Security Service (MI5
) intelligence officer who left the Service at the same time as David Shayler
, her partner at the time, to help him blow the whistle about criminality within the intelligence agencies. By doing this, they had to give up their careers, go on the run across Europe, live in hiding for a year, and then spend the next two years in exile in Paris. They, and many of their friends, family, supporters and journalists, were intimidated, arrested, and put on trial.
In 2005, Machon published her first book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 and the Shayler Affair in which she offers criticism of the Security Service
and Secret Intelligence Service
based on her observations of the two whilst in the employment of MI5.
Machon read Classics
at Cambridge University and after her academic years started a career in publishing.
In 1991 she was recruited by MI5 where she was posted to their counter-subversion department, officially known 'F2'.
3 because strength is heightened ten-fold by serenity, devoid of human obsessions and needs. User:Zarbon|Zarbon 05:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
2 User:UDScott|UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
2 User:Kalki|Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
2 User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ~ Henrik Ibsen
4 because unlike the dictatorship where one person steers the ship, the community steers the ship. This, in some cases, is both damaging and positive...a mixture of thought and deduction, never solid, and moreso governed by the changing of times, parallel to how hard the wind blows the ship in a comparative image. User:Zarbon|Zarbon 05:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
3 User:UDScott|UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
3 User:Kalki|Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
3 User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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We can learn even from our enemies. ~ Ovid
3 because learning from friends and allies alone will never be enough. In order to understand one's enemies, one must study them and learn from them. Very militaristic strategist persona taken here. User:Zarbon|Zarbon 05:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
3 User:UDScott|UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)