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David Shayler pied at award ceremony

MIhearingthisright? | 05.03.2002 14:30

David Shayler, ex-British intelligence operative, was pied last night at the annual Privacy International awards ceremony in London. (article 1)

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David Shayler pied at award ceremony
David Shayler pied at award ceremony

David Shayler pied at award ceremony
David Shayler pied at award ceremony


Shayler was accepting an award for whistleblowing about illegal MI5 activites, but used his acceptance speech to voice his support for the 'legitimate' work of the British security services. Disgusted campaigners attending the award, who like anyone else involved in any sort of protest in this country would have been the victim of this 'legitimate' activity, decided a playful pieing was in order for this cheek.

David Shayler joined MI5 in Oct/1991 and worked there for five years. He started at F Branch (counter-subversion) in Jan/1992, and worked in T Branch (Irish terrorism) from August 1992 until October 1994. It was his work with these secretive, reactionary and generally dodgy organisations and generally that Shayler was seeking to promote at the ceromony.

Before Shayler made his comments, the award ceremony had already created controversy when the Daily Telegraph, the Conservative Party's in-house journal, was congratulated by the organisers and given an award for, surprisingly, running a campaign against a Labour Government.

"Privacy International do a great job in exposing the secret world of spooks and surveillance obsessed government agencies," said one protester, "So we were a bit surprised to see their award ceremony being used to promote the 'legitimate' activities the security services. A pie in the face seemed the obvious response".

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Comments

Display the following 31 comments

  1. About time too! — Captain Swing
  2. Not so clever — not M15
  3. show some respect, and courage! — kev
  4. good reasons to be suspicious — jazzy_j
  5. perplexed — simon davies
  6. What the torygraph sez — Your man
  7. Aim higher! — chuck
  8. Telegraph editor attacks protester at awards — undercurrents
  9. que? — Mr Kipling
  10. Deserved it more than Jose Bove, I reckon! — @lex
  11. Good Job — Anarchist Rioter
  12. Pies, pies and damned pies! — where were you?
  13. More harm than good — stop and think
  14. Agree — DoS
  15. Cowardly attack on Shayler — Neil Goodwin
  16. Reality check — me
  17. WHAT ARE THE "good reasons to be suspicious" — fuckwit patrol
  18. Response to Simon Davis' 'Perplexed' comment — REALLY Perplexed
  19. Response to Simon Davis' 'Perplexed' comment — REALLY Perplexed
  20. Response to Simon Davis' 'Perplexed' comment — REALLY Perplexed
  21. To be fair... — Spike Militant
  22. To be fair... — Spike Militant
  23. Good show all round — Pixie
  24. I don't buy it — dave
  25. Oh come on — Pixie (again)
  26. Why didnt schnews report it? — James bond
  27. Twats.... — simon
  28. You need to engage with the criticism — Steve Booth
  29. David Shayler / Gandalf URL — Andrew Taylor
  30. In defence of SchNEWS — Response to 'James Bond'
  31. tru thman — tru thman
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