Re: Christian Brueckner: To be or not to be

by Guest 22.05.23 17:35

Columbo wrote:
Verdi wrote:
CaKeLoveR wrote:Even i f the reservoir contains Madeleine's body, that doesn't mean C.B. put her there. Anyone could have done so.

If you read back over the reports of the original reservoir dive initiated by the Portuguese lawyer back in autumn 2007, there appears to be a few versions of lurking suspects - if the reservoir (remote?) was so popular with visitors for varying reasons, what opportunity would there be to dump a dead body, after transporting from the crime scene!?!

Pin the tale on the ass.
This - plus, why travel all that way inland to a reservoir when there's a whole coastline next to Praia da Luz?

Quite so - or anywhere else in the land of Oz for that matter.

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Buck teeth 'n all

by **Jill Havern** 22.05.23 17:38

Has Jon

Clarke written an article about this yet?
I can't check, cos I've been locked out of Farcebewk for months and I can't access his website either.

by Guest 22.05.23 17:45

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smilie

21 minutes ago? alarm

Wakey! Wakey!

Give him the benefit of doubt, maybe he's been on the road for a few hours.

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by Guest 22.05.23 18:02

wasn't that marcos figure not the one who first spoke of heard it from the dark criminal world and a bit later told he only had a dream about it? maybe he just had another dream.

it looks to be quite empty, that reservoir, the ones i remember from france and spain had a lot of slik and silt on the borders when dried a bit, not the most nice surroundings this time for the springtime travels of other police forces to portugal.

i did like one of the portuguese media, that told nicely the portuguese police will be the one that has the boots on the ground, all others only can be there to look. the portuguese do this part of the investigation, because the german police has asked for it.

today was it cordoned off, tomorrow searching until at least wednesday, that is not very long for such a large area and body of water in normal times.
this year the water table is very low, 16 years of silt in only 2 days as scheduled that is little time.

full mainland europe was available. why s..t in your own backyard, as we use to say overhere. it is not cb left the algarve forever after may 3 2007.

by **Tony Bennett** 22.05.23 20:29

onehand wrote:Wasn't that Marcos figure not the one who first spoke of, heard it from the dark criminal world and a bit later told he only had a dream about it? Maybe he just had another dream.

Have just reached back in history to July 2011 and found this article by Seamus McGuigan on the Madeleine Foundation website:

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How Brian Kennedy and the McCann Team generated media publicity about a search for Madeleine’s remains in the Arade Dam, Portugal

by Seamus McGuigan, July 2011

Here we come to, surely, one of the most cynical and indeed sinister chapters in the whole sequence of events which followed the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Much more detail is available in The Madeleine Foundation’s lengthy article on its website, titled: ‘The Madeleine McCann mystery and the strange role of Madeira lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia: His links with the McCanns and Método 3…”

In January 2008, the British media reported on what purported to be a genuine, altruistic attempt by a Portuguese lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, to solve the mystery of what really happened to Madeleine McCann. He said he had used his own money to fund a search for Madeleine’s body in the Arade Dam, believing there was evidence that she had been killed and her body thrown into the dam.

In this article I will attempt to provide a number of indications that Marcos Aragao Correia may have been cynically paid by the McCann Team to come up with this story, which featured prominently in the British media over a period of weeks between January and March 2008.

Here are the details that I have been able to research:

It was in late January 2008 that Marcos Aragão Correia first came to public notice in Britain. He came forward with the dramatic news that he was sure that Madeleine’s body was lying in a reservoir. He added various details that suggested that he ‘knew’ Madeleine was dead - he said he had ‘been told’, by ‘underworld sources’, that Madeleine had been stolen to order by a gang of ruthless paedophiles, who had then, in turn, raped her and killed her and then dumped her body at the bottom of a reservoir - the Arade Dam in Portugal.

If anyone else had said this, the McCanns might have been offended, even outraged. But as we shall uncover in the next few paragraphs, Marcos Aragao Correia, at the time of the search of the dam, was in the pay of Método 3, who in turn, of course, were working for the McCanns. The shocking conclusion I have reached is that the McCann team not only knew in advance that the ‘Arade Dam search’ story was about to break in the British media; they actually planned and planted it themselves. Brian Kennedy was the paymaster of Método 3, he appointed them and directed their work. So he also knew.

One aspect of Mr Aragão Correia’s claims that Madeleine McCann had been killed by paedophiles is that they chimed in almost perfect harmony with the repeated claims of both the McCanns and their team of public relations advisers that Madeleine had been abducted by evil men - quite probably paedophile predators. Story after story appeared in the press claiming that Madeleine had been stolen to order by a paedophile gang. The possibility that Madeleine had been abducted by paedophiles was in fact specifically mentioned by Dr Gerald McCann the very night that Madeleine was reported missing.

We now need to find out just how Marcos Aragão Correia - up until now an obscure lawyer hailing from the Portuguese island of Madeira - burst on the scene and got deeply involved in the Madeleine McCann case. It’s not easy, since like so many things about this case, much remains hidden and secret - deliberately so, as the McCann Team choose not to tell us, just as Dr Kate McCann chose not to answer the 48 questions put to her by the Portuguese Police, and just as the McCanns and their friend refused to take part in a reconstruction in Portugal of the events of 3 May 2007, the night Madeleine was reported missing.

The Press Association report of 4 February 2008 on the search of the Arade Dam

First, though, let us examine a very detailed Press Association (PA) report that appeared on 4 February 2008. Significantly for us, this PA report was tagged ‘exclusive’ - meaning that the news they were breaking had not been revealed to anyone else. It is well known that to develop a story in the British media, a PA report is one of the best ways to break it. Reading through the report, we can surely see the hand of the McCann Team in its origin.

Here is the PA report:

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DIVERS HUNT FOR MADELEINE MCCANN’S BODY IN A REMOTE RESERVOIR
EXCLUSIVE: Underworld tip-off leads to fresh search

The search for Madeleine McCann took a grim twist yesterday as divers trawled a remote reservoir for her body. The hunt, near the Algarve resort where she went missing in May, followed an underworld tip-off to lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia. Marcos, 32, said: “They told me she was thrown into a deserted lake with murky waters. I'm convinced this is the place”. It was a search that began in hope but gave way to heavy-hearted resignation as the weeks and months went by.

Now there are fears the hunt for Madeleine McCann could end in the murky depths of a reservoir 40 miles from where she went missing. Good Samaritan Marcos Aragão Correia, 32, is paying for a team of British divers to trawl it after an underworld tip-off that she was dumped in a lake just days after being abducted.

And they have unearthed a 17ft cord he believes was used to tie up the four-year-old. The desolate reservoir in Barragem do Arade - 150ft deep (45m) in places - has a beach and a walkway leading to a tower. It matches clues the Portuguese lawyer was given.

