Gareth Williams

Gareth Willimas
Photo-credit The News Chronicle

Template:Current Events Gareth Williams was 31 years old when his body was discovered in a padlocked sports holdall submerged in 'a fluid' in the bath of his flat in Alderney Street, Pimlico, London Map on the afternoon of 23 August 2010. He had last been see alive in London on 15 August 2010. Police reported that the body "was in an advanced state of decay" when found and this made establishing the cause of death problematical.

Employment

Williams was an employee of GCHQ Cheltenham. It is reported that, at the time of his death, he was nearing the end of a six month secondment to MI6 whose HQ is about a mile away from his London flat on the opposite side of the river Thames. Williams is reported to have been a 'mathematical genius' and key (though relatively junior) member of GCHQ staff working in the field of cryptography as it applies to the Signals and communications intelligence functions of GCHQ. He is reported to have been a regular visitor to US NSA establishments at Fort Meade, Maryland and to have been a recent visitor to military intelligence establishments in Kabul, Afghanistan.

MSM speculation

The British MSM has indulged itself in predictable speculations (some no doubt planted) surrounding the unexplained death of a so-called 'spy'. They have variously been alleged that:

• His mobile phone simcards were arranged in a "bizarre ritualistc manner"
• There were Escort Agency telephone numbers on one phone SIM card and pornographic material on another.
• He was gay and may have attracted the unwelcome attentions of a jealous aspiring partner
• "Bondage equipment was found at his flat.

The police - to their credit - have matter-of-factly stamped on most of this stuff.

As of 7 September 2010 the police seem to be doggedly pursuing their investigations. Their latest appeal being for information about a couple "of Mediterranean appearance" - with all the strange connotations the expression carries - who were allegedly captured on CCTV "one or two months before Mr Williams died"

Wikispooks Speculation

The following speculations rest on one over-riding assumption. It is that the real reason for Gareth William's murder are known to MI6 and must NOT become public knowledge. That assumption in turn rests on substantial evidence of a so-called 'turf-war' between the Metropolitan Police charged by statute with the investigation of a capital crime, and the 'Security Services' who are reported as being 'less than helpful' to the investigation. That together with lurid speculation in the MSM and variously attributed to 'sources close the inquiry', 'senior intelligence sources' and other such journalistic euphemisms. The waters are being well-and-truly muddied by people well placed to undertake the muddying.

Speculation 1 - The Manhattan 11 connection?

The murder is connected with the recent "Manhattan 11" Russian Espionage fiasco in which 11 alleged Russian "Deep-Cover" sleeper spies were arrested, charged and subsequently exchanged for 4 alleged US spies held in Russia

MURDERED spook Gareth Williams could have helped to nail Russian spy beauty Anna Chapman. Detectives are looking into claims the MI6 code breaker was in the US when ­Chapman was uncovered in June.... However, investigators are meeting “resistance” from US and UK intelligence agencies..... a high-level source told the Daily Star ­Sunday: “Mr Williams’ work in America is forming part of the inquiry.

“We need to know what he was working on during his ­visits there. MI6 and CIA code crackers played a vital part in outing Chapman and the ­Russian spy ring."

More soon

Speculation 2 - A Mossad / Israeli 'false-flag' connection?

The rationale here goes like this:

There is one over riding, non-negotiable requirement for the success of Israel's foreign policy goals. It is that the growing regional power and alleged nuclear weapons ambitions of Iran be neutralised. Israeli cannot accomplish this on its own and judges sanctions to be a waste of time. Israel SIS's judge that the best way to provoke the US into a military attack on Iran is for it to suffer a major terrorist attack by Iran. This speculation holds that Israel was/is at an advanced planning and logistical stage of ensuring that just such an attack occurs and is blamed on Iran. And that Gareth Williams, because of his deep involvement and knowledge of UKUSA / Israeli SIGINT / NSA operations discovered evidence of the planned operation and voiced his concerns to the wrong people.

Evidence for this speculation is that the way in which the body was left would greatly inhibit the spread of the smell of decay or of body fluids leaking through the floor and thus delay discovery sufficient for the perpetrators to be well clear of the country with little or no CCTV evidence still extant. It is also consistent with police appeals for information about a couple 'of Mediterranean appearance caught on what CCTV there is (or rather has been revealed) of the weeks before the body was discovered. Williams is also reported to have been a regular visitor to the NSA HQ at Fort Meade Maryland and these reports are now subject to obfuscation and water muddying. He was also on secondment to MI6. He was thus at the hub of the technical and operational agencies charged with finding out and dealing with such possibilities - with the purposes to which such 'finding-out' is put, remaining moot.

Speculation 3 - A Hamid Kazai 'Special Operation' connection?

Pure speculation this one - lateral thinking you might say.

Williams is reported to have visited 'Intelligence facilities' in Kabul in the weeks before his death. Hamid Kazai (President of Afghanistan) has become both an embarrassment and a liability to US objectives in Afghanistan. Great hopes were vested in his being ousted in the Autumn 2009 'elections' but despite them being reported by independent observers as little better than a sham, Karzai easily held on to power. It is speculated that Williams became privy to a Special Forces operation to eliminate Karzai. For whatever reason, the operation failed or had to be aborted - or maybe it is still on the stocks. Williams knowledge was dangerous and he voiced the wrong kind of concerns - or worse - to the wrong people.

Speculation 4 - from Aangirfan

A must read compendium of links and theories about the case.

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Wikispooks entirely discounts the possibility of the murder being sexual or lifestyle related but expects the outcome of the investigation to conclude - for public consumption - that it was. Par for the course in other words.

Representative MSM Coverage

• MI6 worker found murdered in London flat - The Guardian 25 August 2010
• Spy last seen alive eight days before body was found in bag - The Guardian 25 August 2010
• FLAT OWNED BY FIRM NAMED AFTER ‘RUSSIAN MOTHERLAND’ Daily Express 26 August 2010
• Race to solve secret of grisly murder in an MI6 'safehouse' - The Scotsman 26 August 2010. With comment by Prof Glees of The Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham
• MURDERED SPY MAY HAVE MET HIS KILLER ON MISSIONS TO USA Daily Express 27 August 2010
• MI6 bondage claims untrue - The Guardian 29 August 2010
• MI6 death: Murder most strange - The Independent 29 August 2010. Interesting takes on the matter from lots of SIS-connected people.
• Bondage claims over dead MI6 officer untrue, say police - The Guardia 29 August 2010. This article also contains information about Williams' visits to the Fort Meade NSA HQ and to Kabul. - Richard Norton Taylor
• Spy murder case could be too sensitive for court Telegraph 31 August 2010
• A secret stalker. Witnesses who won't talk... but the most tantalising question of all is... Who's got the spy-in-the-bag's missing laptop? - Mail online 4 September 2010
• MI6 spy Gareth Williams murder: police hunt for Mediterranean couple - The Telegraph 6 September 2010
• Police issue CCTV footage of dead MI6 worker - Guardian 6 September 2010
• Was it poison? Two weeks after murdered spy was found in his bath, baffled police release CCTV of victim as they probe radiation theory - Daily Mail 7 September 2010
• MURDERED SPY GARETH WILLIAMS ‘WAS BEING TAILED’ - Express 9 September 2010.