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A biography from a leading former Liberal MP and minister has been edited after the politician's claims about his role in A.P. Moller-Maersk's military cooperation with the US under the Gulf War were disputed by the shipping giant's boss
Former foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen asserts in the first two editions of his book 'The Path I Chose' that it was he who initiated the contact between A.P.Moller-Maersk and the American military, when the company put its ships on call for US forces in the Persian Gulf.
But the shipping giant's primary stockholder, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Moller, has disputed Ellemann-Jensen's claim, and documentation from the company confirms that it was Moller himself that made the offer to the US military in 1990, when he still held the position as the shipper's board of directors chairman.
I can confirm that I, via a telephone conversation with former prime minister Poul Schlüter, was the one who said Denmark could provide a special, well-equipped cargo route via A.P. Moller ships between the US East Coast and the Persian Gulf, free-of-charge, said the 94-year-old tycoon.
The book's current third edition has altered the disputed text and the changes the sequence of events from Ellemann-Jensen calling Moller to Moller subsequently contacting the former minister. There is no official revision of the claim printed in the book, but Ellemann-Jensen said the issue was not of particular importance.
It's just a clarification, because it's important that people understand it was Moller who came up with the initiative, said the former minister.
Jan Cortzen, former editor-in-chief of financial daily Borsen, has written a biography about Moller and said the billionaire is a stickler for accuracy.
He doesn't accept errors and still responds to instances of misinformation, even though he'll be 95 this year, said Cortzen. When he feels there's good reason, he'll correct mistakes and you can be sure that his corrections are 100 percent accurate.
Source: The Copenhagen Post
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