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  David Shayler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Shayler born 24 December 1965 is a former officer of the British Security Service (MI5) who was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act after passing documents to the Mail on Sunday newspaper in August 1997.
Shayler joined MI5 in October 1991 after responding to an oblique job advertisement in the 12 May edition of The Observer entitled "Godot isn't coming" a reference to the play Waiting for Godot in which Godot never arrives.
Shayler stated that MI6 had been involved in a failed assassination attack on Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi in February 1996 without the permission of the then foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind (required under British and international law).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Shayler   (1136 words)

  
 jultra: 9/11: David Ray Griffin & David Shayler
A Christian theologian, David Ray Griffin is one of the most fluent, eloquent, impressive and persuasive people to write and talk on 9/11, and who's contributions to 9/11 study, critique and discourse have simply been enormous, so I was very much looking forward to this lecture.
I should stress though Shayler seems as genuinely concerned as everyone is about the state of the world, and his speech on civil liberties was superb, hard hitting and down to Earth, so I honestly don't know why he was discussing this theory.
David Shayler and his colleague, by their attachment to the UK 911 truth movement, taint it.
jultra.blogspot.com /2006/09/911-david-ray-griffin-david-shayler.html   (2691 words)

  
 Former MI5 Agent Says 9/11 An Inside Job
Shayler said that his suspicions were first aroused about 9/11 when the usual route of crime scene investigation was impeded when the debris was immediately seized and shipped off to China.
Shayler elaborated by saying the evidence suggests the attack was originally meant to be much wider in scope and was an attempt at a violent coup intended to decapitate the entire government as a pretext for martial law.
Shayler was forthright in his assertion that the attack was planned and executed within the jurisdiction of the military-industrial complex.
www.prisonplanet.com /articles/june2005/270605insidejob.htm   (1038 words)

  
 david shayler
Mr Shayler said that after leaving a French prison when the UK Government failed in its extradition attempt he had decided he would make no further disclosures in the hope that the Government would enter reasonable negotiations with him.
David Shayler drew attention to malpractice, incompetence and probably criminal behaviour within an arm of government that especially needs to be kept publicly accountable.
David Shayler has been released from prison on 23rd December after only six weeks, such is the embarassment his imprisonment caused the government.
www.freedomtocare.org /page105.htm   (915 words)

  
 David Calvert-Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir David Calvert-Smith QC (born April 1945) was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1998 to 2003 and is now a High Court judge.
During his time in office the failure of the prosecutions of Paul Burrell and the killers of Damilola Taylor damaged the Service's reputation, and the CPS was described as "institutionally racist" by two reports.
When the Human Rights Act 1998 was passed (most of which came into force in 2000), Calvert-Smith was the first DPP to have to deal with the impact it was expected to have on criminal trials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Calvert-Smith   (431 words)

  
 David Shayler Biography
David Shayler, who is from Middlesbrough, is an ex-MI5 agent, who was convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act.
Shayler was arrested in France and held without charge for nearly four months in a Paris jail.
David Shayler had put his name forward to stand against Tony Blair in the Sedgefield Constituency during the 2005 General Election, however on April 17 2005, Shayler stood down in favour of Reg Keys, saying:
www.biogs.com /sedgefield/shayler.html   (354 words)

  
 MI5: Shayler-gate
Shayler and Machon's flat in Pimlico was broken into by police and allegedly left in some disarray.
Shayler continued to live in France, and in July 1998 he tried to set up a website with his claims, and made further claims of a plot against Libyan leader Gadaffi.
Shayler returned to the UK voluntarily in August 2000 and was arrested and finally convicted under the 1989 Official Secrets Act.
www.five.org.uk /security/mi5org/shayler.htm   (662 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | MI6 'halted bid to arrest bin Laden'
Shayler claims he was first briefed about the plot during formal meetings with colleagues from the foreign intelligence service MI6 when he was working on MI5's Libya desk in the mid-Nineties.
Shayler, who conducted his own defence in the trial, intended to call Bartlett and Watson as witnesses, but was prevented from doing so by the narrow focus of the court case.
Shayler was also planning to call a witness to the conversation in which the MI6 man claimed British intelligence had been involved in the coup attempt.
www.guardian.co.uk /shayler/article/0,2763,837332,00.html   (1006 words)

  
 Welcome to Shayler.com
David was arrested on 1st August 1998 and held, without charge for nearly four months in a Paris Jail until his release..
David's only crime is to have revealed ineptitude and malpractice within MI5, Britain's security service: shortcomings which have resulted in the waste of millions of pounds worth of taxpayers' money and, worse still, to the deaths of innocent civilians.
Had David thrown in prison in an attempt to extradite him, when he was in the process of speaking out about MI6's involvement in murder.
www.thememoryhole.org /spy/shayler/welcome.htm   (1474 words)

