Letters raise new phone hacking questions

LONDON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- A note written by an attorney for Britain's News of the World suggests James Murdoch was aware of widespread phone hacking, The Daily Telegraph reported.

Murdoch, chairman of News International, has said he was not aware that senior journalists at the defunct London newspaper were involved in illegal voice mail interception.

A note written by Julian Pike, an attorney working on behalf of the News of the World, during a telephone conversation he had with editor Colin Myler said that Myler "Spoke to James Murdoch" and that Murdoch wanted to end the phone hacking problem to "cut out the cancer," the newspaper reported Wednesday.

Reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator and Glenn Mulcaire were jailed in 2007 for phone hacking.