Marcos said: “I am convinced this is the place. My sources told me Madeleine was thrown into a deserted lake with murky waters, a beach and lots of trees. I believe this would have been the best place for someone to have dumped the body, based on my investigations. It's not overlooked, has easy access by car and if you threw the body from the tower the water is 55ft deep (17m) there”.

The site is also a short drive from Silves, where a trucker has told police that on 5 May - two days after Madeleine went missing - he saw a woman hand a man a child looking like her. News of the grim lead came as Portugal's top cop conceded his men acted with ‘hastiness’ in making the McCanns suspects. And Marcos believes Kate and Gerry had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance.

He is funding the dive search - at an estimated £1,200 a day - after he told Portuguese detectives eight weeks ago about the tip-off, but was ignored.

The lawyer said: “I was able to identify the site on 10 December and immediately informed police, who did nothing. I got tired of waiting for them to act on my information, so I decided to act. I will stay here as long as is necessary to try to solve this mystery. I don't care how much the divers cost, what matters is that my conscience will be clear”.

Six frogmen, working seven hours a day, are searching by touch alone as there is almost zero visibility in the lake's dark depths. Marcos is convinced the nylon cord they retrieved - of a type used on window blinds - was tragically connected to Madeleine's abduction. He said: “They have found a cord tied in knots down there, right below the tower. I have given it to police. It's logical that if you throw a body in the water, you would tie it to something to weigh it down. There's no other rubbish there. There is no reason for it to be there”.

Arade Reservoir, accessible via a dirt track, is a few hundred yards from a derelict hilltop diner and a car park used as an unofficial caravan camping site. The divers are focusing their search on the base of the tower - 15ft (4.5m) from the shore - as Marcos believes the body may have been thrown from there. He explained: “I don't have enough money to pay for the entire lake to be searched. That would take many divers and many weeks. But because of the clues I have I decided to pay for searches in this area”.

The underwater unit began their grim task last Thursday. Alan Wilson, who heads the team based in Lagos, Portugal, said: “You can't see anything down there. Everything is black because there is no light. The divers are searching entirely by touch, feeling in the silt for anything suspicious that shouldn't be there. It's a long, slow process”.

The woman said to have been seen in Silves passing a girl to a male accomplice is said to have looked like Michaela Walczuch - girlfriend of suspect Robert Murat. Ms Walczuch has never been an official suspect and dismissed the claim as ‘ridiculous’. However, both Marcos and Método 3, the Spanish detective agency hired by the McCanns, believe the sighting of the girl could be a crucial clue. The lawyer said: “Método 3 believe this lead is quite credible. They told me their investigations indicated that Madeleine was switched from one car to another, precisely in Silves”. He added: “I don't believe Kate and Gerry did it. It could have been a single madman or a gang, I don't know”.

Marcos, who was first given his tip-off three days after Madeleine went missing from Praia da Luz, visited the reservoir with Método 3 detectives in December. Last night [3 February 2008] the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell welcomed the possible breakthrough.

He said: “We're grateful to anyone who feels they have important information in the search for Madeleine. If his search produces significant results, he must, of course, share that information with the police and our investigators”.

Meanwhile, Portuguese police chief Alipio Ribeiro conceded at the weekend his officers showed a ‘certain hastiness’ in making Kate and Gerry, both 39, suspects. He admitted that there “perhaps should have been a different evaluation...I have no doubt about that”. Kate and Gerry believe it could be a key step in clearing their name. A friend revealed: “They're not punching the air as they know there's still a long way to go, but it's a step in the right direction”.

Mr Mitchell added: “There was no air of celebration, but it's the sort of thing we have been waiting for. We hope that his comments are an indication police realise there's no case against Kate and Gerry and that it leads to them being eliminated from the inquiry”.

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Let us briefly summarise the many remarkable things that this PA report told us. According to Emily Nash’s report:

this 32-year-old lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, had been in touch with ‘underworld sources’ - career criminals, in other words - just three days after Madeleine ‘disappeared’. In other words, on Sunday 6 May
his ‘underworld sources’ had told him (if his claim could be believed, see below) that Madeleine’s body had been ‘thrown into a deserted lake with murky waters, a beach and lots of trees’
he had finally identified the site where he thought Madeleine’s body had been dumped, on 10 December, and informed the Portuguese police about his ideas that day - but they had ‘done nothing’
he visited this reservoir with detectives from Método 3 ‘in December’
Mr Aragão Correia, by his own brilliance, had identified the Arade Dam as the only place which matched the description of ‘a deserted lake with murky waters, a beach and lots of trees’
again, through his deductive powers, he had located the specific area of the dammed lake ‘near the tower’ as the only one to be searched
Madeleine’s body would most probably have been thrown into the lake from the top of a tower by the lake, and that is why he was searching ‘only that part of the whole lake’
he was a ‘Good Samaritan’ who was shelling out £1,200 a day - perhaps tens of thousands, out of the goodness of his heart, and based just on information from his underworld sources
his team of divers were purportedly searching a lake which was so dark that even with powerful underwater torches they could see nothing: the PA report seriously required its readers to believe that a team of divers could systematically search a large area of the lake, several acres perhaps, when the could see nothing but could only ‘feel’
his ‘team of British divers’ had found a 17-feet long piece of ‘knotted cord’ that ‘could have been used to tie up Madeleine’
Método 3’s investigations had apparently indicated to them that Madeleine was switched from one car to another, ‘precisely in Silves’, very close to the Arade Dam
a woman said to have been seen in Silves passing a girl to a male accomplice looked like Mikaela Walczuch - girlfriend of suspect Robert Murat - thus linking Murat once again to the disappearance of Madeleine
the Portuguese police had acted ‘hastily’ in making Dr Gerry McCann and Dr Kate McCann suspects
the Portuguese police had deliberately ignored the vital evidence of Marcos Aragão Correia’s underworld sources that Madeleine had been dumped at the bottom of a murky lake - and ignored his apparently unshakeable conviction that this ‘murky lake’ was the Arade Dam – and, finally
Dr Gerald and Dr Kate McCann were not responsible in any way for Madeleine’s disappearance, because Mr Aragão Correia said: “I don't believe Kate and Gerry did it. It could have been a single madman or a gang”.

If this report had appeared on 1 April in a British newspaper, it would surely have been dismissed as a rather poor, and extremely distasteful, April Fool’s joke.

But because by then Clarence Mitchell and the McCann Team had a mesmeric hold on the British media, coupled with the media’s insatiable need to put any old Madeleine McCann story on its front page, this appalling account, with so many obvious flaws, was uncritically, and prominently, recycled by all the mainstream British media. In my judgment, it was a day of shame for British journalism.

