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ANOTHER BBC COVER-UP

Your excellent article by Tom Mangold (THE BIG LIE: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE BBC’S BASHIR COVER-UP, DECEMBER/JANUARY) brought to mind another, and arguably more outrageous, cover-up by the bosses at the Beeb because they used at least £330,000 of taxpayers’ money to do so.

The Balen Report was commissioned by the BBC to put paid to constant complaints of anti-Israel bias. The moment the report was delivered it was

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