BBC pays disgraced Holocaust denier for his input in 7/7 conspiracy film
You couldn’t make this up.
The BBC paid expenses to a disgraced academic who has pestered families bereaved by the 7/7 bombs, claiming the attacks were an intelligence agency plot.
Nicholas Kollerstrom was paid by the corporation for his part in Conspiracy Files, a documentary about theories surrounding the terrorist outrage.
He has admitted he phoned the father of one victim to tell him how he believed the man's daughter's body had been planted at the site of the Tavistock Square bus bombing.
The victim's family has described the phone call and subsequent claims posted on a website as 'very upsetting'.
He has also been accused of pestering the relatives of victims and survivors of 7/7.
Dr Kollerstrom believes the four bombers who murdered 52 people almost three years ago were 'innocent patsies', set up by a combination of the British, US and Israeli secret services.
The BBC has paid an undisclosed sum in expenses to Dr Kollerstrom, who is believed to have a PhD in astronomy, for his part in the BBC 2 programme.
A spokesman for the corporation confirmed Dr Kollerstrom had been paid expenses for such things as rail travel but not a fee and added: 'The BBC's Conspiracy Files series investigates whether there is any truth to the many conspiracy theories which have grown up around terrorist attacks.
'Nicholas Kollerstrom has advanced a number of theories about these attacks which will be investigated in detail by the BBC.'
Dr Kollerstrom was last month stripped of an honorary research fellowship at University College London after it emerged he had written a paper entitled The Auschwitz "Gas Chamber" Illusion on a far-Right website - claiming it was like a holiday camp where inmates sunned themselves by an 'elegant' swimming pool and listened to orchestras.
Dr Kollerstrom stood by his claims of a conspiracy surrounding the attacks and said: 'I have always felt these four lads were very non-violent by nature and didn't want to harm anybody and I am not convinced they did it.'
Posted on 06/10/2008 6:12 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Comments
10 Jun 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald
He really should cut to the chase, embrace Islam, and move to Saudi Arabia, where he can, like Dr. Bucaille, be trotted out as "one more example" of "highly-trained" Westerners who have discovered the "truth of Islam." Everyone will feel better, all way round.
