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Richard Tomlinson of MI6 and his blog

Hypnotised | 10.07.2006 22:58

Craziness erupts in readers' comments section of The Big Breach author's website

Richard Tomlinson, author of 'The Big Breach' about his life in the Secret Intelligence Service, launched a blog in April so he can continue to annoy his former employers. It seems to have worked as he was recently re-arrested in France on suspicion of authoring the 'MI6 member lists' which  http://cryptome.org has hosted for some time.

Just lately no end of wild stories have been appearing on the reader's comments section of his rather dry blog. Some of these come from conspiracy buffs, some from out-and-out Icke-y loonies and some from people who do seem to be fellow ex- or current SIS agents.

Here's a precis of some of the fun:

*SIS training in the IONEC program at Fort Monckton, Hampshire involves electric shocks being given to recruits, while their controllers implant key words in their subconscious. These are meant to be suicide triggers, but they never actually work, and the MI6 controllers basically just do it for the S/M thrill angle.

*Some MI6 members are involved in something called the 'Yezidi Peacock' branch of Royal Arch Freemasonry, as well as some kind of Temple of Set-type set up known as the Trapezoid Lodges.

*Mind control programming is a reality, and MI6 use a handbook known as the 'Annotated Alice' for training sex slaves, blah blah blah the usual O'Brien/Philips Neuro-Linguistic Programming derived gibberish.

Well, I don't know what to make of all of it - see for yourself at  http://www.richardtomlinson.typepad.com

At the very least it's good for a laugh and shows that these Telegraph reading poshos can be as incoherent, rude to each other and bonkers as Indymedia contributors.

One final thing - Richard Tomlinson has an affidavit online in which he claims that Henri Paul (Diana & Dodi's pissed-up chauffeur) worked as an MI6 asset. His latest arrest came as the official investigation into the Spectacular Death in Paris nears its publication date in August.

Hypnotised

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The Truth

11.07.2006 00:56

The Truth shall set us free, but in the age of the internet, the truth is masked by people who like to weave a web of deciet.

You would not put it past MI5 or MI6 to 'sack' agents to give them a credibility which might well be a good way to be an information magnet or a dis-information service. On the other hand, maybe this man bucked against the system. I know not, but many men are prepared to serve two masters, which is always bad for the wellbeing of people in general. Anarchists excepted perhaps.

I think Diane was murdered, and I suppose MI6 must have been involved. French Secret Service are bent. I recall the Rainbow Warrior incident in which French secret service planted explosives on a Greenpeace vessel at the order of the President. Diane had upset the massive French arms dealing cartels who were horrified indeed at the thought of her becoming a peace campaigner.

Remember that the secret services are controlled by big business.

Crashing a car is easy, killing people in that car is not. Therefore I go with the ambulance theory and I'll read this blog to see what it states.





Eyes Higher


Who is it that laughs at a time of atrocity?

11.07.2006 01:18

Ah yes, our resident New Reich goon who wants people to understand that the TENS OF BILLIONS of pounds that fund the Secret Services of the UK, US, Israel, France, Germany etc, are just part of some looney irrelevant game.

"Death on the rock", secret service smearing of witnesses via their agents in the British press. These are the kinds of memories that 'Hypnotised' DEMANDS that you don't have.

Or take Darren Brown's "The Heist". 'Hypnotised' would prefer that you do not think about the significance of such simple demonstrations of mental manipulation, especially in this time of 'terrorist' patsies being rounded up for having the slightest connection to schemes manipulated by secret service agent provacateurs.

Indeed, strangely 'Hypnotised' can enjoy a good laugh at this moment of Blair's mass rape/torture and murder in Iraq and Palestine.

What is funny for those that work in the cause of genocide. Hitler's top nazis were likewise always found with a smirk on their faces, at least up until the moment they had to blow their brains out.

Why does Indymedia UK attract some of the world's worst ghouls? Because they take literal delight in the rise and rise of Blair, and the atrocity that accompanies him. 500,000+ dead in Iraq as a result of the actions of their master. "Wake me up when we have passed Hitler's record" they say.

