A little over a decade ago David Shayler was a renegade MI5 agent turned whistleblower who was facing prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Today the 43-year-old has become a squatter - and yesterday showed off his 'alter ego' as he dressed as a transvestite complete with false breasts, mini-skirt and ginger wig. David Shayler (born 24 December 1965) is a British journalist and former MI5 (Security Service) officer. 1 Shayler earned notoriety after being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act 1989 for his passing secret documents to the Mail on Sunday in August 1997 that alleged that MI5 was paranoid about socialists, and that it had previously investigated Labour Party ministers Peter Mandelson.
Although bailiffs were expected to arrive within the next few days to serve an eviction notice, it is thought likely that the process could take several weeks.Speaking outside the farmhouse, about five miles from Guildford, Mr Shayler, barefoot but wearing men's clothing, said that his right to stay in the property rested on his belief that he is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.' You are looking at the man who has the power to give all authority on the planet and all wealth,' he said.' We are going to stay, I am the lawful user of this place.' I have publicly claimed under oath that I am the Lord Jesus Christ which means that I am the highest authority under the law and that trumps everything.'
Inside the farmhouse fellow members of the group could be seen sitting on the floor in bare-walled rooms but it is understood that they have power and running water.A sign cardboard outside advertised Reiki healing sessions with Dean Scott, 39, a former carpenter from Colchester.A National Trust spokeswoman welcomed the court order.Legal fees and the delay to scheduled building refurbishments have cost the National Trust, a charity supported by public donations, money that would normally fund our conservation work, a spokeswoman said.' We look forward to taking the farmhouse back into our possession as soon as possible.'
Early lifeShayler was born in. He attended in, whose head teacher once described him as 'a born rebel who sails close to the wind. And suffers neither fools nor their arguments gladly'. He later attended the starting in 1984 where he was editor of the student newspaper Annasach and was responsible for publishing extracts of the book by another former MI5 officer (banned in England at the time). He graduated with a 2:1 degree in in July 1989.
After leaving university he worked as a journalist at the Sunday Times newspaper although his employment was terminated six months later. MI5 careerShayler joined MI5 in October 1991 after responding to an oblique job advertisement in the 12 May edition of entitled 'Godot isn't coming' a reference to the play in which Godot never arrives. The advert asked if applicants had an interest in current affairs, had common sense and an ability to write. Believing the job was media related, Shayler applied. He claims that he started work in F branch, which dealt with counter-subversion, including the monitoring of left-wing groups and activists, where he worked vetting politicians prior to the, later being transferred to T branch, which handled Irish terrorism, in August 1992. While at T branch he alleges that he was involved in an investigation of Sean McNulty.Shayler moved again, to G9 branch, responsible for Middle Eastern terrorism where he allegedly headed the Libyan desk as G9A/5. It was during his tenure at the Libyan desk that he claims that he learned of the MI6 plot to assassinate Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi from his MI6 counterpart David Watson (PT16B) and Richard Bartlett (PT16) who had overall control and responsibility for the operation.
He left the service in October 1996. After MI5Shayler stated that MI6 had been involved in a failed assassination attack on leader in February 1996 without the permission of the then foreign secretary Sir.
The plot involved paying the with supporters in London and links to 100,000 to carry out the attack. The group was paid to plant a bomb underneath Gaddafi's motorcade. The attack happened in March 1996 in the coastal city of. The bomb was planted under the wrong car and failed to kill Gaddafi but did result in the deaths of several innocent civilians.
In November 1999 he sent a dossier of detailed evidence of this including the names of those involved to then home secretary who stated that he was 'looking into the matter' as well as Parliament's and the police. In 2005, the LIFG was banned as a terrorist group in Britain.He also stated that the intelligence services were deliberately planting stories in newspapers and the mainstream media by feeding willing journalists with misinformation, such as a November 1996 article in the by linking Colonel Gaddafi's son with a currency operation citing the source as a British banking official when in reality the source was MI6. David Shayler talking at an meeting at Sheffield UniversityIn August 2000 he voluntarily returned to the UK on condition he was not in custody pending his trial.
He was arrested and subsequently released on bail.He was charged with three charges of breaching the on 21 September 2000, one charge of passing on information acquired from a telephone tap (a breach of Section Four of the Act), and two others of passing on information and documents obtained by virtue of his membership of the service (a breach of Section One of the Act). The judge at the trial was Mr Justice Moses. At pre-trial hearings he ruled that Shayler had to disclose all information and argument he intended to present to the jury to the judge and prosecution beforehand. At the trial Shayler represented himself, claiming that the Official Secrets Act was incompatible with the Human Rights Act and that it was not a crime to report a crime although these arguments were dismissed by the court with the latter being ruled irrelevant. Shayler's defence attempted to argue that there were no other avenues to pursue his concerns with the service and its performance. The judge ruled that while this was true it was irrelevant.
The judge instructed the jury to return a guilty verdict and that the House of Lords had ruled in another case that a defendant could not argue that he had revealed information in the public interest. After more than three hours of deliberation the jury found him guilty. In November 2002 he was sentenced to 6 months in prison, of which he served three weeks in Belmarsh prison and just under five weeks in, with the four months served on remand in France being taken into consideration, finally being released on 23 December 2002 although he was electronically tagged and under a 7pm to 7am curfew for a further seven weeks. 9/11 Truth MovementFollowing the release of the, David Shayler joined the, a movement which holds as a primary tenet the belief that the official explanation for the September 11, 2001 attacks is partly (or completely) fraudulent. The has reported Shayler stating 'no planes were involved in 9/11' and that the apparent 'planes' were missiles camouflaged by holograms. Shayler allegedly argues that the planes seen crashing into the were switched out planes with detonation pods underneath, although he says the attack on the Pentagon was not the result of a plane impact.These and other public statements led some in the 9/11 Truth Movement to dismiss him as an agent of government disinformation and a provocateur working to discredit legitimate questions about the events of September 11, 2001.In February 2007, Shayler appeared in Ireland with. Who unsuccessfully sued President Bush and 155 others in federal court alleging their complicity in the 9/11 attacks.
Claims of divinityIn an article in the Daily Mail Shayler claimed that he was the son of God stating, 'I am the and hold the secret of,' and that he was the of various historical figures. This claim is echoed on his official website where he notes that 'David Michael Shayler - ‘Sheylr’ in Hebrew. Was anointed Messiah on 2 July 2007 and proclaimed on 07.07.07, in line with ancient prophecies.'
He also claims to have divine powers which allow him to influence the weather, prevent terror attacks and predict football scores. Claims of antisemitismShayler has quoted the document approvingly.
Magazine reported in 2008 that Shayler remarked in a speech that 'we know from documents like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion that the New World Order were going to use control of the money supply to create depressions and recessions.' TransvestismIn an article in the, David Shayler further discusses the Messiah claim and reveals that he is now living as a woman in a squat in Abinger Hammer, Surrey. Shayler has since told newspapers that his transvestite ' is called 'Delores Kane': 'I don't give a fuck what other people think of me.
A bloke in a frock is whole lot less offensive than blowing up innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.' In August 2009 UK based tabloid reported that Shayler had been evicted from a squat, quoting him as saying the eviction would not matter to him as he was 'the son of God'.
Middlesbrough Football ClubShayler is a supporter of. It was hypothesised by the that part of his reason for returning to the UK was to watch a home fixture against Tottenham Hotspur. In 2007 Channel 4 reported he claimed that his 'channelling of the light' put Middlesbrough into the. Both he and his former partner, have repeatedly claimed that the mainstream British media has misreported their statements and judgments passed against them in an attempt to smear their reputation.
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