Police find body in bag at MI6 man's London flat

[Jan Klimkowski]

I know it's from the Mail but -

Russian Embassy car spotted near 'body in bag' spy's home days before he was murdered

Cars registered to the Russian Embassy were spotted near the home of a British spy just days before his body was discovered in a locked holdall at his London flat.
The unexplained presence of Russian diplomats in the area will add to suspicions that the MI6 officer was killed because of his work.

Pretty much every "fact" in this Daily Mail story can only have come from intelligence sources. It's simply been channelled through "a former KGB agent who fled to London 12 years ago after defecting to the West and who lives near Mr Williams's former home".

The first narrative from SIS was that Williams was a secret S&M loving sexual freak, who liked dressing in women's clothing and died during an auto-asphyxiation game gone wrong.

My position is that the evidence presented in this thead suggests that, on the strong balance of possiblities, those claims are deliberately planted lies.

The second narrative involved the "mediterranean couple" who allegedly visited the intelligence safe house to visit Williams. Amazingly, rather than CCTV, Scotland Yard offered e-fits (artists' impressions).

Then evidence appeared suggesting that the "mediterranean couple" also featuing in the Kensington coffee bar mystery which Scotland Yard had investigated as enthusiastically as the Murdoch corruption and phone hacking cases. In other words, Scotland Yard decided not to investigate this matter.

So, something has gone drastically wrong with that faux legend.

The third narrative involves "former" counter-intelligence agent Trowbridge Ford, some time member here. I regard that tale as slightly more sophisticated disinformation, with elements of truth shining like diamonds in a cowpat.

The fourth narrative is "the Russkies did it".

On available evidence, I consider this as false as the other three kites floated by British intelligence, who remain the number one suspects in the murder of Gareth Williams.