[…] In particular there is the curious business of the Met team getting access to MI6’s data bases to research the various claims by former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson that MI6 were involved. The nominated Operation Paget officers interviewed SIS personnel or examined databases and documentation for a total of 18 working days over a […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] programme about British intelligence in the light of the Iraq experience. He was an intelligent man but knew little about the subject: he hadn’t heard of Richard Tomlinson or Menwith Hill. Yet he was to start filming a couple of weeks after talking to me. He will do a competent job but he will […]
[…] the nether regions. The fact that the Intelligence and Security Committee of the House of Commons has never taken written or oral statements from Shayler or Richard Tomlinson, the most important insider sources on our spooks in the post-war period, shows precisely how little independence the committee actually has. (3) As it was in […]
[…] about so-called ‘secret’ archives and spy expulsions. ‘Many in Britain sympathise with MI6’ we are told, ‘saying that they have no option but to try and silence Tomlinson……’ Oh yeah? Who are these many? In what poll? What was the question? Stumbling on, this EYE avows that ‘Animal Activists Aim to Kill!’ and ‘Managing […]
