[…] to take a couple of chums across to the States to beat the bushes for private sector funding for his project.(12) Robin Cook at the Foreign Office Shayler Hundreds of column inches about the David Shayler affair between August 2 and August 10 1998 produced rather little of significance other than the fact that […]
[…] over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw bolted for respectability, proving a worthy inheritor of the Labour tradition of grovelling towards our secret servants exemplified […]
[…] about out politicians’ relationship with the security services is expressed by the fact that they the politicians refused to even listen to what Machon and Shayler had to say. As did the Intelligence and Security Committee. Oversight? Overlook, more like it. As always happens, the system then tries to shoot the messenger […]
[…] against the OSA 1989 because it allowed the prosecution of whistleblowers, but a Labour Attorney General consented to the prosecution of the author Tony Geraghty, Wylde and Shayler. Nick Fielding of the Sunday Times said that most of the debate was taking place in the courts and Parliament was left behind in the debate, […]
[…] of the location of the evidence, and might be prepared to release the information.’ On the same tack the Sunday Times on the same day reported that Shayler ‘has told lawyers that he has damaging information about a cabinet minister which could “blow up” the government.’ Shayler was threatening to blow the gaff if […]
[…] consumers of less legitimate media (blogs and grocery store tabloids ).’(29) And from the far end of the spectrum, The Spectator has a disturbing account of David Shayler promoting his 9/11 Truth campaign in a Methodist church hall to an audience of about a dozen. The basic thrust of his theory is that the […]
[…] www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273, 4268111,00, html What Price National Security? http://cryptome.org/price-natsec.htm Transcript of Nov. 2000 conference on national security hosted by the Freedom Forum, the speakers including John Wadham, David Shayler, Stephen Dorril, Nick Wilkinson, Andrew Puddephat, Tony Geraghty, Nigel Wylde, Duncan Campbell (report in Lobster 40). The Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London closed in October […]
[…] book, former British intelligence officers have also been ‘encouraged to set up consultancies’. This could happen when they retire, or at an earlier stage. For example, David Shayler was found employment in one of the London-based management consultancies when he first left MI5. (9) In the lobbying industry, one of the most influential was […]
At 00:20 on Sunday 31 August 1997 a black Mercedes S280 carrying four people left the Ritz Hotel in central Paris. Shortly afterwards at 00:25 it crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the Concorde-Boulogne lane of the Pont d’Alma Tunnel in central Paris. The driver – Henri Paul – was killed instantly. The front passenger […]
[…] a serious of indiscreet relationships including some with members of staff at PNL, relationships of which her husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this period, and that I was one […]