The Press Association report, for the McCann Team, neatly linked one of the suspects, Robert Murat, to the possibility that Madeleine had been raped, murdered and her body thrown into the Arade Dam. It seems therefore that even as late as early February 2008, the McCanns were still piling the pressure on Murat, using the story of the woman seen handing a package over a wall, together with the search of the Arade Dam (near where the incident of the woman handing over a package happened), to continue to put Rbert Murat’s name in the frame. Yet Murat was only weeks away from winning over £600,000 in damages from the British High Court, due to his claim that he had been repeatedly libelled. It was the McCann Team, however, via Método 3, who had made the connection between the ‘sighting’ of a woman thought to be Robert Murat’s girlfriend near Silves, and the proximity of the Arade Dam. The reader with little or no background knowledge of the case might well nbe thinking: ‘That’s yet another link to Murat in this case’.

The reaction of the McCanns to the news of the search, as expressed through their mouthpiece, Clarence Mitchell, was interesting, to say the least. Mitchell is quoted as saying that he “…welcomed the possible breakthrough: ‘We're grateful to anyone who feels they have important information in the search for Madeleine. There was no air of celebration, but it's the sort of thing we have been waiting for [my italics]. We hope that his comments are an indication police realise there's no case against Kate and Gerry and that it leads to them being eliminated from the inquiry.” [my italics].

Where was Madeleine in all of this? After all, Marcos Aragão Correia had said on the record that Madeleine had been abducted, then raped, then killed, and then her body thrown into a lake.

How could PA record Mitchell’s reaction as: “It’s the sort of thing we have been waiting for”. Could none of them muster even a murmur of sorrow for Madeleine’s possible fate? On the contrary, the reaction of the McCann Team to the news both of the searches of the dam and to Alipio Ribiero’s comment seems remarkably upbeat.

Now we need to raise a few specific queries about Marcos Aragão Correia’s account of events, as follows:

Did he really receive inside information about Madeleine having been abducted, raped and killed within three days of Madeleine being reported ‘missing’? Was he really telling the truth? (We shall discuss that further in a moment)

What did he do with that information at the time? He has at different times said he first contacted the Portuguese Police in October or December 2007. Why the apparent delay of several months in telling the police about his ‘information’?

He says he actually met with Método 3 at the Arade Dam itself on 10 December. He must have had some prior contact in order to meet with them there. So when was Marcos Aragao Correia’s first contact with Método 3. Who contacted whom, and why? No-one, neither Correia, nor Método 3, nor the McCann Team, has given us this information.

Why did his information about the ‘murky’ lake lead him specifically to the Arade Dam? Is it just a coincidence that this location, near Silves where a woman had apparently been spotted with a child soon after Madeleine was reported missing, linked Madeleine’s disappearance to Robert Murat and his girlfriend?

Aragão Correia claimed in his statements to the PA that “Método 3 believed this lead was quite credible. They told me their investigations indicated that Madeleine was switched from one car to another”. Is that the truth? Did Método 3 really believe this story? Or, more likely, were Método 3, Marcos Aragao Correia, the McCann Team and Brian Kennedy all clandestinely working together to promote this story as part of a massive smokescreen to hide what really happened to Madeleine McCann?

Clarence Mitchell soon capitalised on the PA and other media reports by saying: “I urge the Portuguese authorities to act humanely by removing [the McCanns’] arguido status as swiftly as possible”.

Other newspapers subsequently added other details to Mr Aragão Correia’s claims. It was claimed that the ‘knotted cord’ had been found five days into the search, which we learnt was made by British divers from the local firm ‘Dive Time’.

More on the links between Marcos Aragão Correia and Método

More details about what turned out to be the strong and continuing links between Mr Aragão Correia and Método 3, hinted at by the reference to Mr Aragão Correia having met Método 3 detectives at the Arade Dam on 10 December 2007, emerged in March. One newspaper, for example, reported as follows on a second search of the Arade Dam that month:

“Barcelona detectives from Método 3 are now also at the site on the Algarve. A team of detectives from the Barcelona firm, Método 3, arrived there yesterday as there were reports that a local reservoir, the Arade, is being dragged again”.

Pausing there, why did the Método 3 detectives need to be present at the search? Nothing might be found, in which case their time there would have been completely wasted. If something of real interest had turned up in the search, the detectives could have been summoned to come and have a look. Was the presence of the Método 3 detectives there just for show?

In March, there was a second search of the Arade Dam. The press reported that there was a team of seven divers at the site. One report stated: “Lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia has said that he is sure that the body of Madeleine, who vanished from Praia da Luz, on May 3, will be found there”. The report went on: “There are reports that objects found there already are strengthening his ‘deep conviction’.” It was not said at the time what those objects were. The report concluded: “The office [of Mr Aragão Correia] claims that there is ‘a 99% possibility’ that the body will be found there and the Portuguese paper Correio da Manha claims a child’s white sock has been found at the scene”.

The ‘99% possibility’ was a very bold claim to make. But as we now know, it wasn’t substantiated. And it was completely of a piece with Método 3’s bogus claims, about three months earlier, that they knew where Madeleine was and that she would be ‘home by Christmas’. In fact, the media reports of these two separate episodes of searching the Arade Dam had the corrupt hallmark of Método 3 written all over them.

Método 3 were chosen by Kennedy, were paid by Kennedy, and were directed by Kennedy. He was the piper, he called the tune. Método 3 met with Aragão Corriea on 10 December at the Arade Dam and would certainly have met or spoken to him beforehand. Kennedy, we can be sure, knew all about these developments, and would have approved them. For all we know, he may have taken a very active part in actually planning and co-ordinating them. We can at least be sure that he knew damn well what was behind the bogus searches of the ‘murky lake’ - ‘murky’ being an appropriate metaphor, surely, for the work of Método 3 and Marcos Aragao Correia.

The belief that Madeleine’s body could yet be found in the Arade Dam was strengthened by reports surfacing on 15 March that ‘a bag of small bones’ had been found in the reservoir. Here are some of the points made in Tom Worden’s report that day in the Daily Mail, which was accompanied by several photographs of divers in the lake and of items apparently being recovered from the lake:

Divers searching a reservoir for Madeleine McCann yesterday [14 March] found two small black plastic bags containing small bones.
Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia, who sponsored the dive, says he was acting on an underworld tip-off that Madeleine was murdered and her body thrown in a lake within 48-hours of being snatched.
Mr Aragão Correia said: “We found two bags, one of which contains some small bones. We don't know at this stage if they are human bones. If they are, they look like they come from a child's fingers. They are too small for an adult. I can't tell you how many we found, because we didn't count them. As soon as we made the find, we handed them over to the Portuguese authorities and the private detectives working for the McCanns” [NOTE: We might pause here to question how a set of bones could be ‘handed over’ to two agencies at once. What is likley is that, since Mr Aragão Correio, the divers and Método 3 were all apparently working hand-in-glove, the Método 3 detectives initially examined the bags of bones and only then passed them to the Portuguese police]
John Fellows, a frogman with the Lagos-based dive school Dive Time is said to have made the discovery
Divers had previously recovered ‘several lengths of cord’, some plastic tape and a single white, cotton sock
Madeleine's parents had previously dismissed Mr Correia as a ‘self-publicist’ and said there is ‘no evidence to suggest there is any link between their daughter and the reservoir’
A bystander said: “We're told one of the bags is empty but the other one contains small bones. We don't know if they are the bones of a child or not”.
The divers first searched the reservoir five weeks ago and resumed again on Monday morning (10 March).

