Thanks, Bostonterrierowner. It's good to see that this thread is still attracting plenty of views...
Yet again, we find that a drill or training exercise was underway on the same day, close by, at the time of Michael Ryan's first shots. This time around it was the mysterious
Diplomatic Protection group. I'm sure this was a total coincidence, of course!
This is an excerpt from Jeremy Joseph's 1993 book, 'One Man's Massacre' (Smith Gryphon). I suspect the now France-based author Josephs to be an insider to this hoax, and it may well be Josephs who popped up earlier on this thread to quickly dismiss my claims of fakery.
I carried out a Google search to identify people involved with the Diplomatic Protection Group in the summer of 1987...This is the first individual I found...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bob-watters ... 41/564/295
Bob Watterson
Interestingly, Watterson was promoted into a new intelligence role in autumn 1987, just a month after August's Hungerford incident.
Second, I found
'Bill Rowlinson,' who personally admits being active in the Diplomatic Protection Group for at least part of 1987:
http://www.greenhithe.org.uk/dev/mem.php?mem=3197362
'...In 1986 I transfered to the Diplomatic Protection Group at Tottenham Court Road...In 1987 I joined PT17, Level 2 B Team which later becoming Black Team...'
Third, we have
Barry Mannakee, who was rumoured to be having an affair with Princess Diana in 1986/7 and as a consequence was moved on from Royalty Protection Branch (SO14) to the Diplomatic Protection Group (SO6) in 1987, before his death in a traffic accident in May 1987.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mannakee
Now obviously Mannakee's death took place three months before Hungerford, and it's not possible to tell yet whether this was a real person/event or yet another PSYOP.
Fourth, we have
David Veness, who was not officially involved in the Diplomatic Protection Group in August 1987, but joined the unit two months later, in October. If we look further into his biography, it seems that Veness also might have questions to answer about the Hungerford incident:
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/David_Veness