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David Shayler claims to be the New Messiah
Here is how it has been covered so far in the media.

David Shayler on Radio Five Live
David Shayler talks to Stephen Nolan on Radio 5 Live
11th August 2007

David Shayler on More4 News
David Shayler discusses spirituality and his claim to be the New Messiah with Sally Gould on More4 News
9th August 2007

From More4 News:

For years, David Shayler has been a thorn in the flesh of Britain's intelligence establishment. An MI5 officer for six years, he went to jail after leaking secret documents to the press. In the last ten years he's been a novelist, a writer on security matters, and a political activist. But his latest role may be the most talked about yet - that of mystic.

Article from The Daily Mail which includes a transcript of the More4 News interview:

I'm God, says renegade spy David Shayler

As an MI5 whistleblower and fugitive, former spy David Shayler's powers as an agent of the state were revoked.

But now he claims to have more powers than anyone on Earth could possibly imagine.

For, after a period of reflection following his jailing for breaching the Official Secrets Act, Mr Shayler has concluded that he is the Messiah.

Last night, proclaiming himself 'God', he explained: 'What I'd say to people is: Do I look mentally ill? Do I sound mentally ill?

'The reason I'm putting out this message is because I am absolutely convinced - as convinced as I can be of anything in this world - that the universe is changing shape and humanity has to prepare for that, and that I am here to help teach people.'

Mr Shayler spent years on the run after exposing alleged wrongdoing at the heart of the Secret Service, including a claim that MI6 was involved in a failed assassination attempt on Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.

Eventually he returned to Britain voluntarily and was sentenced to six months in jail in 2002.

Since then, he has made ends meet giving speeches to conspiracy theorists.
Last night, in an interview with More4 News, Mr Shayler made the astonishing claim that he had seen a psychic who he believes channelled the spirit of Mary Magdalene and anointed him as the Messiah.

He told the programme: 'Suddenly my whole life made sense.

'I felt a sense of peace, I suddenly realised why it had been how it had - why I seem to get such a strange deal from the universe, when I seem to be trying to tell the truth about everything.'

The 41-year-old even claimed there is an anagram of 'David Shayler, Righteous King' on the rod of Aaron, a staff carried by Moses' brother in the Old Testament.

He said: 'I looked at that, except the word in Hebrew for King was 'chav'.

'So at the moment I suddenly realised it goes David S, H, A... I'm going through my name. 'And I'm thinking someone's trying to tell me, because this is the ineffable name of God, someone's trying to tell you you're God. 'And at the moment you suddenly realise that someone's trying to tell you you're God: David Shayler, righteous chav.'

He also said his new-found divinity gave him the ability to change the weather, and that his meditation had stopped the summer's attempted bombings in London.

And he found time to channel the 'light' into securing his beloved Middlesbrough football team a place in the 2006 UEFA cup final against Seville.

Sadly, his powers were not strong enough to ensure they won.

The Second Coming ...Not since former Coventry City goalkeeper David Icke proclaimed himself the prophet has anyone in the public eye made such a bold assertion.In 1991, Icke announced on the Terry Wogan chat show that he was 'the son of God' and that Britain would be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes. It led to claims he was mentally ill.

The one-time Grandstand host believes the world is ruled by a secret group of 12ft shapeshifting reptiles called the 'Global Elite' or 'Illuminati'.

He was even passed over for Celebrity Big Brother in 2006 for being 'too weird'.

See also:

David Shayler's former partner reveals: How the bullying State crushed him
Annie Machon in The Daily Mail
12th August 2007

Meet the No Planers
Brendan O'Neill in The News Statesman
11th September 2006