[…] 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;(1) nor John Burnes; (2) 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, […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge the Met’s falsehoods’ and so on […]
[…] taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge the Met’s falsehoods’ and so on […]
[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 […]
