
involved. Jolliffe and I had diametrically opposing views of the
credibility of these two witnesses. This background may be of wider
interest and relevance to understanding the events at Balibo and how
they were dealt with by Tom Sherman. I believe Jolliffe’s book
misrepresents these matters to the readers.<br>
<br>
Part 3 outlines some of the evidence relating to Indonesian
foreknowledge of the journalists presence at Balibo and pre-meditated
intentions towards them. As I was reading ‘Cover Up’ I realised that it
dealt poorly with these two important questions – did the
Indonesian-led attacking force have foreknowledge of the presence of
the
journalists in Balibo? And if so, did they have any premeditated
intentions towards them? So the last 10 pages look at some of the
evidence from various sources related to this question. <br>
<br>
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[ends]
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