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Sacked spy's blog takes on MI6

Intelligence community shaken and stirred

Matt Chapman, vnunet.com 22 May 2006
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A former MI6 officer who spent time in prison for breaking the Official Secrets Act has launched a blog to air his views. 

Richard Tomlinson launched his Tomlinson v MI6 blog as part of a long-running campaign that began when he was sacked by the British intelligence service. 

Tomlinson was an operational officer to the Soviet Union, but was sacked after four years with MI6 following a posting to Bosnia in 1995.

"MI6 have only themselves to blame for the creation of this blog," Tomlinson said on the site.

"I have written privately many, many times trying to establish a dialogue with them to find an acceptable solution to this dispute. Never once have they even bothered to reply."

Tomlinson famously claimed that Princess Diana's death was similar to a plan MI6 had to kill Slobodan Milošević, and that her driver Henri Paul was a paid MI6 informant.

His blog has already shown the location of Fort Monckton, near Portsmouth, on Google Earth, where new MI6 recruits undertake their six-month training course.

See also:

MI6MI6 launches website. Cat stroking megalomaniacs need not apply  14 Oct 2005
MPs criticise GCHQPublic Accounts Committee delivers damning report on IT relocation fiasco  16 Jun 2004
Bill for moving GCHQ computer systems will be £300m, not the predicted £40m  16 Jul 2003
Snooping programme will only be used against non-US citizens  12 Feb 2003
Man questioned over attempted software theft  23 Sep 2002
Russian held on suspicion of breaching Millennium Copyright Act.  18 Jul 2001

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