Deceased MI6 man: “Backroom boy” was really a security techie high flier
Gordon Thomas is to be congratulated on a superb article here in the Telegraph:
Despite his widow’s-peak haircut and geeky smile, [Gareth Williams] worked at the cutting edge of computer technology. His mathematical brain made him a vital tool in the fight against terrorism and cyber warfare. Yet the security services are anxious to play down his role, so as not to alarm the world over his importance to anyone involved in his murder.
What I found very strange, and, in a gallows-humour sort of way, amusing, was that it was two weeks before Gareth Williams’ employers reported his absence at work to the police.
Two weeks.
Only an idiot would take this at face value. You only have to have watched couple of episodes of “Spooks” to suspect that an enormous amount of frenetic checking and hard disk erasure and memory dumping was done during that fortnight.
Do they think we were born yesterday?
Well, yes, we were actually.
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