  
 UK Bans News of MI Assassination Plots
Ministers have demanded that part of the trial of David Shayler, the former MI5 officer, which starts at the Old Bailey today, be held in secret in what lawyers say is an unprecedented attempt to influence the course of criminal proceedings.
The home secretary, David Blunkett, and the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, have signed public interest immunity certificates - a device designed to gag a court - insisting that the media and the public leave if activities of the security and intelligence agencies are raised by the defence.
In an earlier case relating to Mr Shayler's allegations, the appeal court last year ruled that "unless there are compelling reasons of national security, the public is entitled to know the facts and as the eyes and ears of the public, journalists are entitled to investigate and report the facts".
cryptome.sabotage.org /uk-gag.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Blueprint for World Domination
Shayler said that he considered the attempted assassination of Qaddafi, followed by the creation of an al Qaeda regime in Libya, as an early attempt at a new Pearl Harbor, more than 5 years before 9/11.
Shayler also recalled that the FBI managed to block and ignore the Phoenix memorandum on Arabs in flight schools and the attempts by Minneapolis agents to arrest Zacharias Moussawi until it was too late.
Shayler also noted that, at least in theory, everything that is known to the US National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland is automatically and simultaneously known to the British GCHQ at Cheltenham, England.
www.communitycurrency.org /tourreport.html   (2792 words)

  
 Shayler jailed for six months
The former MI5 officer David Shayler, convicted of disclosing secret information to a national newspaper, was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday, a much shorter term than the prosecution wanted.
The judge also accepted that Shayler was "unaware" of all the avenues he could have explored to make his complaints without going to the press.
Mrs Shayler said she felt it was unjust but was relieved it was not two years on each count.
foi.missouri.edu /OSA/shaylerjailed.html   (525 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Former spy guilty of disclosing secrets
Shayler, 36, was found guilty on three charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act.
Shayler, who represented himself, also told the Old Bailey jury he feared for his life at the time, because of something "far more serious" than anything published in the paper.
Shayler was remanded on bail for sentencing and could face up to two years' imprisonment on each of the three counts.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2400389.stm   (630 words)

  
 David Shayler, his friends and Class War | libcom.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Shayler gate crashed that event with the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement (alternatively known as the conspiraloons) who have all sorts of bizarre theories about what actually happened in New York in September 2001.
Shayler became controversial by writing a series of whistle blowing articles about MI5, most importantly in the Mail on Sunday in 1997 and in his fortnightly column in Mohamed Al Fayed’s Punch magazine.
Shayler’s responsibility was to analyse and assess information from agent sources and Special Branches across the country.
libcom.org /library/david-shayler-class-war-left-groups   (1288 words)

  
 David Shayler: Former British MI5 Agent Says 'Many Similarities' Between London Bombings And 9/11 GREG SZYMANSKI / ...
Shayler added that what’s even more suspicious is the private security firm in charge of the training drills prior to 7/7 had ties to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Shayler said FBI intercepts, failed defense protocols and the suspicious activities of a number of officials in various government agencies days, weeks and months prior to 9/11 also directly point to an inside job.
Shayler, who joined MI5 in 1991 unable to find work as a journalist, said he was an unlikely candidate for the job, never thinking he would get hired after answering an advertisement hiding the true nature of the position.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/2005/David-Shayler-MI529jul05.htm   (1262 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Ex-MI5 agent to run against Blair
Ex-MI5 agent David Shayler is to stand against Tony Blair, in his Sedgefield constituency, at the general election.
Mr Shayler, who is from Middlesbrough, said he plans a "serious" campaign but accepted he was unlikely to overturn Mr Blair's 17,713 majority.
Mr Shayler said he had planned to stand against the prime minister at the last election but had been tied up by his court case at the time.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4362215.stm   (370 words)

  
 David Shayler
David Shayler, a member of the British intelligence agency MI5, is convicted of divulging British intelligence secrets.
Shayler claims that British intelligence paid an al-Qaeda agent to assassinate Libyan leader Colonel Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi in 1996 (see 1996).
[Age (Melbourne), 10/10/2002] Shayler is not allowed to argue that he acted in the public interest by releasing the information, and the veracity of his claims is not challenged in court.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=david_shayler   (251 words)

