The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security

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Government officials later conceded that the list did not originate from Tomlinson. [2] Diana, Princess of Wales [ ] 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. a b How Diana Died: The Conspiracy Files, BBC Two, 10 December 2006 (BBC transcript); "How Diana Died: The Conspiracy Files"', BBC News, 7 December 2006 Though individual MI6 agents have been named in the past, this is the first time whole swaths have been named in a medium which is out of control of government lawyers.

Pallister, David (30 October 2007). "Diana's driver behaved like an alcoholic, witness says". Irish Times . Retrieved 23 October 2018.Diana inquest told dead photographer had hole in his head". The Irish Examiner. [ permanent dead link] Verkaik, Robert (5 October 2007). "CCTV footage suggests Henri Paul tipped off paparazzi about Diana's movements". The Independent. London . Retrieved 2 November 2010. Mr Korovin and Narodny Variant, the publishing company set up solely for the Tomlinson book project, have been leaking snippets to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the best-selling Moscow tabloid, and on to the internet, thus releasing more of its contents in to the public domain and increasing pressure on MI6 and the courts to allow the book to be issued in Britain. In 1998, Tomlinson was described as possessing "the air of slight arrogance that goes with good looks, a hard-trained body and a sharp intellect". [55] The Geneva press reported that he had a "perfect command of [the] French [language]". [56] He is also fluent in Spanish, German and Italian.

In That Mitchell and Webb Look, a series of sketches depicting a group of three government agents discussing plans to carry out popular conspiracy theories, whilst inadvertently pointing out the flaws in such plans, includes one revolving around Diana's death. The sketch ends with plan "happen[ing] by accident". Renegade former MI5 agent David Shayler told Channel 4 News: 'I think the government's running a great deal of risk because they have in some ways persecuted Richard Tomlinson.'Pavia, Will (21 February 2008). "James Andanson was 'at home on night of Diana crash' ". The Times. London . Retrieved 12 January 2016. (subscription required) At the Coroner's Inquest into the death of the Princess, on 13 February 2008, speaking by video-link from France, Tomlinson conceded that, after the interval of 16 or 17 years, he "could not remember specifically" whether the document he had seen during 1992 had in fact proposed the use of a strobe light to cause a traffic accident as a means of assassinating Milošević, although use of lights for this purpose had been covered in his MI6 training. [48] On being told that no MI6 file on Henri Paul had been found, Tomlinson said that it "would be absurd after 17 years to say I can positively disagree with it, but... I do not think the fact that they did not manage to find a file rules out anything either". [48] He said he believed MI6 had an informant at the Paris Ritz but he could not be certain that this person was necessarily Henri Paul. [48] Post-MI6 [ ] Ex-MI6 chief admits agents do have a licence to kill but denies executing Diana". The Evening Standard. 20 February 2008. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 8 May 2020. In 2001 his book, The Big Breach, was published first in Russia, and then in Britain. He wrote about smuggling out of Moscow secret information about a new Russian missile system, and of purloining intelligence about armoured cars.

Nuttall, Chris (19 May 1999). "Net will be death of MI6 - Tomlinson". BBC News. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 5 December 2012. Combining first-class public law, project, finance and M&A expertise, Clifford Chance has impressive capabilities that are difficult to match. In France, the firm is advising sponsors on the country's largest offshore wind projects, and also advised on major gas, heat and renewables infrastructure M&A transactions. It assisted Cube Infrastructures with the disposals of district heating supplier Idex and Taranis. The practice is equally strong in the oil and gas and power sectors at international level, often acting for lenders and also for sponsors. It is advising on large-scale LNG, gas power, geothermal and hydro projects, primarily in Africa but also in other jurisdictions including Georgia and Indonesia. Highlights included assisting Sace with the financing of the Coral Floating LNG project in Mozambique, as well as Cacib with the financing of the Muara Tawar gas-fired power plant in Indonesia, and the government of Ethiopia with a 500MW geothermal project. The group also advises on highly strategic new pipeline projects. Key names include David Préat, Laurent Schoenstein, Benjamin De Blegiers, Anthony Giustini, Nikolaï Eatwell, Delphine Siino Courtin, Richard Tomlinson and Daniel Zerbib." Tomlinson admitted passing an outline of a book he was writing about his experiences with MI6 to a publisher in Australia. Publishing such details could put lives at risk, he said, adding that Whitehall was examining how 'the damage of this disclosure can be minimised.' Barnett, Antony (13 June 1999). "British agents helped Iran to make killer gas" . http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/jun/13/iran . Retrieved 15 February 2013.A Russian military analyst who Tomlinson said he tried to recruit as an MI6 spy confirmed the existence of Truefax to The Guardian yesterday, disclosing that he had done some work for the phony news agency. The Murder of Princess Diana is a bestselling 2004 book by British journalist Noel Botham which disputes the official version of events and suggests an orchestrated conspiracy. A fictionalised telemovie adaption, The Murder of Princess Diana was later released. His fellow student, historian Andrew Roberts, remembers Tomlinson as "a bright and charming undergraduate, popular with the boys for his drinking and sporting prowess, and with the girls for his dark good looks." [12] His friends included Gideon Rachman, who wrote him a reference after his tutor refused to do so. [13] Tomlinson completed flying training with Cambridge University Air Squadron and won a Half Blue for Modern Pentathlon. He graduated from the University of Cambridge's Gonville and Caius college with a starred First Class honours degree in aeronautical engineering in 1984, and was approached by MI6 shortly afterwards, whose offer he turned down. [9] Following his graduation he took examinations to join the Royal Navy as a Fleet Air Arm Officer, but he failed the medical examination due to childhood asthma. [10] Instead he applied for and was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship, which allowed him to study technology policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with full funding during 1986-7. [10] Following this, he was awarded a prize from the Rotary Foundation, allowing him to study in the country of his choice for a year. Consequently, he enrolled in a political science course at the University of Buenos Aires, where he became a fluent Spanish speaker. [10] He continued to pursue his aeronautical interests and qualified as a glider pilot with the Fuerza Aérea Argentina. From 1988-9 Tomlinson worked in Mayfair, London, for management consultancy company Booz Allen Hamilton. [10] Military and MI6 service [ ] a b "Express Claims Diana's Seatbelt May Have Been 'Sabotaged' ". The Royalist. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008.

Accident or assassination?: Diana: a bluffer's guide". The Independent. 16 December 2007 . Retrieved 23 October 2018.In 2009, MI6 agreed to allow Tomlinson to return to Britain, unfreeze royalties from his book and drop the threat of charges. MI6 also apologised for his mistreatment. [7] Staff at MI6 have been allowed employment tribunals since 2000, and have been able to unionise since 2008. [8] Early life [ edit ]