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Someone else other than his own employee that is -- Henri Paul the driver in the August 31, 1997 fatal crash who was found by the French courts to be responsible because he was drunk and taking anti-depressants at the time. (Fayed claims the driver's blood samples were switched in the hospital.)
This month a federal appeals court panel upheld a lower court ruling denying Mohamed Fayed access to U.S. intelligence records related to the 1997 deaths.
Fayed, owner of Harrods department store in London, sued the Central Intelligence Agency seeking documents that he said included information from monitoring of Diana's telephone conversations.
National Security Agency officials said in 1998 they picked up some references to her in its monitoring but they were "casual and incidental." The agencies said Diana was never a target of U.S. intelligence efforts.
A federal court turned down Fayed's request for CIA records on July 17, 2000, saying a government agency could not be defined as a "person" that by law could be compelled by subpoena to hand over documents.
Fayed apparently instructed his attorneys to appeal the ruling, indicating that he is still not ready to give up his theory that the deaths resulted from a murder conspiracy carried out by people who disapproved of Diana's relationship with his son.
• Another Conspiracy Theory
Immediately following the fatal crash, Fayed tried to blame the photographers who were following the couple, but the French Courts eventually cleared them of charges, while severely criticizing their actions before the crash and at the scene.The next theory advanced by Fayed was the possible collision with another vehicle before the crash -- a white Fiat Uno. However, police examined more than 15,000 vehicles during their investigation and the suspect Fiat was never found, prompting some to refer to it as the "Fiat on the Grass Knoll" -- a reference to Kennedy Assassination conspiracies.
In November 1999, Fayed stated in court that Prince Philip had masterminded a secret service plot to murder his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales. Fayed claimed Prince Philip had masterminded it because he "has German blood and Nazi views." The claims were called "wild and groundless" by British government representatives.
The recent actions filed in the U.S. Courts to gain access to CIA files, is the latest advancement by Fayed of that conspiracy theory, but the fact remains that Henri Paul, who was not expected to be called back to work that night, was three-times over the French drunk driving legal limit and taking prescription drugs "incompatible with alcohol" at the time of the crash.
What Mohamed Fayed apparently refuses to accept is the tragic crash that killed his son and Princess Diana was simply the most infamous drunk driving case of all time.
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