The new Madeleine McCann Re-Investigation: Jim Gamble doesn't ...

Clarence Mitchell, the Head of the government's Media Monitoring Unit
at the time, whose job, he boasted, was ‘to control what comes out in the
media’. He flew out to Praia da Luz on 22 May, 19 days after Madeleine
was reported missing, but had already been put in charge of the
government’s media operation on the Madeleine mystery from Day One.
He was transferred from the Central Office of Information to the Foreign
and Commonwealth Office on 7 May. It was Mitchell who also boasted
that before coming to Praia da Luz he had persuaded Cardinal Cormac
Murphy O'Connor to arrange for the McCanns to meet the Pope, which
they did at the end of May.
At least three police officers from Leicestershire Police, including
Detective Superintendent Bob Small (who advised Jane Tanner on 13
May shortly before she adamantly identified Robert Murat as the
abductor she'd seen 10 days earlier).
Sheree Dodd from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other staff
from that office.
A number of British Embassy and Consular Officials
Kenneth Farrow and Michael Keenan from Control Risks Group
(CRG): These two men from CRG had discussions with the McCanns
and were certainly there within days, despite Dr Gerald McCann saying
in late May to a TV interviewer that they had ‘no plans to employ private
investigators’. Mr Farrow is the ex-head of the Economic Crime Unit in
the City of London Police and Mr Keenan an ex-Superintendent from the
Metropolitan Police with specialist fraud and investigative experience.
Alan Pike and Martin Alderton, Consultants from the Centre for
Crisis Psychology (CCP): CCP is a shadowy group based in Skipton,
Yorkshire, known for their role in ‘disaster counseling’. It sent out two of
its top people the very day after Madeleine disappeared, to give
‘counseling’ to the McCanns. They came out extremely early indeed,
considering that there was at that time a very real possibility that
Madeleine could still be found. A report dated 14 May 2007 in the
Craven Herald [Yorkshire Newspaper] carried the following report:
“Two specialist trauma counselors from Skipton have flown out to
Portugal to help the devastated parents of missing four-year-old
Madeleine McCann…The two experts were appointed by Mark Warner,
the company which manages the resort, to assist Mr and Mrs McCann,
both 38, on how best to deal with the stress and trauma of their terrible
ordeal…Mr Pike, who is leading the team, flew over to the resort with
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