John Smith: Old Labour’s lost leader? In non-New Labour Labour Party circles the late John Smith is remembered with great reverence.(1) Quite what this is based on escapes me. All I can identify is his dislike of Peter Mandelson: Smith kept him at bay therefore Smith was a good man seems to be the argument. […]
[…] We know the secret world has biases towards certain personality traits and it is not always the case that stability is preeminent. (18) (Did MI6 make Richard Tomlinson what he is or was MI6 attracted to Tomlinson in the first place in part because of those attributes which were later to cause so much […]
[…] his offices had been ‘remotely wiped’.() Ricki don’t lose that number It has been a busy few months for the former MI6 officer, now yacht broker, Richard Tomlinson. He’s been raided again and lost computers etc.; his blog disappeared with the message, ‘Access to the weblog you have requested has been suspended’ when it […]
[…] had been identified, ‘blown’, in 1999 in the notorious list of SIS officers which appeared on the Internet and was attributed to the former SIS officer, Richard Tomlinson. (Tomlinson denied authorship but most commentators didn’t believe him. I don’t know.) (3) ‘The best fake Maoists’ In October Radio Netherlands reported on the memoirs of […]
[…] that he came to Oporto in a KGB training mission as it was said in court in November 1993……. And I recall that the ex-MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson saw an MI5 report on the case which concluded that Mr. Smith had not given any important or damaging information to Victor Oschenko. Tomlinson said: ‘I […]
[…] future, Dorril drops the minor bombshell that the old black propaganda functions of IRD are up-and-running again with MI6. He maintains that a former MI6 officer ( Tomlinson?) has alleged that ‘the bread-and-butter work’ of the service’s psychological warfare I/Ops section is in ‘massaging public opinion into accepting controversial foreign policy decis ions’. This […]
[…] landing of a CIA operative at Havana airport under business or State Department cover. See his fascinating and revelatory work (1963) pp. 27-9. Cf the remarks of Tomlinson (1981) p.104: election returns do not disclose the whole story by any means. Parliament may to one arguable extent or another reflect ‘the will of the […]
[…] the money found on his body (P199 et seq). Notes Online (PDF format) at Full text reproduced at Despite the general rubbishing of former SIS officer Richard Tomlinson and his allegations about an SIS proposal to assassinate Milosevich, the SIS officer he named did indeed recall that he had proposed the assassination of an […]
[…] look into would come a long way down the list of topics chosen by readers of this journal. ISC has not spoken to David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, for example; nor Tony Holland, Richard Symonds and Michael Smith (who writes is this issue), who have recently begun working together;() nor John Burnes; () nor […]
[…] they conceal remind us of the difficulties encountered by CIA officials in reconciling their activities with the demands, with the very existence, of the Constitution. Richard Tomlinson, former MI6 officer, and author of The Big Breach, has (or maybe that should be had at time of writing) a blog at: http://richardtomlinson.typepad.com/ Michael Smith, […]
