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

[Jan Klimkowski]

From spook-sourced Daily Telegraph article above:

The 31-year-old maths and computer expert would have been regarded as a valuable asset for his knowledge of the inner-workings of GCHQ, the government's listening post in Cheltenham, and for his work on preventing cyber attacks on the banking and transport infrastructure.

It is understood Mr Williams's job at the time of his death was creating computer defences in the City of London. Williams would have had access to information which other countries would want to obtain.

The intelligence source said: "His job was to defend the banking system on which Britain's banking, commerce and all our public services depend. It was the kind of work that would have made him prime target for recruitment.

"He was also in a position to know about huge money transfers out of the Middle East which were linked to terror groups. It would be priceless data."

One theory being examined is that Mr Williams may have had an approach from a rival agency, and either rebuffed it without informing his superiors or initially agreed to co-operate then got cold feet.

If such an approach had been exposed there would have been severe political and diplomatic repercussions, making it expedient for Mr Williams to be killed.

It can be revealed that Williams had also played an important role in creating signal intelligence equipment, known as sigint, to listen to Taliban communications in Afghanistan.

He had helped in fitting out three Brittan-Norman Islander aircraft with this equipment to be used as airborne-listening stations.

Speculatively, I consider the line being pushed above that a foreign intelligence agency had attempted to recruit Williams, and killed him after being rebuffed or because of cold feet, as unlikely.

My personal speculative judgement is that it is more likely that Williams discovered something in his investigation of money flows in and out of the City of London, including not just money laundering of arms and drugs money, but also potentially black operations such as death or false flag squads, which he was having difficulty accepting at a moral and ethical level.

I am guilty here of having a romantic view of human nature, in which even hardened intelligence operatives still ultimately have a functioning moral compass.

However, it is precisely that functioning moral compass which led to Frank Olson being given the acid trip to death. Olson was about to blow the whistle on terminal human mind control experiments, by British and American intelligence, and was therefore murdered - with the truth of his death hidden beneath several onion skins since peeled away, in large part due to the efforts of his son.

So, in my judgement, it is possible that Williams was murdered because he was about to blow the whistle on some particularly nefarious and ugly deep black money trail.

I am still struggling to understand why the body was left in the locked bag in the bath for a fortnight.

Unless it was an attempt to create a contaminated crime scene which could be used, in some fashion, to discredit Williams through allegations about his private life. However, as we've explored above, there is nothing inherently erotically arousing about locking oneself in a sports bag in a bath smothered in some unknown liquid.