It is Mr. Cannon. The Department replied saying that it viewed the allegations very seriously and offered to meet him or make some arrangement whereby he might send information to it by post. At the end of that letter of 29 July, it was stated that Mr. Kinneen would be going on holiday and that, if a letter arrived in the meantime, it would be dealt with immediately upon his return. The next document in the file, for 2 September, is a note of a meeting between Mr. Cannon and the Department, contact having obviously been made some time in August. A further meeting was arranged on 9 September. That meeting finished on the understanding that the Department needed documentary evidence and that, as soon as that was available, it would act.
The next contact was on 4 October, stating that a letter had already gone to the various Ministries in Europe and to the Commission. There was nothing after the meeting of 9 September. No further information was provided to the Department — no files, copies or anything else. Mr.Cannon refused to hand over the file. Although he allowed some information to be noted from it at the meetings, he would not allow any photocopies to be made. He wanted to hold onto it and said that it was his bargaining chip and that he would not hand it over. The Department had no documentary evidence of the allegations other than Mr. Cannon's word up until 4 October, when he said that he was sending the information to Europe.