We should not be surprised. What we see revealed in the words of these people reflects the mindset of the individual rapist or serial murderer, or sex abuser that happily plans each new tiny act of atrocity, while savouring memories of the last.

To what purpose do 'Hypnotised' secret services work? If it helps murder Blair's target populations, they do it. From the minor players, we get little details. The women who told us that Blair had a full program to spy on, and manipulate the votes of other members of the UN Security Council just before Blair's invasion of Iraq.

Such people are from the outer-most circles, and are thus unlikely to have a strong ideological attachment to the aims of their work. A little further in, and power, corruption, racism, and out and out evil take over, closing their activities from our direct view.

The Secret Services experiment with every kind of 'blue-sky' science, but in the end, only that which can be easily mastered will be used. When it comes to EXTREME psychological manipulation, such methods will be left to odd individuals with natural skills (same concept as natural athletes). That which can easily be taught will be less esoteric. However, Darren Brown, unfortunately for people like 'Hypnotised', show us the possibilities liberated by 'talented' individuals.

QUOTE
*Mind control programming is a reality, and MI6 use a handbook known as the 'Annotated Alice' for training sex slaves, blah blah blah the usual O'Brien/Philips Neuro-Linguistic Programming derived gibberish.
UNQUOTE

Finding 'weak' Humans and ruthlessly manipulating them is a key method of Secret Service agents. Such methods may attract the usually psycho-babble found equally within ordinary management technique training guides, but that doesn't alter the basic point. Teaching guides will exist, and they will attempt to portray methods from a scientific point of view. No different from so-called 'dating manuals'. These too are laughed at, but the males that are masters of the 'one night stand' use methods that CAN be taught. Psychological manipulation is real, regardless of its limitations.

Luckily for us, the kinds of people drawn to the Secret Services are VERY VERY flawed Humans. Their skill levels are low, and their sense of self-importance extremely high. While they have some success hunting and hurting vunerable people, their acievements in other areas is near zero.

However, if we extend our definition to include the propaganda services, the picture is somewhat different. Electronic news production allows Blair's domestic Secret Service agencies to monitor and modify the output of the BBC news broadcasts in near real time (with the co-operation of the BBC news controllers, of course). For the BBC, this has just become an extension of editorial control. MI5 effectively designs the content and language rules for all significant BBC news broadcasts. THIS IS NOT AN INTERFERENCE OR MODIFICATION OF THE PURPOSE OF THE BBC. This is merely using technology to more perfectly control that for which the BBC was first designed.

While Blair's Secret Services are the hand in the glove puppet that is BBC news, they have to settle with being the voice in the ear when it comes to ITN, and the UK newspapers. Not a problem when the rest of the mass media in the UK sits in the hands of those that have cheered every Israeli atrocity in Palestine. Their price is an obvious one, and Blair was once again making it clear how willingly he 'pays' it a few weeks back, with his public glorification of Israel, on the date of Israel destroying the lives of Palestinian holidaymakers in a extremely vile racist act of atrocity.

Funny, 'Hypnotised', I'm NOT having a good laugh, and I doubt many other people here find anything to laugh about with respect to Blair, and his actions, either.

Today, Blair's Secret Services are engaged full steam in making Blair's genocide of Iran possible. No doubt 'Hypnotised' is ROFLHAO at the thought of it. Why not? That was the response of Hitler's buddies, as his Secret Services aquired the uniforms used by forces within target nations, so that said uniforms could be used in false flag or sabotage operations to produce the circumstances that would allow the invasion of these nations.

Most of their success so far is the above mentioned Black Propaganda. Beyond this, Blair anticipates MASSIVE resistance to the next stage of his program of aggressive wars. His Secret Service agencies are thus tasked with identifying (here and abroad) key anti-Iran-war movements, so that these may be infiltrated, and directed from the top. Those that cannot be controlled are to be trashed if possible.

The James Bond stuff is mostly junk- in the end the resources follow the successes. Mass media manipulation, and the control of supposed anti-government pressure groups is golden, however.

