The Mountbatten Report

{{concept |constitutes=book |image=The Mountbatten Report.jpg |image_width=330px |authors=John Ainsworth-Davis |subjects=John Ainsworth-Davis |description=A prequel to Op JB, one that [[. |amazon=http://www.amazon.com/Op-JB-Christopher-Creighton/dp/0671855654/ }} The Mountbatten Report purports to be a non-fiction, autobiographical book written by John Ainsworth-Davis. It is a prequel to his best selling Op JB, which describes how he successfully led a mission to rescue Martin Bormann from Berlin at the end of World War II. Two competing editions of this book exist, with different texts and cover stories.

Writing

Ainsworth-Davis began the first draft of The Mountbatten Report in 1976, and worked on it until 2006.

Laurence de Mello's involvement

British Journalist Laurence de Mello reports that in 2006 John Ainsworth-Davis bypassed his high profile, British literary agent and sent her a draft manuscript, to Buenos Aires. She agreed to co-author it under the pen name 'Ami de Creighton'. He requested that Ami de Creighton help him get the manuscript into shape, finish the book and publish a.s.a.p. offshore and in secret. After de Mello received anonymous threats from the UK, three copies of the draft manuscript were placed in different safety deposit boxes in a Buenos Aires bank vault, while de Creighton continued working on the book. In 2008, a mysterious flood damaged Ainsworth-Davis' London home, destroying all his papers and computers beyond repair. Ainsworth-Davis then went 'off radar' for the next two years, and used the original draft copies in Buenos Aires to complete the book.

Greg Hallett's involvement

By 2011 de Mello had found Greg Hallett, whom she believed to be a trustworthy enough editor, and who agreed to help edit and work on the index. He also suggested that he add a small section at the back. His version became the 2014 "final" version.

German publishers

The 2014 version of 'The Mountbatten Report'

The book was published in July 2012 by a German publishing company^[Who?] with which the editor^[Who?] was a partner. When de Mello flew a few months later to the UK to meet with John Ainsworth-Davis and the publisher, the book was not what de Creighton had agreed to, and had changed the original title by adding the word 'FINAL'. However, it was too late to make changes, as there were 2000 luxury hard copies already delivered from Germany to London and marketing was ready to go.

Contract

Weeks later John Ainsworth-Davis' London book agent threatened to sue de Mello and intimidated the 87 year old Ainsworth-Davis, stating that they could "not publish anything again" about 'Christopher Creighton' and his WWII operations due to the unconscionable contract forced on John Ainsworth-Davis in the presence of Ami de Creighton in September 2012.

de Creighton argued that the publication of their book preceded the forced contract and that he could do nothing about it.

Laurence de Mello believes John Ainsworth-Davis's London literary agent, is an SIS asset who was controlling and continues to suppress information as to Ainsworth-Davis's true story.

The Final Mountbatten Report (2014)

Within weeks,^[When?] the editor^[Who?] then curiously hijacked the book, making unauthorized changes and unlawfully placed it on his own website for sale. The editor now referring to himself as 'Lord Chancellor' also nominated himself as the author and removed John Ainsworth Davis and Ami de Creighton as authors and proceeded to make dire threats and libelous comments against John Ainsworth-Davis and Ami de Creighton.

Sabotage?

The publisher chose a self-reference as "Lord Chancellor"

Ainsworth-Davis wanted to bring legal proceeding against the editor, but Ami de Creighton advised him not to, as she suspected the editor had been 'bought' and this was a ploy to block, discredit and delay publication of the book. This suspicion is supported by the fact that the editor proceeded to damage the book's credibility with a series of bizarre radio interviews during the marketing period. While de Creighton was closing retail agreements with Waterstones UK, the editor gave interviews containing bizarre references to himself as The Lord Chancellor (as he had done on the spine of the the book). More distrurbingly, the interviews featured extremely graphic allegations of Lord Louis Mountbatten's supposed homosexual perversions, and accusations that Ami de Creighton was a 'Nazi' Intel agent and 'thief' and, along with John Ainsworth-Davis, part of a 2011-2013 Nazi covert intelligence operation to subject him to mind ops and murder him.^[1]