Downer’s version, however, is the one that matters. But that version is quite murky. The High Commissioner has contradicted himself numerous times about the event and failed to answer pointed questions about whether he was spying on me. Some reports stated he spoke directly with the US deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in London, Elizabeth Dibble, about our meeting. Later, I would find out that Dibble was in close touch with embassy operatives Gregory Baker and Terrence Dudley, who were monitoring me as well. The most widely reported sequence of events is that within forty-eight hours
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