[…] been stuffed with loyalist place men and women. The committee has never taken up the wide range of issues raised by former intelligence operatives such as David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, seemingly on the basis that it does not want to encourage whistleblowers, when it is precisely these whistle-blowers who have done the most […]
[…] accounts of their work against British ‘subversives’ in the 1970s and 80s. There was a rich irony about the BBC broadcasting the first two episodes while David Shayler was on trial. A group of Special Branch officers – assisted by the BBC – broke the Official Secrets Act in a big way on television […]
[…] I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former MI5 officers David Shayler and Annie Machon. 21 In the best example yet of a staff-spook who has no idea how other societies work, she then gave an explanation of […]
[…] It came as no surprise that the plot to murder Libya’s President – a typical ‘special operations’ throwback, brought to public notice by former MI5 Officer David Shayler, for which he has paid a despicable price – happened on Spedding’s watch. The personal views of the Chief count for a great deal in an […]
[PDF file]: […] a Monty Python reference within this one issue’s ‘South of the Border’, but it’s the only sensible reaction to some recent communication1 from ‘God’s own spy’, David Shayler. I would encourage those who have not read my article ‘David Shayler, “Tunworth” and the LIFG’ in this issue2 to do so before progressing any further […]
[PDF file]: […] in 1994. This was two years before MI6 covertly supported the LIFG in an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi, an operation initially revealed by former MI5 officer, David Shayler. At the time MI6 handed over money for the coup attempt, the LIFG was an affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, and LIFG leaders had various […]
[…] in 1994. This was two years before MI6 covertly supported the LIFG in an attempt to assassinate Gaddafi, an operation initially revealed by former MI5 officer, David Shayler. At the time MI6 handed over money for the coup attempt, the LIFG was an affiliate of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, and LIFG leaders had various […]
[PDF file]: […] placed the Manchester-Libya events in the wider picture of American (and British) intervention in the Middle East and North Africa. Blumenthal referred to the MI5 officer David Shayler, who had been on that agency’s Libya desk, and who spoke of the use by MI6 of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in an assassination […]
[…] placed the Manchester-Libya events in the wider picture of American (and British) intervention in the Middle East and North Africa. Blumenthal referred to the MI5 officer David Shayler, who had been on that agency’s Libya desk, and who spoke of the use by MI6 of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in an assassination […]
[PDF file]: […] the material covering the 1970s and 80s, very poor indeed. None of the insiders who have talked critically about MI5 in the post 1964 era – Massiter, Shayler, Machon, Holroyd, Wallace, to name just the obvious examples – are quoted or cited. The official version is always treated as if it were unchallenged. This […]
