Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] 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 […]

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] 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 […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] 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, […]

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The accountability of the intelligence and security services

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] loyalist place men and women. The committee has never taken up the wide range of issues raised by former intelligence operatives such as David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, seemingly on the basis that it does not want to encourage whistleblowers, when it is precisely these whistle-blowers who have done the most to expose wrongdoing. […]

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An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] some of whom, following their regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of The Big […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that ‘Saddam’s claim to possess WMD was a bluff . . . he had lied to Hugh Tomlinson, ‘Bin Laden? Never trust a man with a beard like that, Saddam Hussein told FBI’, The Times, 15 March 2023. 33 Christian Oliver, ‘Saddam Hussein said […]

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