11-10-2010, 10:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-10-2010, 10:10 PM by Jan Klimkowski.)
Former US Army Counter Intelligence Corps agent Trowbridge H Ford argues that it was an NSA hit as part of the cleaning up of the "Manhattan 11" sexy Russkie sleeper spy woman "Anna Chapman" fiasco, in two long articles here:
http://codshit.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-...-gchq.html
http://codshit.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-...q-had.html
The "Anna Chapman" alleged link was first leaked to British tabloid The Daily Star at the end of August.
This is relevant. The Daily Star is basically a porn picture sheet with news usually expressed in monosyllables. Indeed, I'm surprized that "Red Anna" isn't pictured pouting topless in their coverage. It is therefore all the more astonishing, and provocative, that the Daily Star appears to have received an exclusive leak about this alleged link and other details of the investigation:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/151...-red-Anna/
Trowbridge Ford's core allegation appears to be that the NSA used illegal domestic wiretaps/surveillance to entrap the "Manhattan 11" and this would have been exposed in American courts if they had not been rapidly exchanged for western spies. The mysterious "mediterranean couple" who called at the New Rodina-registered MI6 safe house are alleged to be Anna Chapman's former husband Alex Chapman, and her former roommate Lena Savitskaya.
Ford further alleges that codebreaker Gareth Williams was considering "blowing the whistle" on the illegal surveillance techniques, and was therefore assassinated by slow-acting mushroom poison.
There's a photo and interview with Lena Savitskaya at the link below:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...archs.html
A photo of Alex Chapman can be seen here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew...iends.html
I'm not convinced that Alex 'n Lena are the "mysterious mediterranean couple".
Some of the other details of Trowbridge H Ford's hypothesis seem stretched too. Would MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams really have decided to expose illegal NSA activity after complete strangers Alex and Lena turned up unannounced at his flat? Williams was surely involved in similarly illegal activity almost every day of his working life for MI6 and/or the NSA.
Also, although the "Manhattan 11" incident is very murky, there does seem to have been espionage of a single/double/triple nature involved, and thus, to an MI6/NSA employee like Williams, surely the use of illegal surveillance to identify "sleeper spies" would have been justified.
I do believe Williams may have been murdered because he was about to blow the whistle on illegal behaviour by an intelligence agency, perhaps involving money laundering or targetted assassinations in Afghanistan.
But domestic surveillance?
Anyone who spends more than a nanosecond looking at the evidence knows that our intelligence agencies collect and monitor as much information as they can about us all - whether citizens or foreign nationals. So, I'm not even convinced it's possilbe to "blow the whistle" on this matter, because it's already public domain.
With respect to Trowbridge Ford, who has written many important articles, I'm not buying into this one in the absence of further evidence.
http://codshit.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-...-gchq.html
http://codshit.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-...q-had.html
The "Anna Chapman" alleged link was first leaked to British tabloid The Daily Star at the end of August.
This is relevant. The Daily Star is basically a porn picture sheet with news usually expressed in monosyllables. Indeed, I'm surprized that "Red Anna" isn't pictured pouting topless in their coverage. It is therefore all the more astonishing, and provocative, that the Daily Star appears to have received an exclusive leak about this alleged link and other details of the investigation:
Quote:DEAD SPY GARETH WILLIAMS LINKED TO RED ANNA
August 29, 2010
MURDERED spook Gareth Williams could have helped to nail Russian spy beauty Anna Chapman.
Detectives are looking into claims the MI6 code breaker was in the US when *Chapman was uncovered in June.
And any evidence that he was *involved in infiltrating *Chapman’s spy ring will *become part of the murder *inquiry.
The bust prompted revenge calls from Russia.
However, investigators are meeting “resistance” from US and UK intelligence agencies.
Chapman, who once lived in the UK, was accused of trying to infiltrate America’s political elite and sending secrets to a handler via wi-fi on a laptop.
She was sent back to Russia last month after being arrested in the US.
Last night a high-level source told the Daily Star *Sunday: “Mr Williams’ work in America is forming part of the inquiry.
“We need to know what he was working on during his *visits there. MI6 and CIA code crackers played a vital part in outing Chapman and the *Russian spy ring.