We will now look more closely at the relationship between Marcos Aragão Correia and Método 3. Towards the end of 2008, there arose a dispute between Método 3 and Aragão Correia over how Mr Correia came to be involved in representing Leonor Cipriano, the evil co-killer of her own daughter, in a legal action against Gonçalo Amaral and his fellow detectives, who carried out the investigation into Joana Cipriano’s death.

The prosecution had outlined the following charges:

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natasha.donn@portugalresident.com · by **Tony Bennett** 22.05.23 20:31

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The prosecution had outlined the following charges:

against Gonçalo Amaral, for allegedly filing a false report which, it was said, covered up torture methods used by his colleagues, and
[size=16][size=16]against three his team of detectives accused of torture (Leonel Marques, Marques Bom and Pereira Cristóvão), and a fourth detective (António Cardoso), also accused of making a false report. [/size][/size]

From reports available on the internet, and translated into English, we now know for a fact that in April 2008, Marcos Aragão Correia had visited Odemira Prison, where Leonor Cipriano was serving her 16-year prison sentence for murdering her own daughter. We know that Correia first met the Prison Governor on that occasion, and then went to interview Leonor Cipriano. Aragão Correia agreed to act for Leonor Cipriano, despite the fact that Cipriano already had a lawyer. On top of that, as became clear months later, the pair of them agreed to keep their arrangement secret. Cipriano’s previous lawyer only found out that Cipriano had dumped her a day before the prosecution opened in October 2008.

When it emerged that Aragão Correia was represent Leonor Cipriano against Gonçalo Amaral, Método 3 denied that they had any involvement in arranging for Corriea to represent Cipriano. That was, however, wholly contrary to Aragão Correia’s claims, as we shall now see as we delve further into Correia’s career.

After Marcos Aragão Correia’s unsuccessful efforts to find Madeleine’s body in the Arade Dam, little more was heard about him until the dramatic opening of the trial of Gonçalo Amaral and his four fellow detectives at Faro, on the Algarve Coast, in October 2008. The claim against the five men had originally been filed back in 2006 by Leonor Cipriano’s lawyers, but the proceedings were not activated until 2008.

On the first day of the trial - 21 October 2008 - the court heard a dramatic announcement. Leonor Cipriano, the person bringing the allegation against the five detectives that she had been tortured by them in prison, announced that she was dropping the legal team she had been using to date. She said that she would now be represented by the controversial lawyer from Madeira, Aragão Correia.

[size=16][size=16]There was a further sensational revelation as the trial got under way. During the early days of the trial, Aragão Correia said on the record that Método 3 themselves, acting on behalf of the McCanns, had asked him to get involved in the Joana Cipriano case. [/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]He went on to claim that the McCanns, via Método 3, had “ordered him to do an investigation” into allegations regarding the accusations against Gonçalo Amaral and his men by Leonor Cipriano. [/size][/size]

These were very serious claims. Not only, it seems, were Kennedy and the McCann Team hiring Aragão Correia to carry out bogus searches of a murky Portuguese lake in order, basically, to pull off a useful publicity stunt, but they were also ordering him - via Método 3, and using a convicted murderess’s testimony - to try to convict Goncalo Amaral, the detective who had made the McCanns suspects back on 7 September 2007.

[size=16][size=16]At the same time, Aragão Correia - who, it will be remembered, was described as a humble ‘good Samaritan’ in article about him privately funding the search in the Arade Dam - claimed on oath that no-one was currently paying him to bring the case against Amaral and his fellow-detectives. He said he was doing it out of the goodness of his own heart and because he believed in ‘the cause’. He claimed that he had gone to the Algarve in search of Madeleine’s body ‘at his own expense’. He told the court on oath: “Método 3 asked me to try to get involved in the Joana case to obtain statements from Leonor and her brother to try to understand if she was tortured by the police, nothing else”.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]At one stage he said Método 3 had asked him to become involved in representing Leonor Cipriano; on the other occasion he said Método 3 had ordered him. It doesn’t make much difference. Either way, Aragao Correia was making it crystal clear that he had gone to see Leonor Cipriano in prison in April 2008 0n the instructions of Método 3. And though I am beginning to labour the point, Método 3 were chosen by Brian Kennedy, he paid them, and he gave them orders. And Kennedy and the Find Madeleine Fund kept on paying Método 3 well into 2009. No doubt their services were invaluable to the McCann Team. [/size][/size]

Dealing with suspicions that, in agreeing to defend Leonor Cipriano, he was being paid by someone who could be very interested in ensuring that Gonçalo Amaral should be convicted of a crime, or at least that his reputation should be damaged (because of his public comments about Madeleine probably having died in Apartment 5A in Praia da Luz), he retorted to the court: “I don't get paid in pounds or in euros. I am here for principles, and my objective is to set free Leonor Cipriano”.

[size=16][size=16]The sensational revelation that Marcos Aragão Correia was, in some senses at least, acting on behalf of Método 3, and therefore, in turn, on behalf of the McCanns, was first publicised in the Portuguese newspaper, Correio da Manhã. The British media avoided this story altogether. By this time, the British mainstream media had been intimidated into silence by the High Court endorsing libel case agreements worth £2 million to the McCanns, Robert Muratand the McCanns’ friends. The British media were not interested in telling the British public, who had donated so generously and willingly to the McCanns’ Find Madeleine Fund, that their money had for months been used to fund Marcos Aragão Correia - first to conduct a dramatic, but wholly unproductive, search of the Arade Dam, clearly in conjunction with Método 3, and, second, to conduct a criminal case against the senior detective who had led the initial investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance, Gonçalo Amaral.[/size][/size]

Moreover, the case that Mr Aragão Correia was now conducting – a prosecution on behalf of convicted murderess Leonor Cipriano - was on matters connected with a wholly different case. It had nothing whatsoever to do with Madeleine McCann’s disappearance - except, of course, for one thing. Namely, that it involved the same senior detective, Gonçalo Amaral.

