Bill Fairclough
 Bill Fairclough          (Businessman) | |
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| Born | John William Percy Fairclough 1950/08/31 Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Parents | • Richard Alan Fairclough • Margaret Fairclough |
| Spouse | Josefina Repancol Fairclough |
| Interests | • Infiltration • Intelligence • Espionage |
Bill Fairclough's biography | |
Bill Fairclough lived a remarkable maverick double life throughout much of his career. Covertly he worked as an intelligence agent, specialising in infiltration and investigatory assignments. Overtly he was a respected director in the regulated international financial services sector and an accomplished Chartered Accountant who specialised in fraud prevention and detection. In 1978 he founded Faire Sans Dire. It became a niche intelligence organisation with global reach. In 2014, Beyond Enkription was published as the first novel in The Burlington Files, a series of six biographical novels based on his life.
More details of Bill Fairclough’s personal and business life, both covert and overt, are available on Wikispooks at https://wikispooks.com/wiki/User:DoubleAgent. Photographs are not included there but are accessible via https://www.instagram.com/fairclough_bill. Please also see the primary website links summarily listed immediately below.
Primary Website Links
http://www.theburlingtonfiles.org
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/billfairclough
https://everipedia.org/wiki/the-burlington-files
https://everipedia.org/wiki/faire-sans-dire
https://everipedia.org/wiki/edward-burlington
https://everipedia.org/wiki/beyond-enkription
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fairclough-119 (Biography)
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/User:DoubleAgent (Biography)
https://everipedia.org/wiki/bill-fairclough (Biography)
Bill Fairclough's Concise Profile
Bill Fairclough, born John William Percy Fairclough on 31 August 1950, lived a remarkable maverick double life throughout much of his career. Covertly, he worked as an intelligence agent, specialising in infiltration and investigatory assignments. Overtly he was a respected director in the regulated global financial services sector and an accomplished Chartered Accountant who specialised in fraud prevention and detection.
In 1969 Bill Fairclough 1950 [1] started his career [2] as a trainee accountant (articled clerk) at Cooper Brothers [3], later to become Coopers & Lybrand [4] and after that PricewaterhouseCoopers [5]. Somewhat altruistically, Bill lived a double life from the early seventies which was when he qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Coopers. In 1978 he established Faire Sans Dire [6] while still employed by Coopers & Lybrand.
Faire Sans Dire became a globally renowned niche intelligence organisation. In the seventies and eighties, Faire Sans Dire provided a conduit whereby intelligence agencies involved mainly in law enforcement could more easily work together. In those days, many intelligence agencies did not communicate one with another thanks to the Cold War. Nonetheless, most of them abhorred people trafficking and similar heinous crimes. Faire Sans Dire’s goal was to help prevent the exponential spread of international organised crime which was exploiting the Cold War communications gap.
After leaving Coopers & Lybrand in July 1983, Bill Fairclough continued to work in the international financial services industry until January 1999 while still retaining control of Faire Sans Dire. From 1983 to 1986 Fairclough worked at Citigroup [7] and from 1986 to 1999 at the Barclays Group [8] including a secondment to the Reuters Group [9]. From 1999 he switched roles and Faire Sans Dire became his main occupation, albeit still covertly until 2010. Even then, he continued to take on directorships openly and some covertly as a shadow director in various companies not only in the financial services sector but also in property, healthcare and other industries [10].
In July 2009 Fairclough was approached for the third time to try to make films loosely based on his experiences. Through intermediaries, he contacted two well-known film production companies to assess their appetite. The films proposed comprised a pot pourri of unusual concepts and experiences based on Bill’s somewhat unconventional and maverick dual or at times triple existence [11].
Despite all their initial enthusiasm, the negotiations with those companies’ directors came to nothing. Both film production companies advised Fairclough’s representatives that they should first present their material in book and/or film script format. Sadly, their approach to one US corporation landed on stony ground when MGM [12], which produced many of the James Bond films, filed for bankruptcy. MGM has since recovered but is under different management. Kudos [13], the other film production company approached was based in the UK. At the time it had a full production agenda for many years ahead courtesy of its global success with the Spooks [14] TV series.
Accordingly, on 5 March 2014, the first novel in The Burlington Files [15] series, Beyond Enkription, was published on Amazon (worldwide) as a paperback and eBook [16]. In 2015 a hardcover version of Beyond Enkription was published by Dolman Scott [17]. The entire Burlington Files series is broadly based on Bill Fairclough’s life. Fairclough was the nominal author of The Burlington Files. In that regard, it is understood one reasonably well-known novelist wrote much of the material but his or her name can never be disclosed.
Beyond Enkription was written for film adaptation and copyrighted by an English company, The Burlington Files Limited [18]. The official date of publication marked the fiftieth anniversary of the opening chapter in Beyond Enkription. It was coincidentally on purpose the same day as Bill Fairclough’s father’s birthday.
Beyond Enkription was not written as and has never been marketed as a traditional novel because it was written for film adaptation. The purposes of publication were to secure copyright and make it easy for those in the film industry to access it in a manner that suited them once they had been contacted via Faire Sans Dire’s representatives. Accordingly, irrespective of its qualities or lack of them, the book has to date not been a best-seller other than in obtuse ways in China and old Soviet Bloc countries such as the Ukraine and Bulgaria. It is estimated that in aggregate over 60,000 copies were sold through illegitimate eBook libraries within a year or so of its publication on Kindle [19]: so much for copyright!
Citations
1 Bill Fairclough’s genealogical history and related data are partially available via the links below. https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fairclough-119
2 The links below are to Bill Fairclough's profile, references and work history as vetted by TutorFair. TutorFair, being an educational organisation, would have vetted Fairclough as a prospective teacher in accordance with English law. The data shown in these links have therefore been fully screened using, inter alia, enhanced checking against the UK’s national criminal records database. https://www.tutorfair.com/tutor/name/bill/id/84490/profile http://bit.ly/JWPFReferences (automatic download)
3 A simplified history of Cooper Brothers leading up to the formation of Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) can be seen in flowchart format from this link. https://www.icaew.com/-/media/corporate/files/library/subjects/accounting-history/family-trees/family-treecoopers-lybrand.ashx?la=en
4 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers#Coopers_&_Lybrand
5 See https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about.html
6 See https://fairesansdire.org and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/faire-sans-dire
7 See https://www.citigroup.com/citi
8 See https://home.barclays
9 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters_Group
10 Summaries, details and explanations of all Bill Fairclough's UK directorships (excluding shadow directorships) may be obtained from these links. http://bit.ly/BillFaircloughDirectorships https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/xO1Q7Tk3htRGf497OL_Qg3xznqs/appointments https://companycheck.co.uk/director/906528948/MR-JOHN-WILLIAM-PERCY-FAIRCLOUGH/summary https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=John+William+Percy+Fairclough&utf8=%E2%9C%93
11 This article summarises some of the more interesting ways to search the web for Bill Fairclough and find out more about his dual or triple lives. https://steemit.com/introducemyself/@burlingtonfiles/tales-of-the-unexpected-fact-checking-disinformationunredacted
12 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
13 See https://www.kudos.co.uk
14 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooks_(TV_series)
15 See https://theburlingtonfiles.org and https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/the-burlington-files
16 Details of where to obtain the various formats and versions of Beyond Enkription from all over the world are listed here. http://bit.ly/BeyondEnkriptionPublishers
17 This link is to Dolman Scott’s website. http://dolmanscott.co.uk
18 The Burlington Files Limited has three wholly owned subsidiary companies, Enkription Limited, Dekription Limited and Faire Sans Dire Limited details of which are available from UK Companies House. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08005044