One last comment here. During the build up to Blair's destruction of Iraq, his Secret Services placed stories in African newspapers, and then had the British newspapers report these stories as fact. Its an old method, and similar to the mechanism behind 'urban legends'. People like myself who pointed this out at the time were labeled as 'conspiracy nuts' by New Reich goons like 'Hypnotised'. Of course, today, this ploy is common knowledge, and official denial long dropped.

During Blair's invasion, the same could be seen happening again, when Russian intelligence produced daily reports of events like US tanks destroyed by Kornet rockets , events denied by the US government, and described as 'conspiracy rubbish' by people like 'Hypnotised' when mentioned on sites like this. Needless to say, many months later, major US news outlets finally gave the truth to their readers.

And again, during the first Gulf War, the second greatest single atrocity was the deliberate destruction of a major air-raid shelter with a missile designed to burn to death every women and child inside. People like 'Hypnotised' howled 'looney' at any that suggested that the US intentionally murdered these people. Years later, and the US admitted that the strike was intended to kill any regime members that may also have been in the shelter.

Blair's New Reich goons have one main goal- to stop you looking at past events in order to learn the predictable pattern of manipulation. They do this in order to buy a little more time for Blair, time they are sure will buy their master the chance to activate the last stage of the first phase of his war plan, war against Iran. They are certain that once this war begins, Blair can deal with his opposition with rather more 'robust' methods than words.

twilight


twilight is our leader

11.07.2006 02:35

Reply to the freakish moron (or twilight as he prefers to be called)


""Or take Darren Brown's "The Heist". 'Hypnotised' would prefer that you do not think about the significance of such simple demonstrations of mental manipulation, especially in this time of 'terrorist' patsies being rounded up for having the slightest connection to schemes manipulated by secret service agent provacateurs.""


His name is DERREN Brown!


""Indeed, strangely 'Hypnotised' can enjoy a good laugh at this moment of Blair's mass rape/torture and murder in Iraq and Palestine.""

To the best of my knowledge Blair hasn't raped anyone in Palestine! In fact Cherie offered her sympathy to suicide bombers who have been deprived of their homeland!


""Why does Indymedia UK attract some of the world's worst ghouls?""

Why don't you stop posting then freaklight?


""Finding 'weak' Humans and ruthlessly manipulating them is a key method of Secret Service agents.""

Why don't you fuck off and use your knowledge to your advantage then?


""Luckily for us, the kinds of people drawn to the Secret Services are VERY VERY flawed Humans.""

Yes you are.


""MI5 effectively designs the content and language rules for all significant BBC news broadcasts.""

Presumably this wasn't the case when your friends in the Tory party were in power then?


""Funny, 'Hypnotised', I'm NOT having a good laugh""

You aren't, but everyone is having a good laugh at you.


""Beyond this, Blair anticipates MASSIVE resistance to the next stage of his program of aggressive wars.""

You may not have noticed fuckwit, but Blair won't be in power within a year.


""Those that cannot be controlled are to be trashed if possible.""

Well, then why aren't you dead you fucking freak!


""They are certain that once this war begins, Blair can deal with his opposition with rather more 'robust' methods than words.""

Well hopefully you will be first to the gas chamber.

See you in Valhalla comrade twilight.

solstice


not funny?

11.07.2006 08:17

My not-entirely-appropriate lightness of tone in the post above was engendered by a grim amusement that the ruling classes who enter the Intelligence agencies seem to be subject to similar abuses as those of us from rather different social backgrounds who've passed through children's homes, prisons, psychiatric wards etc.

There are some quite interesting claims being posted on the Tomlinson site constantly. A Powergen building on the outskirts of Solihull as secret base. (There were lots of allusions to 'powergen' by the bloggers but the full explication didn't come til just recently).

I'm keeping an open mind on all this stuff, and trying not to take it too seriously at the same time - personally I find it hard to relate to anyone who'd want to join MI6, so I'm not kept awake at night thinking about their plight.

Hypnotised


Shayler alleged to have claimed Tomlinson might be "still working for them"

11.07.2006 10:58

In the article below (an analysis of O'Hara and Shayler's public debate at the Conway Hall last June) Tomlinson was reportedly affectionately described as 'Tommo' by Shayler and someone who could "bullshit for England".

