David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".

* 17-Dr. David Kelly, 59 ( suicide ), former United Nations weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about Britain's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.

There were allegations that the dossier was " sexed up " prior to publication in order to bolster the case for military action.

Evidence that the wording of the dossier was " strengthened " was presented to the Hutton Inquiry, a judicial review set up to investigate the circumstances leading up to the death of an eminent government weapons expert, David Kelly, who had criticised the wording of the dossier in off-the-record briefings to journalists.

The allegations were backed by Johansson, and the dossier was handed to the Swiss authorities, but they cleared Blatter of any wrongdoing and FIFA had to pay all the costs.

It has been conjectured that Mussolini had collected a secret dossier on Umberto, but this folder ( which is said to have been found after the dictator was shot ), was never seen publicly.

In December 1969, Monsignor Duquaire's dossier, which included a five hour taped interview with a fugitive Touvier, was handed over to the pardons commission.

The report alleged that a dossier the British Government had produced to convince the British public of the need to invade Iraq was deliberately exaggerated, and that the government had known this prior to publishing it.

In his live 2-way ( interview with presenter John Humphrys ), just after 6. 07 a. m., Gilligan asserted that the Government " probably knew " that one of the main claims in its dossier " was wrong ".

During the Iraq Inquiry, Hoon said that the first he knew of the 45 minute Iraq weapon claim was when he read it in the dossier on Iraq's weapons in September 2002.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe relates in his Italian Journey that the identification of Cagliostro with Giuseppe Balsamo was ascertained by a lawyer from Palermo who, upon official request, had sent a dossier with copies of the pertinent documents to France.

Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University who was the subject of a critical dossier on the website, suggested that the Campus Watch campaign was an attempt to silence legitimate criticism, " by tarring it with the brush of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, truly loathsome charges.

Claims later leaked in May 2003 that the dossier was " sexed up " under pressure from Downing Street will lead to a media furore, and the apparent suicide of weapons inspector David Kelly.

Machel issued a dossier to Frontline States with evidence that Banda was still supporting the insurgents in spite of the 1984 agreement to stop.

For example, the term was used in July 2003 by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw (" a complete Horlicks ") to describe irregularities in the preparation and provenance of a dossier regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

On publication, serious press comment was generally critical of the dossier for tameness and for the seeming lack of any genuinely new evidence.

Those politically opposed to military action against Iraq generally agreed that the dossier was unremarkable, with Menzies Campbell observing in the House of Commons that:

Major General Michael Laurie, one of those involved in producing the dossier wrote to the Chilcot inquiry in 2011 saying " the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence, and that to make the best out of sparse and inconclusive intelligence the wording was developed with care.

After judgement had been pronounced, the dossier was given back to Mercier, who had it pulled to pieces, and later on destroyed the biographical notice.

Allusion has been made several times ( since 1894 ) to a second " ultra-secret ” dossier that was composed of photographs of papers stolen from, and then given up to, the German embassy ; namely, seven letters from Dreyfus, and one said to be from the Emperor of Germany to Count Münster, naming Dreyfus.

The JIC recently played a controversial role in compiling a dossier in which the UK government set out the threat posed by Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction in the run up to war.

The British Government is found not to have falsified information in the " sexed up dossier.

Amidst internal divisions, FIFA's secretary-general Blatter's deputy and former protégé Michel Zen-Ruffinen drew up a 30-page dossier outlining allegations of financial mismanagement within the organisation.

The dossier alleged that the collapse of FIFA's marketing partner ISL had led to losses of up to $ 100m under Blatter's management.

A PR firm hired by Big Tobacco initiates a smear campaign against Wigand, dredging up details about his life and publishing a 500-page dossier.

Ironically, the two men ended up on opposite sides in the Chechen wars, during which Taramov sponsored a pro-Russian Chechen militia ( Sobaka magazine's dossier on Basayev reported that Taramov apparently equipped or " outfitted " this group of pro-Russian Chechens ; they were also known as " Shamil Hunters ").

In a statement, he admitted making mistakes and also stated, " The government did sex up the dossier, transforming possibilities and probabilities into certainties, removing vital caveats ".

In 2003 he was one of three reporters to use David Kelly as a source for the BBC story claiming that the British Government had " sexed up " a dossier describing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Hayden explained that he was not comfortable with the OSP's analysis: " I got three great kids, but if you tell me go out and find all the bad things they've done, Hayden, I can build you a pretty good dossier, and you'd think they were pretty bad people, because that was what I was looking for and that's what I'd build up.

Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton explained the term " sexed up " when used by the BBC as " a slang expression, the meaning of which lacks clarity in the context of the dossier ...

Gilligan's 29 May 2003 report on Today — that the British government had " sexed up " the intelligence dossier on Iraq, a report broadcast after Liddle had left the programme — began a chain of events that included the death in July that year of David Kelly, the weapons inspector who was Gilligan's source, and the subsequent Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances of Kelly's death.

When the other traditionally top-rated vineyards of Vosne-Romanée were being classified in the 1930s as the AOC system was introduced, owner Henri Lamarche did not apply for Grand Cru status and La Grande Rue therefore remained a Premier Cru: " the explanation is that when the official classification was drawn up he believed there was nothing to be gained except perhaps increased taxes ... the domaine Lamarche from 1985 finally succeeded after a long and persistent campaign in persuading the authorities to reclassify it as grand cru, chiefly on the ground that it shares the same soil band as its neighbours "</ ref > The Great Domaines of Burgundy by Remington Norman & Charles Taylor, Kyle Cathie, 2010, p. 69 </ ref ; and the INAO approved the dossier on 8 – 9 November 1989 andbut due to a political delay the actual decree did not go into effect until 8 July 1992.

The same month, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee ( which was investigating the veracity of the claims in the dossier ) that the statement in the dossier rested on separate evidence which was still under review, and that this specific intelligence had not been shared with the CIA.

In this age of civil servants using computers and information technology, a legacy from the administration of the Spanish Empire can still be observed where some parts of the higher levels of the Spanish administration continue the tradition of using red tape to bind important dossiers that need to be discussed and to keep them bound in red tape when the dossier is closed.

This dossier, revised and put into a sealed envelope by Mercier himself, with the cooperation of Boisdeffre and of Sandherr, was to be communicated only to the judges in the room where they held their deliberations, without either the accused or his counsel having been able to see it.

The dossier, published by The National Archives, mentions that according to one investigator, Orwell had " advanced Communist views and several of his Indian friends say that they have often seen him at Communist meetings.

A dossier on sedevacantism by the Society of St. Pius X of Canada.

Hitler liked Ernst Röhm and initially refused to believe the dossier provided by Heydrich.

Intrigued rather than offended by Count Alfred's dossier, Queen Louise invites him to dinner.

Himmler and his deputy Heydrich, chief of the SS Security Service ( the SD ), assembled a dossier of manufactured evidence to suggest that Röhm had been paid twelve million marks by France to overthrow Hitler.

The dossier on the murder, compiled at Franco's request and referred to by Gibson and others, has yet to surface.

* Sections of a new ' dossier ' issued by the UK government, which purports to present the latest British intelligence about Iraq, and which has been cited by Tony Blair and Colin Powell as evidence for the need for war, are criticized as plagiarisms.

In " The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot " by Thomas Maeder, Petiot's life, his crimes and the subsequent trial are re-constructed from the long-secret official court dossier as well as survivor interviews.

Kelly had been the source for reports made by three BBC journalists that the Government, particularly the press office of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, had knowingly embellished the dossier with misleading exaggerations of Iraq's military capabilities ; specifically, a claim that Iraq had the ability to launch a strike using " weapons of mass destruction " within 45 minutes.

Contributions in administration, course organisation can compensate for a less substantial research dossier in some rare cases as the evaluation is primarily done by external and often foreign referees.

* ( edited by Serge Thion ) Vérité historique ou vérité politique: le dossier de l ’ affaire Faurisson: la question des chambres à gaz, Paris: La Vieille Taupe, 1980.

" Then, aware of the defects of the evidence, he ordered that a secret dossier should be prepared by collecting from the drawers of the Intelligence Department whatever documents concerning spies could more or less be ascribed to Dreyfus.

But, contrary to instructions, Major Henry reconstituted the secret dossier, added to it Du Paty's explanatory note ( which last was destroyed by Mercier in 1897 ), and locked it in the iron chest where Picquart afterwards found it.

# The opening of a secret dossier, followed by disclosures.

The disposition of the minister ( Darlan ) was not unfavorable to the adoption of this course ; and it is worthy of note that the new facts which were allowed later by the court were at that moment easy to establish ; namely, the resemblance between Esterhazy's writing and that of the bordereau and the communication of the secret dossier to the judges.

An extraordinary piece of information ( which was immediately contradicted ) was printed by L ' Intransigeant ( 12 December-14 December ); it was attributed to the confidences of Pauffin, and it dealt with the " ultra-secret " dossier ( the photographs of letters from and to Emperor William about Dreyfus ).