“Any evidence he did play a part will be treated as a *possible motive for his killing.”
The insider also revealed how the discovery of Welshman *Gareth’s mobile phone and a dozen SIM cards on his bed may have been a message from his killer.
“The way the SIM cards were found carefully placed next to the phone is of particular *interest to detectives,” he said.
“Early indications are that it is some sort of message, *someone saying, ‘I know who your contacts are and I’m *coming for them’.”
Keen cyclist Gareth, 31, was found dead in his top-floor flat in *Pimlico, west London.
His body had been stuffed into a bag and left in the bath. It was revealed last night that police referred to the crime as a “neat job”, a phrase which officers use to describe the work of a professional.
According to a source Mr *Williams’ body was found *during a “welfare check” by *police following a call from one of his colleagues at GCHQ in Cheltenham.
Officers discovered a suitcase “seeping a red liquid” in his bath. Police say there was no evidence of a “sex game gone wrong”, bondage gear or gay porn in the flat, as has been claimed.
His distraught family slammed the whispers as a *government “dirty tricks” *campaign to blacken his name.
But we can reveal police *visited a gay bar in London’s trendy Soho area in the wake of the grim discovery.
A source in the Admiral *Duncan pub said: “I had a visit from a plain-clothed copper asking if we’d seen this man – and he showed me a picture of the lad on his bike.
“I asked him what it was about but he didn’t say much, just that he’d been found dead and they were investigating.”
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/151...-red-Anna/
Trowbridge Ford's core allegation appears to be that the NSA used illegal domestic wiretaps/surveillance to entrap the "Manhattan 11" and this would have been exposed in American courts if they had not been rapidly exchanged for western spies. The mysterious "mediterranean couple" who called at the New Rodina-registered MI6 safe house are alleged to be Anna Chapman's former husband Alex Chapman, and her former roommate Lena Savitskaya.
Ford further alleges that codebreaker Gareth Williams was considering "blowing the whistle" on the illegal surveillance techniques, and was therefore assassinated by slow-acting mushroom poison.
Quote:The Bureau's concerns were that spy prosecutions would be seen as the result of an institutionalized fishing expedition for months - what violated the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution about unreasonable searches, and that the "wall" between intelligence and criminal squads had been broken through during the process."The FBI then decided to allow only agents and analysts assigned to intelligence duties access to FISA materials, not the criminal investigators." (26) For good measure, anyone who reviewed transcripts of domestic electronic surveillance must sign a certification that court approval was required before they were handed over to criminal prosecutors. None of this was done, and the Bureau's leaderhip would be in serious trouble if it were exposed by someone with inside credibility.
And that person was Gareth Williams, GCHQ's whiz kid software man who could encrypt messages to remain secret during any transmission or decode any such message, and who was on secondment to MI6 to help out its spies to get what they wanted. While it seems a bit of a stretch that he was actually involved in helping entrap the Manhattan 11, it seems quite clear that he knew that he was in no trouble whatever the Bureau done.(27) When that became important was when a couple visited his safe flat in Mayfair right after the case broke, and apparently started filling him in about what had been conducted from it before he ever arrived, especially the recruitment of Anna Chapman. The couple, quite likely her former husband Alex Chapman, and her former roommate Lena Savitskaya, knew only about the MI6 flat, not who occupied it, explaining why they knocked on other doors first to find out where it was in the building, once they had gained entrance. The meeting resulted in their adopting a plan, it seems, to embarrass NSA/GCHQ as much as possible, with Gareth apparently supplying the funds up front to get it started.
Williams went back to the States in July, and started asking questions about what NSA had really been doing when it came of warrantless eavesdropping, especially after it became clear of Thomas Drake's plight for whistleblowing about the problems at NSA.(28) He faced 35 years in prison for continuing to air his complaints through reporter Gorman who had now moved on to The Wall Street Journal - what he had even tried to get Seymour Hersh to go along with, but without success. Drake's problems just made Williams want to get to the bottom of the covert operations more, so much so that he apparently disclosed his aims to a GCHQ colleague and her husband who were at Fort Meade in his stead, forcing MI6 to transfer them to Denver on another alleged covert mission so that they could not be involved in any further developments.