Steve Booth also states that Shayler claimed that Richard Tomlinson was unreliable and might be "still working for them" (i.e. MI6). Shayler is alleged to have said that Tomlinson tried to entice him into going to Libya, saying he could get $1M from the Arab TV station, Al Jazeera, to make a programme. When Shayler checked up, Al Jazeera denied all knowledge of it.

Jengruel


SPOOKS ILLUMINATED? THE DAVID SHAYLER versus LARRY O'HARA DEBATE

11.07.2006 10:59

SPOOKS ILLUMINATED?
THE DAVID SHAYLER versus LARRY O'HARA DEBATE
by Steve Booth of Green Anarchist
Introduction
David Shayler is the former MI5 officer, who left the Secret Service in August 1997, and, amidst sensational publicity claimed that his revelations could 'bring down the government'. He was then jailed for 3 1/2 months in France, and later prosecuted under the UK Official Secrets Act, and jailed for seven weeks, in Ford Open Prison. Subsequently, he has campaigned on civil liberties, together with his girlfriend and former MI5 supervisor, Annie Machon. He has written in the short-lived revived Punch magazine and other places. Annie Machon has recently published a book, 'Spies Lies and Whistleblowers' [1] .
What sort of revelations has Shayler made about the Security Services? What do these reveal about his motives? At the beginning, Shayler / Machon gained a lot of publicity and had an easy ride, being welcomed into the fold by the civil liberties industry. Why? In the 1980s, Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harmon, of the then NNCL were targets by MI5. That was then, but in the late 1990s, Shayler / Machon were permitted to run their campaigns from the Liberty office. That they were granted, and did not earn acceptance by naively uncritical civil libertarians is more of a problem for the civil liberties machine than for Shayler / Machon. [2]
Notes From The Borderland
Dr Larry O' Hara is the editor of 'Notes From the Borderland', the parapolitical magazine, which looks at the secret state and the hidden agenda behind such things as the Far Left, the Far Right, the EC and many other issues. A veteran anti-Fascist, Larry is perhaps best known for his pamphlet 'Searchlight For Beginners'. [3] As long ago as 1998, he analysed Shayler's claims at length and in detail, and through a series of follow up articles has subjected them to rigourous and close scrutiny. [4] On top of this, on the 3rd February 2001, Larry put some of his questions directly to Shayler at a meeting held in Newcastle, hosted by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. Similar information was also given out at an investigative journalism conference held in Sheffield, on the 16th - 17th June 2001, which Shayler and Machon attended.
More recently, Larry O' Hara put out a challenge to Shayler / Machon to enter into public debate with him. To some considerable surprise, this was accepted, and it took place in the Conway Hall, London, on the 21st June 2005. I am not aware of a similar recent case, where such a figure has faced up to some of his most severe and radical critics in this direct way. On this level, David Shayler ought to be praised for turning up. On the other hand, the criticisms made by O' Hara and by others, stand. This debate was probably the most important parapolitical event of 2005 and its implications and consequences will continue to reverberate for some considerable time.
The Debate Commences
Larry opened up by discussing the Shayler / Machon allegation that long ago Tony Benn gave Polaris nuclear missile secrets to Jack Jones, the Trade Union leader, who was said to be a Soviet agent. [5] He then went on to talk about the persistent smears against the anarchist group, 'Class War'. The first part of this started when Shayler initially came to public attention, and was recorded in the Mail on Sunday article, where he outed an infiltrator within CW, [6] subsequently named as Andy Bryant, and displayed patronising contempt for his target calling CW "a tiny and ludicrous anarchist group". In the second version of this, made in December 2001, Shayler went on to claim to Bristol based journalist and Bilderberg conspiracy theorist, Tony Gosling, that another, a Special Branch agent inside CW was an "unstable drunk" who propped up the administration of the organisation, while drinking multiple cans of Special Brew, and beating up policemen. [7]
Taking Liberties
Larry also went over Shayler's claims to be a civil libertarian. For example, he called for the prosecution of Melita Norwood [8] Some of this was also seen in Shayler's attitude towards Richard Tomlinson, the MI6 runaway, whom in some ways occupies a similar position to Shayler. At the beginning, Tomlinson was affectionately referred to as 'Tommo', but later said he "could bullshit for England". [9] Shayler's line then changed, when he used information provided by Tomlinson about the similarities between the death of Princess Diana and an earlier, but aborted, MI6 plan to eliminate Milosevic.
On the suppression of photographs
David Shayler condemned secret state inefficiency, when it took 12 days to courier photographs of Sean McNulty, the 1993 IRA gas terminal bomber, from Newcastle to London. Shayler was silent on another case at around the same time, where spooks suppressed a photograph of one of the Harrods bombers for 33 days, between January and March 1993, and when the picture was released, one of the bombers, Patrick Hayes, was instantly recognised. [10]
Dogs That Didn't Bark
