Dead Codebreaker (found mysteriously dead last week)Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case

[kpete]

Source: Wired

Dead Codebreaker Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case

* By Kim Zetter Email Author
* August 30, 2010 |

A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report.

Gareth Williams, 31, made repeated visits to the U.S. to meet with the National Security Agency and worked closely with British and U.S. spy agencies to intercept and examine communications that passed between an al Qaeda official in Pakistan and three men who were convicted last year of plotting to bomb transcontinental flights, according to the British paper the Mirror.

Williams, described by those who knew him as a “math genius,” worked for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) helping to break coded Taliban communications, among other things. He was just completing a year-long stint with MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, when his body was found stuffed into a duffel bag in his bathtub. He’d been dead for at least two weeks. His mobile phone and a number of SIM cards were laid out on a table near the body, according to news reports. There were no signs of forced entry to the apartment and no signs of a struggle.

Initial news stories indicated Williams had been stabbed, but police have since disputed that information, noting that — other than being stuffed into a duffel bag — there were no obvious signs of foul play. A toxicology report is expected Tuesday.




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[Arctic Dave]

1. Other then being stuffed in a duffle bag?

Thems some smart detectives I tell ya.

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. A "contact" he trusted showed up, and he let them in.

Then he became one with luggage.

Nothing new under the sun.

[Raster]

6. "Then he became one with luggage."

:rofl:

[glinda]

9. I know! Sad but "funny".

[Demeter]

2. What do you want to bet he was done in by America's Agents?

Seems unlikely that terrorists would know his role, his location, or have the wherewithal to take him out.

[IndianaGreen]

4. He committed suicide like Dr. David Kelly

an official inquiry will confirm the suicide theory, like Lord Hutton did in Kelly's case.

[Downwinder]

5. Crawled into a duffel bag and fastened it up.

[nilram]

7. I feel like doing that some days. It could happen... (nt)

[formercia]

8. He was trying to save on airfare

by traveling as checked luggage. Didn't make his flight and had to return home.

Worst case of suicide I've ever seen. Even MI-6 can't get it right. Judging by the MI-6 crew I worked with, it's not improbable (included the head of MI-6).

Dr. Kelly, phone call for Dr. Kelly......

[Nuclear Unicorn]

10. I wonder if the SIM cards were a project he was working on...

...when he was killed and they just happened to still be there after the murder or if the killer(s) were interested in them.

If the killers laid out the phone and SIM cards that would be interesting.

I would think the NSA or some other government op would want the cards for themselves to see what they lead to or to cover something up.

I can't call it a gov''t cover-up killing because, well, it's obviously meant to look unusual. Car crashes. Fake suicides. Overdoses. Fake muggings. That's where the good conspiracies come from.

Unless...

...that's just what they WANT us to think. Maybe they made it obvious so we would never suspect it was them.

:crazy:

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. Apparently our police are furious with our spooks for interfering with their

investigation.

He doesn't sound as if he was a traitorous type, so uncharacteristically, perhaps, I find myself giving the US and UK secret services the benefit of the doubt - they'll be tickled - and surmising that they have been acting in that way out of embarrassment. I'd thought at first they perhaps always wanted to feel after such apparent failures, that from then on in, they wanted to give the impression they were in full control. If it was a failure of protection, as seems likely to me, it would be embarrassing on mutiple levels. Apparently, it was a favoured area for their 'safe houses', so it will all have to be reviewed now.

In any case, I think they probably always work on the principle that the public should never be privy to what goes on their world, however anodyne, and the more conflicting, and thus confusing, accounts generated, of any incident brought to the public's notice, the better. Quien sabe?