Disgraced war hero Ben Roberts-Smith waged an aggressive campaign to cover up his war crimes, invoking a special forces’ code of silence as well as smearing and threatening those he thought had revealed his misconduct.
LoadingSources, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential investigations, have confirmed the federal police’s key success to date has been convincing figures who were once in Roberts-Smith’s inner circle to turn on him, becoming police informants.
“I was going to sue those people … and absolutely have no doubt that was going to happen,” Roberts-Smith said. “A lot of people talk a lot of shit … at the point that you got sent that letter [also sent to Rinehart] is ’cos a number of people were saying a number of things. I know you have talked shit about me. I know that.”“A few people [in the SAS] had done what we don’t do and that’s talk out of school,” Roberts-Smith is heard to say. “It’s real simple.
In the defamation case against this masthead, the soldiers were given the pseudonyms person 18 and person 6 and were revealed as potential witnesses to Roberts-Smith’s involvement in the execution of Afghan prisoners. Both are singled out on the tape recording.Efforts to intimidate the two witnesses were first uncovered and reported by this masthead in June 2018, although Roberts-Smith was not identified as the likely culprit at the time because of an absence of corroborative evidence.
Private investigator John McLeod told the Federal Court about the collapse of his friendship with Roberts-Smith.It is the third brief of evidence about Roberts-Smith’s alleged criminality submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions by the federal police, with two briefs alleging war crimes having been submitted in May 2020.
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