Pilger said the authority for a public interest immunity certificate – a gagging order – signed by the then defence secretary, Tom King, was presented to the judge.
"Evidence regarding the SAS and the security services, such as MI6, which might have been produced as evidence … would be challenged," wrote Pilger.
A long-standing friend of Geidt, the journalist William Shawcross, wrote in the Guardian on 15 May 2013 that Pilger's account of the suppressed evidence in the trial was "bluster" and that it was "nonsense" for anyone to suggest that government "gagging" had prevented him from defending his case. "
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/31/royal-insider-sir-christopher-geidt
-Whatever Geidt's involvement or not any reasonably well informed person at the time knew of the rumours that the SAS were training the Khmer: of course this would always be subject to official state censorship.
Interestingly from the horses mouth Kit Klarenburg recently dug this up from an interview with "Former SAS member Chris Ryan, 47... best-selling author and TV presenter." in "thisismoney.co.uk":
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/meandmymoney/article-1670081/Chris-Ryan-Me--money.html
-Pilger was once again correct: Geidt's involvement or not an incidental detail.
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