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I read, with regret, that a  Gareth Williams on secondment to MI6 from GCHQ has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in London. My sources tell me that he was a brilliant cryptographer and, in my experience, it is the first instance that I can recall of anyone from GCHQ being on secondment to MI6.
 I can only speculate that as MI6 operates abroad that he was decrypting something "on the fly" that needed to be done immediately, cutting out the time to send the information back to GCHQ for processing.

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 Funny old game the spying world. GCHQ used to recruit some of the most brilliant minds from Oxbridge who were mainly mathematicians to use in cryptographic work. Although brilliant these people had no common sense whatsoever and could not be trusted to cross a road or even catch a train on time.

 There was a period also when every Times foreign correspondent worked for MI6. As for MI5 I suggest you trust nobody. Their usual tactic is to infiltrate organisations where individuals were considered loyal and trustworthy friends by their colleagues. A typical example was that the chairman of CND in central London passed all the information, including names, on that fine organisation to his masters, the bastard.