The Big Breach: From Top Secret to Maximum Security

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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. John David Bausch "Executive Intelligence Review" in Peter Knight (ed.) Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, California: ABC-Cliio, p.246 Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae (30 August 2017). "Princess Diana letter claims Prince Charles was 'planning an accident' in her car just 10 months before fatal crash". The Independent . Retrieved 14 April 2019. a b c d e f Mueller, Andrew (3 September 2006). "The Spy Who Was Left out in the Cold". Independent on Sunday. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 15 February 2013. Intelligence: NZ's Tomlinson Draws MI6 Wrath Again". New Zealand's Independent News Media. 5 July 2006 . Retrieved 2 November 2010.

In 1957, Tomlinson married Heather Margaret Murphy. Together they had four children: three sons and one daughter. His wife has predeceased him, dying in 2009. [2] Honours [ edit ]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.

Princess Diana's death: the conspiracy theories". The Daily Telegraph. 18 August 2013. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 17 October 2016. Barnett, Antony (13 June 1999). "British agents helped Iran to make killer gas". The Observer. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017 . Retrieved 23 March 2013.a b "Spying scandal spreads". BBC News. 20 December 1999. Archived from the original on 19 April 2003 . Retrieved 5 December 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]

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.' Brit ex-spy to cut Mandela out of MI6 book". IOL News. 1 February 2001. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 17 February 2013.Norton-Taylor, Richard (29 June 2006). "Police raid Riviera home of former MI6 officer". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021 . Retrieved 3 December 2012. In 1987 Tomlinson returned to the United Kingdom and served for five years in the Territorial Army's 21 SAS and in 23 SAS, qualifying as a military parachutist and radio operator. He also represented Britain in the 1990 Camel Trophy, competing in Siberia, USSR [6], and single-handedly crossed the Sahara desert by motorcycle. He finally joined MI6 in 1991. He completed his training with MI6 as the best recruit on his course, being awarded the rarely given "Box 1" attribute, by his instructing officers including Nicholas Langman. He then served in the "SOV/OPS" department, working during the closing phases of the Cold War against the Soviet Union, before being posted to Sarajevo as the MI6 representative in Bosnia during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. His next posting was to work as an undercover officer against Iran, where he succeeded in penetrating the Iranian Intelligence Service, presumably AVAMA.

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." [14] His friends included Gideon Rachman, who wrote him a reference after his tutor refused to do so. [15] Tomlinson completed flying training with Cambridge University Air Squadron and won a Half Blue for Modern Pentathlon. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a starred First Class honours degree in aeronautical engineering in 1984, and was approached by MI6 shortly afterwards, whose offer he turned down. [10] 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. [11] 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. [11] 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. [11] He continued to pursue his aeronautical interests and qualified as a glider pilot with the Fuerza Aérea Argentina. During 1988–9, Tomlinson worked in Mayfair, London, for management consultancy company Booz Allen Hamilton. [11] Military and MI6 service [ edit ] MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, London Russian intelligence yesterday denied MI6 assertions that it is behind the book's publication in Moscow and behind Mr Korovin. Last weekend MI6 alleged that Mr Korovin is connected with Russian intelligence. Boris Labusov, spokesman for the SVR foreign intelligence service, con gratulated Mr Korovin on his publishing coup and insisted that "our service has nothing to do with the publication of The Big Breach in Russia". Ex-MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson tells his story - of particular interest in what he has to say about the death of Diana Pricess of Wales. The UK authorites made strenuous efforts to prevent publication of the book and Tomlinson was subjected to serious harassment and terms of imprisonmentRichard is CIO at LPPI and has responsibility for management of all investment and client activity. He now lives permanently in France as a pilot, and has worked in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya as a surveillance pilot. [54] He also currently works as a careers advisor to French aeronautical engineering undergraduates. [54] Personal life [ ] Jimmy Burns, reviewing the book for the Financial Times, speculated that it was plausible that "MI6's senior management realised they had made a terrible mistake in recruiting someone who thought that espionage was just one big adventure." [39] He concluded, however, that the book "left me with the feeling that the spooks in Whitehall could have avoided a great deal of adverse publicity by agreeing to Tomlinson's original proposal: an employment tribunal held in camera." [39]