28 Sept 2015
A Russian defector has claimed the MI6 spy who was found dead in a padlocked holdall in his bath in Pimlico was “exterminated” by Russian intel agents because he refused to become a double agent and knew the ID of a Kremlin spy inside GCHQ.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
A Russian defector has claimed the MI6 spy who was found dead in a padlocked holdall in his bath in Pimlico was “exterminated” by Russian intel agents because he refused to become a double agent and knew the ID of a Kremlin spy inside GCHQ.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Codebreaker Gareth Williams was found dead at his home in 2010. He had been a cipher expert at GCHQ but was on secondment to MI6 when he died.
His death was likely a “criminally mediated” unlawful killing, though it was “unlikely” to be satisfactorily explained.
His death was likely a “criminally mediated” unlawful killing, though it was “unlikely” to be satisfactorily explained.
Police investigating Williams’ death suggested he had died as the result of a sex game gone wrong.
But a defector, Boris Karpichkov claims intelligence sources in Russia have admitted the MI6 spy was killed by the SVR, the current incarnation of the KGB.
But a defector, Boris Karpichkov claims intelligence sources in Russia have admitted the MI6 spy was killed by the SVR, the current incarnation of the KGB.
It is suggested the SVR attempted to recruit Williams as a double agent, allegedly using details from the British cypher’s private life as leverage.
Police disclosed at the time of Williams’ death that he owned £15,000 worth of women’s designer clothing, a wig and make up.
Police disclosed at the time of Williams’ death that he owned £15,000 worth of women’s designer clothing, a wig and make up.
It had been suggested that Williams dressed as a woman outside of work, though a forensics expert has since said they believe the spy likely worked undercover as a woman.
The SVR allegedly threatened to reveal the Briton enjoyed cross-dressing, before Williams in turn revealed he knew the identity of the person who had “tipped the Russians off” about him.
“The SVR then had no alternative but to exterminate him in order to protect their agent inside GCHQ,” Karpichkov said
Karpichkov, who also lives in the Pimlico area saw Russian diplomatic cars around the time of Williams’ death, had believed they had been sent to monitor him.
Karpichkov, who also lives in the Pimlico area saw Russian diplomatic cars around the time of Williams’ death, had believed they had been sent to monitor him.
He claims to have not seen the cars since Williams died.
Karpichkov has also claimed that Williams was killed by an untraceable poison which was pushed into his ear using a needleless syringe.
Karpichkov has also claimed that Williams was killed by an untraceable poison which was pushed into his ear using a needleless syringe.
At the time of the inquiry the coroner said that the involvement of intelligence services in Williams’ death remained a “legitimate line of inquiry” but stressed “there was no evidence to support that he died at the hands” of a government agency.
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