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Hello ErrantX! I have randomly selected you to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Air France Flight 447#RfC - What "Summary" should the Accident have?. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! There's been a very long discussion on the talk page with no solution, so I would really appreciate your input. If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service." HeyMid (contribs) 13:29, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

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Dear Tom,

I've emailed you on a Signpost matter—here and not on Meta because they have an email throttle (I'm messaging all candidates).

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXVI, May 2013

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Bingo: Dudley Clarke

Very pleased to say I have spotted a file on Clarke's, how shall we put it, drag related incident in our latest file release, out today. Pop to http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/second-world-war-intelligence-may-2013.htm and scroll down and you will see the photo you have seen before. The whole file is available for download. I'm not sure it will tell you too much you don't already know but it does include scans of the backs of the photographs. These are stamped with an official Spanish stamp which will clear up their origin for you.

Anyway, hope you find the papers of interest. They are from the Foreign Office's "permanent under-secretary's department", the very anonymous sounding bunch whose job it is to be the FO's liaison with the spooks. These are the more embarrassing papers which have been piling up for about a hundred years and are now emerging sheepishly, like a child emerging from a larder with a face covered in chocolate. --Mr impossible (talk) 11:15, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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