Fwd: [ISN] Gareth Williams: 'backroom boy' spy was really a high-flier

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Subject: [ISN] Gareth Williams: 'backroom boy' spy was really a high-flier
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7969595/Gareth-Williams-backro
om-boy-spy-was-really-a-high-flier.html

By Gordon Thomas
Telegraph.co.uk
29 Aug 2010

The Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham is Britain's
last great secret. Now it is in the focus of intense speculation among
its stunned staff. Never before has one of their own been murdered. In
GCHQ's cafes, the seating area around the lawn at the core of the
doughnut-shaped building and behind anonymous doors simply marked "No
admission", the same question continues to be asked: who murdered Gareth
Williams -- and why?

Despite his widow's-peak haircut and geeky smile, he 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.

In 2000, Williams left his Cambridge University course in advanced
mathematics because he had already learned all he could. By then, he had
also been "tapped" -- recruited by GCHQ scouts, who tour universities
looking for talent.

No one can be certain why he signed up. It wasn’t the salary. His 40,000
UKP a year was far less than he could have earned in industry. But it is
very likely that, like so many of his young colleagues at GCHQ, he was
attracted by the challenges, the excitement of working at the centre of
events that he would often know about before even the Prime Minister.

[...]


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