Excerpt from Diana On The Edge
by Chris Hutchins and Dominic Midgley
"Diana saw dark forces at work behind the publication of her telephone conversation with James Gilbey... On Panorama she hinted at a conspiracy, saying, 'It was done to harm me in a serious manner.' She also described the stories of 300 nuisance calls to Oliver Hoare as 'a huge move to discredit me.'
"But the most vivid expression of her anxiety over the machinations of the intelligence services came in a private conversation with one of her therapists. At the time she was cooperating with Andrew Morton's book on her, Diana lived in fear of being silenced by MI5 or another branch of the security services. It has been made known to the authors that on one shocking occasion, she told the therapist: 'One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter, and it'll just blow up. MI5 will do away with me.'
"On the face of it she had good reason to see the hand of 'the
enemy' in a number of the incidents that damaged her most. The Squidgygate
conversation was recorded by at least two people using radio scanners...Journalists
speculated that MI5 or Special Branch had rebroadcast a tape of the conversation
as part of a dirty-tricks campaign against the Princess...the story degenerated
into a complex technical debate that failed to either implicate or clear
the intelligence services."