Lies, Spies & Whistleblowers

Annie Machon a former MI5 agent has written a book "Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers
MI5, MI6 and The Shayler Affair"-banned by the government for 15 months-is a damning indictment of the operations, the methodology, the targets and the personalities within MI5 today.

Can we trust the secret state?
In a world where our country is taken into an illegal war on flawed evidence, where people in the UK can be detained without trial on the world of the intelligence services, and where the threat of terrorist attack is a daily fear, we need to know that those responsible for Britain’s security are really doing all they can to protect us. It’s time for those in power to pull their heads out of the sand and listen to the evidence – and give MI5 and MI6 a radical overhaul. Annie Machon and David Shayler have witnessed first-hand how:

·MI6 illegally paid tens of thousands of pounds to Al Qaeda to stage a coup in Libya, without realising the irresponsibility of its actions.
·MI5 failed to stop four major terrorist attacks in Britain, even though it was in possession of reliable intelligence.
·MI5 illegally investigated thousands of UK citizens for their political views.
·MI5 and MI6 let a known Libyan terrorist into Britain. They failed to recruit him and allowed him to set up a terrorist network in this country.
·MI5 withheld evidence about the innocence of two Palestinians at their trial for the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London in 1994. One document indicated it might be an ‘inside job’.

Here, for the first time, Annie writes about her experiences at the heart of the secret state and what happens when you stand up to it. Her revelations about illegal intelligence operations, cover-ups to ministers, and particularly the MI6 funding of Al Qaeda terrorists will shock all of us who like to think that our security services are doing everything in their power to fight terrorism.

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