# Annie Machon

annie machon (born 1968) is a former MI5 intelligence officer, a writer, media pundit, political campaigner and international public speaker. == Early life and MI5 == The daughter of a pilot turned Guernsey newspaper editor, Machon won a scholarship to a private school and then read Classics at Girton College, Cambridge. After her graduation, Machon began a career working for a minor publisher.In 1990, Machon sat a Foreign Office examination to become a diplomat, but was recruited by MI5 where she was posted to their counter-subversion department, officially known as 'F2'.One year after joining the service she met David Shayler.