  
 Propaganda Matrix.com - Exposing the New World Order and Government Sponsored Terrorism
The Government has been accused by lawyers of trying to interfere in the trial of former MI5 officer David Shayler by insisting that part of the proceedings are held in private.
Former MI5 officer David Shayler said he had been proud of his work with the security service and had risked his own life to ensure terrorists faced justice.
All the prosecution had to do was to prove that David Shayler had copied secret documents from MI5's files and handed them without permission to a newspaper, a fact that he did not deny.
www.propagandamatrix.com /archive_shayler.html   (368 words)

  
 Irist 9-11 Truth
David Shayler is an ex-MI5 agent who was convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act.
In 1997 David Shayler left the Intelligence services after six years and leaked secret documents to the Mail on Sunday newspaper claiming he had a public duty to expose malpractice within the security services.
Later David Shayler was charged under the Official Secrets Act within hours of arriving back in Britain.
www.911truth.ie /conference.html   (1166 words)

  
 The Truth Seeker - Tony Blair — Former MI5 Informant?
Ex-MI5 officer David Shayler appeared at a public meeting in Bristol last week to promote his latest book.
Shayler was speaking to 9/11 sceptics in Bristol.
Shayler may be wrong about many things, but he's right that the Blair-as-MI5-agent report has much explanatory value.
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /article.asp?id=3710   (1602 words)

  
 G4 - Feature - David Shayler Profile
They were all issues that Shayler had raised while in the service, but MI5 management had chosen to ignore him, he says.
Shayler later submitted two unpublished articles to the government.
He was sentenced to six months in jail in 2002 but was released under a scheme that transfers nonviolent prisoners to house arrest.
www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/41808/David_Shayler_Profile.html   (300 words)

  
 GlobalEcho - Alternative Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David is quoted as saying “...I was never the less physically sickened by the fact that MI6 wanted to sponsor Islamic extremists to carry out terrorism...
David had a key role to play, and this chapter takes an in-depth look at misinformation and propaganda in the press.
David told me he had not been at all spiritual, but since he had been doing meditation, over the last few months, it had had a massive impact on his well being, making him better able to deal with the strains of now being a target of the British establishment.
www.globalecho.org /view_article.php?aid=3652   (1330 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Trial of ex-Mi5 agent David Shayler & the media blackout
Shayler, 36, was found guilty of the charges which included disclosing documents and information to a Sunday newspaper in 1997.
Shayler said he admitted that he had done what he was accused of - disclosing information and documents, which he obtained as a servant of the Crown, to the Mail on Sunday newspaper in August 1997.
David Shayler, the former MI5 officer, yesterday appealed to an Old Bailey jury to clear him from the charge that he had broken the Official Secrets Act, saying he was prevented from revealing the very information they needed to know.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID43/5194.html   (2558 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Shayler loses legal battle
Former MI5 agent David Shayler has lost his bid to defend the accusation he revealed state secrets by arguing he acted in the public interest.
Mr Shayler's legal team argued that if the right to free speech granted by the Human Rights Act was denied to him, he would not have a fair trial.
And he said he would direct the jury to convict Mr Shayler if it was sure he had been a member of the security and intelligence service and that he had disclosed documents and information without lawful authority, which he had access to because of his position.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1333000/1333576.stm   (574 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Shayler 'owed life-long duty'
The witness said he had rang Mr Shayler to remind him of his duty of confidentiality after hearing he was writing a novel.
Witness B said Mr Shayler had assured him that he would submit the manuscript for authorisation before it was published.
Witness B denied he had contacted Mr Shayler because he feared he would be the subject of disclosures in the book.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2379003.stm   (465 words)

  
 David Shayler Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
In The Rocket Men authors Rex Hall and Dave Shayler review this Soviet demonstration of technological progress from both the developmental and operational aspects which were clouded in secrecy and in direct contrast to the high profile American programme.As the one-man Mercury spacecraft gave way to the two-man series on the American road to the...
In Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight, David Shayler examines the challenges that face all crews as they prepare and execute their missions.
Dave Shayler tells the story of the first woman balloonist in 1784 to their breakthrough as astronauts and cosmonauts in a range of...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/David_Shayler   (708 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - David Shayler pied at award ceremony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Shayler, ex-British intelligence operative, was pied last night at the annual Privacy International awards ceremony in London.
Shayler was accepting an award for whistleblowing about illegal MI5 activites, but used his acceptance speech to voice his support for the 'legitimate' work of the British security services.
Before Shayler made his comments, the award ceremony had already created controversy when the Daily Telegraph, the Conservative Party's in-house journal, was congratulated by the organisers and given an award for, surprisingly, running a campaign against a Labour Government.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2002/03/24228.html   (446 words)

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