Via Recorded Delivery

Mark Thompson Esq

Director-General, BBC
BBC Media Centre
201 Wood Lane
London W12 7TQ
21 February 2006
“CASH FOR QUESTIONS”: THE UNREPORTED SIDE OF A MAJOR
POLITICAL CONTROVERY
Dear Mr. Thompson.
Four weeks ago today I wrote to you to inform you of the investigation into the "cash for
questions" affair conducted by my colleague Malcolm Keith-Hill and myself exposing how
The Guardian perverted the course of the official parliamentary inquiry into the affair through
the submission of forged documents and by lying in oral testimony and written statements.
I enclosed with my letter a dedicated copy of my book Trial by Conspiracy telling the story of
our investigation; plus a CD containing my letter of complaint of March 2004 to your
predecessor Mark Byford together with the hyperlinked indexes and documents making up the
bound appendices that supported it, namely: one containing written endorsements of our work
by people of standing including BBC staff, plus two others containing documents outlining
nine news events and over thirty press articles publicising our work over the last eight years.
The purpose of my letter was to two-fold: firstly, to bring to your attention: a) our
investigation; b) the importance of our investigation; c) the merit of our investigation; d) the
controversy in the national press caused by our investigation; e) the many news events
publicising our investigation; and f) the BBC's censorship to date of our investigation and the
evidence we unearthed from its national news bulletins. Secondly, to request that you instigate
an assessment of the merits of our research as a first step to the BBC broadcasting news about
it commensurate with its status.
However I have not yet received your response. Accordingly I enclose with this letter a
replication of my first package, including a second dedicated copy of my book. I look forward
to your reply.

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Boyd Hunt

c.c. Michael Grade, Chairman, BBC