Shayler has
dossier sent
to the Yard

By Michael Smith

THE girlfriend of David Slayler, the
   renegade M15 officer, arrived in
London yesterday to hand Special
Branch detectives a dossier of,documents
he had prepared alleging an
MI6 plot to assassinate Col. Gaddafi, the
Libyan leader.
   Annie Machon, herself a former M15
officier, had travelled to Scotland Yard
from Paris where she and Shayler live,
to deliver the dossier.
   In a letter accompanying his dossier
Shayler urged Special Branch to
question Tony Blair, Robin Cook, the
Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, the
Home Secretary, and the heads of M15
and M16 as part of an investigation into
the alleged Gaddafi plot.
   He said that the Prime Minister and
the Foreign Secretary should also be
investigated for, "Conspiracy to pervert
the course of justice because they
refused to act on his allegations.
   Scotland Yard said the dossier was
"being considered"
   Shayler, 34, from Middlesborough,
fled to France in 1997 to escape
prosecution for alledged breaches of the
Official Secrets Act after making a
series of newspaper allegations about
MI5 operations.
   He subsequently spent four months
in a Paris jail as the British authorities
tried unsuccessfully to extradite him.
   The Attorney General has since
instituted civil proceedings for
damages against Shayler in the High
Court.