03-03-2010, 10:34 AM
I sort of assumed this was the case ever since David Frost announced he was moving over to Al Jeezera TV five years ago. I became highly suspicious of Frost over his TV programme on Barings Banks, Nick Leeson. The general thrust that Frost followed in his TV interview was that Leeson was the "lone gunman" in the Barings Bank bust. But the facts simply do not support this.
Thus Frost was promulgating the accepted media view of the time about Leeson, who was not even allowed to arrive in the UK and be arrested here, the domicile and HQ of Barings bank, but was stopped in Germany - when his fight touched down en route to London - and was promptly arrested and then deported back to Singapore for trial and imprisonment.
Not to blat on about this, but Leeson did not operate alone, was specially coached in the techniques he used to defeat the system (such as it was) and, more than that, there is some evidence to suggest Barings was some also involved sort of intelligence operation --- shortly after the collapse, the well known spook "fixer" from Mi5, Sir John Cuckney, was seen entering the building.
Thus Frost was promulgating the accepted media view of the time about Leeson, who was not even allowed to arrive in the UK and be arrested here, the domicile and HQ of Barings bank, but was stopped in Germany - when his fight touched down en route to London - and was promptly arrested and then deported back to Singapore for trial and imprisonment.
Not to blat on about this, but Leeson did not operate alone, was specially coached in the techniques he used to defeat the system (such as it was) and, more than that, there is some evidence to suggest Barings was some also involved sort of intelligence operation --- shortly after the collapse, the well known spook "fixer" from Mi5, Sir John Cuckney, was seen entering the building.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14