The assassination of Williams and its cover up were the main problems. He was apparently poisoned by death cap mushrooms, amanita phalloides, just before he left to go back to Britain on 10th August, either by their being placed in the food at his apartment there or while he was eating out somewhere. Shortly after he returned, he suffered the vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps, etc. which are characteristic of this kind of poisoning, but he seems not to have taken it seriously. Almost everyone has had such experiences, and almost never have suspected that they were the results of deliberate, deadly poisoning, especially when they soon stopped - what also happened in this case. The only problem was that this was the second stage of the poisoning, and not just getting over some cook's alleged revenge. It apparently ended on the 14th after Williams bought some medication at Harrods Dispensing Pharmacy to deal with the resumption of the problems(29), but by now it was too little too late. Taking pills like rifampicin, antamanide, paclitaxed and the like orally are no substitute for them taken intervenously, especially if one has not at first cleaned out one's gut some way.
The plight of Williams is seen in the video taps of him, both apparently taken on the 14th though the police say that one, the one outside Harrods, was on the 15th. Both show a very jaundiced, feverish soul, dragging himself around as best he can. His palour at the Holland Parik Station is that of a person going into the final stage of phallotoxin poisoning where the cells of the liver are dropping dead.(30) The police want, it seems, to explain away Williams having bought £90-worth of medication on the 14th, and make it look like it was for women's toiletries - the cause of his alleged cross dressing - because they found a bill from the pharmacy at the flat but no signs of the medications. They want to maintain the myth that he was a perfectly healthy person until he surprisingly died for some unknown reason.
When Williams realized he was dying, perhaps on the night of the 14th, there was nothing he could do about it which would make it any better physically or mentally. Calls to family and friends would have only alarmed them, and alerted them that he was being murdered for some alleged betrayal. Going to a hospital or a doctor would end with results even worse. So he just allowed himself to die, slowly in his flat. The death could have occurred any time after the 15th, as the process usually takes between six and sixteen days after ingesting the poison. Williams hoped that the murder scene would be seen as such by the police when they finally discovered it.
It seems that Williams dead or dying was discovered by British covert agents, helping out NSA in the process. They were the ones who let themselves into the flat, found Williams' body, moved it into the carryall, zipped it up and padlocked it, recovered all his medicines, and then let themselves out, locking the door behind them. They hoped that investigators would see it as the result of some sex game, gone wrong. The only thing they overlooked was leaving the receipt for Williams' medical assistance.
It was most interesting that NSA immedidately and unprecedentally denied that his death had anything to do with its operations.(31) An alleged former CIA officer in London was sure that it had nothing to do with his work. Now the investigation of the murder is in a state of suspended animation, letting the Bureau agents see if they can connect the Mediterranean-looking couple to the killing - apparently a lead to Alex Chapman and his femal associate - and if they can't, Williams will be written off as an accidental self-killing, like that of former GMP Chief Constable Mike Todd.
There's a photo and interview with Lena Savitskaya at the link below:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...archs.html
A photo of Alex Chapman can be seen here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew...iends.html
I'm not convinced that Alex 'n Lena are the "mysterious mediterranean couple".
Some of the other details of Trowbridge H Ford's hypothesis seem stretched too. Would MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams really have decided to expose illegal NSA activity after complete strangers Alex and Lena turned up unannounced at his flat? Williams was surely involved in similarly illegal activity almost every day of his working life for MI6 and/or the NSA.
Also, although the "Manhattan 11" incident is very murky, there does seem to have been espionage of a single/double/triple nature involved, and thus, to an MI6/NSA employee like Williams, surely the use of illegal surveillance to identify "sleeper spies" would have been justified.
I do believe Williams may have been murdered because he was about to blow the whistle on illegal behaviour by an intelligence agency, perhaps involving money laundering or targetted assassinations in Afghanistan.
But domestic surveillance?
Anyone who spends more than a nanosecond looking at the evidence knows that our intelligence agencies collect and monitor as much information as they can about us all - whether citizens or foreign nationals. So, I'm not even convinced it's possilbe to "blow the whistle" on this matter, because it's already public domain.
With respect to Trowbridge Ford, who has written many important articles, I'm not buying into this one in the absence of further evidence.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war