[size=16][size=16]According to Correio da Manhã, Método 3 denied any connection whatsoever to the lawyer, and, further, denied making him any payments. But as Correio da Manhã was understandably quick to point out to their readers, Método 3’s denial was simply not credible. They told their readers: “Aragão Correia has already admitted that he received money from Método 3 to pay his ‘expenses’ when he made the searches to find Madeleine's corpse in the reservoir”. Though the newspaper didn’t say so explicitly, the interpretation that can be put on the paper’s comments about Método 3’s denials of involvement with Aragão Correia (and further denials of paying him) is that they were clearly saying that Método 3 were not telling the truth. [/size][/size]

The events leading up to Marcos Aragão Correia searching the Arade Dam

In order to cement our thesis that the McCann Team not only knew in advance about the search by Marcos Aragão Correia’s team of divers, but actually planned the whole story, thereby comprehensively deceiving the British press and public, we need to take a very close look at exactly how Correia became involved in the case, bearing in mind that none of the parties involved seems to want to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

[size=16][size=16]It was on 13 November 2007 that the name of Marcos Aragão Correia first came to public notice in connection with the Madeleine McCann case. It did so as a result of a curious court case brought by him against the Correios de Portugal (CTT) - the Portuguese postal service. The event was reported in the Madeiran Daily News. This was because Correia hailed from Madeira, indeed was born there in 1975. He had set up a legal practice there in 2000, claiming to be a ‘human rights’ specialist.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]It was not certain when Correia filed his claim in the courts against CTT, but the surrounding evidence would suggest that he probably brought the proceedings in the second half of October. It seems the court case opened on 12 November and the Madeiran Daily News had reported on the case the following day, 13 November. That was the very same day that Brian Kennedy was meeting the Portuguese Police and suspect Robert Murat. [/size][/size]

The subject of Correia’s complaint about the CTT was that they had failed to deliver to the McCanns a recorded delivery letter that he claimed to have sent them, in Rothley, on 2 October 2007. He further claimed that in this letter to the McCanns, he had conveyed vital information, known to him as a result of his underworld contacts, about what had really happened to Madeleine.

[size=16][size=16]He was quoted by the Madeiran Daily News as saying: “These are controversial matters, because there is no material proof of them, but I assure you there is a high degree of credibility about them. I am fulfilling my duty as a Portuguese citizen to take my ideas to the right place. I took my ideas to the PJ [Portuguese Police] in Funchal, but since they didn’t reply, I took them direct to the McCanns”. He says a CTT official had falsely reported that his Recorded Delivery letter had been received by the McCanns. [/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]Specifically, Correia told the court that it was on 2 October 2007 that he sent a recorded delivery letter from Madeira to the McCanns, allegedly containing details of ‘vital clues and evidence’ in the case. As he claims that this was only done after the PJ in Funchal apparently failed to take any notice of him, then, according to Correia’s account of events, he seems to be claiming that he had gone to the police during September. He stated that he had told the PJ that underworld sources had told him that Madeleine McCann had been abducted by paedophiles on 3 May, then raped, then killed, and then her body thrown into a murky lake. He says he had been told all this on Sunday, 6 May, just three days after Madeleine was reported missing.[/size][/size]

He then told the court that on 17 October 2007 he was somehow ‘notified’ that the recorded delivery letter never arrived at the McCanns’ home, although allegedly the letter was reported by the CTT to have been ‘signed for’ by the recipient.

How Correia could have learned on 17 October that the McCanns never received his ‘signed for’ letter is a mystery that was not cleared up by Correia.

[size=16][size=16]Unsurprisingly, this whole unlikely tale did not impress the judge, who promptly dismissed Aragão Correia’s claim as ‘unsubstantiated’, ordering him to pay court costs of 100 euros (around £90). [/size][/size]

We now know that Correia’s claim to have been told by underworld sources that Madeleine had been abducted, raped and killed was a deliberate lie, as Correia has publicly admitted it. We can bear in mind (a) that he was capable of such an outrageous, deliberate and very public lie, and (b) the fact that the Madeira judge clearly did not believe his version of what happened with the recorded delivery letter that he claimed to have sent, as we consider what might lie behind Correia bringing this court case.

[size=16][size=16]We now know also that Corriea made a show of searching the Arade Dam in late January and early February, and again in March, in a fanfare of publicity, achieving acres of coverage in the British press. We now also know, as Correia has admitted it, that he was paid at least ‘expenses’ by Método 3 for searching the Arade Dam. And we know from Correia’s lips that he was paid by the McCanns, via Método 3, to get involved in becoming the lawyer for Leonor Cipriano, the convicted murderess of her own daughter, as part of the McCanns’ campaign against Goncalo Amaral.[/size][/size]

So we may propose this hypothesis: namely that Marcos Correia made his application to the Madeira Court purely as an attempt to justify his later involvement in the macabre search of the Arade Dam. He needed a reason, an explanation, for his involvement in the Arade Dam project. His narrative, then (at the time) was this:

“I was told by underworld sources on 6 May that Madeleine McCann had been abducted, raped and killed by paedophiles. I went to the PJ in Funchal with my evidence, but they did nothing. So I sent a recorded delivery letter to the McCanns on 2 October. On 17 October I somehow learned that they had never got the letter, despite CTT saying that it had arrived. So I sued the CTT”.

I suggest that it is more than likely that before he made his application to the court in Madeira, he was already in touch with Método 3. I suggest it is likely that Corriea’s whole unlikely tale of the undelivered recorded delivery letter was a story concocted between Correia and Método 3. And we know that Método 3’s operations were closely controlled and directed by Brian Kennedy.

How the McCann Team planned the Arade Dam search

I suggest that Brian Kennedy knew and approved of the plan to publicise a search of the Arade Dam as early as November 2007, possibly earlier.

[size=16][size=16]What is clearly on the record is that Correia says that he met with Método 3 at the Arade Dam itself on 10 December 2007. Let us examine that event a little.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]By then, Corriea had already formulated his claim that he knew that Madeleine McCann had been killed. He says he had also been told that Madeleine’s body had been thrown into a murky lake. When the Arade Dam search became public, he boasted of how he had carefully researched these underworld claims and decided that Madeleine’s body must have been thrown into the Arade Dam. Therefore we can deduce that he had communicated these ideas to Método 3 representatives well before his meeting with them at the Arade Dam on 10 December. [/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]We might also note that in order for Correia to meet with Método 3 at the Arade Dam on 10 December, he would have to fly 500 miles from the Atlantic island of Madeira. Similarly, the Método 3 representatives at this meeting would have had to travel a similar distance from their base in Barcelona. We can further deduce, then, that such a significant meeting, involving an expensive and time-consuming journey, would have been approved in advance by Brian Kennedy. We can further deduce that the rest of the McCann Team, in particular the McCanns themselves and Clarence Mitchell, would have known about and approved this meeting.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]We can further deduce that the whole of the McCann Team was kept abreast of the continuing plans for a burst of publicity about the Arade Dam search, in early February 2008, during the months of December and January. The McCann Team, therefore, in order to achieve a highly dramatic story about their missing daughter, were willing co-operators with a man who swore that he ‘knew’ that Madeleine had been mercilessly abducted, raped and killed by paedophiles. That should raise major questions about the McCanns’ motives in all of this in the minds of any individual who approaches these facts without any preconceptions about what really happened to Madeleine. [/size][/size]

