Annie Machon served for 6 years as an intelligence officer for MI5, the UK Security Service, before resigning in 1996 to blow the whistle on the spies' incompetence and crimes with her ex-partner and colleague, David Shayler.

They exposed illegal phone taps, files on top UK politicians, IRA bombings that could and should have been prevented, the wrongful conviction of two innocent Palestinians and the illegal MI6 plot to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi of Libya in 1996, that went wrong and killed innocent people.

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In his diplomatic career of nearly 30 years, Terrell E. Arnold served  as an analyst in the State Office of Intelligence and Research, in five diplomatic postings including Consul General, Sao Paulo, Brazil, as a Senior Inspector who evaluated the operations of 24 US diplomatic missions, as Principal Deputy Director of the State Office of Counterterrorism and as Chairman of the Department of International Studies of the National War College.

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Wayne Madsen has some twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.

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Bill Christison worked for the CIA for over 28 years, from 1950 to 1979. He was an analyst on Soviet affairs early in his career, and later served in both Germany and Vietnam. In the 1970s, he served as a National Intelligence Officer (principal advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence) for Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa. In his final position, he was the Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political Analysis, an office of over 200 persons with experts on all nations, regions, and global problems of the world.