Larry then went on to outline a few more dogs that didn't bark, including Roger Windsor, the NUM, and the 1984 Miners' Strike. Shayler's denial of the well documented Wilson Plot as "fantasy" was also criticised. The Wilson plot was disclosed in the respected book 'Smear!' by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay. Larry also mentioned the claims about MI5 infiltration in the top echelons of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
Shayler's Riposte
David Shayler replied with an emotive call to unite and repel the 'forces of darkness'. He claimed that the Official Secrets Act and libel laws restricted what he could say. He countered the comments about Jack Jones by offering the claim that Jones was an MI5 double agent.
As to Class War, he reiterated his two agents claim. One, codenamed 25/79, was an alcoholic, and gave little useful information. M25/80 on the other hand was thought to have 'gone native', beating up police. This was the one who ran off with CW's money. Shayler then claimed to want to expose agent provocateurs, but few in the audience bought any of this. As to Melita Norwood, he also fudged, saying that the law should apply to all people equally. After all, she gave away 'our' secrets.
Shayler and Tomlinson
Shayler claimed that Richard Tomlinson was unreliable. He failed his 2 year probationary period with MI6. Tomlinson might be "still working for them" (=MI6) and tried to entice Shayler into going to Libya, saying he could get $1M from the Arab TV station, Al Jazeera, to make a programme, Shayler alleged. When Shayler checked up, Al Jazeera denied all knowledge of it.
Bureaucratic Inertia
On the Princess Diana crash, at first he was sceptical about Tomlinson's claims, but when he looked further into it changed his mind. On the Sean McNulty case, and related issues, he criticised MI5's internal procedures as an abuse of civil liberties, but got very angry because on four occasions during his career, prior information about IRA bombings was received, but not acted upon because of "bureaucratic inertia." In the Harrods Bombing 33 days delay example, Shayler blamed the SO13 police squad. It wasn't MI5's fault.
SWP
As to the Socialist Workers Party, Shayler claimed he does not know who the infiltrators were / are. However, (strangely) he also said that if somebody ran a list of names by him in private, he would nod his head. He claimed that Shayler / Machon closed down the MI5 anti-SWP operation as a waste of time, a claim which fell on sceptical ears with the audience. On other matters, like the Israeli embassy bombing, the Victoria Brittan journalist harassment case, Roger Windsor, and the Harold Wilson Plot, Shayler tried to switch attention away on to the civil liberties angle, or transfer the blame across to MI6. Indeed, his rather emotional anti-MI6 position was one of the clearest aspects of Shayler's position at this meeting.
Audience Questions
Class War members present challenged Shayler's stereotyped and prejudicial comments against the group as "being more of a threat to public health than public security ... a rag tag group of crusties, alcoholics and dogs on string." [11] On the question of assets, they put the fact to Shayler that Andy Bryant, the first asset, was known, but that the second agent described, did not fit any real member. Shayler backtracked on his claim, stating the man may not have been a member, but a casual anarchist who drifted in and out of various groups. If so, this could not support his previous claim that the group collapsed when this agent pulled out. The more he was pushed to disclose the details behind his claim, the more Shayler's story cracked apart.
Assassination attempt
Mark Glendenning of the Democracy Movement asked for elaboration on his claims that the Security Services tried to assassinate Shayler. This came down to a claim the tyres on his car were interfered with, around the time that he was making claims about the IRA 'Stakeknife' infiltrator. There was a suggestion that the Loyalists may have been behind it. I did not find this convincing.
When asked about current groups under MI5 investigation, Shayler said little. Larry O' Hara suggested that the Far Left, Far Right, Animal Rights, anti Globalisation, anti EU groups, and football gangs were in the frame.
Sheila Trymoska from Freedom Press, the anarchist publishers, asked whether Freedom had ever been under surveillance? Shayler said yes, but provided no details.
Financial Accounts
Robert Henderson asked how Shayler funded his lifestyle? Shayler said he was paid for his newspaper articles, but had to borrow £25,000 from relatives. He did a James Bond film promotion, and of course there was the book. Shayler was then asked if he was prepared to make his finances open to public scrutiny, but he would not. MI5 and MI6 might want to also scrutinise his accounts.
Why did he not disclose what he earlier implied he was going to reveal about Peter Mandelson's relationship with MI5? Shayler smokescreened this question with the bizarre counter claim that Tony Blair might be an agent of MI5.
Passionate
Russell Miller, a human rights lawyer, formerly working for Birnbergs, drew attention to Shayler's tendency to blame MI6 for all the ills of the world, while disclosing little or nothing of value about MI5. Charity should begin at home. Both George W Bush and President Putin had spook connections. The spooks ran everything and therefore clear, unequivocal disclosure of what he knew was required. The naming of names. Russell got quite passionate in his denunciation of Shayler, calling him a phoney. This rattled Shayler and he got angry and loud, smokescreening very heavily about human rights for Palestinians and Libyans.
