Annie Machon

Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK’s MI5 in the 1990s, before leaving to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies. She is now a writer, media pundit, and international public speaker on a wide variety of geopolitical issues, including the wars on terrorism, whistleblowers, drugs, and the internet. She is on the organising committee of the Sam Adams Associates, and is an advisory board member of the Good Technology Collective and the Courage Foundation.

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