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Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession

Original/full: Letter from the Central Staff Committee [PDF]

Stonewalling the Central Staff Committee



Summary: Desmond Radford, the Chairman of the Central Staff Committee at the time, explained how one-sided dialogue with Battistelli really was for a number of years (Battistelli did not respond, instead he had spread highly misleading messages to staff, e.g. [1, 2])

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