Bill Fairclough

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(Businessman, accountant, spook)
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BornJohn William Percy Fairclough
1950/08/31
Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England
NationalityBritish
Parents • Richard Alan Fairclough
• Margaret Fairclough
SpouseJosefina Repancol Fairclough
Interests • Infiltration
• Intelligence
• Espionage
Bill Fairclough's biography

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Bill Fairclough is a retired English businessman. He was a Chartered Accountant for over 40 years specialising in fraud prevention and detection. He also worked in intelligence specialising in investigations and infiltration. Most of his work in intelligence is still shrouded in secrecy for obvious security and legal reasons (but see Notes 1 & 2 below). Nevertheless, limited background information relating to Bill Fairclough's assignments and investigations in that arena is disclosed via this link.

Activities

In 1978 he founded Faire Sans Dire [[1]] which, according to its website [[2]], was and still may be "a niche UK based intelligence and investigatory risk management consultancy with global reach". Its past and present activities are still shrouded in secrecy for obvious security and legal reasons. Nonetheless, to a limited degree, its past activities are divulged in its press releases [[3]] and disclosed via this link.

Publications

In 2014, Beyond Enkription [[4]] was published as the first novel in The Burlington Files [[5]] [[6]], a series of six biographical novels based on Bill Fairclough's life. The series was copyrighted by an English company, The Burlington Files Limited [[7]] [[8]]. 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 the book easily accessible. Accordingly, the book has to date not been what is normally classified as a successful publication or 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 of Beyond Enkription were sold through illegitimate eBook libraries within a year or so of its publication on Kindle [[9]].

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Bill Fairclough's Concise Profile

In 1969 Bill Fairclough started his career [Notes 1 to 3] as a trainee accountant (articled clerk) at Cooper Brothers [Note 4], later to become Coopers & Lybrand [[10]] and after that PricewaterhouseCoopers [[11]]. Somewhat altruistically, Bill lived a double life from the early seventies which was about the time he qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Coopers. In 1978 he established Faire Sans Dire [[12]] while still employed by Coopers & Lybrand.

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 courtesy of the Cold War. Nonetheless, most of them abhorred people trafficking and similar heinous crimes. The goal of Faire Sans Dire 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 [[13]] and from 1986 to 1999 at the Barclays Group [[14]] including a secondment to the Reuters Group [[15]]. From 1999 he switched roles and focused on Faire Sans Dire, albeit still covertly until 2010. Even then, he continued to take on directorships openly and covertly (as a shadow director) in various companies not only in the financial services sector but also in property, healthcare and other industries [Note 5].

Bill Fairclough retired in about 2018/19.

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References

2 As for Fairclough's less visible associates, reverse engineering would reveal literally thousands of respectable contacts in past or present important positions of trust from all over the world, built up during his career over decades. Now, anyone conducting such serious research, would have to ask themselves "Why are these highly influential people connected to Bill Fairclough via social media unless they believe in his integrity and have reason to believe what is written about him is true?" No doubt in most individual cases the answer to that is secret but the sheer volume of respectable connections underlines the credence of what is written about Faire Sans Dire and Bill Fairclough. Many man years of research based on reverse engineering would ultimately show that Fairclough's less visible associates accumulated over decades from all over the world include: circa a dozen eminent judges, more than 400 reputable QCs and barristers, almost 2,000 lawyers in global law firms, in excess of 600 high ranking intelligence and security executives, over 200 accountancy firm partners, nearly 300 senior law enforcement and government officials as well as several thousand distinguished directors, owners, presidents and/or founders of listed companies and other organisations.

3 The links below are to Bill Fairclough's overt career history and references. The information therein has been vetted/screened, inter alia against the UK’s national criminal records database, by an educational organisation (Tutorfair) as required by English law. See https://www.tutorfair.com/tutor/name/bill/id/84490/profile and http://bit.ly/JWPFReferences (automatic download).

4 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. See https://www.icaew.com/-/media/corporate/files/library/subjects/accounting-history/family-trees/family-treecoopers-lybrand.ashx?la=en.

5 Summaries, details and explanations of all Bill Fairclough's UK directorships (excluding shadow directorships) may be obtained from these links. See http://bit.ly/BillFaircloughDirectorships and https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=John+William+Percy+Fairclough&utf8=%E2%9C%93.