Microsoft Copilot about Royal Dutch Shell’s ethics — a public moment that crystallises three decades of rancour, a vast online archive of leaked documents, and an argument over how far corporations will go to track and discredit persistent critics.
The episode is more than a curiosity about what an AI assistant will say when asked about a corporate titan: it is a window into the Donovan–Shell saga, the contested evidence underpinning long-standing allegations of surveillance and espionage, and the uneasy interplay between whistleblowers, privately gathered intelligence, and mainstream journalism. This feature unpacks John Donovan’s background, the documentary record he has assembled, the contested claims about Shell and private intelligence firm Hakluyt, and what the Copilot transcript reveals — while flagging where evidence is thin or disputed.
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Shell Games: Oil Slicks, Exploding Death Boats, and the Whistleblower They’d Rather You Forget 
Posted 22 December 2023
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In evidence to the Committee, Shell stated that neither Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) nor Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) “is or was at any point in the past involved in OPL 245”. But a cache of leaked internal Shell emails tells a very different story. Far from being “uninvolved”, RDS — the London-registered company at the pinnacle of the Shell group — appears to have the controlling mind behind the important decisions relating to Shell’s involvement in OPL 245.
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EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
EBOOK TITLE: “TOXIC FACTS ABOUT SHELL REMOVED FROM WIKIPEDIA: HOW SHELL BECAME THE MOST HATED BRAND IN THE WORLD” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