Somebody asked if John Wadham of 'Liberty' is an MI5 agent. This collapsed into a general denunciation of the abject uselessness of Liberty from the floor.
Lockerbie
Fran Scott of 'Cultureshock' asked about the 11th September 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. It was suspicious that scrap metal from the site was sold off to China. The Neo-Cons were blamed. There was nothing particularly new or startling in this. Larry spoke about MI5 attempts to suppress the showing of the 'Maltese Double Cross' film about the Lockerbie crash, in Birmingham, where the film's exhibitor underwent a burglary, and an arson attack, while other people associated with the project suffered a CIA inspired smear campaign. This happened during the time that Shayler was on the MI5 Libya desk, so was he involved? Shayler blustered about the passengers, still conscious, falling 40,000 feet from the Lockerbie jet. He claimed he did not know about or agree with the harassment of people showing this film, and then tried to switch attention away to MI6, who were currently blaming Iran for Lockerbie to 'justify' George W Bush's next planned invasion.
Searchlight and Hepple
An activist from Anti-Fa asked about Searchlight and Tim Hepple. Again, Shayler claimed complete ignorance. Larry drew attention to the well known 'Gable Memorandum' [12] and the Leeds Northern Star address book theft incident. Shayler's ignorance was not credible, given that he had photocopied 187 MI5 files and worked in the relevant section at the time.
ECHELON
A question was asked on the War on Terror, and the US anthrax incident, where the spores were shown to be US military anthrax. Shayler drew attention to the TV series, 'The Power of Nightmares'. Questions were also asked about bugging and tapping, and the way under the Echelon system, US personnel spy on the UK, and vice versa, to get round legal restrictions. Shayler expressed his support for bugging, and established his civil libertarian credentials when he called for tapping evidence to be admissible in court.
SWP infiltration questions
Many questions about MI5 infiltration of the SWP were asked at the end of the meeting. Again, Shayler ducked and weaved, claiming Annie Machon was the expert here. Fourteen agents were claimed, and Shayler / Machon supposedly challenged this degree of MI5 attention being given to the party. The number of infiltrators were said to be reduced to three.
In the contemporary light of the SWP's apparent liquidation of itself, and the turn towards the Muslim community, when put alongside the undoubted desire of the intelligence services to turn their attention towards the Muslim community; who the remaining SWP infiltrators are, and the agenda they promote in there is certainly of interest. It is an important political question. Again, when pressed as to details, Shayler knew nothing.
The two different versions of the story, (was it 25 agents or 14?) were put to him. Were they passive or actively intervening? - Again, Shayler knew nothing. Larry suggested the SWP / Respect might be used as a trojan horse operation to spy on the Muslim community. MI5 has a poor recruitment record towards the ethnic communities and crass operations against them can only alienate and antagonise people.
Impressions and Summary
David Shayler's stand as a civil libertarian was unconvincing. For example, he does not call for the abolition of the security state's powers for telephone tapping, but rather demands these be admissible as evidence in court. He asks for Parliamentary oversight of the security services; however, we already have this, and it does not work. It is worthless. Shayler expects the security services to be more efficient and less bureaucratic, less tied up with red tape. This is hardly a recipe for restraining them.
When challenged on particulars, Shayler tends to blame MI6. Where clear evidence of MI5's wrongdoing was put forwards, he claimed ignorance of the case, or that MI5 operated on the 'need to know' principle and that he was out of the loop. This tendency to deny all knowledge was the poorest and least convincing part of his presentation. Russell Miller's objections were sound. Were Shayler a genuine penitent, openly, he would be prepared to spill the beans. Questioned on the SWP infiltration, he passed the buck to Machon. Failing this, when challenged he reverted to his civil liberty fall back position: 'Trust me, I'm a former spook! ...' and in this regard it was interesting and perhaps significant that the civil liberty cases he championed were Palestinians. Failing this, he tried to resort to emotive arguments and bluster, eg the spooks 'protecting' the public from the IRA, or the passengers, still conscious, falling from the wreckage of the Lockerbie jet. This served to highlight the weakness of his position.
In some respects, Shayler invites comparison with the 1980s 'Spycatcher' man, Peter Wright. Wright seems to have been motivated by bitterness over his pension. Shayler's motivation is less clear. Whistleblower? Reformer? Egotist? Rebel? Nemesis? David Shayler is more to be understood as a Postmodern figure, standing outside Thames House, casting his lethargic thunderbolts across the river towards Vauxhall Cross. Seemingly, he would like to appear to be MI5's harshest critic, demanding that it clean up its act. Yet, in contrast to this impression, in this age of spin doctors, glossy PR campaigns, posturings, and a continual stream of 'good days to bury bad news', he is its staunchest advocate.
– S.B. 26th June 2005

