David Pallister is an investigative journalist with The Guardian. He has published many featured articles in the best tradition of Guardian journalism. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...

Pallister is perhaps best known for his part in the dénouement of Jonathan Aitken, causing Aitken to be convicted and jailed for perjury.[1] Denouement, in literature, is the end part of a story after the climax. ... Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born August 30, 1942) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament, British government minister and convicted perjurer. ... Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law or in any of various sworn statements in writing. ...

He wrote articles in 1990 following the revelations concerning Operation Gladio. Emblem of Gladio, Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind paramilitary organizations. ...