Chapter 41: Who is the Fat Controller?

Who is The Fat Controller ?

One of the issues which lurks in the background of this saga and bothers researchers is the question of who it is organising and coordinating the “Official Story’; the timing of the releases of information and ‘revelations’, and the blatant invention of sightings and stories designed to give weight to the “Official Story” at each stage of its long metamorphosis.
Those who have devoted 14 years of their spare time to this Complete Mystery may be forgiven for suspecting that there is a single malign entity at the helm.

We can investigate this through the technique of Information Flow Analysis, and create some rudimentary charts similar to those generated by the ANACAPA system

We focus on the WHO ? questions
Who HAS the information? Who HAD the information?
And if someone now has it who is not a first-hand witness, what is the possible link, what is the route by which the information travelled?

It is irrelevant whether the information is true or even accurate.
Paradoxically it is more easy to track false and invented information, since there is no chance of a third party innocently having discovered or invented it for themselves.

The techniques of the “Canary trap”, and the “Barium Meal Test” are well known and documented in the world of counter-espionage and counter-intelligence, and can be used even in everyday situations.
Marking notes, numbering copies, and typing onto photosensitive paper are well known techniques.

Let us give a simple example from the workplace :–
An employee is suspected of leaking information to the press, and we know the Press are are now in possession of a copy of a document.
I prepare another document.
The original in my possession reads     “This document is not to be copied”
The copy for Employee A reads             “This document is not to be photocopied.”
The copy for Employee B reads.            “This document is not to be photo-copied”
When a copy is found I can then tell whether my secretary has copied it, or whether employee A or B is responsible. Trapped by a hyphen or a full stop.

Let us go back to the beginning

Consider the first [false] story about the forced, broken, smashed and jemmied shutters and the open window. We can be certain that this information got to the press from relatives and friends who in turn got it directly from the McCanns. Because they told us so. On the record. All of them

But even if they had not told us, the McCanns were the only ones in possession of that [false] information, and so it cannot have some from any other source.

This is what they would like us to think. All very direct and straightforward, even though, strangely, McCann supporters deny this is what happened, and insist that no claim about the shutters was ever made. 

In fact what we have discovered was this.

We have wondered for 14 years what could possibly have possessed the McCanns to open their campaign with such a series of blatant untruths, when it must have been obvious to them, and to the Tapas 7, that they would be exposed as the sun came up, so soon as the first independent observer looked at the shutters in question.

We are thus led into a place we do not wish to be. Into a Conspiracy Theory.
Most Conspiracy Theories are nonsense, nothing more than the product of overactive minds incapable of sifting through observable facts and admitting that there are gaps in knowledge.

This is probably no different [before anyone goes rushing off to Libel Lawyers ! ]
But it may not be.

Several followers of this case have seen the influence of people who would not normally have been involved in a case of a small girl missing in a foreign country, beyond some anodyne statement that “the department is keeping the matter under review . . .”

We therefore tentatively posit the existence of some one, or some group, manipulating and controlling the entire Saga, right from the start.
We have no idea who he, or she, or they may be, though several of the Usual Suspects present themselves.

Let us for sake of lightheartedness, and to show that we are not necessarily being serious, refer to this person or entity as The Fat Controller.

Now the story involving the shutters, relatives and Press begins to look different.

The Fat Controller must be in possession of the truth from the start, and will then work out a strategy of misinformation to push into the public domain the “Official Story” we know only too well by now.

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-3-curtains-door-and-windows.html

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Applying this possibility, ridiculous as it may be, to other episodes may help to make clear what was previously obscure. In the Gusmaroli story we may seriously suspect the presence of a controlling hand.

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-20-spot-water-slide.html

Gusmaroli cannot POSSIBLY have known about Madeleine’s clothing either on Sunday 29th April, or on Thursday 3rd May.
She was not told it by Mrs Boyd, who had no reason to recall it, nor by the McCanns.
Therefore . .
Someone TOLD Gusmaroli what to include.

The fact that Gusmaroli’s story is slightly at odds with the image in the Pool Photo is not important.
The fact that the story includes a top and skirt rather than a swimming costume, a sun hat, and includes the slide even though it is identified as a “waterslide”, rather than the one on the Wendy House is paradoxically an indication that she did know what she had to include.

Similarly with the day and date and time of the alleged encounter.

After 14 years of research and investigation we know that the Pool Photo was not and cannot POSSIBLY have been taken at lunchtime on Thursday 3/5/7.
So who told her to include that exact time, day and date ?