REFERENCES
[1] Annie Machon, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 and the Shayler Affair, Book Guild, Lewes, 420 pps ISBN: 185776-952 X, £17:95p.
[2] That not everyone has been taken in by this process of ready acceptance can be seen in the fact that when Privacy International gave him a whistleblower's award, angered activists pied him. (4th March 2002).
[3] Notes From The Borderland, BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX. Searchlight For Beginners, Phoenix Press, October 1996, ISBN 0 948984 33 3.  http://www.borderland.co.uk
[4] NFB issue 2 1998, pp 3 - 17. NFB3, Autumn 2000, 'David Shayler - The Questions Multiply, p 9. NFB4, Winter 2001-02, p 31. NFB5, Winter 2003-04, pp 51 - 52, 'David Shayler - It won't be over till the fat boy sings'. NFB6, 2005, 'David Shayler and Annie Machon: MI5 Cuckoos in the Nest?' pp 62 - 66.
[5] Mail on Sunday, 30th January, 2005.
[6] Mail on Sunday, 31st August 1997.
[7]  http://www.uk.indymedia.org posting 20332, 14th January 2002.
[8] Punch 104, 6th September 2000.
[9] New Statesman, 22nd January 2001.
[10] See Larry O' Hara, chapter 3, pp 28-40, Turning Up The Heat, Phoenix Press, London 1994, ISBN 0 948984-29-5
[11] Punch, 22nd February 2000.
[12] May 1977, reproduced in Lobster 24, December `1992. also Duncan Campbell 'Destabilising the Decent People' New Statesman, 15th February 1980.
 http://www.bluegreenearth.us/archive/article/2005/booth-1-2005.html

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