So Gareth Williams, a maths prodigy and MI6/GCHQ spy is found dead in a Pimlico flat owned by MI6 last week. His body was stuffed inside a sportsbag in a bathtub, with nobody quite sure how he died. MI5’s searching for threats to national security, as is the CIA (apparently he made frequent trips to the NSA). The fact that the papers revealed he was a spy is apparently a source of massive embarrassment to MI6.
Today, reading the Metro on the bus, it appears that “anonymous sources” are pegging him as being a crossdresser and into S&M, and this was possibly a motive in his death. Does anybody actually believe this tripe? Was there ever a more transparent attempt at character assassination?
What’s so terrible about being into crossdressing and S&M, other than the fact that these aren’t always publicly acceptable fetishes? Why, exactly, do you feel that these must be false accusations?
Isn’t this a self answering question? The fact that they’re not publically acceptable fetishes and the fact that the guy was in to them is being revealed “anonymously” pretty much paints a character assassination of somebody who is dead and cannot defend himself.
The pictures of him cycling tell me that he was a competition racer - the bike he was on was a low profile time trialler - and was also wearing a skin suit, that probably puts him into a pretty fast rider level - not that this says much, except that to attain such ability would mean he would be in a cycling club and he would have had to get the miles in, thousands of them.
Riding in groups over hundreds of miles generates a certain outlook and a camraderie - so i find it strange that some of his former riding colleagues have not been quoted yet, as a club rider you tend to know a lot about the folk you ride with.
Also, once you have been out and about time trialling, you already have enough s&m to satisfy even the most insatiable - trust me, cycle racing is hard and it hurts.
I am very surprised he was missing for so long given his employment, if I went missing they would be looking long before they went for him and my job isn’t even close to being as security critical.
Strange, I remember two or three others at GCHQ who ‘commmitted suicide’ during the early 1980’s - they all worked for the same section too.
There seem to have been an inordinate number of suicides at GCHQ over the years,
As for David Kelly, it was obvious he was dead long before he was found, I can distinctly recall the reports on the BBC about ‘the authorities were concerned for his safety and welfare’, yet here was a fifty plus year old man, with a host of academic qualifications and an incredibly important role, along with some genuine lifetime achievments, and the BBC were reporting on him like some lost depressed teenager. What made it all the more obvious was that he had only been out of his house a couple of hours, maybe four - he never left a suicide note. Try report to our police a missing case of a fully competant person, after just a couple of hours, I am pretty you’d be told where to shove it, let alone make national news.
It was just so obvious.
This BBC article has a quote from someone from his former cycling club.
I thnk these allegations flying about are at best unhelpful and at worst cruel. Even if he was a cross-dresser and his family were fully aware and supportive, the lack of public acceptibility and general furore can only be causing them extra distress. If it’s not true or it is but they weren’t aware of it, then it can only be worse. In the (IMO unlikely) event it does turn out to eventually have something to do with his death, that’s not clearly established now, so why release the information?
Wasn’t there some chap on the 90s found cross-dressed dead with an orange in in his mouth who had annoyed the establishment ? I should think that as with the absurdly obvious post-death cross-dressing accusations against J. Edgar Hoover which depressingly — if one hopes against hope for evidence of developing mass intelligence — entered popular culture as a firm belief, it’s pretty obvious that not only killing enemies but discrediting them after did not die with Stalin.
Note: found the man’s name, Milligan, through googling ‘orange in mouth official 1990s’ which is pretty good for a 15-yr-old cold case…