Jon Swain

Jon Swain

Jon (John) Anketell Brewer Swain is an award-winning British journalist and writer who was portrayed by Julian Sands in the 1984 Oscar-winning film "The Killing Fields".

For many years Swain was the "The Sunday Times"'s correspondent in Paris. During this time he had many famous scoops including uncovering the financial support extended by Libya's Colonel Gaddafi's to Arthur Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers. He also reported for the newspaper from East Timor in 1999, at the time of its vote for independence, which saw widespread violence by Indonesian-backed militias [See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/454108.stm.] .

French journalist Denis Robert, who unveiled the "Clearstream affair", wrote in 2006 in his book "Clearstream, l'enquête" [ [http://www.amazon.fr/Clearstream-lenqu%C3%AAte-Denis-Robert/dp/2352040221 Amazon.fr: Clearstream, l'enquête: Denis Robert: Livres ] ] (pp. 229-230) that he believes Jon Swain was working in 2005 for Hakluyt [See http://hakluyt.co.uk/] , a private intelligence firm based in London with close links to MI6

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