https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2018/03/19/hakluyt-company-spying-for-shell/

A Hakluyt director is on record as stating that it is their normal modus operandi to bring in operatives from overseas to engage in spying/intelligence gathering activities. The undercover agents then conveniently leave the legal jurisdiction in which such activities have taken place.

Hakluyt sometimes uses serving secret service agents who carry out assignments on a freelance basis.

Hakluyt also uses investigative journalists for intelligence gathering activities – a perfect cover. See this article from July 2008 about Hakluyt recruiting journalists as spies.

The following are extracts from an article about Hakluyt published by the FT on 23 March 2000 under the headline: “Masters of the great game turn to business”

“The company has over 100 “associates” on its books – some based in London, others at stations worldwide, formed by personal contacts, whose judgement the directors trust absolutely. They might be investigative journalists…”

“When Hakluyt receives an assignment, it calls up to five associates back to London to be briefed and then “deploys” them.”

According to the aforementioned Lubbers book (page 142): “Each associate is given different questions and works independently”.

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Tie to Bo Xilai?

https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/04/12/the-framing-of-bo-xilai/

It is being reported that questions about Heywood’s death were raised, not by his family, but by the "British expatriate community" in Chongqing: this, however, appears to be a euphemism for the British government, as this tweet by William Hague indicates. Heywood’s James Bond-ish persona combined with his business affiliations should cause a few alarm bells to go off about this affair: in addition to his own consulting firm, Heywood-Boddington, the deceased also worked for Hakluyt & Co., founded by former officers of the British spy agency MI-6. Hakluyt is described by one top Australian government security official as "aggressive and invasive" as far as corporate intelligence companies go, and this is borne out by their record: they were caught, in 2001, infiltrating and spying on European "green" groups on behalf of Shell Oil and British Petroleum.

Hakluyt, which also operates as the "Hakluyt Foundation," is part of a pattern established by MI-6 in the 1960s, when several "consultancies" – e.g. Diversified Corporate Services, operating out of Rome, London, and New York – were set up as, essentially, fronts. As one source describes the spookish origins of Hakluyt:

"Set up in 1995 by the late Sir Fitzroy MacLean, with a board that includes a former Royal Dutch Shell managing director and a former BP deputy chair, the Hakluyt Foundation provides leading British businesses with information that clients ‘will not receive by the usual government, media and commercial routes’. Hakluyt’s managing director, Christopher James, was until 1998 in charge of MI6’s liaison with commerce, while a fellow-director, Mike Reynolds, was regarded as one of the Service’s brightest stars."

Heywood’s affiliation with Hakluyt, with its top drawer political and corporate connections – including links to British oil  and mining interests – is a strong indication there’s more to his death than is at first apparent. This is an outfit that sports Javier Solana, former EU foreign minister and NATO secretary-general, and former Senator Bill Bradley on its international "advisory" board. It could be a coincidence that Royal Dutch Shell has recently been granted major oil concessions by the Chinese government – the same leadership clique that opposes Bo.

On the other hand, maybe not.

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https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Grants-Sanction-Waiver-To-BP-Serica-for-Iran-Shared-Field.html

The U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control has granted Serica Energy and BP a license to continue operating the Rhum field in the North Sea, which is partially owned by Iran, Serica said in a press release. The license will also allow the two companies to complete a deal under which Serica will acquire BP’s total share of the field.

The license, valid until the end of October 2019, is subject to several conditions relating to “arrangements being put in place by 4 November 2018 relating to the interest in the Rhum field held by Iranian Oil Company. These arrangements are well advanced and will provide that all benefits accruing from and relating to IOC’s interest in the Rhum field will be held in escrow for such period as U.S. sanctions apply and ensure that neither IOC nor any direct or indirect parent company of IOC will derive any economic benefit from the Rhum field during that period.”

BP, which agreed to sell its 50-percent stake in the Rhum gas field to Serica earlier this year, stopped production in May in anticipation of sanction-related developments. "BP has decided to defer some planned work on the Rhum gas field in the North Sea while we seek clarity on the potential impact on the field of recent US government decisions regarding Iran; Rhum is co-owned by an Iranian company. BP always complies with applicable sanctions," the supermajor said at the time.

Wasn't there some rig that got shut down in the North Sea, Corona or something like that earlier this year?