Now let us think about what the McCann Team might have been doing about the forthcoming Arade Dam search during December and January. Clearly, a diving team would have to be found. That diving team would need to be briefed that they would be searching for Madeleine McCann’s body. They would need to be carrying out that search at the coldest time of the year, in the Portuguese mountains. They would be aware that this lake was so murky that even powerful torches would be needed, and that they would be having to conduct this search by just feeling along the bottom of this ‘murky lake’. No doubt it would have taken some time to find a diving company prepared to undertake such work. The company would need to recruit suitably qualified divers. The timing of the search would need to be arranged in advance. Fees would need to be negotiated and a contract drawn up between the diving company and whoever was going to pay them. If Marcos Correia was going to be paying the diving team, then he would need the money. And eventually, as we now know, Método 3 gave him the money to pay that diving team. All of this would take time to arrange.

[size=16][size=16]But there was another consideration in the minds of the McCann Team, namely that they were developing another major story for the British media, namely the appearance of the ‘Monster man’ story. This hit the British media via the News of the World on Sunday, 20 January 2008. And that had been in the planning ever since October, when Brian Kennedy first contacted Gail Cooper and then arranged for ‘F.B.I.-trained forensic artist’ Melissa Little to sit with Gail Cooper for a day and try to compose an artist’s sketch for public consumption.[/size][/size]

It would not do to have two big stories burst into the public domain at the same time.

[size=16][size=16]So I suggest that the McCann Team, together with their highly-paid detectives Método 3 and their man Marcos Aragao Correia, quietly organised for their team of divers to be ready for the publicity drive on the Arade Dam search at the end of January. Everything was planned for a big release of the ‘Monster man’ story on 20 January, with the Portuguese and Leicestershire Police forces fully co-operating with them.[/size][/size]

It is well-known in media circles that the maximum running time for any big story is 11 days, indeed it is known as ‘The 11-day rule’. Thus, leaving a week or two between the ‘Monster man’ story and the publicity about the Arade Dam search, shows careful and wise planning by the McCann Team. The timing of news stories is very important.

Let us consider also why, Método 3 and Marcos Correia having met on 10 December, should delay their search? Método 3 would have contacted the McCann Team, including Brian Kennedy, and discussed Correia’s ‘information’ about the Arade Dam. Let us then suppose that they really did believe him, and thought that it was remotely credible that Madeleine’s body was lyiung in the mud 150 feet down in the Arade Dam. Would they have waited until the very end of January to start their search?

Of course not. They had funds from the Find Madeleine Fund. They had Kennedy’s money, which ran into hundreds of millions of pounds. The fact that they did not act then, but ‘sat on’ Correia’s ‘information’ for nearly two months, is another indication that the Arade Dam search was not at all what it was claimed to be. In fact, the more one examines it, it looks like a cynical hoax on the British media and the British public.

Marcos Aragao Correia admits to lying about his ‘underworld sources’

The claim by Corriea that underworld sources had told him that Madeleine had been abducted, raped and then killed was questioned by many. Apart from is being a barely credible story to begin with, it was cruel almost to the point of being sadistic. If it was not true, then Correia should never have come up with such a graphic account.

But it was indeed untrue. Correia himself admitted it. But he then came up with a story that was just as unbelievable, if not more so, than the first one. He now claimed that, just as it so happens, he went to his first-ever Spiritualist Church meeting, in Madeira, on Saturday 5 May - two days after Madeleine had been reported missing. He has since claimed that he is a ‘practising spiritualist and medium’.

He claimed that after this meeting, he returned home, only to have a vivid vision, or a ‘supernatural indication’, as he called it, of a big man, having abducted Madeleine, then going on to rape and strangle her to death. Even to mention the detail of Correia’s vision seems too graphic for this article, yet we have to mention the details of Correia’s account in order to understand what kind of man he is and to analyse why the McCann Team should have placed so much faith in him - not only to publicise the Arade Dam search, but, soon afterwards, as we shall see shortly, to act on behalf of the McCanns in a series of legal actions targeted on Goncalo Amaral. It was on 8 April 2008 that Correia visited Odemira Prison, where Leonor Cipriano was incarcerated, and agreed to represent her.

The second search of the Arade Dam

Correia, as we saw, had claimed that there was a ‘99% possibility’ that Madeleine’s remains would be found in the Arade Dam. It was a very bold claim to make, of a piece with Metodo 3’s claims that Madeleine ‘could be home by Christmas’.

[size=16][size=16]The belief that Madeleine’s body could yet be found in the Arade Dam was strengthened by reports surfacing on 15 March that ‘a bag of small bones’ had been found in the reservoir. Here are some of the points made in Tom Worden’s report that day in the Daily Mail, which was accompanied by several shots of divers in the lake and of items apparently being recovered from the lake:[/size][/size]

Divers searching a reservoir for Madeleine McCann yesterday [14 March] found two small black plastic bags containing small bones.
Portuguese lawyer Marcos Aragão Correia, who sponsored the dive, says he was acting on an underworld tip-off that Madeleine was murdered and her body thrown in a lake within 48-hours of being snatched.
[size=16][size=16]Mr Aragão Correia said: “We found two bags, one of which contains some small bones. We don't know at this stage if they are human bones. If they are, they look like they come from a child's fingers. They are too small for an adult. I can't tell you how many we found, because we didn't count them. As soon as we made the find, we handed them over to the Portuguese authorities and the private detectives working for the McCanns” [NOTE: We might pause here to question how a set of bones could be ‘handed over’ to two agencies at once. What is likely is that, since Mr Aragão Correio, the divers and Método 3 were all apparently working hand-in-glove, the Método 3 detectives initially examined the bags of bones and only then passed them to the Portuguese police] [/size][/size]
John Fellows, a frogman with the Lagos-based diving school ‘Dive Time’, is said to have made the discovery.
Divers had previously recovered ‘several lengths of cord’, some plastic tape and a single white, cotton sock.
Madeleine's parents had previously dismissed Mr Correia as a ‘self-publicist’ and said there is ‘no evidence to suggest there is any link between their daughter and the reservoir’.
A bystander said: “We're told one of the bags is empty but the other one contains small bones. We don't know if they are the bones of a child or not”.
The divers first searched the reservoir five weeks ago and resumed again on Monday morning (10 March).

At this stage, we see that Correia was still sticking by his story that he had learnt of Madeleine’s cruel death via underworld sources.

