The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security

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a b Temple, Anthea (2 October 2002). "The spy who loved me". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 22 October 2012. Press Association "Diana, Princess of Wales death: no evidence SAS was involved, says Met", theguardian.com, 16 December 2013 Government lawyers revealed yesterday that they had decided not to prosecute Richard Tomlinson, the former MI6 officer, for describing his adventures in Britain's secret intelligence service. After years of cat and mouse operations with the renegade spy, the Crown Prosecution Service said it had decided that there was no real prospect of conviction in a jury trial and, where there was such a prospect, a trial would reveal "sensitive matters". The first call to the emergency services' switchboard was logged at 12:26a.m. The SAMU ambulance carrying the Princess arrived at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital at 2:06a.m. The French system of emergency care adhered to the "stay and play" mantra, which meant that the patient needed to be stabilised first at a fully equipped medical ambulance before being directed to a specialised hospital that could treat his or her injuries, no matter how far away it was. [101] Nevertheless, this length of time has prompted much conspiracy-related comment. Mr Tomlinson's lawyer Madame Levey also declined to comment about what her client discussed with the judge.

a b "Spying scandal spreads". BBC News. 20 December 1999. Archived from the original on 19 April 2003 . Retrieved 5 December 2012. Camel Trophy Owners Club - Camel Trophy 1990 - Siberia USSR". Archived from the original on 25 December 2016 . Retrieved 3 December 2009. Sources close to the investigation said Tomlinson claimed that Diana's driver Henri Paul, who also died in the crash along with Diana's companion Dodi Fayed, was working for UK intelligence. Iashmar, Paul (23 January 2001). "Seven of Richard Tomlinson's Big Claims" . http://www.questia.com/read/1P2-5132280/seven-of-richard-tomlinson-s-big-claims . Retrieved 22 February 2013.a b "Express Claims Diana's Seatbelt May Have Been 'Sabotaged' ". The Royalist. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Speaking by video-link from France on 13 February 2008, Tomlinson conceded that after the interval of 16 or 17 years, he "could not remember specifically" whether the document he had seen in 1992 had in fact proposed the use of a strobe light to cause a traffic accident as a means of assassinating Milosevic, although use of lights for this purpose had been covered in his MI6 training.

Further evidence discrediting Tomlinson's claims was found in drafts of a book he was writing about his time in MI6 before he was jailed in 1998 for breaching the Official Secrets Act. The draft, dating from 1996, referred to the memo and contained none of the detail about a staged car crash with flashlights in a tunnel. [38] Finding his desk job unsatisfying, Tomlinson joined the Territorial Army in September 1989 and, after passing selection, served as a reservist with the SAS in the Artists Rifles, and then 23 SAS, qualifying as a military parachutist and radio operator. He represented Britain in the 1990 Camel Trophy, competing in Siberia, and crossed the Sahara desert solo on a motorcycle. [16] He enjoyed the experience, and subsequently applied to join MI6, and officially joined the Service on 23 September 1991. [17] He completed his training with MI6 and claims he was the best recruit on his course, being awarded the rarely given "Box 1" attribute by his instructing officers including Nicholas Langman. Roberts, Andrew (28 January 2001). "The man with the golden tongue" . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4259011/The-man-with-the-golden-tongue.html . Retrieved 22 October 2012.

In May 1999, a list of 116 alleged MI6 agents was sent to the LaRouche movement's publication Executive Intelligence Review, [42] a weekly magazine which published it online. [43] Its names included Andrew Fulton, who had recently retired, Christopher Steele, David Spedding and Richard Dearlove. [44] [45] [46] MI6 biographer Stephen Dorril explained that most of the names were "light-cover" sources who worked out of embassies or missions posing as diplomats. [47] Dorril argued, "it is well known that rival intelligence networks know who these people are and accept them." [47] MI6 claimed that Tomlinson had originated the list, which was something he had previously threatened to do, although he denied responsibility for it, and MI6 were unable to substantiate their accusation. [48] [49] Accident or assassination?: Diana: a bluffer's guide". The Independent. 16 December 2007 . Retrieved 23 October 2018. Yesterday's disclosures focused on MI6 operations in Moscow around the time of the Soviet collapse in 1991-92. The MI6 Moscow residency, the renegade spy said, was made up of five operatives plus three or four technicians and half a dozen secretaries.

Tomlinson was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, and raised in the nearby town of Ngaruawahia. [8] Born to parents David and Jean, he was the middle child in a family of three brothers. [9] His father came from a Lancashire farming family and he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, and had met Jean whilst studying agriculture at Newcastle University. [10] The family moved to Armathwaite in Cumbria, England in 1968. [9] The young Tomlinson won a scholarship for the independent Barnard Castle School in County Durham, where he was a contemporary of Rory Underwood and Rob Andrew, who went on to become England rugby internationals. [11] He excelled at mathematics and physics, and won a scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1981. [10] Intelligence: NZ's Tomlinson Draws MI6 Wrath Again". New Zealand's Independent News Media. 5 July 2006 . Retrieved 2 November 2010. A former officer with the British intelligence agency MI6 has been sentenced to a year in jail at the Old Bailey. Lashmar, Paul (14 May 1999). "The making of a traitor". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019 . Retrieved 9 June 2013. Tom’s areas of responsibility included capital planning and the measurement and reporting of market risk where he led the design and implementation of risk methodologies, policies and procedures to meet both internal and regulatory objectives, including Value at Risk, Credit Capital at Risk, scenario analysis and stress testing.Tomlinson is the first secret service officer to be convicted of passing official secrets and the first person to be prosecuted under the 1989 Official Secrets Act. The Court Martial of SAS Sniper Danny Nightingale led to a letter written by witness, Soldier N, and sent to his in-laws coming to wider attention. Soldier N, Nightingale's former roommate, was in prison for illegally hiding firearms and ammunition. On 17 August 2013, the Metropolitan Police announced they were reviewing evidence that Soldier N had boasted that the SAS were behind the death of Princess Diana. [107] The parents of Soldier N's estranged wife reportedly wrote to the SAS's commanding officer, claiming Soldier N had told his wife the unit "arranged" Diana's death and it was "covered up". [108] [109] The information was reportedly passed onto Scotland Yard by the Royal Military Police. However, Scotland Yard stressed that this information would not lead to a re-investigation and that they were examining its "relevance and credibility". [110] They also confirmed that Prince Charles and Mohamed Al-Fayed were being kept informed as preliminary examination progressed. At the end of November 2013, Scotland Yard ended its study of the SAS allegations and released a statement: "The Metropolitan Police Service has scoped the information and is in the process of drawing up conclusions, which will be communicated to the families and interested parties first, before any further comment can be made," [111] On 16 December, it emerged from Sky News reports that there was "no credible evidence" that the SAS was involved in the death of the Princess and the others, and thus no reason to re-open the investigation. [112] [113] Popular culture [ edit ]