This is what Gusmaroli would like us to believe

In fact we now know that the Information Flow Diagram should look more like this, with Mrs Boyd giving a very limited amount of information, but Gusmaroli inventing the “facts”.

The possibility of a Fat Controller might make the whole episode more comprehensible.
The information can ONLY come from the McCanns, and has to reach Gusmaroli somehow

At its simplest it might look like this. G&K pass accurate information to The Fat Controller, who then gives instructions to Gusmaroli to ensnare an unsuspecting Boyd, and pass the false report to First.

But it becomes increasingly likely that something more complex is involved
The Fat Controller is now also controlling G&K, and probably First, to remain in control of the whole thing.

And the reason for this is that the same Fat controller who organised the First article must also have been involved in the alteration of the date of the Pool photo, so that the two things coincided in time and place, as well as in details of clothing.
Again, the fact that the article got scrambled and distorted does not detract from this.

To digress slightly on this point.
It is not difficult to see how the Gusmaroli story ended up as it did
Picture if you will, the scene.

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(A phone rings.)

This is Roger. Listen carefully, I shall only say this once ! You are to say that after lunch on Thursday 3rd May Madeleine was wearing a sun hat, a pink top, white shorts, and was with her mother and playing on the slide in the play area next to the pool.

Have you got that?

G:

Err Yes. I think so, pink hat, sun top . . . can you say it again, Roger, and I’ll just write it down

Roger:

NO. This call did not take place. There must be no record of it anywhere, and you must never admit it took place. That is extremely important. You must never discuss it with anyone. Do you understand ?

G:

Roger, Roger. I’ll Just keep repeating it until I get back to the apartment and my lap top –

(Replaces phone)

Straw hat . . No, that’s wrong, pink Sun hat, pink top, um, dress, … No, skirt, . . . mother on the slide in the pool after lunch. No that's wrong. Mother is watching so must be on a sun chair

Yes that’s it. Sun hat, pink top, skirt, slide into the pool, after lunch, sun chair - what’s a sun chair?

Sun hat, pink top, skirt, waterslide, afternoon, sun-lounger

Sun hat, pink top, blue skirt, waterslide, afternoon, sun-lounger

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This will be familiar to almost everyone. As with the party game of Chinese Whispers peripheral details get lost and added. Sometimes an original detail re-appears, particularly when it is an obvious or likely addition.

The close coordination of the timing of the release of the Pool Photo and the Gusmaroli / First article might lead us to suspect something like this.

Here we can track the flow of information in the two simultaneous events, with the Fat Controller coordinating the two stories. On the left is the Gusmaroli / First story and in perfect synchrony on the right is the preparation and release into the public domain of the Pool Photo, with its all important DATE in the EXIF Metadata

For those who need reminding, none of this could have happened between 10pm and midnight on Thursday 3/5/7. This took some considerable time to coordinate.
https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-39-beyond-reasonable-waterslide.html

The Photo was released on 23rd May, and the first Magazine appeared on the shelves on 21st May

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Now let us think back to the egregious Jon Clarke and his part in this sorry saga. We find several indications that he may have started as a bit of a maverick, operating outside instructions in the early days, but then that he was reined in tighter as time went on.

His nonsensical lie about the deep trench directly outside the apartment, repeated on the Netflix film, for example, DIRECTLY challenges the “official story” in that it implies the possibility of the Woke and Wandered followed by accident scenario, but with the body being unaccountably missed by searchers, dogs, police and family over the next weeks and months, even though it lay within two metres of the gate.

https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/07/chapter-33-jon-clarke-entrenched-lies.html

His three (at least) different lies about meeting and speaking to the McCanns add nothing, except to underline his habitual mendacity.

But later there are indications of higher control. We recall that he wrote exclusively for News Corp, the Murdoch press, despite having a young newspaper of his own. Whether that is a factor we may never know.

Read again the chapter on the Angolan Bouncer. Clarke uses a risible and pathetic passive evasive construction when his explanation consists of “I found myself inadvertently interviewing an Angolan chap”.

Claiming to have “found myself” in Huelva, more than 3 hours drive from home, and “interviewing” a man who claims to have material evidence in the case of a young girl abducted by Paedophiles – “inadvertently”, is a ludicrous distortion of language. It is simply not true, as we have sadly grown to expect from him.