Marcos Aragao Correia’s ‘vision’ described and analysed

Marcos Aragão Correia has in fact given a full account of his vision. Here it is, exactly in his own words, allowing for translation from Portuguese. With due warning about its graphic nature, this is what he said on the record to a journalist:

“On 5th May [the Saturday immediately after Madeleine was reported missing], on returning from a spiritualist meeting in Madeira, immediately after going to bed, but just before falling asleep - at around midnight - an extraordinary thing happened to me, for the first time in my life. I saw the image of a little girl that must have been around four years of age, with blonde, shoulder-length straight hair, blue eyes, very disturbed, visibly unable to understand what was happening to her, accompanied by a female being of great beauty and great spiritual standing.

“Then, other images appeared to me, concerning what had happened to this girl. I saw a strongly-built man, blue eyes, somewhat balding and with blondish hair, brutally raping that girl and then strangling her with his hands, throwing the cadaver into a lake. I perceived by a map that was shown to me [presumably he means during his alleged vision], that this happened in the Algarve, but I couldn’t read the name of the village. I stress that I hadn’t seen any photo of Maddie before. I only knew, from what I’d heard on the radio, that she was 3 years old”.

Aragão Correia developed his story further, as the journalist then asked him if his ‘vision’ of a ‘strongly-built blond man’ corresponded with anyone who featured in the Portuguese investigation:

Correia answered: “Yes, there were references about a strongly-built individual of British appearance as a suspect. Still, as this was my first vision in my entire life, there was, on my part, a certain reluctance to divulging it. So I let a few days pass, to see whether or not the little girl showed up. Eventually, I gave this lead to the Polícia Judiciária (PJ), on 9 May, but after that they never contacted me.

“Later on, I received information from a PJ insider in Portimão that the investigation was no longer based on the working hypothesis of abduction. So it was then that I decided to carry out my own private investigation. I travelled over to continental Portugal, and visited the various lakes and dams of the Algarve, until I reached the Arade Dam, which was the only one that precisely matched the scenery that I had seen in my vision. I decided to contact a senior official at Método 3, the detective agency that had been hired by the McCanns to investigate their daughter’s disappearance. When I mentioned that the dam was located in Silves, I noticed that they were surprised and immediately wanted to speak with me”.

Let us pause for a moment to evaluate these words from the unreliable Aragão Correia. He tells us he had this vision on a Saturday night (5 May), after a spiritualist meeting. Then he claims he gave the information to the PJ four days later. What information? And how? - by e-mail? Or by ’phone? To whom? He doesn’t tell us. Then we get to an interesting snippet - that he says he received inside information (from a PJ police officer, presumably) that the investigation ‘is no longer working on abduction as a theory’, but presumably on the possibility that Madeleine died in Apartment 5A and her body hidden or disposed of.

That ties in with information received by journalist Duarte Levy that there was indeed a Portuguese detective who was leaking information about the Madeleine investigation to Método 3. If there was such a leak, any such information would of course have been leaked to the McCanns and to their teams of lawyers, public relations advisers and private investigators.

[size=16][size=16]Then we are asked to believe that Aragão Correia only decided to contact Método 3 after he had finally located the Arade Dam as the one which matched his ‘vision’. The claim that he only contacted Método 3 after visiting the dam must be put alongside his admission that he had been paid ‘expenses’ for searching the Arade Dam by Método 3. Prior to that admission, of course, he had claimed that he had been funding the search out of the charitable goodness of his own heart, and as a consequence was portrayed in the British press as a ‘Good Samaritan’. [/size][/size]

As we have said, it would not be at all unreasonable to suggest that Aragão Correia had been in touch with Método 3 (and through them, Brian Kennedy and the McCanns) before he met Método 3 representatives at the Arade Dam on 10 December 2007.

At the time of the second search of the Arade Dam, one newspaper reported the McCanns as being ‘furious’. It claimed: “Kate and Gerry McCann reacted with fury yesterday after divers began a second search of a reservoir for Madeleine's body. The couple told friends that the search - funded by a Portuguese lawyer who they claim is a ‘fantasist’ seeking publicity - is a distraction from the hunt.

[size=16][size=16]The report continued: “Marcos Aragão Correia claims crime contacts told him she was killed and left in the lake two days after going missing. Correia spent thousands of pounds on a previous search but found nothing. But a McCann source said: ‘There's no evidence Madeleine is in that reservoir. They believe she is alive and are concentrating on finding her’.” [/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]Quite why the McCanns would be ‘furious’, given that the very private detectives they were funding, Método 3, appeared to be paying Correia, is hard to explain, unless it was a deliberate deception on their part. If the McCanns and Brian Kennedy knew in advance about Marcos Aragão Correia’s two searches of the Arada Dam, then the McCanns’ claim to be ‘furious’ about Mr Aragão Correia’s new searches at the dam would indeed be bogus fury. As we shall see in a moment, less than a month later, Aragão Correia - according to him on instructions from Método 3 (and therefore from the McCanns and Brian Kennedy) - was visiting Odemira prison, and talking to Leonor Cipriano and the Prison Governor with a view to embarking on a campaign to target Gonçalo Amaral. [/size][/size]

Let us continue with Aragão Correia’s story to the journalist.

Correia said: “Two detectives [from Método 3] met with me and told me that they had already received thousands of leads, but that mine was corroborated by a physical case that they had already established. It involved a Portuguese truck driver, M. Gautier, who only two days after the disappearance of Madeleine, at around 4pm to 5pm, while driving down the IC1 road, near the Arade Dam, saw two cars parked by the road, an Audi A3 that was driven by a man - and a green car (of a very unusual green) that was driven by a blonde woman. The two vehicles were separated by a small metallic fence, and while driving by in his truck, the driver saw what seemed like an inanimate child to him, being passed from one car to another, wrapped up in a blanket”.

[size=16][size=16]Aragão Correia’s claim was that Método 3 had a credible report of a child in a blanket being passed from one car to another on Saturday 5 May in the afternoon - two days after Madeleine ‘disappeared’. He adds that Método 3 had established from M. Gautier, the Portuguese truck driver, that he “knew the blanket contained a child by the manner in which the body stood out from the blanket. The bent legs and small dimensions made him conclude, without hesitation, that it was a child. On the other hand, the extremely protective way in which the couple held the blanket, on a hot day, was suspicious”. [/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]As we have seen, this was a dishonest account of this incident, as the truck driver concerned did not think the ‘package’ handed over was heavy enough to be a child. What we are not told is when this all-important conversation between Aragao Correia and Metodo 3 actually happened. If it did happen in anything like the form described by Correia, it must have been before the two parties met at the Arade Dam on 10 December. There are however reasons for thinking that at least part of this alleged interview has been fabricated by Correia. [/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]Correia tells us that M. Gautier contacted the police the very same day he saw the incident - Saturday 5 May. Correia says that, some time after the incident: “I spoke to M. Gautier myself. He told me that the PJ had ridiculed him as soon as he called them, on the very same day that he had witnessed the body being transferred from car to car near the metal fence. It was all extremely strange, and, because of that, in November, the truck driver reported everything to the detectives at Método 3”.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]Let’s pause there. The truck driver is supposed to have contacted Método 3 in November? That’s six whole months after Madeleine went missing. Are we to take seriously the claim that this Portuguese truck driver, M. Gautier, waited for six whole months to contact Método 3, and tell them about the child being passed from one car to another - one of the cars a vivid green? And how likely is it that the PJ ‘ridiculed him’, as he claims?[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]Is it not a much more likely scenario, as we have discussed above, that Método 3 detectives, having somehow obtained M. Gautier’s name and address, contacted him, rather than the other way round? And did Método 3 then embellish, even alter, M. Gautier’s account for their own - and the McCann Team’s - purposes?[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]Marcos Aragão Correia continued: “Método 3 detectives showed M. Gautier the photos of some of the main suspects in the disappearance of Maddie, and found some physiognomic similarities with at least two of them. The PJ were given this lead once again in November, but discarded it once again, after analysing the triangulation points from the suspicious couple’s mobile ’phones, and after questioning the owners of a plot of land on that site. The PJ committed a gross mistake by investigating only that suspect and his girlfriend. The truck driver said that he couldn’t be certain that it was that precise suspect, but rather that it was a person with similar physiognomic features, mainly in terms of body mass”.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]So what are we left with here? A truck driver, M. Gautier, says he saw a ‘suspect’ with a similar body shape and body mass to two ‘suspects’ apparently already identified by Método 3. A truck driver, moreover, who is said to have waited six months after he says he first reported this to the PJ, to contact Método 3. It all sounds very unlikely. And as it is Marcos Aragão Correia telling the story, we can safely assume that parts of it, at least, are fabricated. [/size][/size]

But if we are looking for yet more proof of the capacity of both Método 3 and Marcos Aragao Correia for telling tall stories, you could scarcely do better than the following account of events, all faithfully recorded by the journalist. Correia told him:

“[size=16][size=16]Método 3 submitted me to a test in order to prove beyond all doubt whether or not my mediumistic abilities and my accounts were credible [my italics]. They were fed up with following false leads. The fact is that the test gave totally positive results, according to what was confirmed to me personally by the Director of Método 3 in Barcelona himself. Following my mediumistic abilities passing Método 3’s stringent tests, Método 3 offered full support to my research. But given the fact that Maddie’s parents preferred to spend the decreasing money from the ind Madeleine Fund mainly following leads based on the belief that their daughter was still alive, they dismissed the possibility of paying professional divers to search the dam. So I offered myself to pay for the first phase of the searches in the dam, having later received much support, including financial support, from mediums and spiritualists who believed in and corroborated my theory”.[/size][/size]

[size=16][size=16]We are left guessing, of course, at the possible nature of the ‘stringent test’ that Método 3 could have devised to ‘prove’ Mr Aragão Correia’s mediumistic abilities. And now we have yet another story on who paid for those expensive dam searches. First, Aragão Correia told us he had generously funded the searches himself, out of the goodness of his heart, then we were told that Método 3 had ‘helped him with expenses’. [/size][/size]

Now we get a third version, namely: “I was given money by a group of mediums and spiritualists who corroborated my theory”.

[size=16][size=16]Aragão Correia then returns to the subject of the dam searches and tells the journalist: “The dam searches found items of relevance, but these were not sufficient as evidence. Maybe I made some mistakes, which might have alerted the possible abductors of the little English girl: On 11 January, before the diving in the dam started, Lux magazine published my suspicions in a front page article. Yet it was almost two months later [in fact it was three weeks - S.M.] that the searches were started at the dam. That was more than enough time for the criminals to hide any incriminating residues. Nevertheless, we discovered a girl’s sock that was Maddie’s age. I believe the sock might have been used by Maddie, although the lab tests failed to detect any human residues, due to the fact that it stayed underwater for such a long time. We also found several knotted lengths of rope, over five metres [16 feet] long, which would have been ideal to tie up the body at the bottom of the dam. All of this was recovered by the divers in an area where there was no other rubbish. Método 3 were always closely involved in the searches, monitoring them closely, and took all of those objects back to Spain for examination”.[/size][/size]

The journalist then asks Aragão Correia to comment on the PJ investigation. He answered:

“The information that I received as a medium didn’t allow for me to understand what the criminal’s motivation was. But information I obtained later on - especially from consulting an excellent book by criminologist Barra da Costa - led me to believe the theory, admitted by the former PJ Chief Inspector, that the police weren’t interested in finding Maddie, nor in catching the real culprits over her disappearance. Dr Barra da Costa said in his book that there was something like a tacit plan to induce a general sense of insecurity across society, to allow for the micro-chip (a device implanted in human beings that gives out signals to track down where they are) to be produced on a major scale.

“At the beginning I had some reservations concerning that issue, because I had never heard about it, but I was interested and careful enough to go on the internet and to consult several credible websites, including FBI and CIA sources, where I found some amazing things: the micro-chip was indeed being promoted as the ideal weapon to prevent crime. These sources added that the population should be induced into accepting this technological revolution, even if it was at the expense of a policy of deliberately promoting mass public insecurity. Well, the Maddie case fell like ‘manna from heaven’ for the promotion of the microchip, especially as far as children are concerned”.

And on that very puzzling note, the interview with Aragão Correia ended.

To sum up this section of the article, Brian Kennedy and the McCann Team were paying for and directing Método 3. Método 3 would be doiong nothing without their prior approval. The McCann Team would have known all about the proposed search of the Arade Dam by Marcos Aragao Correia. The McCann Team meticulously planned, with the help of Método 3:

planting stories of ‘sightings’ in the British press which show no hallmarks of being a genuine attempt to find Madeleine but rather point to a desire merely to generate helpful media stories
continuing to smear Robert Murat whilst at the same time having high level meetings with is lawyers
whipping up a media frenzy about ‘Monster man’ on the basis of the flimsy evidence of Gail Cooper and a bogus claim that Jane Tanner’s ‘bundleman’ looked remotely like Gail Cooper’s ‘Monster man’, usijg the services of Melissa Little for both drawings
creating the story of the Arade Dam searches, and paying a lawyer who is manifestly a stranger to the truth, via Metodo 3, to conduct a bogus search of the dam, all the while maintaining, against mounting evidence to the contrary, that Marcos Aragao’s search was his very own initiative, generously paid for by himself.

I do not see how the McCann Team can honestly claim that all the above activity was part of a bona fide search for Madeleine.

The McCann Team use Metodo 3 and Marcos Aragao Correia in a surprise attack on Goncalo Amaral

[size=16]The Madeleine Foundation has covered on its website, in an article about Marcos Aragao Correia, the circumstances under which the McCann Team engaged him to prosecute their enemy Go

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