To re-cap as briefly as I can, the Angolan was handing in to the Spanish police, in the presence of his lawyer, a dossier about an international child-smuggling ring which had taken Madeleine to the USA. Clarke wrote a lurid story complete with full face photo, and strangely, a photograph of the gentleman in question in an office with piles of documents on the desk in front of him. That he did this to a man allegedly in fear of his life, or at least of losing some more teeth, emphasises what we all really suspect about the story.

We were given no details of location, persons present, time, date or anything which would enable further enquiries to be made. Only the gentleman’s full name. That enabled a quick internet search which revealed that one of the mainstays of the story – that he had “fled to Spain” (or perhaps – just crossed the invisible and unmanned border between two Schengen area countries) was an invention, by one or the other of the people concerned, as it was clear that not only had he lived in Huelva for some some, but had been instrumental in the success of the local basketball team in a Regional or National competition a year or so before.

Again this has all the hall marks of coordination, or Command and Control, by The Fat Controller
Let me summarise from the Chapter
https://whatreallyhappenedtomadeleinemccann.blogspot.com/2016/08/chapter-34-decline-and-fall-of-modern.html

Consider:
Ronda to Huelva is 223 km, by car. Approx. 2 hours 40 Min. Allowing for time to park, locate protagonists, coffee, comfort, introduction and explanations we can safely allow 3 hours. Each way.

If we then suppose an absolute minimum of 2 hours interview, in order to investigate, to probe and cross check the information being supplied, read the dossier, discuss with the lawyer what details could and could not be published, organise and agree the photographs, and negotiate and finalise contract for the fee payable both to the interviewee and his lawyer, we are looking at a full 8 hour day.

What can we deduce ?
Someone had to learn of the events about to take place; or to make sure they did;
had to speak to the Angolan Bouncer and/or his lawyer;
had to contact a friendly and complaint journalist;
had to coordinate the date, time and place of the interview;
had to ensure an interpreter was present, or was not necessary;
had to arrange fees and expenses for interviewer AND interviewee;
had to ensure that the finished article was sent to The Sun and nowhere else;
and much much more.

This did not happen by accident or happenstance.

Is not this more likely ?

The same hand is seen controlling and coordinating. The question is who is The fat controller

And again, to labour the point with another blatant example
Go back to Clarke’s first visit to PdL. I recap from Chapter 32

Clarke claims in print on the record to have arrived at 11:45.
We charitably supposed he meant Spanish time (BST + 1), which gives us 10:45 Portuguese Time (BST = WEST)
But that implies that he left home at 0730 Spanish, 0630 Portuguese

In fact he is known and can be proved to be in PdL at the absolute latest by 0945 Portuguese time, 10;45 Spanish, which implies he must have left home at 0630 Spanish, 0530 Portuguese and UK, well over an hour before he claims to have left.
If we allow for time for Clarke to find PdL, find the locus, park, find relief, orientate himself, meet and introduce himself to the GNR officers and present his journalistic credentials, meet and introduce himself to the several other journalists who were – contrary to his repeated lies – gathered in front of the apartment building [ He is on film doing this] then the time may be pushed back at least another 15 or 30 minutes
His fuller story was that he received one or more phone calls, and that “I was on the road half an hour later”.
As I showed in Chapter 32 this puts the time of the phone call/s at 0600 Spanish time, or 0500 Portuguese and British time, at the very latest.

So by 0500 the British press – as a whole not just one paper – knew, knew, that this story was worth sending a journalist from a neighbouring country. They had had time to brief the various levels of organisation, trawl their contact lists, and to select a pliant reporter, even though he lived 4 hours away, when Len Port another ex-pat reporter, who speaks Portuguese, lives less than 20 minutes from PdL.
This again pushed the knowledge of the importance of the Story to 0400,

Which in turn makes the suggestion of planning by a Fat Controller rather less ludicrous.

There is very high level censorship and involvement in this case.
Someone organised Carter-Ruck to officially offer “pro bono” legal help.
The saga has involved one death, possibly two, possibly more; Libel actions resulting in awards of substantial damages; One High Court case leading to a sentence of imprisonment and financial ruin; Books banned from the Amazon website; books banned from sale; comments banned from on-line news outlets. One emigration.

There is no doubt that the pressure on journalists will be now be very great to continue to toe the party line and push the “Official Story” even as it changes and bends with the prevailing winds.
After 14 years how many of them would willing admit they were wrong all along and name and shame the organisers ?

Should one feel a certain sympathy ? Perhaps. Or perhaps not.

The question remains unanswered –

Who is The Fat Controller ?